Personal Dork Assistant

Materia

Mom's gone back to .tw for a month, which is good in that it gives me a chance to stow more of my stuff away before the clutter drove her insane. Good thing that my wastefully excessive number of CDs just happened to fit into the wastefully excessive cabinets that she bought.

"It can't hold anything else anyway."

Her absence also allows me to tear through the kitchen cabinets. Sure, I spent a lot of money on CDs, but at least I've listened to all of them at least a time or two. We've got enough gleaming new pots and pans stowed away to give Macy's Cellar a run for its money. Of course the collection is missing the one thing I've been wanting: a non-nonstick sauté pan for those times when you need a good sear. Although to be fair I don't think she's picked up anything in a long while, since we've pretty much reached cookware critical mass. It's not just pots and pans, either. Who knew we had a blender and a mixer? Sure would've came in handy when we were trying to make whipped cream that last time. There's the roasting kit stashed in the oven, the oven that I don't think we've even turned on once (we're not big on baking). There's the basting brush in the miscellany drawer, alongside the graters, the ice cream scoop, and the oversized boba straws (perfect for the smoothies that I can make now thanks to the blender). The Henckel knives that sit unused in deference to the good old cleaver. Not to mention the fancy teasets and other porcelain crockery that we never quite have the occasion to break out. At least the kitchen gadgets will keep me un-bored for a while, although I just couldn't resist the latest X10-modules-for-S/H sale, because turning on lights with a remote is cool. I might even get around to interfacing it with the computer, now that XTension for X is almost ready for release.