Are you wondering what the heck a Keurig is? It’s a single serving/cup coffee maker. They range from $79 to commercial ones for offices and stuff which cost more like $2500. The “lower end” ones are the greatest thing ever for a home coffee maker. This is mine:

I got it at Sam’s for $129 and it came with the machine, 2 water filters, and 90 K-Cups. So it was a really good deal, because just the machine itself was $149 on the Keurig site. You might want to go check Sam’s if you’re interested.

You pop in a pod (K-cup), choose the cup size by pressing a button, and your cup of coffee is ready in less than 30 seconds. Mine has a 48 ounce water holder so I don’t have to refill it more than once every few days. You can use any coffee cup with it. If I have a huge cup, I make a medium Keurig size cup and then a small one, and it fills it perfectly. I just use the same K-cup for both times because I like weak coffee.

There are all kinds of yummy flavors available like Caramel Apple and Chocolate Crunch and Butter Toffee. Plus, the traditional flavors. I love to mix my coffee flavor with an interesting creamer. They also make hot chocolate and tea K-Cups. I have a mandarin orange spice tea one that I am looking forward to trying. We are going to have a lot of fun coffee shopping. You can get the K-Cups at Bed Bath and Beyond and lots of regular coffee places now, too.

If you don’t want to use the K-cup pods all the time, you can buy a My-K filter. It’s a reusable metal filter and then you can use your own coffee grounds in place of the K-Cups.

It’s even faster than driving through Starbucks and costs about 50 cents per cup instead of $3.85! In fact I think I might have to go make myself another cup now. It’s kind of addictive.

So why am I on the internet now? Jonathon has rigged something up in our downstairs and I’m pretty sure I’m not on our network, because he told me not to do any banking… ummm…. anyway I am down here on a Mac (which I hate) laptop (which I hate) sitting at a table in the corner of our downstairs. Where it once again smells like cat pee. But that’s a story for another day.

I admit, I felt frantic because I was so far behind on blog reading. I still haven’t been commenting because I suck at using a laptop and I click and drag and scroll as little as possible. I am behind on reading posts on my mom board. I haven’t responded to quite a few emails. BUT now that I have caught up with most things in my Google Reader, I feel like it has taken the edge off. I’ve gotten my fix. Isn’t that sad? The good news is, in the last two days without (much) internet, I have cleaned the kitchen, bathrooms, my office, done laundry, ironed, returned something to T@rget, called the carpet cleaning company to discuss the cat pee smell… oh what I could get done if I would stay off the internet on a regular basis!

I signed up for the free download version and made sure that I wasn’t getting any viruses or spyware. Once I was using the software I discovered that it’s pretty much the same software as Limewire so you can find almost anything you want- software, music, movies, etc. Here’s the catch- the software is legal to use, but the downloads themselves are illegal because you don’t have the rights to the files unless you own the physical copy of the material. Jonathon had to come in and help me and explain it all to me. The other problem is that you are downloading files from other people’s computers, so there is a huge potential to get viruses. Basically, if the person who hosts the file has a virus, you are downloading their virus too. Not a chance I want to take.

I was so clueless as to what I was doing because the program promotes “free legal software” blah blah blah, but what you are doing with the software is not legal. Big disappointment to me. I am so cheap and just wanted free music. So if anyone knows a program like Napster where you can pay a small fee a month I would be willing to try it. I just want something where they don’t steal the music back after you quit the program

Also we are selling our old entertainment center for $50 if anyone wants it. We bought it at Target a few years ago for $199 or something like that. Seriously, here’s what it looks like (well actually we’ve dusted it since this picture was taken) and it’s yours if you can come pick it up and take it away! It’s in good condition.

Email me for details: tara (at) twolinesonastick (dot) com

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And she was right. Pressing “u” fixed it! Thanks!

(Now if it was that easy to find furniture to match our recliner downstairs).

But I made sure to take pictures of their tacky decorating and Haitian artwork and Seagull lighting in their house. Also here is something suspicious- their toilet seat is wooden. Didn’t people quit using wooden cutting boards for a reason? Like bacteria? Well I can only imagine how much pee bacteria is in the toilet seat at their house.

Today we are going to my parents house for Christmas so we will have tons of pics from today as well.