imagine

today i found out jetton has assigned me my very own binder. and a drawer!  i worked for an architect years ago, and they always had binders and drawers for clients. to find myself now having the same is really quite mind blowing. i never thought it would be my name on one of these. 

your turn: close your eyes and imagine your very own binder and drawer. dreams do come true!

of course, i guess i could have made my own binder, ten feet tall and red, if i wanted. but it's very different when someone else does it for you. so when you imagine your binder and drawer, make sure you imagine someone else making it for you. that will be better.  

lots of activity around the kitchen today, and a bit in the living room, as the cabinets are gradually migrating from one room to the other.  see?  cabinets are starting to arrive! here we have the north side of the kitchen:

underneath the sink: all the pipes nicely fit. look! no leaks! perfect. i had a spare outlet put in,  just because i could. nothing will be plugged in there. maybe a night light if i get scared. what would you plug in?

the south side of the kitchen. stove flanked by loyal cabinet comrades.

 today we had to do a mock up of the height of the cabinets with the counter. it will be slightly higher than the average counter, so i guess i will have to wear my stilettos while cooking. then we decided how far out the counter will come. it will come out slightly farther than expected, so i will have to be careful not to bump into it while wearing my stilettos. we checked out the floor tile layout to make final decisions on placement. the floor will be ceramic and harder than my old linoleum, so i will have to be careful not to drop any glass on the floor while i'm carefully avoiding the counters in my stilettos.  essentially, i will enter the kitchen at my own risk. wavy gravy has a circus camp which might prove to be a useful activity to consider for the summer. 

since joanne came over to give her expert advice, everything was going well. UNTIL WE GOT TO THE SINK. that's when the panic set in.  it's the wrong size for the faucet. change the faucet? no. change the sink. that's the priority. faucet over sink.  because it's a very special faucet and a less than special sink. so if it's a rock-paper-scissors kind of thing, faucet wins over sink. sink probably wins over something, but it hasn't won yet, so i don't know. maybe plumbing. yes, sink wins over plumbing. but does plumbing win over faucet? no. plumbing springs a leak. plumbing over flooring? yes. but i digress...

so now i'm back to reconsidering sinks and faucet placements and  i had hoped this was all decided but i guess you never really finish up with decisions too early in the game. that much was decided a long time ago. 

here is my gas shut-off valve! did you recognize it? it has a new home, within cabinet "H" next to the stove. nicely hidden in the drawer. 

and i would like to introduce you to a new tool that appeared today. this was it's first day here, so i hope all the other tools were nice to it. the first day is always a little awkward. especially if you are a tool. this is hitachi. it sits next to madly-coiled blue thing and seems a bit menacing. robert deniro in taxi kind of thing. you talkin' to me?  ummm, err, no. 

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