I'm home today, waiting for electricians to come in and install new GFI light switches in the bathrooms and new smoke detectors that don't use batteries. I don't dare leave the place without supervision since we've had so many issues with flaky maintenance. I don't trust them anymore and since we've caught them lying they have not been friendly. I can well imagine finding something missing or destroyed and being told they had nothing to do with it - and us not having a leg to stand on.
The smoking neighbors below are infested with fleas from the dog that used to visit there OVER SIX MONTHS AGO, which was when the prior neighbors moved out. The fleas lurked in their eggs until new warm bodies arrived, then hatched.
Monday the apartment got flea bombed and we're back to zero with bad air in OUR place, this time being poisoned by bug poison. My lungs have been burning badly AGAIN and I went to the doctor AGAIN for drugs. I'm on Prednisone now and my doctor told me find a real estate friend who can help find us a place to MOVE to save my lungs. That's easy for him to say. We don't have a large network of people to tap into, unlike my folks with their Toastmasters and church groups.
Also, during the first poisoning (cigarettes), rat was first enthusiastic about moving then all of a sudden got darkly serious about the prices and how bad money is for us currently. It's frightening that I make more money and I make JACKSHIT. Yes, I'm thankful he even HAS a job and that I have one, too. He's going to consider a real estate agent now but we're going to be very particular about our requirements (location, price, no fixer-upper, etc.) and I suspect we won't find anything in our price range. You'd think they'd want to sell something that hasn't moved or at least adjust the payments lower so people could become home owners. Or maybe the sellers will be willing to rent to us for our price with an option to own later. Who knows?
Last night the chemical smell was pretty bad and the Renuzit stuff doesn't seem to work on it like it does with the cig smoke. It's been a delightful shock to find the Renuzit fights the majority of the smoke for us. However,
Only certain areas of the apartment gets hit with the worse of the stench. I can stay in the bedrooms and feel okay but when I move into the kitchen or living room I start feeling the lung burn again. However, TODAY the air is fine. I shudder to think how it will be tonight - if it will be bad again.
I'm back to not being able to eat much at all, which means I can't take my arthritis meds that require food. The Pred also needs food. My intestine is a mess again.
I'm still clearing out lots of our (actually my) possessions. I'm getting rid of stuff I haven't touched in years, knowing full well that in the past I HAVE let stuff sit for years, then have turned around and needed it years later. We have to SERIOUSLY downsize our lives which means a lot of my creative stuff has to go.
Doing a lot of praying again - we want to stay here with clean air, not move away.
Thanks: --> to Lia, my sensei, who has inspired me to draw again. I
wouldn't be doing this without your support, Domo Arigato!
--> to Talon, for sending me her fabulous fics, inspiring me with her writing to draw my first
illustration for a story and actually liking what I drew.
--> to Dasia, for her words of encouragement when drawing her original chara.
--> to Joules, a wonderful epic fic writer, for liking my art enough to want to post them with Talon's
and her own stories.
--> to Lutra, the other half of the epic team, for being so supportive.
--> to Jacque' & Becca Raddittzu, we met on eBay as bidder and sellers and now we are face-to-face
friends. You showed us the real DBZ with your fansubs. It's all your fault the house is full of
doujinshi! *LOL*
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