A house (or apartment) is not a home until there is…COFFEE! Especially in places where coffee is more expensive or more difficult to find, such as Taiwan. There are lots of little coffee shops on the streets (nearly all of them have ripped off the Starbucks logo), but in the supermarkets all of the coffee on the shelves is instant. Up until Tuesday, nearly all of the coffee I had consumed in Taiwan was instant coffee. Joel loved to remind me that I wouldn’t even TOUCH that stuff at home. Well, to drink it, anyway…I would use it to make cappuccino chocolate chip muffins. However much disdain I have for that stuff, I had to drink it anyway…otherwise, mornings with my xiao peng you or “little friends” at the school would have been pretty rough. (=
Monday night, I made a trip to Costco, where I was actually able to get some coffee (not instant) at a pretty decent price. So, Joel being the wonderful husband that he is, brewed the first pot of coffee in our apartment on Tuesday morning. That was a wonderful smell to wake up to. Really, there are very few things I can think of that make a place more homey than the smell of a pot of coffee brewing.
So even though we are still on the lookout for a few more pieces of furniture, we are feeling more and more settled all the time. Once we get a couch, we’ll take pictures of the apartment and post a “photo-tour” for all of you to see.
Meanwhile, I’m going to go savour the last few sips of this morning’s coffee. Mmmm.
Say, do y’all have a coffee bean grinder?
Hooray!!! You have coffee! That’s just awesome.
So, does it go better with duck butt or blood on a stick? ;-D
Meredith…
No coffee bean grinder, sadly. I’ve heard that they are available over here, but I have yet to find one! Maybe I’ll get ours shipped from Canada (or get it when we’re there this summer)…voltage is the same here in Taiwan as in the US/Canada, so it would work!
Hey, I miss you!