New Apartment Neighbors!
Dear guys living in the apartment above mine,
I’ll start off by saying, I’ve been living here for a month and I don’t even think I’ve seen you once. However that hasn’t prohibited me from learning a few things about you. How did I learn them, you ask?!?! Through the blessing/curse of thin ceilings and vents, naturally!!
The first thing I know is that there’s at least 2 of you up there. Maybe 3, I don’t know,I can never be sure since I haven’t ever see you. I will admit, my dear upstairs neighbors, that I thought you guys were lame and boring since I hardly ever heard you do anything. THEN you had an EXTREMELY loud party on a Thursday night that went until about 3 AM. Which is totally fine, I wasn’t mad and I’m not gonna hate. I go out every Thursday also. IN fact I didn’t even get home til almost 1 that night (and it’s Thursday and I’m going out again… kareoke anyone?!?!). My only gripe was: Why wasn’t I invited?!?! I don’t really care if you’ve never met me. I live below you. If you’re going to have a loud crazy party into the late hours of the night, the decent thing to do is to invite me so you don’t keep me up alone in my apt wondering why I didn’t get invited to the party upstairs. Not meeting me is NOT a valid excuse. I’m a fun girl, I love parties so invite me!!
Another fun tidbit I’ve learned from living below you: You boys love to sing. Loudly. Really loudly. And not normal songs. The first time I heard singing I was confused. Then I heard you belt out “CAN YOU TAKE ME HIGHER” by Creed. You can imagine my suprise at hearing this song. Why Creed?!?! Does anyone seriously like them? It’s not 2001, Creed is over. I had literally forgotten about that song as well as the band. THEN I heard you sing something that made my heart over-fill. You started singing classical opera songs… and HARMONIZING together. When I heard this I clearly went right over to the vent on my ceiling and listened while giggling with unbridled glee. What happened next is what made me love you, as well as caused confusion. As you were harmonizing (beautifully, I must say) one of you stopped and told the other one they had the wrong note and sang the correct one. This caused me to have so many questions. I had previously thought you were some guys who liked to belt out Creed once in awhile (I have to say again.. WHY CREED?!?!). Then when I heard the harmonizing, I got utterly confused. Are you two roomies who love to sing together? Do you frequent different kareoke nights and like to pratice? Are you in a theatre group? Do you have your own showtunes choir? Do you have BBM? Twitter? Facebook? Are you a gay couple? I DON’T KNOW!!!
You can see I have so many questions and so little answers. I’d really like to meet you so I can get some answers. So come on downstairs and meet me. If you don’t you’ll force me to do one of the following: Go into the laundry room whenever I think I hear someone then start an awkward conversation about laundry detergent 2. Jump out of my apartment as fast as I possibly can when Ihear footsteps coming down the front steps and yell SUPRISE. I’ve tried both of these, and as you know (since we haven’t met) they have been wildy unsuccessful!
Hoping to meet you soon,
Your non-lyrically talented downstairs neighbor, Jessica 
PS. WHY CREED?!?!!?
art said,
July 31, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Hahahaha. I forgot about Creed until I read this. I remember my senior year of high school when burning CDs was the new thing and everyone wanted ‘Higher’ on their mixed CD.
I can’t wait until you jump out of your apartment and yell ‘SURPRISE’ at them. Please capture that event on video!
a said,
August 2, 2009 at 2:47 am
ohhhh, I SO have theories about your neighbors..
Factoid #1: The only group of people obsessed enough with Creed to still be singing it are late twenty somethings who went to Christian College. Seriously.. Creed was BBC guys idea of rebelling against the music code lists. If it weren’t for sexually frustrated Christian College dudes, Creed would have been a total flop.
Factoid #2: Your neighbors party late at night in the middle of the week. This is indicative of either a.) lack of job/struggling wanna be artists
b.) trust fund babies who recently graduated from Wheaton whose Daddy’s would pay for an apartment in Chi-town, but not in Brooklyn where the other trust funders hang out. Daddy will pay for Chi-town in the hopes that they will commute to the suburbs to go to a large mega church on Sunday morning.
c.) They have jobs where they too, do not have to be there until 10 am aka: students, bar tenders, or FASHION INDUSTRY.
Factoid #3: adult men who harmonize together and occasionally correct one another.
Do we really need to go any farther with this? You clearly have formerly closeted Bible College drop outs living above you. $10 says one of they played the lead in a musical at Wheaton, and the other was in a mid-western show choir in high school, and was the president of his youth group, super hot, and never dated.
I’m sorry, have I said too much?
Meade said,
August 2, 2009 at 2:56 am
As a graduate of a Bible College I can verify that Christian college guys LOVED Creed. All my room mates were huge into it as well as all the rest of my dorm. I’m talking lyrics & album art tattooed on you type fans. It was a regular topic of discussion as to whether they could be a Christian band because one of them had cursed a lot in an interview.
Jenny said,
August 2, 2009 at 5:44 pm
I love how we were the biggest creeps and totally eavesdropped on their conversations….
You need a dog so you can “take the dog out” the next time you hear them coming down the front steps.
We should have crashed their party….or not….
jessboulet said,
August 2, 2009 at 8:05 pm
art: I kinda saw them the other day as I was walking to my apt! There’s 3 of them!
a: I LOVE your theories haha. Nowi want to meet them even more so I can assess the situation. And about c) HEY don’t be jealous just cause I don’t have to work til 10. Which is only true til the holiday season. Then I get up from 5-6 and work til 7-8. NOT FUN. They also have weekend parties. BUT I saw them and heard them again and there is 3… and I really don’t think they’re gay! They seem kinda like tools, haha. Who like Creed. The Creed and opera songs are throwing me off!
Meade: you brought up a memory I had blocked out of my mind. I literallyhave heard people have that same discussion on if they were “saved” or not cause he cursed. ALSO I was at some random church youth event one time andthey busted out into spontaneous praise and worship and they started singing HIGHER!! Naturally, being me, I got pissed and wouldn’t sing it, went into the other room to play games and when someone said something to me I asked if we were going to sing Backstreet boys songs too!
Jenny: I can’t havea dog here. A new solution: go outside regularly to talk on my phone. Then hang up when they come down. YESSSSSSS This wiil work!!
Fun new facts: They love hot tamales. They were singing old Chicago songs this morning. It was a wonderful way to start my day
a said,
August 2, 2009 at 9:36 pm
“Fun new facts: They love hot tamales. They were singing old Chicago songs this morning. It was a wonderful way to start my day ”
That’s it, I’m obsessed. I MUST know who your neighbors are!!! But, I am telling you….
CREED= evangelical with fairly poor music taste.
jessboulet said,
August 2, 2009 at 10:15 pm
a: haha I’ll let you know more fun facts I find out and what happens when I FINALLY meet them