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I can’t help but post this picture.  There is so much in that one picture that is so US.  Lexi took it.  She was waiting for me to get shoes on today so we could go pick Emma up from school.  I love that it’s from her perspective.  You can see the key fob thing on the red chain for work.  My iPhone is ever close.  The banana that Lexi half-ate.  My Chick-fil-A cup from lunch.  I’m posting something to a blog on my computer.  Google Reader sits in the background.  And of course Lexi’s little pink toes on the bottom left.  All very much real life there.

And in other randomness, Scott just read the previous post and says "Why didn’t you take a picture of my desk?”  He refused to get an action shot but there ya go.

Actually I guess those two pictures are related after all.  The top desk is very me (read: messy) and this one is very him (read: clean).

*shrugs*

What can I say?

OK, fine, just a few more days of daily kitchen pictures and we should be done.  Well.  Until we do the lighting.  But we’ll all get a break.  Today Scott took out our old microwave and installed the above the stove one.  I was really hesitant to put it up to be honest.  We covered up a good 5” of the tile and it makes me sad.  But I really, really like the microwave.  I like the empty space in the corner and once we get the new stove in, it’s really no more tile I’ve lost.  I really think it was a blessing in disguise.  EXCEPT. Let me just say I thought we were getting a great deal on our microwave at this out of the way appliance store this weekend but when we went to Lowe’s tonight (also a daily occurrence lately) it was the EXACT same price.

In addition to the microwave, we bought the stainless steel socket covers.  A small change but I think it makes a big difference.

The doors haven’t been put up yet but I think you get a good idea.  In case you happened to forget what it looked like before…

It’s better right?

In other news, Scott got off early last night at 12:30am.  For some ODD reason he decided that he needed a desk in my office.  STAT. I heard the banging around but was too tired to actually see what he was doing.   He takes my desk and moves it to the front corner of the room and puts a board on two sawhorses and calls it a desk for me.

I certainly can’t leave the room like that.  Why does this feel like a can of worms in the making? 

Are you tired of pictures of my kitchen yet?  Cause I’m kind of tired of posting them.   But you know that can o worms I referred to?  Well, the worms?  They do multiply. 

See the plan was to go Saturday to buy that gas stove from the appliance store we found via Craigslist.  But then Saturday morning the digital panel of our microwave conveniently messed up.  If you know the time, you can see parts of the line and understand it but just to look at it, you can’t tell what it says.  The microwave still works.  You just have to really pay attention to what you’re doing.  Well, when we got to the appliance store we also realized that we should buy a stainless steel hood AND they had some over the stove microwaves. Why not kill two birds with one stone and go ahead and buy a microwave while there was a good deal and also eliminate the need for a hood.  Go us.  Here is the lovely set sitting in our garage.

But then.  We get it home to find out if we installed it under our cabinet, it would be all of about 5” from the top of our new lovely stove.  So now our worms are multiplying and after much discussion, we decide that Scott needs to cut our cabinets in half, as marked by the blue tape.  This sounds kind of easy but when you actually do it, you have to cut the cabinet, reinstall the bottom shelf, and remanufacture the doors so they are smaller.

Also not mentioned is he needs to run the gas for the stove and create another piece of cabinet at the back of the stove where there will be a 3” gap. 

So yeah, something that could have been as easy as sliding out the new stove and sliding in the new one has sort of become complicated. 

You can call the backsplash DONE.  And GORGEOUS.  If you’re in or near the Carolinas and need tile work done, please call Luke Clonts at 1-843-408-5429 or email him at lukeclonts AT gmail.com. He was meticulous in his work and did a fabulous job.  And yes, I post his information with full permission (encouragement, actually) from him.

(please ignore the spices on the toaster oven, whoops!)

The thing about renovations is once you crack it open, you usually have a can of worms on your hands.  We are at a point that the only thing left planned to do was the lighting.   However, both of us are ready to upgrade the stove and hood to stainless steel.  It’s 16 years old, the burners are uneven, the oven light doesn’t work and the timer on the stove is broken.  I don’t think we’re jumping the gun too much (and yes, I’m trying to rationalize this unplanned purchase). 

I really want a slide-in but they are expensive.  We went to Sears and realized they were easily twice the price.  But Craigslist to the rescue!  An appliance store about 45 minutes from here posted about a discontinued one, brand new with a warranty for the same price we were going to pay for a free standing one.  Plus, this one is gas.  I’m so excited!  We’re planning to go tomorrow to pick it up.

Also, I’m pretty sure I want to go with stainless steel handles now.

As for the bathroom, Scott finished measuring for the outlet/light holes on the mirror and took it to the glass place today.  We’re supposed to have that back first of next week.

So whew.   I see a light at the end of the tunnel on all this and really all that will be left ironically is lighting.  Always lighting.  I don’t know why it’s so hard for me!