The “Smoke Ghost” Runner

I really like Mochi Vanilla Ice-Cream balls. A sushi restaurant we frequent gave us a whole-brand-new-package of 12 of them as a thank-you gift last week.

So last week, we picked up our ordered sushi and brought home these mochi balls to stick in the freezer. They are a great dessert, partly because they are 80 calories each, and mostly because they taste good!

As you can see, I’m trying to distract myself from the awful feeling I have now, since our new neighbor’s cigarette smoke entered our home.

I use food, sometimes, still as a distraction. Especially, now so, since my "cat-free haven" aka. "farthest room from the fridge" is a smokehouse.

The Life of the Smoke Ghost Runner

This constant playing cat and mouse with the fleeting "smoke ghost runner"
is really gettin to me.

I run upstairs, fleeing from the cats.
I open the door to the "cat-free haven" and discover
the "smoke ghost" is dwelling, resting on the air, up there.
 
So I firmly shut the door, and scoot downstairs struggling for air.
Fleeing the "smoke ghost".
I sit, catching my breath,
half erected, parched and arched over, staring at the tv screen waiting,
breathing in the "smoke ghost’s" remains,
Until it quickly whisps it’s way into my face,
scraping out my throat of what little moisture is left,
and wiping my runny nose all over me, it laughs.

Breathing in health, blowing out death, and snuffing out any life it encounters!
This is the life the smoke ghost runner pursues.

What is the smoke ghost runner mostly afraid of?
but, Quitters and Smoke-Free Signs and Environments, of course.

I am praying our neighbor quits soon, and destroys this ghost forever!
Amen

I gotta go blow my nose now, it’s tickling down my hairy nose skin.

Oh and by the way, I saw Santa’s reindeer Rudolph today! You will never believe where though. In my mirror, staring back at me!!!