Kitchen Dungeon Update

So, I promised y'all pictures of the finished cabinet and drawer fronts from the psycho kitchen renovation. Well here they are kids. Let me tell you, David was completely anal about how they all came out. The whole thing had to be perfect. I mean to tell ya he was constantly sanding and then painting and then sanding that and then painting and then sanding and then ... well you get the jist of it. He's fucking anal about making sure what he does comes out perfect. And it did. The paint job inside and out is so smooth, shit, it's just like a baby's butt.

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Y'all need to check out the old pictures on the link above of the kitchen before the renovation and then look at these pictures below. It's a great big fucking change. It's very bright in the kitchen now with the lights placed in the ceiling and the lighter color in the cabinets. We should be finished when David gets the income tax refund. So here are the pictures I promised.

The place where the microwave oven is used to be that fugly green oven. We put shelves and made it an open area for my pots and pans and bakeware

The purple bottle is there for reference. The ceilings are like 15 feet high.
I also asked David to put me up a rap area for foil and plastic raps under the cabinet. Very handy.

When we get rid of the counter tops the puke yellow sink will go too and be replaced with stainless

I drew the blinds on the window to cut out the light from outside to  give you an idea  of how bright  the lighting is.
I had David move the island over against the wall near the door to give an idea how big the kitchen is. To me it's just perfect.

Another Day of Putrid Brown Stuff

I have been living in this sort of dull dumbing funk for weeks lately. And NO, it's not Pinterest, Fucking PLEASE already. I think it's probably that lousy time of the year when everyone get's what is called Spring Fever. You just want to sleep all day and night. But I can't. I have to feed the puppies and David Yeppers, that has to be it. Fucking Spring Fever!!

David get's his colds and then breathing problems because of all the Pecan blooms about this time. He is just getting over his bout with the yearly cold. So I'm guessing the pecan trees in our yard will bloom next week. I called the doctor for his Albuteral inhalers. So I'll have David swing by the Pharmacy to pick them up along with my prescription for my pain meds. I love Spring but I hate what it does to David. He has such bad allergies.

If you don't get this, then I can't help you.

Speaking of pain in the ass, I see my Orthopedic Comedian on Tuesday morning for another round of poking and prodding and general all around contortionist bending of my new knees. That should be a laugh riot. I walk in there fine. I of coarse take my cane with me cause when I walk out of his office I'm practically hobbling in major pain. I think the man is secretly a sadist or he's an S&M freak.

I do feel so much better during the day though, when I'm awake that is. I've been doing some resetting of the kitchen cabinets and drawers. I'm making it more ergonomic to move around without having to walk across the kitchen to get something. I also need to get some drawer and cabinet plastic  to put down before I put the stuff back into the cabinets.

I'll be showing the finished work David did of the kitchen on Monday. Everything looks so fucking bright in there it's like I'm blinded when I turn on the lights. All we have now is the counter top, back splash, bamboo flooring, and painting to do. David wants to let Home Desperate do the installation of the counter top. That way they are responsible for goofs.

Has anyone seen the previews for The Hunger Games yet? It's going to be an awesome movie. I've read the first and second books of the trilogy. The movie comes out March 23. There will be a sequel on November 22, 2013. I'm wondering if the second and third books will be that one.

The other books in the Trilogy are #2 Catching Fire and #3 Mockingjay. I had a hard time putting down the first one. So I'm wondering what the second and third will be like.

Back In The Saddle Again

Yepper's, that's a roger! I'm back to semi-abby-normal. First off, I need to thank all my readers for their well wishes and prayers for me. To let you all know that prayers and candle lighting really does do wonders for the person who needs the help. Thank you all so very much!!!

I went to see Dr. D. this morning for my left knee post-op. He took out the staples and put on six sterry strips. I told him about the weird clicking sounds my knee makes when I do my exercises and he said "like this?" Then proceeded to move my knee around like I was a contortionist or something. It didn't hurt but my knee made some ungodly strange clicking noises and it alarmed me. He said it was natural to hear it so not to worry. I could have slapped him for making fun of something that I considered important to me.

More great news is that I don't have to see him for four more weeks and I get to go back to the Wellness Center to continue my workouts there for both knees starting next Monday. When I told him I was a member he said that he wished he had more patients like me. Fast healer, a clicker and takes exercise seriously.

