Saturday, November 06, 2010

The Irrepressible Urge to Buy Stuff

Something about the cold of winter and the desire to nest fosters an irrepressible urge to buy stuff.  My total time here will be less than 10 weeks, but I somehow ended up with a box of 45 tall kitchen trash bags and 6 rolls of paper towels.  I don't know how to knit, but I seem to have procured an entire set of bamboo size 7 knitting needles, circular needles, double-pointed needles AND a 5.5 mm crochet hook.  Witness my newly-purchased arsenal of thermoses:
Why would you need more than one thermos, one might ask.  One I use for coffee or tea; the other is a food thermos which is spectacular for transporting soup to work.  So far I've made a hearty split pea soup and a surprisingly lovely miso soup with tofu & toasted nori.
The thermoses also come in handy for those special moments when you really need hot water: for instance, when winter elements conspire to encase your car trunk hinges in ice so that your trunk is completely frozen shut.  Because if you're trapped in your frozen-shut trunk without 2 thermoses full of hot water, this trunk release cable will not help you:

1 comment:

thistljm said...

That is the craziest sign I have seen in a while! Love the blog! (Disregard my instructions to start a blog -included in a soon to arrive letter- since you are WAY ahead of me. I'm slow!)