Things I miss...

Well, aside from the obvious such as my cats and friends and family(studio, too), I miss some other things that I wouldn't have thought likely.

I miss my microwave oven. Who knew? I have had one for more than 20 years and I can't remember how to heat up leftovers or remember to defrost stuff for dinner. We are figuring it out, but I am thinking of buying a teeny one... Along with that we are having to relearn how to cook on an electric stove - hence the microwave would be helpful here too.

I miss Starbucks. Not the coffee ( I don't drink coffee) or necessarily the chai (although I do). Most of the coffee shops here do not open early on the weekend and if they do open on Sunday it is not until 11 or 12. So, our Sunday morning breakfast and paper reading routine will have to change. That will likely happen when it starts getting lighter later so that getting up and out early won't seem so appealing. And maybe by then the $7 price for a chai and $6 for a scone won't faze me (a really, really good scone...).

I miss reading a real newspaper on the day it is printed. We have Kindles (e-book readers from Amazon) that we download the paper to, but because we are 6 hours ahead, we can't get it when we get up in the morning. We download it in the evening and read it the next morning. We could switch and read it in the evening, but old habits die hard. So even though I would like to have my chai and a scone on Sunday mornings - the Sunday paper won't come until around 11 or 12 - hmm, just when the nearest coffee shop opens up....