David has been working on the cabinets like a crazed mad man. He has most of the one side of the room done and will start the other side this weekend. Goddess!!! It looks so wonderful. The man is so fucking talented. He said he wants to have the top cabinets all done by February 1st. Then he starts on the bottom cabinets and drawers. He said he has a timeline that is going along just fine. By the end of March he will have the counter tops and back splash in and then start on the flooring. I know this is taking like forever but I don't give a shit cause I know it's being done right and with great care on David's part. The man is a stickler for perfection.

Well I have a house to clean and laundry to finish up on. Brightest Blessings my dears.

Just A Note Before The Weekend

I can't sleep so that gives me a great excuse to play like an old lady sitting next to you on a plane and tell you about all my operations and pain experiences and grand kids and such. In other words I'm back to bother the shit out of y'all.

Had the left knee totally replaced. Yeah, yeah. It's a pain in the ass right now but what can I say. I asked for it. I got out of the hospital on Thursday last week but I wished I could have stayed another two days. I felt like, wait, I FEEL like shit warmed over right now. Pain is unbelievable but I have my meds and can control the pain on my own. That's a good thing.

David is home for the whole week and hasn't watched a single episode of Jerry Springer *GASP*!  I know!!! It's like he's was abducted by aliens or something. He has been working like a mad man on the cabinets in the kitchen. He waits until I get up in the morning so he won't wake me up with all the sanding noise from the sander I got him six years ago. The man is just finding out all the cool toys I bought him when I was still working. I have a picture of one of the cabinets that he finished to show me how the rest of them will look. It's awesome! The light brown paint job on the outside makes the kitchen look bigger and brighter. I love it! 


David will be going back to work next week so I will be on my own. No more hand maiden to wait on me hand and foot. No more loud sanding on the cabinets and such. Whatever shall I do?? BWAAAHAAhaahahahahahahaaasnort! Sorry, I just had to get that evil out of my system. 

Yeah, I Guess It's Monday

I hate Monday mornings but there is a good side to today. David finally went back to work after a whole Thanksgiving week off. So that meant I got to lay around and do absofuckinglutely nothing until 11 am. Yeppers, the puppies and I layed in bed like lazy ol' bears. Not a care in the world. Finally, I had the whole house to myself, with the puppies of coarse.

So what did I do??  I cleaned and did laundry! It felt so great to be able to do something again without someone breathing down my neck.

Oh something else to share. I have pictures of the walls and ceiling of the kitchen that David finished taping and floating (plastering over and over and over and ... he's so fucking anal retentive) and painting with a primer. It looks great with the white primer but it's so freaking sterile looking. So here are the pics.

One of the LED lamps he pulled down to paint around

He put up the vent enclosure like I wanted

He finally finished the old oven enclosure and we put in the  microwave and some pots and pans

See how white these walls are

This linoleum is going next. In comes the Bamboo flooring

I have no idea when he will start on the cabinets, counter top or the backsplash. I'm thinking my kitchen will be done around possibly the 4th of July if I'm lucky. But I'll keep y'all posted.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

         Happy Thanksgiving My Friends!!

I'm so freaking busy I don't have time to think or even post anymore. It's absolutely crazy around here and I have to apologize to all my minions and non-minions because I haven't posted in over a week and a half .

David has been off all week since it's Thanksgiving. That makes it hard to do things I want to do cause he's underfoot all the time and won't let me do anything. Also, he is being a total anal shithead. He has plastered and replastered the walls and ceiling in the kitchen, not to mention sanding the rough plaster which produces so fucking much dust all over the kitchen and gets tracked throughout the house. I want to plaster him but good. I never thought I'd say this but I wish he'd just sit in front of the TV and watch Jerry Springer all day.

But I did get the laundry done and some house cleaning finished before today. I took his sanding toys away and hid them in the trunk of my car until after today is over.

I had my last in-home physical therapy yesterday (Wednesday) and got a great rating. Sarah, not her name, said she will be submitting her report to Dr. D by next week Friday. I was able to bend my knee 110 degrees which is what is needed to pass. I was so excited and I had no pain at all except for my bad knee. Soooo that means if the report is favorable as I know it will be, the total knee replacement surgery will be done next month on my left knee as planned. I'm so excited. Yes I know I'm weird. But that's me.
If the doctor says yes, then we will do the surgery on the 12th of December and I will be out on the 15th. Hoping everything goes well here.

Decorating And Other Strange Shit

I finally crawled out of my deep dark funk of a depression this weekend. David gave me a bag of  my favorite Lindt Chocolates. Boy did I scarf them baby's up fast. So now I feel wonderful and ready to kick ass and take names.

