appliances

Last weekend we bought a food processor, but we didn't use it. Last night we watched the hour and 15 minute dvd that came with it - my friend told me it was very informative and we should watch it, and so we did and now we are informed. And also inspired. They made peanut butter in the dvd, and it was really really easy, so we bought cashews at Costco today and made cashew nut butter, and it was really really easy, and it is really really delicious. We were eating it out of the bowl, and my idea is now to roll it into a log, freeze it, and then cut coins off and dip them in melted chocolate. It's so delicious I can't think of anything else to do but make candy out of it. Charli thinks it's mighty tasty, too.

Brian also used it to slice some zucchini - it was so fast I missed it entirely. The slicing disc is adjustable - it will make slices from 1mm to 6mm thick! Isn't that cool? And Dad, you will be happy to know that I will never, ever buy pre-shredded cheese again. It's also got a dough blade, and at some point when I'm feeling ambitious, we're going to try making pizza. It's very exciting. :)

Two weekends ago, I bought a vacuum cleaner. I used to have a vacuum cleaner, but we never used it for 2 reasons: 1, it doesn't work very well, and 2, Flavia comes every other week with a vacuum cleaner that works and vacuums for me. So, when Sam moved into her place and was perfectly happy to have a free vacuum cleaner that didn't work very well, I gave her ours. Of course, not very long after that I got Charli a blanket that shed everywhere, and I really really wanted a vacuum cleaner, but we suffered through a few weeks of that and the blanket stopped shedding. I decided we needed something for light duty (not that we had ever used our old vacuum cleaner even for light duty), and I got a dustbuster that I was very happy with for a couple of weeks, but it really didn't work well for long either. So two weekends ago I was at Costco and for some reason they had an aisle of vacuum cleaners that weekend, and I bought one. It's a light duty, cordless upright, and it's AWESOME. I never thought I would love a vacuum cleaner, but I love this vacuum cleaner. The battery lasts a week, and we vacuum with it multiple times a day. It's gotten to the point where I don't try to wipe things up off the table after dinner anymore - I just wipe everything onto the floor and then we vacuum it up. Seriously, I love this vacuum cleaner. I would like to name it, but I'm having trouble coming up with something suitable. Suggestions?