communism in the kitchen

Everything in this apartment came with a learning curve. The washing machine, dryer, microwave and oven are all in Spanish. If I had a dishwasher it would be in Spanish too. My remote controls for the TV are in Spanish. And clearly I knew it would all be in Spanish. But knowing and understanding are two different things. I knew the washing machine would be in Spanish, but I didnt really understand what that would mean. It meant sticky notes everywhere so I didnt ruin clothes. I can happily report those sticky notes are now gone. I have also conquered the microwave and the remote controls. But the oven still gets me. Because not only is it TINY (I have to buy easy bake oven sized pans since my giant sized ones from the States dont fit. But the 13x9 pyrex does fit so all is not lost) but it is also in Celsius. Oh Celsius.
Last week Curly girl wanted to bake cookies. Bake with your kids they said, it will be fun they said. The following steps had to be taken in order to make said cookies.

1. I had to unplug the desktop computer from the transformer and move the transformer to the kitchen where my Kitchen Aid is. God bless a Kitchen Aid mixer, am I right?
2. Convert grams to tablespoons to cups. I am not a math person. I am going to buy a food scale. The butter here is marked in grams not tbsp and sometimes not marked at all!
3. Do more math to figure out what temp to set the oven. You win again Celsius. When I cook dinner I kind of just wing it in the temperature department because I cannot be expected to do math at 5:30 pm, but I figured this is baking. Be precise, Joanna.
4. Vacuum pantry because spices are sold in bags here and inevitably the baking soda spilled everywhere.
5. Locate muffin tin because my cookie sheets dont fit in the oven.

But good news the semi muffin shaped cookies turned out pretty good! If I were more intelligent I would have written down the answers to the 5 problems above and filed it away for the next time, but you know I didn't.
End of story: the metric system sucks. So do spices not sold in containers with lids that either screw on or snap shut.