It took about 3 hours but the countertops are in and they look great! The only problem now is that we need all new appliances and to repaint the kitchen and family room. It’s amazing how bad everything else looks when you get something new. Oh well.
And just because you had to look at another photo of my kitchen, here’s a completely unrelated but funny video:
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One more day and my ten years of wishing for new countertops will be over!! For the time being, we have no kitchen whatsoever, which really stinks! It adds a whole new level of difficulty to getting the kids out of the house in the morning. Ben and Orialis (our handy-guy) took the old countertops out on Sunday, and that went pretty smoothly other than the fact that there was nothing in the walls behind the backsplash. There was a lot of patching to be done after the pry-bar went right through the sheetrock multiple times, but it wasn’t really a surprise considering the workmanship of the previous owner. Hopefully there won’t be any unforeseen issues tomorrow and by dinner-time the countertops will be installed. Orialis is coming over tomorrow night for a plumbing adventure…I’ll be at my Adobe Flash class but I’ll be under the sink in spirit.
I can’t wait to have countertops without cruddy grout lines! Maybe I’ll make a pie to celebrate…roll the crust right out on the counter. YIPPEE!!!
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Sometimes you just have to go…take some time off…run away.
A few weeks ago I got an email from my friend Sherry’s husband, Rob. He asked me to call him right away because he needed help with Sherry.
As I was waiting for him to pick up the phone I wondered what kind of help he could possibly need. Was she stuck in a tree? Did he forget her favorite ice cream flavor? Had she gone missing?
Rob had decided that Sherry needed a mental health break to prevent her from going postal, and he asked me if I would go away with her for a spa weekend. “Uuuhhhh……I’LL GO PACK!!”
As soon as I found a couple of days that I could get away, he booked two nights and two massages at a hotel spa in North Conway. He even called Sherry’s office to request two days off since I couldn’t find an October weekend to go. I was extremely impressed.
So far we’ve eaten a lot, strolled through LL Bean, taken a nap, and have the best looking toes in New Hampshire. My pedicurist (is that a word?) was hugely pregnant and when I asked her about the baby she said, “It’s not mine.” I thought she was joking but it turned out that she’s a surrogate. We spent most of the pedicure time talking about what it was like to be a surrogate.
It was a very interesting conversation but I’ll tell you right now, for $20K I would not go through another pregnancy and birth, not to mention the emotional ramifications. I think it’s a very admirable and wonderful thing she’s doing but I’ll find another way to fill my good-deed quota.
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I always thought I knew what a one-armed paper hanger must feel like because I’m so friggin’ busy all the time. But NOW I REALLY know what he feels like. I started physical therapy yesterday for my shoulder. I don’t know what I did to it originally, but it has been hurting off and on (mostly “on”) for about 3 years. I blame it on the kids sneaking into my bed and putting their extremely heavy heads on my upper arm, causing my shoulder to be in a weird position for long durations.