Drip drip drip drip drip drip

Monotonous...defined as the following: 1 - lacking in variety; tediously unvarying. 2 - characterizing a sound continuing on one note. 3 - having very little inflection; limited to a narrow pitch range.

A few weeks ago Evan and I had an argument over something and then we went to bed and in the morning he found me sleeping on the couch. He asked me why I slept there and I told him it was because the air conditioner was making this noise and I could not sleep. He then says; "are you sure it isn't because you were mad at me?" WHAT DID I JUST SAY? The conversation has nothing to do with my post - it is just another thing that guys do...or do not do - listen.

Anyway - a few days later it was happening again. I turned off the air conditioner thinking (oh, we have window units) the unit was frozen or something...which has happened before. I still heard this noise. Now I did not know what was going on. Later that night Evan was looking out the window over the unit and told me it was water dripping on it. I said, it cannot be water. Yes, it was raining while he was looking out there. He tells me it is because he is watching it splash on there. And I then asked how come it makes that noise when it is not raining. So we started to brainstorm and I realized that the people who moved in upstairs put in new air conditioner units and they must have put one in the same window we have our unit, but obviously on their floor - above ours. Now it was dripping onto our unit.

Some time passed and it was no big deal. Until last night. I was like a person on TV. I was tossing and turning. I was putting the pillow over my head. I stuffed kleenex in one ear thinking that would dull the drip, drip drip, drip, drip, drip drip drip, dripping. No luck. Off to the couch I went, all bed items in tow.

Evan asked me earlier if I was sleeping on the couch tonight, I said it all depends on the dripping. I cannot handle monotonous noises, they just drive me nuts. I just cannot tolerate it. I do not know what it is about them or even out to describe how it makes me feel - needless to say, as I was changing for bed I realized the couch will be my friend tonight too.

My dear husband has offered to try to put some foam or wood on the outside to try to stop or dull the noise or undo ALL of his work that he put into putting in the unit...insulating it, cutting board to fit all around it, doing some other stuff I know nothing about, caulking it, and painting the wood white so it will look nice to move the unit to the other window. What a nice guy!

And the other annoying thing - before we left on vacation we heard this beep from the hallway every 3 minutes or so....obviously the people upstairs need to change a battery in something. We come back and not 2 minutes after walking in the door...BEEP. A WHOLE WEEK, now it will be 2 weeks later and nothing has been done about this beeping thing.

I better go to sleep now - before I hear more monotonous noises pop up.