No sleeping in :-(

One thing we haven't been able to have is a good night sleep. Most houses are made of cement which helps with the heat but there is no insulation with cement. So you hear everything!! We have a couple that live up stairs and we might as well live together since we hear all their business and the outside world might as well come in to serenade me at 4 am because I hear them loud and clear. From roosters to crickets just a big ol orchestra going on.

Then you have the lawn mowers that start cutting grass at 7am to avoid the heat of the sun around noon. Most people have old cars around here and so we have the pleasure of hearing their cars mufflers falling apart or the backfiring that sound like gun shots.

Then you have the morning people who are soooo happy to be alive that they drive with the music blasting at 6 am. Then you have the advertisers driving around letting you know the latest deals at the local grocery store. I highly doubt some one has a pen and paper in their night stand ready to take notes.

All of this happens before 8 am and for someone like me, who works 7-11:30 and get home at 12 am to try to make myself sleepy to get to bed by 1 am, I would like to get 7 hours of uninterrupted sleep or maybe I just have to learn to sleep with less ?