Whee!

See kylaroma’s challenge here:

Buying dresses is rough, but here are numbers two and three! The second was bought recently enough before I started this challenge, so I added it in here, and the second one was another Winners purchase. Ka-ching! Money saving is what I love to do!

There’s a part of me that worries - What exactly am I going to do with all of these sundresses when winter comes flying back in here again and haunts us for another 9 months? These thoughts are then quickly suppressed by some version of carpe diem… and I wear them everywhere. To the grocery store, to the farm, to fancy events and while doing laundry (ok kidding about that last one).

Might as well get as much use out of them as possible, oui?

Following the trend of easy consumables, I have to share my love for the Keurig. It’s the food pill of the coffee world. No bags, no scooping, no cleaning the pot… It’s my kind of awesome. You buy these little cups that have a foil lid and a filter inside, stick them in the machine and presto! Single serve coffee in your mug!

For a while I thought the system only caters to people like me - who wake up zombie-state, and only ever really make one cup of coffee at a time. But they’re equally awesome if you have lots of guests, some of whom might want different kinds of coffee or tea. I could totally sell these things on an infomercial, I’m really this thrilled about the invention.

I bought a sampler pack from Tweed and Hickory. You can get 5, 10, 50 or 100 different kinds of cups. Being moderate, I chose 10. Next time, 100 for sure.

Just like in real life, all Kcups are not created equal. Some are amazing Gloria Jean’s Cappuccino was a 5/5. Others are absolutely disgusting Van Houtte Rasperry Chocolate Truffle for example… Not sure what they were thinking. I wasn’t really impressed by any of the Timothy’s Kcups either. For the most part they were 3/5.

I just googled “I love the Keurig” and got over 427 000 results. OK time to cut back on caffeine.

I’ve had to make my own dinner every day this week. While I like to bake, I hate cooking. I once flipped through a Jamie Oliver cookbook, and the “dashes” of this, and “guesswork” of that, were enough to make me break out in a cold sweat.

I do occasionally throw something together for both of us, but since I was eating solo, I decided it would be easier to make a sandwich. Well three days and three sandwiches later, suffice to say I was pretty frustrated.

I think the reason I hate cooking so much (other than the fact that I’m not good at it) is because I consider such a colossal waste of time. Think about it. The time any one person spends grocery shopping, making food, eating food and cleaning up after food is exorbitant to put it mildly. The opportunity cost is high and the payoff is low… well according to me at least.

So whatever happened to those food pills that were promised to us in a once not so distant future? I’m actually half mad, half disappointed that they don’t already exist. Talk about saving energy, various types of resources…etc. Besides the fact that if they existed, they’d be..

And since I’ve already given up on the possibility of teleportation in my lifetime. I don’t think food in pill form is really so much to ask…