Ice Ice Baby

I love ice! Specifically, I love to eat ice cubes. The last time I went through this phase I was pregnant with Ava and I drove my coworkers nuts by crunching away on it all day. The day I gave birth I remember Mike excitedly bringing me a huge cup of ice and I couldn't even look at it, so I assumed it was a pregnancy thing. I can assure you that I am definitely not pregnant, as this craving started again over a year ago and will not go away.  I tried googling to see what vitamin or mineral I am deficient in and that causes my mouth to water every time I think about eating an ice cube but can't find anything. I've mentioned it to the doctor but she didn't know either - and of course the dentist told me to stop doing it when he saw some little cracks in my fillings. It is starting to drive Mike and the kids crazy too, when we go out to dinner I steal everyone's ice cubes out of their drinks when they aren't looking. We had an ice maker in our refrigerator in Dublin so I was very upset to find that our Krakow house didn't have one. I have to fill up trays every day and they take up most of our teeny little freezer so I tried going a day without ice but couldn't do it. I turned to the internet because I figured that there must be some sort of stand-alone ice cube maker and was happy to find several on the UK amazon. After reading all the reviews and finally deciding which one to buy, when I hit the purchase button I found out they would not ship it to Poland. Bastards!! They did have a manual ice crusher though, and I was super excited about that because the big ice cubes are really hard on my teeth so I have to wait until they melt a little before I eat them and that gets frustrating. But crushed ice is perfect, small enough to chomp away at immediately and causes minimal damage to the teeth (so I say, I am sure my dentist would disagree). When we were in Mallorca and we were ordering large bottles of water by the pool, they would fill up the ice buckets with crushed ice but would put big fat cubes in our glasses. I tried asking them a few times to put the crushed ice in a glass for me but they never understood. Yesterday my beloved ice crusher arrived in the mail and I am SO happy! It still a pain in the butt making the ice cubes and I am sure I will go through them more quickly now, but I won't complain - this thing is awesome! I even bought a bottle of mojito-flavored rum while I was at Tesco yesterday so I could celebrate (yes I am lazy but a real mojito is just too time-consuming for me to make when I am trying to get dinner ready). Yum Yum!! Now to find that ice cube maker - doing a little research I discovered there is a Polish website that is supposed to be like Amazon, but it looks more like ebay to me. I found an ice cube maker on it, there seemed to be a lot of brand new ones but of course the website is in Polish and even when I tried opening it in google chrome (which will automatically translate web pages for you), it doesn't always translate and there were so many pop up boxes opening when I hit the buy it now button I finally just gave up. Our babysitter is coming tonight so if I have time before running out the door I will ask her to help me...