The kitchen sink

I have nothing important or interesting to write about.

So here is a bit of the uninteresting and unimportant:

We will likely be getting a significant chunk of change back from our taxes because of new adoption tax law. Getting a lump sum like that is sort of weird. What to do? We are STILL paying for the eviction of our tenants in our rental house. The responsible thing to do would be to pay that off. How unfun! We might do a little of that but we are also planning on re-doing our kitchen.

We like our house, but our kitchen is a lame 2 butt affair (My family measures the quality of kitchens by how many butts can comfortably fit in them. And by that metric ours is a serious loser). This little kitchen is dumb, because our house is pretty spacious, and there are lots of us. And we like to invite people over. The two butt kitchen makes things more than cozy. We bought the house in spite of the kitchen with plans to re-do it. Now, 4 years later or so, we're getting around to it.

Our basement is an apartment. This summer it will be empty. Seriously, how many people are lucky enough to have a spare kitchen for when they remodel the main one?
I'm looking forward the project beginning and dreading it. We're knocking out walls people and I despise dry wall dust.

As per our M.O. we are doing things on the cheap. Eddie will do the labor. We're getting the granite counter tops for free. We found a smokin' deal for high quality semi-custom maple cabinetry. (Maple b/c it's pretty and NOT trendy - trendy seems bad in a kitchen). I'm searching craigslist for new appliances - stainless steel.

Hopefully, if we do it right, it won't throw our lives into upheaval for long. But then again there is that all too true construction maxim: It always takes longer and costs more.