A couple of years ago I bought, as a birthday gift for myself, one of those Keurig coffeemakers. Those are the kind that have the individual plastic cups of coffee grounds (k-cups) that you pop in and push a button and it brews one perfect (for me) cup at a time. Being as how I'm the only one in my household that drinks coffee, it works for me. I can get a wide variety of flavors without having bags of coffee cluttering up the fridge. They are a little expensive, but I generally only drink coffee at home on the weekends, so it's a minor indulgence. I love it so much, it's on my list of things to grab in case of fire. It's not that I'm too busy to make coffee the normal way. I'm just too lazy.

So it was with great distress that I found myself out of the k-cups this weekend (let me interject and say that no, I am not shilling for Keurig. Mr. Coffee now makes one that uses the same cups and costs about $40 less). Picture my horror as I frantically search my cabinets for a stray cup or overlooked box, my hair still unbrushed and my eyes barely open. On the other hand, don't. But it was to no avail; I had somehow missed that I was running low.

Since no coffee was NOT an option, I hauled out my non-high tech coffeepot, looking at it with disdain. It was like the friend that people only hang out with when their preferred, cooler friends are busy. I looked for where I had stuck the coffee filters, and found my emergency ground coffee in the nether regions of my fridge. As I proceeded to measure the water, scoop the coffee (good heavens, how do people live this way??), and wait for it to brew, I was ashamed at how spoiled I had become. Waiting for the gurgling of the machine to stop, I poured a cup and added all my girly creamer and sugar. It wasn't so bad, really. Plus I have a second cup ready to pour. Maybe I can just use this for a few months. Of course now I have to throw away the filter and grounds, clean the pot and the filter basket...

Forget it, I'm going to the store as soon as the rain stops...