While our coffee machine was out for repairs, we rediscovered our manual milk frother. I first saw one of these at my mom’s house last time we were in Brazil. We immediately had to go out and buy one to bring back with us.
It makes the thickest, creamiest foam I’ve ever tasted. It’s easy to use and easy to clean. The model we have is from Frabosk.
My husband is a crumb cake fanatic so we have been on a quest to find his ideal cake. I think we found it!
You can order it from Hahn’s Old Fashioned Coffee Cake. He even tried the raspberry one (which sounded a bit weird to a purist like himself) but really liked it.
I also miss our coffeemaker. See, a couple of weeks ago, it broke down in a freakish way. The used grounds container somehow got dislodged and the machine detected it. Unfortunately, it was in the middle of making espresso and it went a bit crazy. The blade thingy would not go back up. So we had to send it in to have it fixed.
I can’t wait to have it back. I don’t know how much longer I can go without…
If you have a dog like ours who manages to destroy every toy in 5 minutes, there’s nothing better than sheepskin toys.
Duncan has had his sheepskin “bone” since he was a puppy and it’s still completely intact. For xmas, we got him a bunch more sheepskin toys and he seems to love them as much as his bone pillow.
Since buying the house a couple of years ago, we’ve been slowly replacing some of the appliances. Now is time for a new fridge. Ours is about 7 years old based on our estimates. It’s been having too many problems lately and the icemaker is broken, for the second time.
I was very hopeful thinking that newer models would have better designs in the interior and more space. Nope. Turns out that most fridges still have crappy “usable space”. That means we’re still undecided on which model to get.
LG LFX25980
We like the look of the French Door models.
Unfortunately, they seem to have the least amount of interior space.
I also wonder how practical it would be to have a drawer for your freezer items. It just seems like everything would get piled on top of each other.
LG LSC27950
This is currently one of the top contenders. The icemaker is on the door (inside the freezer) which frees up freezer shelf space.
On the other hand, it has this silly soda can rack on the door that holds something like 5 cans. Such a waste of space. I wonder what kind of research they did to decide on *that* feature.
If money were no object, I’d love to get one of these.
I usually prefer men’s watches for some reason. I also like black dials. And they have to have a metal bracelet, leather is just not convenient for some reason.
But since that’s not the case, these are the current contenders.
We decided to buy a house. We thought it would be really hard to find something we liked but we fell in love with the 3rd house we saw. And our offer just got accepted. Yiippeee!
Speaking of dresses, I took advantage of my mom being here to go get my dress. We ended up having to custom order a dress since we liked two different ones. The final dress will look similar to the one of the left but with an empire waist and the cafe waist wrap from the dress on the right. Unfortunately I won’t get to see it until early November so hopefully it will come out ok.
Now that everyone is gone, I will try to catch up with my postings.
We went to Sofia’s wedding on 7/10. It was great. She did an amazing job planning for it in such a short time. They picked the most amazing location in San Francisco. The view is incredible but you need to look at the virtual tour to see it. Her dress was also beautiful!
This past weekend was nice. I went to two barbecues on Sunday with Fariba. The second one was at the house of the guy who owns the pub where we all hang out. Who knew that pubs made that much money?;-) I spent all day Saturday at the Stanford Mall. Shopping until I dropped. What else is new? Well, I’ll tell you. These fabulous shoes, for one. And they were 60% off. Nothing beats that!
love: not having to deal with crowds
hate: having to sign those yellow UPS notifications and wait an extra day to receive everything
love: not having to deal with annoying salespeople
hate: having to deal with customer service
Case in point: Sofia ordered a book for her personal trainer and had it shipped to my house. I figured I could deal with storing a book for a couple of months. Then today, I get home and UPS had left two more boxes from the same publisher. One weighed 14 lbs and the other weighed 28 lbs. I called Sofia and she said she had only ordered that one book. I open the boxes. They are both filled with copies of the same book: Outdoor Recreation Safety. Fifteen copies! According to the invoice, they should have been sent to some place with “Bible” and “Appalachian” in its name all the way in West Virginia.
School and Community Safety Society of America (Corporate Author). Human Kinetics Publishers 1998, Hardcover, 303 pages, $39.00
love: that you can usually find the size you want
hate: that sometimes (I admit, this is only the second time it’s happened) the store send you the wrong size
Case in point: I ordered some stuff from the Gap. Mostly gifts but also two pair of pants for me. One was great and the right size. The other pair was ankle length. I repeat, ANKLE length. And the worst part is that they are flared so not only are they short, but the shortness gets emphasized by the flaring.
While our coffee machine was out for repairs, we rediscovered our manual milk frother. I first saw one of these at my mom’s house last time we were in 
My husband is a crumb cake fanatic so we have been on a quest to find his ideal cake. I think we found it!
Since buying the house a couple of years ago, we’ve been slowly replacing some of the appliances. Now is time for a new fridge. Ours is about 7 years old based on our estimates. It’s been having too many problems lately and the icemaker is broken, for the second time.
LG 
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I need a new watch but don’t know what to get.
Speaking of dresses, I took advantage of my mom being here to go get my dress. We ended up having to custom order a dress since we liked two different ones. The final dress will look similar to the one of the left but with an empire waist and the cafe waist wrap from the dress on the right. Unfortunately I won’t get to see it until early November so hopefully it will come out ok.
This past weekend was nice. I went to two barbecues on Sunday with Fariba. The second one was at the house of the guy who owns the pub where we all hang out. Who knew that pubs made that much money?;-) I spent all day Saturday at the Stanford Mall. Shopping until I dropped. What else is new? Well, I’ll tell you. These fabulous shoes, for one. And they were 60% off. Nothing beats that!
love: not having to deal with crowds
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