I’m 26 years old, but most of the time I don’t feel like it.  I feel like a little kid playing grown up – going to work every day, paying my bills, taking care of the house, cooking dinner (for Stephen now, not just for myself.)  I know that I am a pretty responsible person, but there are times when something happens to make me feel like I am simply not ready to be an adult – in this case, not ready to be a homeowner.  And I’m not talking about the things that happen on an almost daily basis (i.e. a salesperson or postman or something rings the doorbell, and when I answer, they ask if my mom and/or dad are home.)  Today my dryer broke – I washed a load of laundry in the morning and then stuck everything in the dryer before lunch so that my gym clothes would be all ready to go when Stephen got home (because he actually agreed to go to the gym with me!)  I always use the lowest heat setting in the dryer, air fluff, because it’s the least hard on the clothes.  A little over an hour later, I opened the dryer and everything was still wet.  It had been on, I could hear it working, but it wasn’t drying the clothes.  I thought I just had the setting too low, so I moved it up to medium heat.  An hour later… nothing.  Still wet, and I couldn’t feel any heat in the dryer.  This is when I knew something was wrong.  I tried high heat, no cigar.

I’m not 100% positive, but pretty sure it is the heating element that has kicked the bucket.  Stephen came home from work and got really excited about the prospect of taking the whole thing apart to figure out the problem.  He started (and of course didn’t finish the big job in one night) so now my stackable washer and dryer are sitting in the hallway in a gazillian pieces, blocking the path to the bathroom.  There are tools everywhere, screws and pieces of metal, and random tubes and pipes sticking out of the wall that he disconnected.  And he took off and left for work this morning, leaving me to stare at it all day while in my home office.  Lovely.

Here are some nom nom highlights from the past few days.  I did some grocery shopping – my favorite brand, KASHI!!! is on sale at Target this week so I got TLC trail mix chewy bars, TLC dark chocolate cherry chewy bars, strawberry cereal bars, and my go-to GoLean cereal.  Woo hoo!

I have been eating clementines like they are going out of style, because I bought a 5 pound box on sale at safeway (and 5 pounds is a lot for one person):

And also feelin fruity with peaches:

I have also been quite the sundae queen.  Monday and Tuesday nights I had vanilla frozen yogurt with chocolate syrup, some m&ms and a crumbled kashi crunchy bar:

When I was growing up, we had regular delivery from the Schwann’s man.  I used to LOVE when the Schwanns man would come, he would bring all this yummy food like these individual deep dish pizzas that were my absolute favorite.  And the ice cream, they make a birthday cake flavor that was my all-time fave.  So I have started having the Schwanns man come to my house in CA.  It’s expensive, but just kind of a nice, comfort thing to me.  It reminds me of home and growing up.  It’s like comfort food for me.  Unfortunately, the guy was late today so I wasn’t home when he came.  But Stephen was there and got my order, which consisted soley of ice cream.  Hey, it’s my first order.  I promise I will order some real food next time

And in the true spirit of playing house, Stephen and I bought some things for the house today.  The house, slash my house, slash our house.  Guess I should try to get used to saying that.  We got some tools, and one of those Pur water filters that attach to the faucet.  I personally don’t care about drinking tap water – I drink it all the time and think it tastes fine.  But Stephen has to have filtered water, so he wanted to get one of those things (even though I do have a Brita pitcher in the fridge, but we are constantly emptying it and refilling it.)  It is actually pretty cool, and was easy to install so made me happy

So now I’m off to clean my house, pay my credit card bill, and do other grown-up things.  And then I’m climbing into bed with my teddy bear and falling asleep sucking my thumb.