Ben has signed a lease on an apartment in the neighborhood just north and west of ours, only about a 15 minute walk from our house. And I was recently in the Amherst area with Rachel and her roommate to secure a student apartment for the two of them for the coming year.

We looked at some pretty grim spaces. Dirty dishes left on tables, bongs, a ( Read more... )

Those of you who also see my Facebook posts know that I am working on turning a box room in our house into a home office. (It has also been a playroom for our kids, when they were little, and a dressing room back when our bedroom was next to it, since there is a connecting door between the rooms.)


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The work on my home office is coming along. I have cleared out vast quantities of junk that were in here when we were using it as a box room, and now that the electrician has verified that I won't risk burning the house down by plugging my drill into the room's sole outlet, I can get to work repairing the table I will be using as my desk.

You'll ( Read more... )

At my brother's house now waiting for him and my brother-in-law to bring my mom. She's the only one not here yet. No, it's not a surprise party. My brother simply neglected to talk to his son, who was supposed to be driving his grandmother here, before we were expecting them to arrive. (Actually, he didn't talk to his son until almost an hour after ( Read more... )

Dear pedometer,

It is not helpful that you have already stopped working, less than a week after I started using you.

No love,
Me

Not much activity today, as it was yet another snow day. The cleaning I did often took the firm of sitting in place and scrubbing, so that doesn't register much on my pedometer on terms of distance, even if I am getting an upper body workout.

We finally watched last Thursday's ep of Elementary. God, the CBS website is getting as bad as PBS. Like PBS ( Read more... )

I did not get to post before I went to bed last night, but I covered 3.67 miles. Very tired after a long day, but most of it was spent sitting down, so I have only covered a little over a mile so far. I will have to make a point of getting up and moving around during ad breaks in the Oscar broadcast later.

Do you have favorites for tonight's awards?

The past two days were duds, mile-wise. Too tired and achy (head). Today I racked up 4 miles, a big improvement. I guess every day can't be a winner.

I don't know if anyone else out there is watching Almost Human, but we've been enjoying it. I have, however, noticed the following:

1. Considering the demographics in the Los Angeles of 2014, there is ( Read more... )

Logged 3.55 miles today. Too tired for more of a post than that. Bed is calling.

I know I haven't checked in for a while, but I am still checking on all of you. I started wearing a pedometer today and I'm hoping that keeping track of my activity here, rather than FaceBook, will also lead to posting about other things. I'm using the handy app I recently downloaded to my iPhone for this, so I also won't need to be near a computer ( Read more... )