Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Two more weeks (thereabouts)

I'm getting really tired of the kitchen thing. I try to remind myself that my sister-in-law endured something like 18 months of kitchen renovation and I can surely endure 5 or 6 weeks. But I am very tired of washing dishes in a bathroom sink that's not big enough, making coffee in the dining room, and worrying that my wall-mountable microwave that's now sitting on a fish tank stand will rock itself off onto the floor and add several hundred dollars more to an ever increasing reno price.

I'm also very tired of the dust. It gets on everything, in everything, and goes *everywhere.* My sinuses - already a wreck after major surgery 2.5 years ago - have begun to show signs that maybe I need an emergency visit to the ENT. I was supposed to see him for a follow-up in February when I could have looked like a model patient, taking care of myself and showing up healthy. Instead, I never made it in February since I was on crutches and in physical therapy and it just seemed easier to wait. Now I seem to be on the downward spiral into sinus infection and I will get to go in to be vacuumed out.

My refrigerator is in my foyer. My range is in my dining room. My kitchen table and chairs are in the family room. Everything else is boxed up like we're moving. Which I guess we are - we're moving into new cabinets that are waiting patiently in the garage for the floor guy to finish, the walls to get painted, and the cabinet installing crew to come back on Monday and start installing.

I am too tired to be excited about it all right now - maybe that will change after we go and pick out our granite tomorrow night. Something I'm not really in the mood to do. Which seems bad - I can't imagine one should be picking a major decorative detail when not in the mood. I will psyche myself up with the online photo gallery of luscious stone with names like Mascarello. Sounds like something that should be in an Italian family's kitchen. Good thing everyone else in my family is Italian . . .

And it will all be done soon and I will probably not remember how annoying it was. I will be amazed at how much more my cabinets can hold (apparently the cabinet installers think we have *a lot* of cabinets in our garage - I translate that to mean I can put lots of stuff in them!) and how cool the soft-close feature is. I will stand in my kitchen and try to slam drawers every day. It will be fun.

If I can wait two more weeks, anyway . . .

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