Laundry, Cooking, Monkeys

Two new blog posts in one day! Can you believe it? They started out as the same one, but then one evolved into an in-depth discussion of Glee, and this is a "boring stuff about my day-to-day life" one, so I figured they should be separate entries. I'm actually thinking about starting a new blog that will be dedicated to my ramblings about movies, TV shows, etc. (see my entries on Glee and District 9 for examples of what I'm talking about), and keeping this one more about my life and being in France. What do you think?

Anyway, I have spent a very large amount of time this week doing laundry. Jenny and I had a huge pile of dirty clothes in our room, and we'd only done one small load at a laundromat since moving into our house until this week when we got our own laundry machine and dryer (in the picture, the dryer's on the left, and the washer's on the right). The other thing is that we can only run one machine at a time, either the washer or the dryer, because of the way the electricity's set up in the kitchen. So with those two combined factors, I have spent much of this week doing laundry. The good thing is, since it's in the kitchen, I can just switch loads when I need to and otherwise go about my business. The dryer is a "condensation" dryer, meaning that instead of having a connection to the outside of the house, it just has a plastic drawer in the bottom where all the water collects, and you empty it every time you run it. It's kind of cool.

I'm becoming quite the housewife - another thing I did this week was make a delicious meal inspired by something I ordered at the Pancake Pantry in Nashville one time. I don't remember exactly what it was called or exactly what was in it, but I tried to make something similar, and it was really good. To make it, you fry potatoes, green peppers, onions, and ground beef in a skillet, then mix them all together. Then you make a couple of eggs sunny-side-up and put them on top. Then you put shredded cheese and salsa on top of it all and mix it all together. Mmmmm. I should have taken some pictures of it, Adam Chan-style. Maybe next time.

Not much else new, aside from a bunch of planning for my family to come - researching car rentals, train tickets, and such. Thanksgiving is only a week away, and I'm sure the holiday season will fly by after that. I'm looking forward to it.

To end this entry, here's links to a couple of YouTube videos of monkeys doing gross things that made me laugh pretty heartily:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdA-y6J-KnY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRc8njN6C-E