dilemma?

I have wanted and dreamed and lusted, innocent kitchen gadget lusting, over the Francis Francis espresso makers for years. At the price of roughly $700 I've always known that I will never own one and that this was an innocent relationship I had with with one of my favorite drinks.

Some days, I will google-image search photographs and imagine what color I'd buy that day, then imagine how it would look on my counter. Some days I go as far as to pick who I'd have over for little cups of espresso and what we would talk about and then try to decide if i'd bake scones or biscotti. Usually it's orange in color or sometimes yellow. Never red because my mixer is red and it would seem like a waste of a perfectly great splash of color on the other side of the kitchen if they matched. One day I think I chose blue.

Today I had to return a pair of yoga pants to TJ Maxx. Just like the end caps at Target I am somehow sucked to the kitchen department clearance section by some force beyond my control. As I was about to leave the store empty handed, I tripped over a box. It was a Francis Francis X1 Trio. It had the yellow sticker that quickens my pulse and it read, well, I'll just say it was no where close to the $700.

I picked it up and said to myself, I think I'd start drinking caffeine again if I had this. I've not been drinking much caffeine for almost a year now. I can buy it and return it tomorrow if I have buyers remorse. There is a TJ Maxx in Branson, I don't have to drive to Springfield to return it. I'll call Jonathan and see what he thinks. I did just turn in my application to start substitute teaching again and it costs just a little more than 1 day of pay.

Then I did what any girl in my situation would do, I called my friend to ask her permission to purchase. I knew she was busy because I'd already talked to a few hours before, but I'd call anyway. I called, she did not answer, but another friend answered Anna's phone and when I got off the phone grinning, box in hand I said this right before the good bye, "Susan, I'm glad I don't shop with you often."*

It's in my bedroom.

It's my 365 photo for the day.

Googling reviews has taken the place of google images.

My dilemma, do i...

A) keep it and reenter my love affair with caffeine?

B) return it?

C) sell it on ebay for a profit?

It's red.

*Susan, I do really wish we shopped together more often, because that would mean I got to spend more time with you and see you more than a couple of times in a good year.