long island for a year

As if there weren't enough things to take care of, last week our (landlady's) fridge broke; we had it repaired some hours later, so we didn't have to take extreme measures concerning the food that was in it. But now I want to know!!! What would YOU do, if your fridge broke and you had to wait for a couple of days until it could be repaired? Would you throw away fridge and food? Only the food (so you can start a new diet)?Or only the fridge (because yours didn't have a nice design anyway)? Would you ask a neighbor (or ten) to keep some of your stuff and meanwhile curse in Aramaic because you had just bought so much perishable food? Or would you find the time to cook for your friends and their cats?

How do you survive tiredness? Lately I really feel sleep-deprived and still I can't sleep during the day, I am too nervous and keep thinking and I don't get things done, especially after Bastian's small accident - his pretty upper lip got cut and he had a stitch so I kind of guard him - I feel absolutely unable to do stuff AND keep an eye on him. He doesn't sleep too well either, and sometimes he's unhappy so that I am not sure if his lip hurts or he's just tired... No, there is no way I can change, when people I love suffer, then I suffer too. It has always been that way and now I am too old to re-program my brain. Then there is this thing that I finally got used to life here and half year is gone, and when I see in the news that Berlin had a specially cold winter I just don't want to go back, but move to a warmer place. Plus, I don't feel like I belong anywhere and anyone, as if home was the place I want to go away from, not the place I want to live. A...

We moved in about ten days ago and there is so much to do...sorting, cleaning, throwing, packing away... Thanks g. I had two precious helper (see pic). I had never expected to be back in a house. But it's just for one year and this house is really pretty, besides we can take strolls without fearing trucks or RVs AND it is quite a work-out, being on rolling hills. As I mentioned some posts ago, we can walk to the Sound, which is an amazing view.