Stop! Or I'll spray you with chocolate!

August 8, 2010

Beth and I know that someday CJ is going to do something wrong.  He is going to get in trouble for being immature or stupid or both.  We thought last night might have been the time. 

This week, CJ has attended Tech Camp.  He has been on the lighting crew for a play put on by middle schoolers.  He has had a good time and learned some things as well.  We saw one of the performances and it was very well done.  Last night was the final performance.  Beth and I had already attended Thursday night, so we dropped CJ off and went on to service.  Part way through the service, Beth checked her phone, grabbed my leg, and motioned me to follow her out.  As we were leaving, she said that CJ had sent a text to pick him up and he would explain on the way home.  While there were an infinite amount of possibilities, we were sure he was either hurt or in trouble.  Beth texted him back and asked if he was okay.  He said sorta.  It took 15 minutes of angstful driving to arrive and find him sitting outside the auditorium.  He looked way guilty.  As he got in the car, we asked what was wrong, and it turned out that he was ill.

THANK GOD YOU ARE JUST SICK!  Great parenting at work right there.  He then explained why he was sick.  No, it was not the 4 pieces of pizza he ate before we left.  Please do not call social services on me.  It turns outs that CJ was in the balcony where the lights were, when he heard a friend mention the word chocolate.  Remember when you were 13 and ate 4 pieces of pizza and still had room for chocolate?  Always room for chocolate?  Okay, so he started jogging down the ramp towards the backstage area, and the chocolate.  He rounded a dark corner and heard his friend say stop.  He tried to stop, but had been jogging downhill with a belly full of pizza.  He did not stop.  Therefore, friend sprayed him with chocolate flavored Axe, right in the mouth.  Not as tasty as you would think.  CJ started to have trouble breathing and then got nauseated.  That is when he texted Beth.

So he came home, took a shower, swallowed some Pepto, and laid on the couch a few minutes.  He realized that he was starting to feel better, so he asked if he could go back and finish his work with the lighting for the play.  I drove him back, and took the opportunity to ask if any of the girls in the play had become suddenly attracted to him after he had been sprayed.  He rolled his eyes since he is not at the stage where he particularly cares if the girls are attracted to him, but it turns out that they were not.  Just a tip in case any of you were hoping to attract multitudes of women by spraying yourself down with Chocolate Axe.  You may be better off just rubbing yourself with a Snickers bar. 

Now, without further ado, here are the pictures of the kitchen with completed counter tops and back splash.  The counter top is Formica, the sink is a Sea Salt colored Kohler, and the back splash is subway tile. 

There will need to be some color above the cabinets on the wall and on the other walls.  Right now we are leaning towards a color called Lime Wash.

The face plates are getting spray painted white before they are rehung.

It turned out fantastic.  We are thrilled and excited.  Over time, you will see some new accessories and paint and stuff, but right now the big stuff is done and the bank is broken.  I may have to fight for space on the corner next to homeless guy.  All my money is gone, please throw me a nickel.  Or 200 nickels.  How much money is that?  Enough to live on? 

Finally, since this post is not nearly long enough, I want to appease my one true faithful reader, 12days, and put in a picture of Beth.  I found out that she had one taken yesterday when her long time friend, Rena, came by for a visit.   Here they are:

Since you know I prefer brunettes, obviously she is on the right.  Rena is very cute, but Beth is even cuter.  There are a whole bunch of extra pixels because the two of them were going to go in the witness relocation program, but changed their mind.  Or this was an older camera and the photo did not translate very well.  Definitely one of those two reasons.  You pick.

Bathroom After

I know what you are saying, Steve, those look a lot like kitchen before photos, not bathroom after photos. 

Boy, I cannot get anything past you guys.  Okay, here is what ha-happened.  In the bathroom, the vanity is installed, the sink top is installed (and looks freaking mahvelous, I think),  and the faucet has been installed.  Almost.  There was an issue with the plunger mechanism and the accordion pipe.  There was some threading that was too short thus making the connection not as tight as we would like.  Did I sound like I knew what I was talking about?  Let me remind you that there is a reason I did not do this project myself.  The tool my father used the most when I was growing up was either the phone to call someone to fix something or a high ball glass to hold while he watched someone else do the project--after he called them.  One time, I think we just moved as opposed to getting some things fixed around the house.  Therefore, my abilities were not honed as a teen.  I have learned to do some things I never thought I could, but plumbing is not something to mess around with.

We think the faucet had some bad parts in it, so Beth has bought another one, AND, installation from Lowes.  The last faucet was installed by a friend of Beth's brother (for half the price of professional installation), but you get what you pay for.  So we are having a real plumber give it a shot before we wrap up this bathroom vanity project.  He is due out on Thursday.  I was going to take an almost finished picture of the bathroom, but Beth's eyes said no while her mouth said it was okay.  Since looks can kill while words can never hurt me, I went with Beth's eyes for guidance on this one.

So the pictures you see above, if you can still scroll that far back, are of our now beginning kitchen project.  Those cabinets you see will be painted white.  Hold on, that is the man's version of what is about to happen.  First the cabinets will be washed, then sanded, then primed, then painted.  As a card-carrying dude, I would have skipped some of these steps.  I may have even skipped the take everything out of the cabinets step had Beth been out-of-town while I took care of things.  Beth out-of-town may have also meant Steve calls painter friend on phone for that part.

So I am stalling while the work needs to begin.  The Code Red Mountain Dew you saw on the counter in the picture is starting to take affect.  I should be ready soon.  The Dawn you saw in the picture above is not from Austin.  (Not all of you will get that one, just Bye Bye Pie readers). 

If my sister, the interior design graduate from the University of Cincinnati, is reading; the rest of the plans are stainless steel refrigerator and range to match the dishwasher, dark wood-like floors, a granite-like counter top that will probably be black, and a wall color from the green family.  The colors I have seen so far are light green close to the gray family.  One of them was so gray, I like to actually call it gray.  I cannot tell you the words Beth's eyes were saying after I made that comment.

Okay, I am off to work on the kitchen, wish me luck.