Has anyone noticed? I feel that suddenly, last week (or perhaps on the weekend), my WordPress sites suddenly have extra advertising. I always knew there were one or two ads after my posts, and that was fine because they have to pay for the service somehow, but now they seem to have encroached into the top of the sidebars as well, and the ads are impossible to miss. I do not like it, and yet I do not want to succumb to their obvious pressure to opt into their paid service (though that’s their prerogative, of course), thereby rewarding their strategy, and encouraging them to engage in this activity again in the future.
I’m so sick of having a hot bedroom at night, going to bed with a cold compress, and waking later feeling as if I’m having a constant hot flush, which I’m not, because that’s why I’m on HRT.
The neighbours are subdividing their section, and building their retirement home in the trees that are currently our northern boundary. It will substantially change the character of our house, the privacy in the garden/on the decks, and in our bedroom and reduce the value of our house, and I told them so because we’ve been far too nice and accommodating so far, even though they themselves are trying to take our wishes into consideration in the design of the house – except for the fact that they’re building the damn house in the first place.
More curses, because there was something else I wanted to write about, but I’ve forgotten, so I hate that too.
Aaaaargh! (Thanks for writing this, though. Sometimes I need to hear that others struggle too!)
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Sounds so frustrating! And yes…I noticed the ads too!! I, too, don’t want to give into the pressure to pay but….it’s pretty damn irritating!
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I don’t see any ads on your blog. But I agree it is irritating. There are always a lot of things to get annoyed. Hugs.
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I didn’t see any ads either. Sorry about the house construction. Take a deep breath and “accept the things you cannot change.” Less frustrating and stressful that way. Hugs…
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The ads come and go. The neighbours need us to sign off on it to get the consents they need. So it was good strategy to let them know I am not happy. And I’m not. I may not be able to do anything about it, but it doesn’t mean I have to like it!
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