Lookie what we got!
That’s right! Our custom-stained kitchen furniture arrived! We ordered the rolling kitchen island and square shaker breakfast table with 4 chairs in November from a family-owned unfinished furniture store local to Cincinnati. The island adds 26×48″ more of counter and food prep space, plus storage, and with our chairs and table we can finally eat our breakfast and lunch at an actual table. We chose the dark walnut stain on parawood because walnut is the stain we hope to continue with for any future furniture purchases and these are our first few investment pieces. We are really pleased with the color (especially since almost everything nowadays has a slight cherry red hue to it, which we don’t want and walnut stained furniture is very hard to find) and we love how it looks! We have yet to organize it all in the kitchen, but we’re hoping to get to that tomorrow. It’s so nice to have it!
We started out the morning bright and early at Chick-Fil-A for free spicy chicken biscuits. Chick-Fil-A wanted to test them out before adding them to their regular menu, so when we saw the Rose Bowl commercial telling us to “go online and reserve your free spicy chicken biscuit” we didn’t argue. Who are we to turn down free food? I’ll gladly be a test rat – toss me the waiver and a pen and sign me up! Luckily it was pretty good (I’m a Chick-Fil-A fan as it is), though I’d probably recommend it for a meal other than breakfast simply because spicy chicken isn’t exactly the best breakfast food, and who needs heartburn at 7 a.m.? After breakfast we ran a bunch of errands, made two trips to Woodcraft to pick up our new kitchen furniture, searched for a clear protective glass counter top for the new island, grabbed carry-out Jersey Mike’s sub sandwiches for the football playoff games tonight, and rented a movie to use up the last of a nearly 5-year old Blockbuster gift card. Tonight we’re relaxing in our sweats watching football. It’s like New Years Eve part 2. Excellent.
While we were in Sears looking at straight edges and saw blades this morning, a large, gruff-looking man (probably a farmer or workman) wearing overalls caught my attention. Normally I don’t tend to notice other people’s choice of clothing unless it is particularly outrageous or unforgivably hideous – think knee-high 7” high-heeled lace-up boots, hot pink tights, a neon tutu, fairy wings, and ill-fitting turquoise tube top on a 48 year old with bleach blonde hair and black penciled on eyebrows, for example – but this is just an example mind you (inspired by a lunatic I saw at a mall recently…I may or may not have gawked shamelessly). But there’s just something about overalls that immediately captures my attention. Dr. Larry’s book entitled 563 Stupid Things People Do to Mess Up Their Lives (a super quick, easy read, laugh until tears are streaming down your face, absolutely must read book – one of my all time favorites!) describes overalls in this way: “Unless you are a tyke or a farmer, this is not an attractive look. Try to wear pants that don’t extend over your shoulders and wear clothing in general that doesn’t instantly bring to mind characters from Hee-Haw.”
97% of the time I am in unanimous agreement. With the exception of two people I know, I think overalls look stupid on anyone over the age of 24 months, yet I have desperately wanted a pair for years. On roughly 3% of the population they look comfortable and adorable, but almost everyone else just looks ridiculous. I really hope I’m in that 3% because I am on a mission to find myself a non-dorky pair to wear with tank tops this summer – and for everyone else’s sake I hope I don’t look like a doofus in them, because I really don’t care and would wear them regardless. Chances are I won’t hold a candle to the moron in the tutu anyhow, so as long as I plant myself next to the most outlandishly dressed person I can find at all times, I won’t even draw a lick of attention. This is a fail-proof plan. I’ll leave you to contemplate overalls and other poor fashion choices while I steal some of Ted’s popcorn and tune into the rest of the Colts v. Jets game.
