More Than Four Sides

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  • Going on a short vacation

    Well, as for my previous post, I didn’t do the 10-miler. It’s OK, I’m not beating myself up about it. I hadn’t trained, and I might have a injured myself. I have started a fairly regular exercise routine – in the past week, I’ve run twice, and biked to and from work twice. That’s pretty…

  • Ugh! all my photos have gone poof!

    I migrated this blog to a new hosting service, when I discovered recently that on my old host, I was paying more and getting less, so like a good consumer, I looked around for a better deal. I’m hoping I succeeded (I’m not really the queen of comparative shopping – I just don’t have the…

  • Mattress delayed 

    So, my mattress didn’t arrive yesterday. UPS promises I’ll have it today. Which means I don’t get to try it out until Wednesday night, since Tuesday is my night to stay with the boys in Rockville. The positive that came out of the disappointment of not being in my new bed was that I spent…

  • How do you sleep in your queen or king size bed? If you’re alone… 

    I realized tonight that I stay very respectfully on “my side” of my bed, even though there’s no one sharing it. Odd, huh?  I could spread out, but I don’t.  What’s up with this?  Am I hoping to make room for someone? How would they know?  But I don’t feel comfortable claiming the middle, or…

  • Hosting parties as a single person

    I threw a holiday party yesterday.  It was primarily for my students, and a few friends joined as well.  This party was the second I have thrown in my apartment, but the first party was a last-minute affair, and I didn’t give my potential guests enough time to plan to come, so, while I was…

  • Waiting for a delivery…

    I’m waiting for my bed. I moved, on April Fool’s Day of this year, 2016, to an apartment in Baltimore.  Many of my friends have interpreted that the fact that I was the one who moved out meant that it was my idea to leave my family.  It wasn’t. But, the fact was, I have…

  • Vacation – second week 

    We spent last weekend with my daughter’s in-laws, and returned by tow truck and taxi in Sunday evening, because the turbo in their diesel car failed. Our tow truck driver was a very friendly Russian guy who was happy to share dog owner stories with S. It occurred to me that if I were my…

  • Passport woes, part 2

    I am in England now, writing this, so, all the mad rushing around of last week did result finally in my having a valid passport to travel (2, in fact). I wrote about my crazy hectic Wednesday, when I somehow squeezed in a trip from Baltimore to the center of DC to hand in my…

  • Passport woes

    I’m flying to England on Monday to visit my daughter and her husband.  I bought the tickets in August, and have been looking forward to this real vacation for weeks. I’m taking two weeks of, to visit there for 10 full days. I can’t remember the last time I took so much time off in…

  • Light therapy

    I have suffered from mild-moderate seasonal affective disorder (which has the amazingly apt acronym – SAD), for many years, and have considered getting a lightbox for years.  But, I hate to wake up early, and I could never figure out where I would be able to place a light box into my home where I…