Yesterday I was looking through all the huge plastic containers of great decorations I was going to put up this year. WOW!!! Did I accumulate a butt load of fabulous shit there. Un problema y'all. David moved all the crap from the kitchen cabinets into the living room and dining room. There is no fucking place for my decorations with this shit being all over the place. I'll have to wait until next year I guess.

Anywho, I woke up this morning and there is this strange man in my kitchen drilling holes in my kitchen ceiling. David surprised me with Can lights. The very same ones he showed me yesterday when he schlepped me through the rain to Home Desperate. I showed him the LED lights I wanted in them and he got those too. He was reading the LED box and saw I was right about saving energy on the light bill. It would cost us only $1.75 a year in power. David took a couple of days off cause Tuesday is his B-day. So today I have to go get a card for him and his favorite chocolate covered cherries.

So he was there helping the guy put in Can lights. Yippy, two fucking days of Jerry Springer to hear from the bedroom cause there is no place to sit in the living room. Does this sound like I'm either going to hit that deep dark funk called depression again? Or will I try looking for a place to hide David's body. I need to find a book on Amazon.com on how to get rid of evidence and bodies. BWAAAahahahahahaaaahahaaaa!!!

This, That And The Other

Well I went to my first aquatics exercise class on Monday and again today. I feel energized except for the back pain which is pretty mild. I do feel pretty damned good. I have one more class on Friday this week and then next week I'll be working on the bike and a few other machines and weights along with the aquatics.

Mmkay, does anyone know what a "Safe Zone" is?  No?  Well it's a safe place where kids and/or animals think is the safest place in your house. My safe zone is in the bedroom on the bed. That is where all the puppies run to when mommy  is reading with her back on the heating pad. Usually it will be just Lucy, Pebbles and me. The girls will stake out their respective prime real estate as near to mommy as they can get without knocking me off the bed or going under me to the other side of me. Lucy is a bed hog so I have to push her away a few times or I fall on the floor. Go figure, she's a Boston and I'm a human but she's a strong little shit.

Now, if David is watching sports in the media room, then Spunky comes to join us. He is fucking terrified of any sport on TV. Only thing I can figure why he is upset by sports is that David yells at the TV and the Spunkster thinks he's in  trouble. So During a game I have an entourage that follows me around the house all day on the weekend. I just wish they would fucking answer the phone and take a letter or something useful instead of just following my ass around like I have dog food in it.

Wall oven alcove with wall plug

David was busy this past weekend, until the game came on. He took out the old oven ... finally!! It's nice when both of us are on the same wave length. He started making shelves and fixed the torn up wooden mess from the previous dog he had before we were married. Something we didn't expect but I had a hunch was when he took out the old wall oven there was an electrical wall plug there inside the empty area. Yea!!! We don't have to call an electrician to put one in. David thought the oven was plugged into the wall unit under the countertop stove. So now all we have to do is prime and paint the inside and shelves and we can put the microwave oven in there with all my bake ware on the other shelves. That will save me more room on the counter for work space.

florescent lighting with fugly cabinets

piece where the paneling covered to the ceiling above the fugly cabinets which is above the once fugly wall oven.

He also tore out the top area around the lights and put up sheet rock. I had to wait almost two fucking weeks for that but he finally got that started too. He wants this guy he knows who did a friends kitchen lighting to come in and see if we can get him to put in light cans with LED's. We both hate the lighting that is in now.

It looks like every single foot he put a screw in the sheet rock

He stopped putting in sheet rock here near the fridge and doorway into the laundry room

I was checking out his work on the sheet rock installation and noticed he went a bit overboard with the screws. It's almost like he had this fucking psycho thing going on. Probably to hide the ugly boards behind it. I think I should invest in sheet rock screws. I could make some crazy shopping money.

UT (University of Texas GO LONGHORNS at Austin) for you non-college football fans has a by week this Saturday. Meaning they have a weekend off. So that means David can work on my kitchen and The Spunkinator will not have to hide behind mommy's legs all afternoon.

Saltgrass patio near the water shoot, Plate glass floor to ceiling windows on high far left of picture make it hard to see in.
Photo courtesy of Cclip

Sunday we are going to San Marcos for dinner. My choice. Yeppers, I made another trip around the sun. It's Saltgrass for us. I love that steakhouse. Right on the river with a little watershoot coming off the lake to feed it. It's a very pretty enough place to have dinner.

Oh one last thing before I go and get things ready for Mabon.  I was the third winner in Judith's giveaway and I chose one of her decoupaged plates. It's going to look gorgeous on my alter. You do great work girlfriend. You should open up an Etsy shop.