History Repeating

So fairly recently I had a problem with a neighbour which led me to moving shortly after moving to Bridgnorth. Currently I live in a 3-storey block of flats, with one flat on each floor. For the longest time it has just been me in the top flat, this guy in the bottom flat and the middle flat has been unoccupied and up for sale.
Well, eventually the flat got sold and people moved in. Now, when I was looking at this place I met the previous tenant and I asked specifically can you hear the people below you? To which she replied no. Based on that I put in the application and the rest is history, here I am.
Now that people have moved in to the middle flat I can indeed hear them. Slamming of doors, footfalls, even voices which is technically worse than where I was with the terrible neighbour. Luckily (for now) there's been no banging on their ceiling complaining of noise but the feeling is that if I can hear their noise, then they can hear mine, but if I've got that in the back of my head, I will (and already am) start censoring myself - which I really hate to have to do. When I got home, I close the door on the world and then I'm free to do whatever.

It all feels like a bit of history repeating but maybe that's just how flats are. Here's an idea how about they make the floors/ceilings a little thicker? I mean, I can undestand the problem at where I was before - it was a house that was converted into 2 flats but where I am now is a purpose built block of flats.
Here's hoping that my next place won't suffer from this. Or alternatively I find a house for rent like the one I lived in at Kidderminster - no noise problems there...

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Christmas Concern

It concerns me that come Christmas time and thinking about what gifts to get my family and I often draw complete blanks.
I don't want to give gifts that people don't want or will never use but it feels a little pathetic to ask what they would like for Christmas although to me it seems to be the safer of the two options.
Does it feel this way for anyone else? I fear I'm not as connected to my family as perhaps I should be.

That being said, no-one has asked me what I would like for Christmas so by my logic they must all know what to get me...

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Anxiety (verbal diarrhea)

I've been struggling to come up with a suitable name for this post.
A post of which is going to be a back-to-basics post, more in line with the spirit of the blog at the start - that's right, I'm going to talk about my feelings.
I probably have teased it a little too much, but I'm going to keep all this stuff behind the "Read full post" link so if you wanted me to say something about video games or something on TV, then come back next week (although I haven't been posted enough to guarantee there will be something then, but you get the idea...)
Yeah, I want to talk about a few things which I'm quite sensitive about and this is why I decided on "anxiety" as a title. I was going to write this last week but often I'd rather watch TV or go to bed early and read Game of Thrones books but this stuff needs to be discussed, it's a problem that literally lives inside your head.

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Chickened out

I thought I could happily post the dating kind of stuff here but I'm chickening out and going to put in a separate blog, most likely this one. I have lots to say and it's probably better if that kind of stuff is all found in the same place, so go check it out if you're interested...

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Interesting reading

A quick post here after some interesting reading. So to carry on the Dating themed posts, I was reading the blog of one of the sites I have a profile up - OkCupid - which is actually the site I met Jo through.
Anyways, they have a cool blog where they analyse trends in people's profiles and their behaviour and actions on the site. That analysis of social behaviour is fascinating to me plus things like what to put in a first message is certainly useful.
One of their posts was a generation of a flowchart that someone can follow to see if they would date me or not. I have included mine after the read more link. Give it a click and see what you think...

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