if you give a mouse a cookie

know that book? the one where the kid gives a mouse a cookie, and then the mouse needs a glass of milk, and next thing you know the mouse is giving himself a haircut, cleaning the whole house, and taking a nap...

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i think we might be able to write our own version soon... "if you give a house a dishwasher"

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we bought new kitchen appliances because our current oven is busted, the dishwasher is rusted, and the microwave is a crap shoot (sorry, couldn't think of another rhyming word.) we found a nice stainless steel package of appliances at best buy. and it was supposed to be that easy - old appliances out, new ones in. but...

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not gonna happen.

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they delivered the appliances today. they couldn't set up the fridge because we couldn't disconnect the water line to the old fridge because the fabulous previous owners of the house have the water line valve buried behind the wall. when jeremy gets home tonight, we'll see if we can find it. in the meantime, our new fridge is chillin (pun so totally intended) in our not-so-big dining room.

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then, they were going to take away the old stove. but the gas line was not disconnected either. i swear the fire fighters disconnected it when they came, but i guess they reconnected it before they left. so the new stove is hanging out with the fridge in the dining room until monday when best buy's installers come to hook it up.

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but the stove also introduces a new problem. the back of the stove is an inch or two taller than our current stove. coupled with the fact that the current above-the-range microwave is already too close to the stove, this becomes a major problem. it looks like we may have to saw off the bottom part of the upper cabinet and mount the new microwave higher than the current one. so the microwave is hanging out in the dining room too. and we need to do the cabinet demo before the installers come on monday. and the cabinet demo means we will have no choice but to paint the cabinets. (we planned to anyway, but didn't need to.) i know this is going to cause more problems when the installers come...

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they also couldn't do anything with the dishwasher today because the current one is still hooked up to the water. the new dishwasher is - you guessed it - in the dining room until the installers come on monday. and it looks taller than our counters (hard to say for sure) so there may be additional floor and countertop modification needed. once again, we were planning to put new countertops in, but not immediately.

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so basically, the entire contents of our fridge and freezer are in laundry baskets in the dining room for no reason. time to put them back in the old fridge until we can find the water line.

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here's a before shot of the kitchen:

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and the pretty new appliance garden i have in my dining room:

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this is so not going to be fun.