The Little Things
I'm marrying Jason for his coffee maker. Not quite true, but i absolutely LOVE this thing. He has an Estro Vapore espresso machine that he got 15 years ago and the thing is still chugging. That, and it's just about the only thing we have plugged in at our new home. We never had counter space for it before, but now we're using it about four times a day! I'm absolutely hooked and the coffee is so delicious. In my opinion, if you have good coffee and toast in the morning (and someone fabulous to make it for you) - that's just about all you need.
One of the best things about moving is that it totally brings you back to basics. You don't have any of the modern conveniences right away - your favorite clothes are all still packed, no television, your mail's still being delivered to the wrong address, and no Internet! (Of course, we have it now, thus my immediate attention to blogging again.) But we are still living in piles of boxes, with a shop vac and toolboxes filling a couple of the rooms and plates of cardboard covering the floors. We've got a basket of our favorite liquors that we pluck from to concoct nightcaps in the evening, which we then drink out of paper cups!
It's kind of like fancy camping. Of course, you can't live this way for long. If you're as antsy as me, you want to start having people over, cleaning up the rooms and revealing their full potential, cooking meals for dinner parties and actually being able to serve on real plates! But for now, I'll take a cappuccino, please.