Hurry Up and Wait

After all the noisy productivity of Monday and Tuesday, the relative silence on Wednesday and Thursday was welcomed. I suppose it would've been nice to see a few loose end type items being taken care of, but no one being here did give me a chance to "tag" any areas of concern uninterrupted.

I approached Mike last week about a few areas I had noticed that needed some attention. This wall isn't level down to the trim in this spot. There are a couple microscopic divots here. This whole area needs to be repainted. Mike reassured me that they'd planned on doing some more painting; the baseboards in particular as the floor installation process tends to leave the trim in need of touch up. His suggestion was to go around with painter's tape and mark what spots I was seeing. I tagged this and that, some areas where old paint was coming through, other's where it hadn't been painted at all, and other spots where it was just a reminder for me to ask Mike about something in that spot.

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I have to go to work...

Ok, now it's Saturday, I'm back...

I wanted different knobs on our appliance pantry than what we'd put on all the other cabinets. Of course I fell in love with these knobs from Anthropologie:

But at $18 bucks a pop, dropping $100 on 5 knobs seemed a bit ridiculous (even if they are fabulous). So looking around, Hobby Lobby actually offers some neat looking knobs, AND they were having a sale this week. 50% off!

I brought home a few different options:

And ended up liking the one on the far right the best. I hurry back to Hobby Lobby the next day to scoop up some more (this was the last one on Wednesday, but the lady said they got their truck that afternoon and she thought there should be more on the shelves come Thursday). I get to the knob aisle, and there's one. Only one more. Harumph...Guess I'll just have to keep checking back, and buy them gradually!

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I just found out the new episode of Outlander came out On Demand early, so I need to watch summa this before work:

Ok, back again. It's Sunday now and I'm trying to type up some more before I go to work...again. (That episode of Outlander was pretty amazing if anyone was wondering!)

So after the floors got dropped off two weeks ago, and then we waited, and then they installed last Monday and Tuesday, and we waited again, the plan is to have them sanded Monday and Tuesday, with staining and polyurethane coating going on Wednesday and Thursday! Anticipating the floors getting done and this whole thing wrapping up, I figured I ought to test out the dishwasher as it's the only fixture left in the kitchen that I've yet to ensure is functioning properly. And I had a big box of plastic cups and mugs that needed to be washed. So in they go. I go to check on it about 45 minutes in to it's cycle and I see this:

Hmmmm...

Continue to observe....

I then proceed with hurrying to catch and sop up water.

Oh, my poor floors! 

After the cycle finished I opened the door and see that the dishwasher isn't draining in the slightest. Those Shamwow rags ended up being the best for absorbing water over and over vs. the standard rag towel. I, of course, send Mike an email right away and he said he'd get a plumber out to look at it. Fingers crossed it's an easy fix! It worked fine in the old kitchen. I'll let you know what ends up happening, but if the answer is "you need a new dishwasher" you can expect to see a broken dishwasher sitting there for a bit. 

P.S. Mike said the floors would be fine!