I don’t think that we will have another good day as long as this project is going on. We are both at the end of our ropes and it is showing. I am so frustrated right now. I feel like we take a step forward and 12 back. Every day brings more crap that we didn’t plan on dealing with and it pushes us back every time. And now is when it matters because I am about to live with a refrigerator in the middle of my damn floor for who knows how long. That was NOT ever the plan. I was very specific that when we start this area we need to move. No dilly dally bullshit. I have to have a functional kitchen and I recognize that for some time we will not have that but I want to minimize that time as much as possible.
The day began with me realizing that the new pantry cabinet I had ordered on Jet.com and painstakingly put together the previous night in low light had not one but both sides cracked. And not like small cracks but forklift accident size cracks. I have no idea how I did not see them the night before. The customer service with Jet.com was top notch. I had never ordered from them before. I called their number and explained that I had the 2 side pieces of the unit that were cracked and they looked up my order and got someone from Sauder on the line and he made sure I was getting the right 2 pieces and the woman from Jet was on the line with me the entire time. Everyone was so helpful and nice!! I will absolutely order from Jet and Sauder again. Great customer service on both sides. Unfortunately now I needed to wait for the replacement parts to arrive and had to spend time disassembling the part I had already put together. So frustrating. I should have seen the enormous cracks but it was at night and it’s a dark wood unit (called Dakota Oak) and I was too busy being damned impressed with myself for putting it together by myself.
I will admit that today was probably more my fault than Jym’s. I was TERRIFIED of the refrigerator being moved. I was worried it would stop working or we would’t be able to get it out of the hole we crammed it into. Years ago when we bought it we mis-measured (I know shocker right??) and had to cut the counter top to make it fit so now its wedged in there to the point I was convinced we would need butter and WD40 to get it out.
The first set back of the day was when we did not (AGAIN) have ANY of the furniture back where it needed to be, none of the tiles were sealed, the wall was not ready to be painted, the pantry not emptied. You name it, it was not done. I had a friend in town this week and with work and that and the whole Orlando shooting vigil I have been distracted. I don’t give myself room to breathe on this and I know that is an issue and 100% on me.
I also procrastinated by working on my Orlando shooting blog which I wanted to get posted. Then I made a mess of it and was mad trying to fix it. I am not technologically inclined and it was frustrating. I think I took it out on Jym. I was then rushing around (since it was like 4:00) and trying to move furniture and go to the grocery store and Jym was moving stuff from the pantry but not cleaning it and I mentioned that and he lost his mind on me. Words were said. I believe it ended with him telling me to F^&% Off. And then said when I get home from the store I can maybe yell less at him. I told him maybe when I return from the store he can possibly not tell me to F*&% OFF!!
I came home from the store and he was Mr. chipper, all happy like nothing happened. I have the memory of an elephant and I like to stew in it so I was pretty mad. He then pointed out that possibly he might have chosen his words better and apologized. We did end up laughing about it and moved on with the evening.
When I got home I noticed he had ripped up the linoleum in the kitchen and it was on the front lawn. Now I can’t say that this was my plan but whatever. It had to come out eventually so fine. At this point I started to pull everything out of the pantry cabinet so we could move it. Wow. I had pasta in there from 2012. I know it probably is still edible but I had a ridiculous amount for someone who rarely eats pasta anymore. All in all I threw out 2 trash bags full of expired food so yay me. Its important to pare down since I bought a slightly smaller cabinet.
Jym decided to move the fridge and when I wasn’t looking started to wiggle it out. He actually looked really cute hugging the fridge doing this wiggle dance and it slid out! I was so relieved. It also slid pretty easily across the floor to its new home right next to my sink. The area is pretty tight in there but still functional. Which is good since its going to be there at least another week at this point.
The area under the fridge was actually not terrible. I seriously thought we would find petrified foods and dead bugs or rodents or something. I am not sure what I expected but it was pretty decent. The back of the unit was also not as bad as I expected. And everything cleaned off pretty easily.
I then got out the paint at like 8pm and started to paint the area behind the fridge. I only went up so far so eventually Jym will need to get the big ladder in there and paint all the up high stuff (I have high ceilings in there) but for now as long as I have what will affect our baseboards and the lower stuff done. The painting was stressing Jym out. We also ran out of paint so had to stop but we finished the area behind the refrigerator so that was good.
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