
This is WildBlueMekaLizard's blog Est. April 16, 2004
WARNING: You're about to get "knee-deep" in it! I'm a moody shit but I aim to please so if I make you smile a little or even laugh, my work is done. Enjoy!
This blog is based on actual events. Some names and locations have been changed to protect the guilty from identification and to protect the author from litigation.





Well, the race is on!
We've said since last year that we would host Christmas and Christmas Eve in our new home this year and THAT is going to be impossible without a working kitchen. The time is ticking away, tick tock tick tock, and here's where we're at:
There is no sink, there are no countertops, the room is completely empty except for a small corner where we've stored the assembled cabinetry and appliances. The walls are painted but need touching up, the wall cabinets are up, the floor has been leveled and prepped for tile and yesterday the guys installed tiles on the first quarter of the floor. They say they are going to finish laying them today, I predict grouting in my immediate future, probably after work all week. We have an area that is 400 sq feet that we're tiling with 18 inch porcelain.
After that we install the base for the kitchen island, attach the cabinets to them and then I will build a countertop. Did I say I will build a countertop? Yes...yes I did. The plan is another tiling job for that, probably shiny black granite.
This summer when I bought "the kitchen" meaning I ordered all the cabinets from Ikea and they arrived, a small mistake was made. The way they do it is you say "I want THIS cabinet" and they say, well this cabinet consists of 1 of these, 2 of those, 1 of that, all these part numbers that mean nothing to me. Well, I ordered four of one cabinet and two of another but when it came time to get all the part numbers together my kitchen expert failed to multiply the part numbers correctly, so I got two bases and two doors (should be four), I got four drawers when it should have been eight, I got four of the other doors when it should have been eight. A mess, and I didn't discover it until last weekend when we were assembling everything.
The good news is that I wasn't missing anything that I'd payed for, but the bad news is that I had to place another order for $700.00 worth of shit and worry about how to get it. The nearest Ikea is a good two hours away from us and time is not on our side at this point.
I called our kitchen expert and told her what happened. Since she had made the quantities mistake, she agreed to waive the shipping costs which was nice of her. The rest of the kitchen is supposed to be here no later than tomorrow but I'm highly anxious about it because I haven't received an order confirmation or a tracking number or anything. The money was moved out of our account, so I guess it's in progress. It will be on my mind until they're here. There's time, there's time.
In other news our remodeling budget has officially run out. Any more money spent on the house will have to come out of our income or from my web design. The good news is that I am up to my ears in web design work and it looks like the work will continue. I'm getting better, faster and more efficient so things are looking good there. I have put out 16 websites in the past six months!! I currently have four in progress, one proposal out and one lead for a new site. There is a never ending feed of new sites coming from the guy I've been working with too.
So...the remodeling for 2007 is nearly complete, and there's a deadline...but they'll do it. They've been working so hard on it, my sister's boyfriend just about lives with us now, he's here at every opportunity to work on the kitchen and I really appreciate it. I'm doing my job of managing the budget, staying out of the way and making more money to spend.
As soon as 2008 gets here I'm calling our mortgage guy to refinance because our value is GOING UP and I want to cut out that nasty PMI! We're going to start working with a financial manager to help us use our money more effectively, I'm going to incorporate and Mav is getting a break from remodeling for a while. We will start to work on a business idea that I came up with a few weeks ago and then...and then...the sky's the limit. A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Wish us luck!