My cousin is obnoxiously, unconsciously loud.

[icarus]

It was so quiet around here. Peaceful. Surrounded by sleeping cats while I did some writing.

Then my cousin came home. "HELLOOOOOOO!!!! HI, HI!"

She is loudest pachyderm I've ever met. She stomps. She shouts. She drops heavy items on the floor (my ceiling). She snaps commands. The baby--at her crying, squalling, shrieking worst--has nothing on my cousin for obnoxious loudness. EVERYTHING'S AT TOP VOLUME

She shouts when she's happy, she barks and storms when she's mad. There is no time when she's actually quiet except perhaps when she's asleep.

Or gone. When my cousin was gone for a few days, my aunt and I looked at each other and marveled at how quiet it was. I pointed out: "Yeah. It used to always be like this. Before E. [my cousin] moved in."

S. calls her the T-Rex.

This weekend I lined my prayer room in sound-reducing egg-crate foam. No kidding.

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[batdina]

when I worked in a shared office, the partner-chick purchased me some noise cancelling ear-phones. those things worked. noisy office became calm zone as soon as it landed on my ears.

just in case the cousin isn't going anywhere ...

[icarus]

The cousin lives here, and has for the last year.

I got so much writing done while she was out and about this afternoon....