As many of you probably know I do not work for the better part of the summer and consider my 9 weeks of vacation barely adequate to recover from the spiritual expenditure of teaching High School Science. That being said, my mission for the next 2 months will be to remodel our kitchen. We have already remodeled a kitchen once and so it's not quite as daunting a task as it may appear. I'll be "updating" the base cabinets, wall cabinets, lighting, electrical, flooring, counter-tops, oven, cooktop, dishwasher, and sink. About 75% of the kitchen is in the basement right now tagged and ready to be assembled and installed. Some things are still in flux though and we're still ordering some materials.
For example, last week Jordanna ordered 5 backsplash tiles of beaten tin from Florida. Each one cost $13 so without shipping the tiles cost $65. When we got the bill it came to a total of $215 and Jordanna went ballistic. She stormed into the living room and swore that we would be calling our credit card company, canceling payment of the order, and reporting them to the Better Business Bureau for fleecing us on shipping.
Apparently when she called them they apologized for any misunderstanding and checked our shipping order carefully. That's when it was discovered that the tiles were in fact not scheduled to be shipped to Pennsylvania but instead to Palau. A small island nation in the South Pacific Ocean.
I'd love to say that the story ends there and we rerouted our tiles to PA instead of PW, but that's just not the case. After being informed of the development of our tiles' world tour I took it upon myself to investigate and then adopt the flag of Palau as the official flag of our remodel.
Because it really should be your flag if you live on an island in the middle of the Ocean.
3 comments:
Only you two would have an official flag of the remodel; I think Sam Adams should be the official beer of the remodel!
My vote would be Mac and Jacks African Amber - my favorite beer of all time.
Loved the I a little funny and subsequent pizza snorting through the nose. One of Thane's proudest moments was getting Bruce (his childhood friend) to snort spaghetti out his nose. I have yet to snort anything out of my nose, maybe I'm just too dignified....
Keep up the great postings!Love, your sister who doesn't actually have a google account so I'm anonymous.
P.S. wouldn't you think that in this day and age, google wouldn't get underlined as a misspelled word especially as you can choose your google account as an identity?
And you thought your kitchen was too small for an island!!
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