Hit me where it hurts now
Apr. 7th, 2025 12:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vintagewitch I'm very behind on my DW friends page again. I'm sorry everyone! It's to the point where I just read the first page of the friends page and then will keep reading from here on out.
I'm writing on my lunch break at work again. I feel like someone who is an actual put-together-adult but is hiding her feral nature from everyone around her. But last night I managed to set the programmable coffee pot AND pack a lunch for myself for today, so I'm counting that as a win.
Speaking of: I got a programmable coffee pot and it's kind of revolutionized my life?
This is such a basic thing, but let me explain. In my 20s I picked up some strange snobbish tendencies. I've been exclusively using a French Press or Chemex for years at this point, which both make fine coffee but they are very fiddly and fussy. The dishes are inconvenient and annoying, and they've started to feel like work.
At my temp job I'm helping to digitize a bunch of files because this whole floor is moving to a different floor of the building, so they're clearing out a lot of things and putting them in a free pile. And there was a new, programmable coffee maker. My coworker Chesh suggested I take it home, and after a bit of coaxing I ended up grabbing it. (My primary concern with it was that I am trying to downsize right now, so taking an appliance home felt weird).
And let me tell you ... I've never had a programmable coffee pot, but now when the cats make me get out of bed at 5:30 in the morning demanding breakfast, I have hot coffee waiting for me. And I haven't noticed a difference in quality/taste of the coffee! Which is WILD to me! What else have I been snobby about all of these years that is just making my life harder for no reason?
I'm writing on my lunch break at work again. I feel like someone who is an actual put-together-adult but is hiding her feral nature from everyone around her. But last night I managed to set the programmable coffee pot AND pack a lunch for myself for today, so I'm counting that as a win.
Speaking of: I got a programmable coffee pot and it's kind of revolutionized my life?
This is such a basic thing, but let me explain. In my 20s I picked up some strange snobbish tendencies. I've been exclusively using a French Press or Chemex for years at this point, which both make fine coffee but they are very fiddly and fussy. The dishes are inconvenient and annoying, and they've started to feel like work.
At my temp job I'm helping to digitize a bunch of files because this whole floor is moving to a different floor of the building, so they're clearing out a lot of things and putting them in a free pile. And there was a new, programmable coffee maker. My coworker Chesh suggested I take it home, and after a bit of coaxing I ended up grabbing it. (My primary concern with it was that I am trying to downsize right now, so taking an appliance home felt weird).
And let me tell you ... I've never had a programmable coffee pot, but now when the cats make me get out of bed at 5:30 in the morning demanding breakfast, I have hot coffee waiting for me. And I haven't noticed a difference in quality/taste of the coffee! Which is WILD to me! What else have I been snobby about all of these years that is just making my life harder for no reason?
It reminds me of when I finally got an ereader that I liked. Downgrading from a Kindle Fire which was super buggy and obnoxious to a Kindle Paperwhite made me actually love that format of reading.
Anyway - I've been making these small but impactful adjustments to how I live in the world and it's been really interesting.
