Stella's Social Club

[crazyhen]

Ha, I hear ya, Kathy. I said to my DH just last week, "What have you got against quiet?" He has the TV on all the time, even while he is listening to something on the web with earphones on. Good grief.

I live in the mountains and I love the natural sounds around me.

Boy, can I identify with that.!!! My hb likes something on all the time while I like it off. I read, crochet, read and just plain get things done. He will be in and out but the TV STAYS on.

I cut it off quite a lot when he goes out. We are the only ones here but he will say , who cut the tv off?

I just love the peace and quiet. When I go out with my friends I talk plenty, ( sometimes to much, sigh) but I do love for it to be quiet of very soft background music on at times as I read, read read.

 

[speckledhen]

Could be a male-female thing, I suppose. Artificial sounds just seem so chaotic to me. I can't rest my mind with noise, noise, noise. I don't mind roosters crowing in competition, because that is a natural sound and doesn't just go on all day long, but that blasted television drives me NUTS, especially the commercials (geez, medical crap, insurance crap, ACK!

)

I'll watch it when I want to watch something specific, but just to have noise? I don't get it.

 

[crazyhen]

I think you are right. Male and female thing for sure. The ball games with the background noise drives me nuts. My hb not hearing well does not help. Bless him we have closed caption and he thinks he has the sound off and its still driving me up the walls. My Migraines are back lately with a blast. All the symptoms, now with a twist some kind of neurogeological feature. Almost like a stroke.

Why right here near the holidays do they get so bad. Now for 6 wks st. Oh well, I will get through them as usual. What we inherit and give to our children is terrible sometimes. My Grandmother, Mother, myself and now my daughter has them. Migraines- Not just a headache.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

My DH likes the TV on too and I don't even watch TV. I do look at youtube videos some when they are linked on internet with what I am reading, so that is my TV. But he watches it downstairs usually so I don't have to watch it.

I like quiet. If it were up to me we wouldn't have any TVs at all in the house.

The hummingbirds at the feeder, the roosters crowing, the woodstove making its sounds, those are the sounds I like to hear.

Peace and quiet are golden.

 

[Happy Chooks]

I like quiet too. It's my favorite thing about snow, it's dead quiet. Dh is even more quiet oriented than me. He has extremely sensitive hearing and noise drives him crazy.

 

[speckledhen]

Our house is about 34' square and very open so a blaring TV in the great room reverberates all over the house. It's doing it now because DH is watching Man of Steel. I'm going to bed to read a book. Needless to say, I'm closing the bdrm door, which is about all I can do to tone it down.

 

[crazyhen]

One can only wish for quiet. When I am alone I will just sit in my porch swing and drink in the sounds of forest and the stream nearby. I love to watch the fog lift in the early mornings of summer. Some times I see turkeys or deer in the yard below the house sometimes a groundhog running about eating grass( no beans for him to steal this yr.

) I just sit and listen and watch with a cup of coffee, tea, or hot coco. A real treasure in time.

 

[drumstick diva]

I truly believe "silence is golden." Unfortunately no one around me feels the same way. Loud noise, dogs barking endlessly, little children that has a screech that breaks glass,people that corner me on the senior bus only to babble and brag because they love to hear their own voice -

drive my stress level to the danger zone.

Wearing ear plugs only accentuates inside noises - like my heart beat. What to do, what to do????????

 

[crazyhen]

I live in the ctry on 4 acres of beauty. But the land is long and narrow. I have a family that since their father passed away have gone crazy shooting at all hours of the day and evening. One is their teens, one of them is in drug rehab, another needs to be and one is so far quieter. They have unholy tempers with their girl friends and unfortunately I can hear them. I live just above and to the side. All sound travels up. This summer my stress level too is high. I have come in many evenings due to the gunfire and cursing next door. My peace broken. I hope soon they will get it out of their systems and return to normal. I use to love here soooo much , now at times I have questioned my sanity for stubbornly staying here.

 

[drumstick diva]

Crazyhen, I worry for you.

You need to live in a bulletproof shelter, won't the police do anything about your neighbors? This is horrible.