one day at a time / this week has been better

so the chainsmokers live below me for 14 weeks. When I review my journals for that 14 week. I see how having neighbors like that dominated my life on most or should I say many levels. Nearly every morning I woke up with a migraine. In the evenings it would take about 6 hours for me to get the air in the bedroom clean enough for me to be able to fall asleep. I would tense up when their big dog would start barking.

This week I only woke up with a migraine once I can relax I don't have to worry about tiptoeing around because there's nobody down there right now. Now there's no guarantees about what sort of person is going to move him next but right now I'm on what you could consider to be autumn break!

Because I'm anticipating that it will take about a month for management to find someone new to move in below me, there's a slim chance that the people who move in will be chainsmokers.

When I'm not breathing in cigarette smoke my entire outlook changes and I don't feel nearly as depressed and despondent!

You know what they say in the 12 step groups one day at a time!

"nowhere to run/my poor lungs"

I'm real mad and very worried.  I do not think I ever made a full recovery from the pleurisy.  My lungs and throat are blown up like a balloon.  as much as I would like to work out of home I can't due to the 2 things I mentioned earlier.  large barking dog and chain smoker downstairs.

I've been fighting the ciggie issue for most of my life and the dog issue for much of the last 20.

So, the activist in me will not take this sitting down.  I have the phone # for the lung association, and I have carefully reviewed my 2 leases.  One lease was drawn up by the complex and the other was drawn up by the Mormon agency* (change of name there but you get the idea)

In the complex's lease you are allowed to burn whatever the hell you want to, unfortunately, but in the Mormon agency* lease I found a clause that states that "you are entitled to a smoke free home"

That being said I will first explore this with the m.a.  If they do nothing, I will go to the free lawyer, lease in hand, and bring proof of all of these illnesses that are caused by breathing 2nd and 3rd hand smoke.

The dog thing?  I will keep you informed about that in another post.