![]() ![]() Meal planning also helps us have an idea of who, when, and how much we’ll need to clean the kitchen each week. Sure, there’s laundry to fold, but look at these clean countertops! But we’re also careful not to overload ourselves-we’ve found that tackling one single task a day (instead of doing a massive cleaning once a week) is more sustainable. If my husband and I are feeling confined and conflict-y, it’s usually because one of these things need addressing. Laundry, dishes, and cleaning up after our beloved house rabbits are the most invasive chores in our apartment, so they’re always first on the list. Identify the tasks that lead to the pile-lifestyle and build a chore plan to address them. All of these piles take up space that we just don’t have. Laundry, despite my efforts at re-wearing garments, piles up. And whether they’re fun or not, chores are essential when it comes to running a small household smoothly. So, whether you consider 600 square feet teeny-tiny, or you’re operating just fine in a single shared room, here’s what I’ve learned about thriving when you’re an arms-length away from your loved one-all the time.Īfter the past year of wandering these same four rooms, I’ve discovered that we need to build systems for ourselves, not try to force ourselves into systems that work for other people. But we do have a parking space we wouldn’t trade for all the extra closets in the world, and we just added a patio table which has us asking something we’ve never asked before: Where should we eat dinner? It makes us feel rich in square footage it’s all a matter of perspective. ![]() We’ve shared a single closet for nearly 10 years and have no immediate plans to move. Our apartment works because it has to-because this is LA, and small, shared spaces are the name of the game. If you’ve shared a small space with a partner, you might be letting out a strained laugh in agreement-it’s hard. But that doesn’t mean it’s been smooth sailing. This past year, especially, our home has been our office, movie theater, concert hall, gym, and overall sanctuary in the face of upheaval. We live in a 600-square-foot one-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles, a veritable mansion compared to some couples’ living situations. And an empty cup hiding behind the plants on my desk. He stops to grab the half-empty glass of water from my nightstand on his way to the kitchen. This page was last updated January 28, 2019.“I feel like I spend most of my time picking up cups you leave around the apartment,” my husband tells me as he carries my coffee mug out of the bathroom. Somebody else could see our galaxy as it was billions of years ago, but we could never do so. Light from our own galaxy billions of years ago has long since left the galaxy and is traveling throughout the distant Universe. Thus, if we wanted to look all the way to the edge of the Universe (which is expanding, but ignore this as the reasoning is still the same), light has been traveling to us for billions of years. If we wanted to study what this star was doing 150,000 years ago, we would be unable to do so because the light that left it 150,000 years ago has already long since hit us or passed by us. ![]() Now, imagine we could see a star at the other edge of our galaxy, and let's say that is about 100,000 light-years away, which is roughly the size of our galaxy. (But the Sun won't explode please see this answer.) Alpha Centauri, which is roughly 4 light-years away, we see as it was 4 years ago. ![]() If it were to explode right now, we wouldn't know for another 8 minutes. We see the Sun as it was just over 8 minutes ago because it is 8 light-minutes away. When we look at an object, you are correct in that we see it as it was when the light left it. It seems that with the fact that the Milky Way moves along with the rest of the universe, and light bends, etc., then at some point in space we should be able to literally see ourselves. My mind has been trying to grapple with this. If looking far out into the universe allows us to peer "backwards in time", at light from galaxies that left long, long ago - in theory, shouldn't we be able to see our own galaxy forming, as we look towards the "edge" of the universe? ![]()
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