Quick! What’s every woman’s fantasy?
No, that’s not it. It’s a Roomba! A robotic vacuum cleaner.
Guess what?
I got one. Which means, technically, all my dreams have come
true. This is pretty much accurate.
Shout out to my FIL and my little brother who pitched in
Amazon loot for my birthday which enabled me to bring Ed home finally.
Here’s Ed.
How do I know his name is Ed?
When I told Nick his name was Ed, he asked how I knew that.
I said, “It says it there, right on his top.” He said, “You mean P3?”
(Men,
they can ruin everything.)
I chose Ed after carefully considering the options within my
budget and reading some of the 400 reviews on Amazon. (Seriously, there are
more than 400 reviews of robotic vacuum cleaners on Amazon. Who are these
people?) The part that really sold me was that when reviewers were talking
about Ed, they always referred to the vacuum as “he”. As in, “He does really
well on hardwood floors, but doesn’t like carpet quite as much.” And “My only
complaint about him is that he can get stuck moving from hardwood to carpet and
he only holds a charge about 35 minutes.” I wanted this vacuum who had so
clearly carved a place in the hearts of these reviewers.
Ed was super easy to assemble, just needing me to attach his
happy little brush that sweeps objects out of edges and into his path and also
the dust cloth. Then the hard part came…I had to wait 16 hours for him to
charge up his rechargeable batteries! (It only took that long the first time,
subsequently, he was much quicker to get back in the game.)
When he was all charged up, I prepped the kitchen. I removed
the mats near the door and picked up larger items like shoes, baseball hats,
dogs, and dice (I have a kid with a serious D&D habit, so there are dice in
every nook and cranny of my house). Then I put the chairs up on the table and
counter.
(My children did such a great job removing all their crap from the
table, just like I asked. Ahem.)
