zarazame's Profile

I meant 200 sq ft, 18 sq meters

Hinmelb, I am not a native speaker, me love, I hope you laugh some more, dear. And PhD is written as exactly like that PhD not PHD, hope it makes your day even better.

To be honest, it is not a good idea. and I'll tell you why. My kid is college age and while she was growing up we, being "deprived" of all the "nurturing of our interests" by our own parents, not because they were bad parents, it just was not common back than to "nurture", they just let us be, bought us good book, took us places, all the rest was up to us. Both me and my husband have PhDs in technical fields, our daughter was growing up when we were in grad school, she was around us in labs, she was growing up with a bunch of gradstudent's kids as well. And she remembers these days fondly, they were left to develop their own interests, explore the surroundings, build forts and such. It was our poor days, we had no means to "nurture her interests" with building her "veterinary hospital" or "space shuttle". With whatever little that we had we made her take swim lessons, ballet lessons, took her on hikes and such. Then we graduates and had more money, and we started to "nurture", picking up any clue of what her interests might be. You are interested in music? Here is a teacher and the instrument. Painting? Here is a teacher and all the supplies you need. Could you guess what a result is?
Poor girl did not develop real interest in anything. She is struggling to find herself. And We blame ourselves for that. TO DEVELOP A REAL PASSION FOR SOMETHING A PERSON SHOULD REALLY WORK FOR THAT, only than it it really valuable.

We have exactly the same picture with my husband in one chair and our then-10-years old daughter in the other, both holding smoking pipes :). I especially liked the fact that a Polish couple owned this little museum back in 2001 not sure if it's still true.

It's not just the floor, it is the height of the ceilings, windows and doors, otherwise it would look like almost nothing.

while I do appreciate beautiful things around me and I do appreciate well designed space, saying that children from well maintained home do better than children from ones that's not is sort of sounds foolish to me. In my college years many of my classmates married young and lived in student dorms with their young families (that is young kids as well). Americans would not understand these sort of things and probably would consider it absolutely horrible environment. ALL of these kids done very well in school and proceeded to the best universities worldwide. I think it is due to the very diverse community in our dorms and a lot of adults in their lives. We went to the concerts and theaters together as big companies (kids included), we hiked and traveled, we were young and the kids were growing up as in a big and vibrant community. So it has nothing to do with the design of our dorm, which was horrible to say the least ;).

Here in US we (as most people) have it in the basement, in a separate laundry room, it is quite tiresome to carry it back and forth though we do have a laundry shoot, makes it a little easier. But I did grow up with a washing machine in a bathroom of our city apartment, I never even though that it could be located anywhere else until I came to US, it is very logical to me to have it in the bathroom.

Hey, you did great! I fondly remember our grad school student family housing. Though it was very small (much like yours) we had many wonderful parties their, kids from around the complex came to visit frequently and my daughter who is now a college age keeps telling us that she had the best childhood memories among the kids in her former class (small elite private school, go figure, those kids had everything growing up and we were a family of two gradstudents with now money and a little kid).
Again, great job, looks very comfortable and loved.

In our old house we had a mysterious basement that was a place where wild animals kept materializing and we never figured our which way they came. Our first visitor was a Canadian duck, I never seen such birds in the vicinity or neighborhood parks/ponds. I think it was flying to thier winter location and was beamed to our basement by aliens or CIA :). We eventually succeeded throwing a blanket over it and carrying it outside. Another memorable visitor was a flying squirrel, small creature crawled between the outside wall and the wood panels, cats went absolutely nuts trying to chase him out. Eventually we were able to use a big winter hat to catch him. He seems to be so lethargic (and it was November or December) that we decided that he was ready to hibernate and made a nest for him in a box with soft rugs and towels. We put the box in the location outside where cats could not get him. He actually spend there a couple of days and disappeared (got beamed up to some undisclosed location by the same entity as the duck :))

Hate to spoil that but just imagine how much of a footprint this truck leaves. And I am not taking about carbon emission (well, I can imagine it's no smaller than a monster truck's), I am taking how much damage it would do to this precious wilderness you want to get away to, plants and all.