Here she goes again...

Yep, moving again, but this time just up one flight of stairs (or a short elevator ride).

The apartment I'm in faces a very busy street that is very noisy. If the windows are open during the day, I can't even hear a person on the other end of the phone without going into the bathroom and plugging up my ears. Noise goes from around 5am to around midnight.

I have to use headphones if I want to watch TV with the windows open and don't want to blast my neighbors with volume.

The apartment is also uncomfortably hot at night during the coolest 9 months of the year, primarily because they keep the halls at a steady 73f day and night except for a few short summer months. Combine that with apartments above, below, and both sides and this apartment is just too hot. If I open the windows to keep it cool, the noise keeps me from sleep.

I'm not the only one who feels this way -- plenty of my neighbors on this floor feel the same. I could use AC, but I hate cold air blowing on me. I've slept abominably poorly since the heat went up last fall, and my brain and body are suffering because of it.  Right now, I'm using the AC for a couple of hours before I go to bed, to cool the place off for sleeping. For example. Last night I cooled it to 68, kept it there for awhile before going to bed. Then, turned it off, opened the living room window a few inches. Opened it wider at some point during the night when I got up to pee. At 5am the temp was back up to 70, with no source of heat. Outside temp was 53f. Arrgggggh!

All that to say -- I asked my doc for a required letter saying this is detrimental to my health, and on the day the letter arrived in the mail, about two weeks ago, I learned that a woman upstairs had died the previous day. Short story, I ended up getting that apartment. Third floor is cooler, according to some residents I've talked to. At least there's no insulating heated apartment above us up there. The apartment also faces the rear of the building, which is quieter. That will enable me to keep the windows open at night even in the winter, without being bombarded by noise when I'm trying to sleep.

Moving May 29th, day after Memorial Day. People here are helping, and I'll be given 2 days to get this apartment cleared out and turned over to the office. While I don't particularly look forward to the process of moving itself, I do look forward to the quiet and hopefully, cool nights.