better living through appliances

I’m not sure if I offered my daily sacrifices to the Dark Lord when we lived in a stick house; I pretty much gave up the elixir once I fell pregnant with Jesse and it was no sacrifice whatsoever.  Morning sickness will do that to you.  Things you thought you couldn’t live without, that the Earth would stop spinning on its axis if you stopped, you gave up in a heartbeat.  After he was born I was breastfeeding, then pregnant again, and breastfeeding, rinse, wash, repeat until Ellen turned 6 or so.  But when we left the stick in 2004, I started to dabble and now I’m a full-fledged devotee.  But I’m a weird devotee.  I have been to Starbucks maybe twice and was flummoxed each time, ordering a “normal, strong, black cup of coffee.  Do you have that?  Just normal and strong and black.  Yeah, about that size.”  As long as it is strong and not bitter, I’m pretty happy with any blend and generally have no idea what I’m drinking.  Right now, I just know the beans come from Coatepec (I don’t like the Chiapas beans) and “my” little old Italian roaster makes me a “Cubano” roast.  Rich and dark.  His quality control isn’t the best (or maybe its his eyesight) and sometimes the Cubano is more Italiano, but I really don’t care.  Since we left our stick I’ve been making coffee either with a cotton “sock” or filer and cone.  A few weeks ago Jamie bought me a $80/$6.15USD coffee machine and boy has life been easy.  I can’t believe how enormously EASY it is – no balancing of the cone inside the cup, hoping it doesn’t fall over and spill the percolating coffee on me, the counter, the floor, and no spilling boiling water on me (I am amazed how often I’ve been doing that) before getting it to the cone.  Life is good.  I lurve that little machine and the thoughtful man who brought it to me.  He should get a reward, doncha think?

We were recently at Costco in Cancun and bought a ceiling fan.  We’ve been dealing with floor fans for the years we’ve been here – the mozzies can be absolutely FIERCE during certain seasons of the year – and Jamie had it installed within a week.  We’re not convinced it is really going to make a difference but are hoping that between mozzy screen (still haven’t purchased or hung) and the fan, we’ll be more comfortable and be able to actually use the comedor in the summer.

Today my man turns another year over.  No appliances to note there, but I had to mention it.  We’ve both been hit hard with a summer cold but life just keeps getting better and better and every day I find more to love in that man of mine.

I am going to try to finish this up now – terribly disjointed, I suppose, but I’ve been trying to update for a couple days now and if I don’t finish now, I may never finish.  We got a huge new piece of furniture for the recamera; Mom and Dad and Michelle and Chris will recognize how nice it will be to visit in the future with a place to put their stuff.  And after 5 years of no place to put our clothing (seriously, we’ve not had anything but Stuffing In a Cube storage) we now have DRAWERS and cubbies with DOORS and I have a DESK!  Just in time, as I finished the transcription course the other day and am now job hunting.  After filling each and every day with study I can now take a breather before I fill each and every day with job hunting, work and study for the FSOT.

And that’s all the news that’s fit to print.