My new fun

Ok well I decided that I wasn't going to spend anymore money on my credit cards a few months ago. I have been doing a mostly good job with it. I've had a few slips mind you who doesn't but all in all I have been living on the money that I make. That being said I decided to buy some stuff using the point that I have earned on my credit cards. Now I know I could have "save up" the points but I really really don't want to spend that much money on my credit card just to "save up" some points. Because lets face it you need a whole lot of points to get something really nice, in which case you might as well have just bought the thing yourself because it would have been way cheaper. The point being one of the things I got was and espresso machine.

Now the reason for this Espresso machine is that I'm trying to cure my addiction to Starbucks. Which is really pretty bad. Because really who can afford to spend five dollars a day or more on coffee. Well I can but then there are bills that aren't getting paid etc. So this morning I decided to make my very first cup of whatever the hell I'm drinking. See Jon made some for me yesterday which was good but I really had nothing to do with the making of this said coffee. He did use unsweetened coco for it which I decided I really didn't like. SO this morning I thought well it look easy enough yesterday I can do this. Yeah things are never really that easy are they.

First problem is I wasn't not paying attention to what he was doing and really I have no idea how the stupid machine works. Second problem is that I have no milk. I do however have half and half which J did say does not froth well. So I just added water like he did yesterday. Now I start making the coffee part of the drink right, but then I'm reading the direction and it says not to turn the machine off until its done, but I think that I put too much water in, and I still have to froth the milk right. So I try frothing the milk which for some reason that I don't understand is spitting all over the place at me. Then I'm reminded of J story of people exploding the milk at the coffee place he worked at. Great I think I'm going to make a huge mess in the kitchen that he just cleaned for me because I'm a lazy ass.
So I'm trying to clean up the milk that may or may not be frothing. The glass starts to get really hot so decided froth or not its definitely hot enough, so I switch it back to the coffee part. It does turn out that there is way to much water because the cup get really close to over flowing. So I do what it says not to do and I turn the machine off. I figure what the hell could go wrong, and for a change nothing really does so I'm kind of excited. Now I really don't like the whole latte thing so I have to find something else to put in the coffee so it doesn't taste bad, so I decided to go with the package hot chocolate since its much the same as coco and its sweetened. Add a little more sugar and I'm good to go right. Well mostly. Its seems that the drinks is a little uncoffee like. Mostly taste like milk. Fuck it I think I can just drink a bit and try again since I never finish anything before it gets cold anyways, and won't drink cold coffee no big deal right?
So I try again. But I should start out by saying after I finished my first cuppa something I turn the machine back on so that the water would all come out and the next time I could just start from scratch which what one would assume the right amount of water. SO I go to start my second cup right. Now I turn off the machine and open it up. And pour the right amount of water in, which proceeds to spit all over the place because apparently it was still hot or something. I do have to say that the second cup taste decidedly more like coffee, and I actually managed to froth a decent amount of my half, half and half, half water. Its still not what I would call Starbucks quality. But its not the worst cuppa something that I've ever had which is a plus.
Alright well I'll try to update a little more on my own as well as the stupidity of others. Sorry I haven't been very crabby lately I try harder this month.