I <3 my appliances

[jethrien]

Oh wow. Oh guys. I love my new microwave and vacuum cleaner so much. My microwave heats up my hot chocolate in only 2/3 the time it took the old one. And it's actually hot, really hot. And the vacuum cleaner? Has different height settings. Like, I can use it on both the hardwood floor and the carpet and they both come out clean. I don't think the little Persian carpet has ever been so clean.

I cannot say how happy this makes me. I feel like the pathetically thrilled housewife in a bad 1950s commercial. Rest in peace, crappy old appliances. I don't miss you.

Comments

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

I do like the fact that such simple things can make you happy.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Simple things like a couple hundred dollars worth of appliances we had to carry home in the snow?

I try to appreciate things, at least as much as not having them bothers me. I've had quite a lot of annoyance at the old vacuum cleaner's inability to clean carpets or wood particularly well or the old microwave's taking five minutes to heat milk enough. So I figure I need at least that much gratitude and happiness now that I have appliances that do do those things. Otherwise, you spend your whole life being annoyed at what goes wrong, while ignoring everything that goes right.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

I love my new microwave and vacuum cleaner so much.
You are a 1950s housewife. Yes, microwaves existed then.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Hey, I didn't wear pearls while vacuuming. That helps, right?

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

It depends. Were you wearing petticoats?

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Totally. Over my khakis and under my dumpy house sweater.

[mithras03.livejournal.com]

Ooh - what kind of vacuum cleaner?

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I don't actually remember. A relatively cheap one. It's just that its predecessor and I never got on, and then it got old.

[firynze.livejournal.com]

Heeeee. I was too, too thrilled about the electric sweeper I got for my birthday, so I understand completely.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

It's not part of regressing to housewife status: it's part of being old. You start wanting things that work better and you have the money to get them, so you do and your life is aweeeesome.

Seriously, I go to Disney World and there are shirts! The Nightmare Before Christmas is everywhere! Cute hats! Pins! Jewelry! Commemorative Mugs! Me? I head for the kitchenware section and buy Mickey Mouse-head pancake shapers, ice cube trays, and oven mitts.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

...they make Mickey Mouse ice cube trays?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Of course they do. This is DISNEY. They haven't met a product they couldn't turn into a House of Mouse-branded product. This is the organization that is almost single-handedly fighting for more copyright protection in film (to the detriment of older films left to molder) because they fear the loss of Mickey that much.

[cubby-t-bear.livejournal.com]

You would not believe how delighted I was to move into an apartment with a dishwasher after two years in a place without one. And the washer/dryer combo ... oh, it's a slice of heaven.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'd believe it, as Chuckro's previous apartment didn't have a dishwasher. And we still don't have our own washer/dryer. Is it sad that one of my life goals has become to have a washer/dryer combo in my own apartment?

[cubby-t-bear.livejournal.com]

Not a life end-goal, but a milestone, surely. And it's not a bad thing to aspire to. We should only stop trying to make our lives better when we're no longer conscious :)