I wish the weekend would never end. I wish we could play all day, every day, all day long. I wish we could bang on the drum till the neighbors knocked on the wall. I wish we could bounce the ball until we make a hole in the floor. I wish we could eat snacks for as long as we wanted. I wish the weekend would never end and then you would never have to go to school and we would never have to go to work and we could play, and play, and play some more until the neighbors knocked on the wall and then we would laugh and sing and shout at the top of our lungs, "We're playing in here, can you keep that knocking down? Don't you know how much fun it is to play and bang on the drum and bounce the ball and eat snacks? Don't you know how we don't want the weekend to end? Why don't you know?" And then we would play some more and bang the drum some more and bounce the ball some more. And then we would eat snacks. I wish the weekend would never end.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
I Wish
I wish the weekend would never end. I wish we could play all day, every day, all day long. I wish we could bang on the drum till the neighbors knocked on the wall. I wish we could bounce the ball until we make a hole in the floor. I wish we could eat snacks for as long as we wanted. I wish the weekend would never end and then you would never have to go to school and we would never have to go to work and we could play, and play, and play some more until the neighbors knocked on the wall and then we would laugh and sing and shout at the top of our lungs, "We're playing in here, can you keep that knocking down? Don't you know how much fun it is to play and bang on the drum and bounce the ball and eat snacks? Don't you know how we don't want the weekend to end? Why don't you know?" And then we would play some more and bang the drum some more and bounce the ball some more. And then we would eat snacks. I wish the weekend would never end.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Coffee Links
So, I got a comment requesting advice on coffee. I did a little research and discovered very quickly that there is a lot of free coffee available online. Who figured that? What I figure is, you could probably get about a year's worth of free coffee by going to all these sites (or at least a free "something"). This way, if the coffee is no good, no sweat, you did not pay for it, so who cares? - Longview Coffee Company offers free shipping.
- Choose a blend and Seattle's Best will send you a complimentary sample so that you can enjoy their uncommonly smooth taste.
- Looks like the Italians are competing with Seattle: they are offering one free bag of coffee with each purchase. Woot!
- Gevalia is upping the ante by giving out a coffee maker and a coffee scoop when you buy two boxes of their coffee. Not too shabby.
- I'm breaking the "freebie" streak by introducing coffee from Kona. Why am I breaking the freebie streak? Because we like the beer from Kona, so the coffee can't be that bad, right?
- Complete detour from the coffee theme: We tried this beer for the first time while on our honeymoon. We recently rediscovered it at Costco. And they have a cool website to boot.
- Last but not least, here's an entire website that does nothing but provide links to getting free coffee. I counted about 23 different highlights on that page, so perhaps it's possible to get several months worth of free coffee? You tell me.
Bonus link: I don't think these guys are offering any coffee freebies, but they do have an image of a dancing goat. And you don't see that everyday.
Friday, June 27, 2008
Fresh Ground Coffee
Hmmm, coffee beans or ground coffee? What a decision, what a choice, this requires some quick thinking, quick acting, what do we do, huh, huh, what do we do? We grabbed the coffee beans. I was thinking, it will taste fresher, it’s cheaper, we can buy the big bag. This will be a good thing. Yum, fresh ground coffee, every morning. This will be good.
The thing is, you have to grind coffee beans. This requires a coffee grinder. Do you have a coffee grinder? We didn’t. We do now. Those things are messy. And we got a small grinder, so we can only grind so much at once, so it takes several whirs, whirs, and more whirs until we have enough to drip, drip, drip into the pot, pot, pot.
We are very accustomed to Starbucks. Good ole Starbucks. Strong coffee that Starbucks is. The coffee beans we bought were Kirkland’s House Blend, roasted by Starbucks. Kirkland’s House Blend is like drinking water compared to the industrial strength of Starbucks. Of course, Peete’s still wins the show with their nuclear strength coffee, but that’s for another time.
So, we got our beans, we got our grinder, we put in our six scoops for two big cups of coffee and what do we get? We get see-through, caramel-colored coffee. I drank two cups and was looking for more. So, what do we do? We gotta grind, grind, grind some more. This is so much fun—grind, grind, grind—till you just can’t grind no more.
That was yesterday. Today we did eight scoops of freshly ground coffee and things were back to normal. Except now we’re stuck cleaning our coffee grinder, along with the coffee pot, the coffee cups, not to mention all the rest of the stuff we have to clean: two baby faces, four baby hands, two baby trays, all the food two babies throw on the floor, two breakfast dishes, and the frying pan used to fry the eggs, and the spatula used to flip the eggs, and the forks… well, you got the picture about four items ago. It’s a wonder we ever leave the house at all.
Next time we buy our coffee beans, we’re grinding them at the store, just like the store employee suggested, just like I wanted to do, just like my wife’s friend suggested. Sometimes you just have to learn the hard way.
And yes, fresh ground coffee is very tasty.
The thing is, you have to grind coffee beans. This requires a coffee grinder. Do you have a coffee grinder? We didn’t. We do now. Those things are messy. And we got a small grinder, so we can only grind so much at once, so it takes several whirs, whirs, and more whirs until we have enough to drip, drip, drip into the pot, pot, pot.
We are very accustomed to Starbucks. Good ole Starbucks. Strong coffee that Starbucks is. The coffee beans we bought were Kirkland’s House Blend, roasted by Starbucks. Kirkland’s House Blend is like drinking water compared to the industrial strength of Starbucks. Of course, Peete’s still wins the show with their nuclear strength coffee, but that’s for another time.
So, we got our beans, we got our grinder, we put in our six scoops for two big cups of coffee and what do we get? We get see-through, caramel-colored coffee. I drank two cups and was looking for more. So, what do we do? We gotta grind, grind, grind some more. This is so much fun—grind, grind, grind—till you just can’t grind no more.
That was yesterday. Today we did eight scoops of freshly ground coffee and things were back to normal. Except now we’re stuck cleaning our coffee grinder, along with the coffee pot, the coffee cups, not to mention all the rest of the stuff we have to clean: two baby faces, four baby hands, two baby trays, all the food two babies throw on the floor, two breakfast dishes, and the frying pan used to fry the eggs, and the spatula used to flip the eggs, and the forks… well, you got the picture about four items ago. It’s a wonder we ever leave the house at all.
Next time we buy our coffee beans, we’re grinding them at the store, just like the store employee suggested, just like I wanted to do, just like my wife’s friend suggested. Sometimes you just have to learn the hard way.
And yes, fresh ground coffee is very tasty.
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