*This is part of a sponsored collaboration with Latina Mom Bloggers and State Farm. However, all opinions expressed are my own. Recently, I shared with you all how you could make your community a better place. State Farm Neighborhood Assist wants to help you breathe new life into your neighborhood! By submitting your ideas around making local Hispanic communities better places to live in, you will be entered for the chance to win $25,000 to realize those dreams. I'm very excited to announce that submissions are NOW being accepted until the first 4,000 submissions have been received – on or before March 23rd! ¿Qué esperas? I can't even begin to describe to you how much I would be able to do with that money by way of improving the community around the school I teach in. Many of my students and their families struggle financially and they do not have a safe place in the community to go to after they leave school. ¡sería un sueño hecho realidad! My dream would … [Read more...]
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Neighbors Gone Wild
Recently we had an altercation with our next door neighbor over the fact that he continues to let his dog defecate in front of my house and does not pick up after her. His family just moved into the neighborhood a couple of months ago and we have suspected for awhile that he was the culprit that was leaving behind little surprises for us on our front sidewalk. Obviously we couldn't accuse him without first having some kind of proof so we embarked on a full scale detective investigation to see exactly what was going on. Let me preface by saying that I had a bad feeling that this particular neighbor was going to be a problem when I realized that he was a crazy nut with no boundaries. You might think that this is a harsh way to categorize him but I bet you will change your mind when I describe to you some of the things that he has already done since he moved in... The first thing he did was to jump into another neighbor's car while he was warming it up and … [Read more...]
The Snoopy Neighbor
I have really nosy neighbors. Those of you who have been loyal followers of this blog from the beginning know that I have blogged about many of the issues that I have had with them. Although they are all generally busybodies, there is one specific neighbor who is really barking up the wrong tree. Last year, he did something that really upset me and inconvenienced me and, since then, he has done everything within his power to do a tap dance on my last nerve. The icing on the cake has been that I just recently found out that he has been talking about my husband and I to some of the other neighbors. It is taking all of my patience to keep me from going over to his house and stepping on his garden. Sure, I know that is immature but, once you hear what I have had to put up with from him, you might be more inclined to agree with me... This whole thing started last year during the summertime. I order medication through the mail that I have to take on a daily … [Read more...]
