I woke up at 4 AM this morning. Now for those of you who know me REALLY well, this is NOT NORMAL. That is usually my bedtime. So I wandered around the house, washed some dishes, played on Facebook, and took care of the dogs who apparently thought the world was coming to an end and they needed to go outside and pee on it. At some point between the time I got up and the time Derek got up, I managed to put a huge dent in the kitchen project (a la moving the dresser for the impending chest freezer)- I actually emptied the thing and found out it is not attached to the floor like I thought. The original plan was to move it to the dining room, which, depending on the state of its back, I might still do. But I am leaning towards making it an island- at some point attaching wheels to the bottom to make it mobile.
Anyone who's seen this kitchen knows it's on the small side. When Gran "remodeled" it in the 90's she placed cabinets everywhere, did not remove the original grey tile back splash with green trim (actually cut out the back part of one cabinet to allow for it), sink is not centered, the wallpaper is beige with light beige palm fronds which does not quite match the beige of the cabinets, and the countertops are that 90's bright golden brown laminate that matches nothing. (Admittedly, the cabinets are an inprovement on the old ones.) Top this off (originally) with all black and white appliances and 2 small drawers... (Ok, there are two drawers in the tall cabinet- which is not flush with the second set of cabinets and the dishwasher- but considering that everytime you open one it falls out, I am not counting them.) Well, the island, once moved will become more necessary. The dresser has 3 drawers, each larger than the other, and a nice formica top where, if all goes according to plan, I can move my finished canning to cool off before storage. I can also start making my own bread from scratch, which is hard to do given the current state of the existing counters.
The food storage is nicely organized in the dining room now- it might move back to the kitchen eventually. It was all previously (and precariously) stored on top of said dresser. Needless to say at the moment the kitchen looks a lot bigger and not like Igor's storage dungeon. I might actually find all my cast iron pans in this mess. That would be GOLDEN.
Had a nice long conversation with my sister this morning, which doesn't happen very often, as she is in Texas and we are on limited funds. I really enjoyed it.
Well, as I was planning on leaving for church (it starts in the afternoon this year), my husband had some health issues which forced me to stay home. Let's just say there are times he suffers from temporary altered mental status due to his diabetes. Sometimes it resolves itself with a meal, sometimes with a nap, but he was complaining of other issues and I decided it would be better to stay and keep an eye on him. Good thing too, as a half an hour later (in retrospect probably from moving all that stuff into the dining room, etc), I almost collapsed due to some kind of muscle/nerve thing. It's almost like shingles but all over, and no rash. So basically, stayed home, went to bed and slept for a long time. Still tired. Feel better now but need to get to bed.
Yeah, like that's going to happen anytime soon.
At any rate, I will return full speed ahead to canning once the rest of the stuff in the kitchen is resolved (moving the plastic cart, various other things, vacuuming the rug, actually moving the dresser and cleaning the outside of it, etc). The habaneros are still good, need to get the other peppers to go with it, need to put up ranier cherry jam and see if I can put up a couple more batches of blueberry and make more room in the freezer. All needs done this week before I start my new job on the 16th. Go team!
(YAWN) So good night all!
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