Hi again! Been a bit since my last update. As you may or may not know, dear diary, and I guess any friends who check on this site, I've been going through a tough time. This past month has been hellacious. The sound problem here at home has caused me no shortage of pain. Ever since the construction happened on my home, all sound has become so much louder. Even with my door closed I could constantly hear my brother on his loud keyboard with his door open, his terrible, creaky old chair, my mom's pianos, and any other noises like footsteps. In addition, the blackout curtains I to make the light levels in my room tolerable have made terrible scraping noises of metal on metal from the slightest change in air movement, or the A/C turning on or off. I went through battles for a few weeks, fights with my family members, with physics, with my curtains and the curtain hanger, with my doorframe, with thumbtacks... there's been a lot. I tried everything I could to mitigate the problem despite the