It’s done! Now I have no excuse not to cook

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Two rooms in my house are completely clean and put together. Unfortunately, they are the “formal” living room and dining room. The kitchen is getting close, though. DH still has to wire up the under cabinet lighting, phone jack, and cable jack. I’ve been working hard to put everything away and clean up. My dining room has been stacked up with the contents of the kitchen cabinets for nearly two months. I can’t wait to have this finished!

DH just called to tell me that the enormously large check I wrote to the countertop installer had an error – I wrote the number differently in box vs. text. I’m having a hard time getting worked up over it and can’t figure out exactly what it is he wants me to do at this point.

I’ve been a prisoner in the house with those guys for the last two days. They were here ALL day (until 7:30 on Monday night!) and showed up three hours late yesterday. I finally called after waiting 2 hours and was told, “we’ll be there in 5 minutes”. An hour later they made it here. I wish I could work like that and still get paid tons of money.

Anyway, countertops are in, tile is done, and the rest of the work is on DH to finish. Well, he thinks something is wrong with the cooktop install, so maybe countertop guy will need to come back and re-cut the opening for the cooktop. This will make a huge mess all over again, so I guess I shouldn’t bother to clean up from the last mess yet.

I’m very tired of the mess. I’m very tired of the whole thing. The end is so close, yet so far away.

The drywall is up, patched, sanded, and ready to paint.

So, tonight and tomorrow we paint. Cabinets arrive via big uHaul truck along with my IL’s on Friday night. I’ll be at my folks’ house with the boys to make consignment sale-related appearances at some local kid’s events. DH & IL’s will install cabinets on Saturday and I’ll be helping as soon as I get back Saturday afternoon.

We finalized countertop choices (Atlantic Black) and began backsplash musings. Granite guy is working up quote and we need to sign contracts/give deposit tomorrrow or Friday for him. He can template early next week after appliances come (hopefully next Monday!) and install countertop after we return from London.

This might all be finished by mid-July!