Heat

Our heatwave here in Northern Cali continues. It's been so hot to work in the new house. There's almost always a breeze, but most of our new house faces west, so the sun is pretty searing in the afternoon. We have a couple fans, but no AC installed yet. Obviously, I'm not the one doing most of the work at DG, or the AC would've been installed long ago!

Cabinet installation continues, though slowly. Last Saturday, in order to spend a day out of the heat (and off work, kind of), we went to the mall. We thought sitting in the cool air, watching other people shop sounded perfect. Plus we wanted to look for bedding. We took a spin through Macys, then on our way to the food area (it was lunchtime) we cut through Sears (shortcut!). And for some reason I thought looking at appliances would be a good idea. 5 hours and one lunch break later, we purchased 80% of our appliances! It was one of those, "sale-ends-today:save-more-the-more-you-buy-sales" and so with uncharacteristic lack of deliberation, we shelled out the moola and purchased the refrigerator, washer, dryer, stove, and microwave vent hood. Of course, then we wondered if we'd rushed into it, but got such good deals! 25% off!

We already have re-thought the micro/vent though. Since we have such beautiful back splash tile, we want to show it as much as possible. The micro/vent right above the tall stove (the back panels of stoves have gotten really tall!) left only a thin horizontal reveal of the backsplash. Plus we have a nice, stainless, perfectly good micro. So, we'll cancel that part of the order, and instead buy a plain vent hood. Not the fancy type, but the smaller-than-a-micro type. We'll save a few $$s, get to see more of our pretty back splash, and use the micro we already have (it'll probably go into the island, now).

So, it was worth getting out of the heat, and getting the appliance decisions over (well, mostly, we still have to pick out a dishwasher--just couldn't pull the trigger on that one!). But we never got to sit and watch people! Oh well, progress continues . . .