I miss our friends. I miss our 1,028 sf where I could sit at my desk when I couldn’t sleep at night and listen to both Jim and Zoe (the dog) snoring.
Jim bought me a really neat LED desk lamp so I could work at night without traditional lights and I love it. I’m thinking of putting it up here on my “desk,” the dining table, just so that walkers/runners/bikers et al don’t see in at night. Mostly it would be for comfort.
I’m downstairs all by myself now. We’re in a lovely home but are not yet used to a routine, which includes timing and acoustics. I know the American ideal is to get the biggest home on the best lot, but for years our old place suited us.
Many wives complain about snoring or “loud breathing” while their husband is sleeping. For me, I know he’s there, alive and breathing. The dog, too, even when she poaches my side of the bed while I’m up writing!
In our home search I looked for the most habitable one, which happened to be the smallest with the best attention to detail and good appliances. In Utah I’d have been able to get a six-bedroom place down in the valley for the same amount. I wouldn’t have wanted to have or clean that amount of house so we got this, two bedrooms.
Luckily it’s only for another few months as I have two serious problems with our temporary abode: I don’t want to buy into “larger space is better”; and I miss my husband and dog.
OK, it’s 17 steps to upstairs. At over 7.000 feet above sea level (from three feet in Texas) it’s a stretch to do that a number of times a day, try it with a vacuum cleaner doing the stairs. The oxygen levels take a bit of adjustment.
It’s new, I’ll get used to it, but I don’t want to get used to the space. How separated and disconnected we are now will help me shape our dream house. It’s open and on one level. More on that later.
I still have to design everything and the kitchen, my favorite part. Cheers, Dee
Cooking with Dee 
Sorry but I’m too light of a sleeper… These days I seem to have my choice of snores (from Peran) or getting pummelled (by Zach)! I think tonight I am going to sleep in the motorhome; I’m beginning to understand why sleep deprivation is such an effective torture technique ;-)
I’m with Val. CPAP machines are GREAT!! That is as long as the person using it gets a decent fit and can stand sleeping with a hurricane blowing in the nose/mouth.
On house plans, plan one for me. It needs windows on all sides to see the countryside and the animals but go easy on the west because Texas is too hot in the summer. A southeast sun porch (include windows with screens) is a must.