Happy New Year!

[halfshellvenus]

Let's pretend I'm not a couple of days late with this already. ;)

Our trip back from Oregon was nicely uneventful until we were rear-ended at a stoplight about 10 minutes from the house. The driver of the sedan crumpled her hood, and our SUV's rear bumper needs to be replaced, but no one was hurt.

New Year's eve, we started watching Goldeneye

Comments

[tsuki_no_bara]

i've never seen tiny house nation but i feel the same way about tiny houses that you do - i could never live in something that small, but the way people organize their space is fascinating.

being rear-ended sucks. and so close to home! but i'm glad no one was hurt.

[halfshellvenus]

What's mystifying to me is just HOW tiny the houses are. The first episode features a couple and their two-year-old fitting into a 172 square feet place. I realize that they want to be able to pull that house on a trailer anywhere they need to move for the husband's job, but really? A 400-500 square-foot house is small! Episode two was a family of 4 in a 336-square-foot house, with a deck bigger than the house itself. Why not just build the house a little bigger? Their whole model seemed to presume that it would never rain, since they had all kinds of covered furniture out on the deck.

Also, there are so few interior doors. No privacy at all. Or as my son puts it, "If someone snores, the whole house will be awake all night." It's kind of like vacationing with one family in a single motel room... except for years. :O

Still, the show is fascinating! I think it appeals to the engineer in me. :D

[swirlsofblue]

Happy New Year

Eep, glad no one was hurt in the accident.

I enjoyed Les Mis, but then I've been obsessed with the songs for ages.

Ooh, 4.6 miles is impressive. Yay for almost meeting running goals!

[halfshellvenus]

A couple of the songs were kind of catchy, but most of them were sung dialogue-- required for opera but wholly unnecessary for a musical! So why? :O

I actually hit all 5 miles during the run I took after posting this. \o/

[muchtooarrogant]

Happy New Year to you also!

Wow, very glad no one was injured in the car accident. Hopefully repairs won't be too obnoxiously expensive.

LOL at your daughter. That's something my kids would do.

Dan

[halfshellvenus]

Haha-- would your girls really do that? Gads, what is wrong with our kids?

This is what comes of letting them have their own phones... *grin*

[muchtooarrogant]

Yup, the ONLY difference is that mine would've texted, not called. LOL

Dan

[matchboximpala]

I am sorry your vacation ended with an accident. Even though no one was hurt, that is definitely not the way you want to start the new year.

For the tight muscles, have you ever tried magnesium? When I do a particularly tough workout I will drink it at night to prevent my muscles from stiffening. Seems to work for me. If you try it, use less than the recommended amount at first. It also acts as a diuretic, so you want to see how your system responds to a smaller dose first.
I use this one: https://naturalvitality.com/natural-calm/

Thanks for the book recs. I have The Affair in my Kindle-queue, but I hadn't heard of the other book and it sounds fun.

[halfshellvenus]

I haven't tried magnesium! That might help.

This is a spot that locks up sometimes when I run, or with extended yardwork. For running, it's cleary something in my stride-- the shorter leg, which I try to balance by running on flat surfaces or those with a slight slope for the longer leg. But every once in awhile, it gets me anyway.

The Affair had a lot of good twists, and Three Bags Full is just very unluck practically anything you might read. Jasper Fforde comes closest, but it's not quite the same level of humor (no satire, less absurdity). It's a more gentle kind of dry humor. :)