Tuesday, December 9, 2008
It was the best of days. It was the worst of days. The best because we FINALLY ordered our cabinets. The worst because it took so long. Somehow our order got lost. All the hours we already spent drawing the plans had to be redone. It was very sad. Stupid Lowe's computer! Not only am I dubbed Leastuart Mayo in their system… They can't even hold on to poor Leastuart's order! I can't win! Fortunately we have a great cabinet consultant named Gary McNatt. I would highly recommend him if you are considering new cabinets. He's been very patient as we vacillated between cherry and white, corian and granite, this hardware and that hardware. It's been a painful process.
We also went to Sam's to refill our empty fridge. Ahhh… Cases and cases of Diet Coke. Well… Case and case, anyway. James put a two case limit on me. All this is in preparation for our first real meal in our new home. It will consist of Diet Coke… and whatever food particles go well with that.
Then we got home. And what to our wondering eyes should appear? The lawn fairies have returned! And mowed the whole back yard! And trimmed our "lush vegetation!" Wow! Joe offered to help out and that was generous. He was SUPPOSED to wait until we got home and called him though!!!! As it was, Joe and Gary finished the lawn before we ever finished with the cabinets. Many thanks to them for all the hard work. And many thanks to Lillian and Brenda for sparing them the morning to work on someone else's "honey-do" list.
James continued his diligent effort in removing the tile adhesive from the bathroom floor. Inch by inch, the bare concrete is exposed. Drop by drop, our sweat falls from our dusty foreheads. Well, James' anyway. (I told James today that he has to get on it with his blog; otherwise no one is going to know that I actually do some work too. He has to tell that.) So the crack crack crack of the chisel is cracking away. And then it stops. Blessed silence! Then a slightly quivery voice calls out, "Lea, do we have any eye drops?" We don't. But for once, I get to be the hero! So I make it to Walgreen's and back in record time with not one but TWO bottles of eye drops! Apparently a bit of tile adhesive dust has lodged itself in James' eye. Why didn't he wear the safety glasses I got him? Safety glasses aren't for sissies anymore, huh? So, overcoming my aversion to anything eyeball related, I look at his eye… But I don't see anything. So I drop in one drop from the sleek "cooling eye drops" bottle. I planned to drop in 2 or 3 drops. But his eyelid clamped shut and his teeth gritted and… apparently it burned a LOT! He didn't say anything… He just sort of panted. But I had to leave for poetry class. As it was, I was almost late!
Poetry Class - It was the best ever, imo. We had a substitute teacher. It was great for me on so many levels. Not only was I free to sit beside Jane and snicker whenever I liked (James has put a ban on me sitting by Jane at church) but there were also LOADS of opportunities to snicker!! This guy was so funny! (Check out my new quotes on my profile for a sample.) Definitely my brand of humor. I loved the part where Jane asked where pantoums* come from? He said the come from PantuomLand where the fierce hunters stalk the wild pantuoms through the jungles of Tahiti! It was hilarious! Our teacher looks like a character from my favorite online cartoon, so that made it even better.
Then Jane and I went shopping for our Christmas party hats. There were so many festive hats we could hardly decide!
While I was gone, James (by means I didn't want to hear or to contemplate) removed the dust from his eye… And then continued on as if nothing had happened. When I walked in, my hero had rearranged the living room… For the first time, our house actually looked like a home.
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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