It's the little things.

It's the little things that make life over here awesome and difficult. It is truly like a love-hate relationship sometimes.

• Love my beautiful floors. Hate that they literally require cleaning every day. 
• Love the family owned businesses. Hate that everything shuts down from 12-3, Monday or Wednesday nights, and Sundays. 
• Hate doing laundry. Love that my washing machine takes 4 hours to do one load. Literally not possible to do more than 2 loads of laundry a day. Hate that is takes 4 hours. 
• Enjoying- not really loving yet- the recycling. Hate that it is a requirement. 
• Love having someone else fill up my car with gas. Hate driving.
• Love the Italian language. Hate that it is so hard to communicate.
• Love the local produce. Hate that I cannot buy blueberries right now. 
• Love having shutters. Hate opening them. Literally, sitting in the semi-dark right now. 

Then there are the weird things.

• I have to open my windows after showers or running the dishwasher to prevent mold and mildew in the house.
• I keep "moisture packages" around the house to help absorb the water in the air.
• I am suppose to cross ventilate the house 10minutes every day...it's too cold, so I don't. 
• The recycling boxes are randomly placed all down the street. 
• I get chastised for parking- usually not close enough to the car behind or in front of me- when Italians struggle to drive in the first place
• No garbage disposal....
• I have to light my oven on fire to get it work. Oh, and my front right stove top burner thing. 
• I have to empty out the water from the dryer after every load.
• I have to put salt in the dishwasher because the water is so hard that it isn't good for the dishes. 
• The euro has COINS for 1euro and 2euro. Causes me to have way too much money in coins.

Like I said. It's the little things