Life's Little Luxuries

I remember listening to a talk on tape by Mary Ellen Edmunds years ago called Gratitude - the Theory of Relativity. She talked about being grateful and talked of her mission experiences in primitive countries and basically - it's all relative...our comforts, our expectations, etc. She told of a little saying of Pres. Kimball's, "Don't worry little luxury, soon you'll become a necessity!" I thought that was pretty funny and immediately thought of my dishwasher, then I remembered back to when Ryan was a baby and heating up bottles in the middle of the night - with hot water on the stove...and how excited we were to get our tax return and buy a big old microwave oven...
Well, my new luxury is the DVR. I love it!!!! If we're watching something I usually have another another channel on standby(like the history or discovery channel) to quick flip to during graphic commercials; and I don't like how the volume rises during commercials - not a problem now...about 5 seconds on the fastforward - what commercials??! And if it's on later than I want to stay up, or if I'm going to be gone...great - just program it and watch it at my own convenience! So here's to limited commercial interruption and TV watching on my terms!