{"id":160,"date":"2009-03-23T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2009\/03\/on-our-own-again.html"},"modified":"2009-03-23T19:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T19:31:00","slug":"on-our-own-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2009\/03\/on-our-own-again.html","title":{"rendered":"On Our Own Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve got separation anxiety going on here. Serious, serious separation anxiety. The kind that keeps you up at night and leaves you in cold sweats. Because we are about a week away from the contractors being done. And leaving. Us. Me. No more, &#8220;Hey, I can&#8217;t quite reach that. Can you put in that light bulb?&#8221; Or, &#8220;What do you say? Should we hang that mirror there?&#8221; Or what about, &#8220;This shelf is sticking. Could you get it in the proper place for me?&#8221; Forget live-in maid or cook. I want a live-in contractor. Every time we&#8217;ve had any oddity (&#8220;Is that supposed to do that? Is that making a funny noise? I wish we had an outlet there&#8221;), it&#8217;s been a simple matter of &#8220;Oh, Leo will be here in the morning. We can ask him.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>But it will end. The punch list is just about punched. The shingles are shingled. We&#8217;ve got a single stair rail to go up outside. We&#8217;ve got gutters to go up. But that&#8217;s really about it. We&#8217;ve got just mere days of &#8220;ask Leo.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m not sure I can handle it. <\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s time. Time to let go. Time to grow up and enjoy my brand-new grown-up house all on our own. And speaking of brand-new house, I believe I&#8217;ve been delinquent on photos. Today I give you the kitchen. I was going to wait until it was nice and clean and everything put away, but I thought you&#8217;d want photos sometime this year, so here it is in all it&#8217;s everyday-use glory.<\/p>\n<p>The old kitchen:<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/uploaded_images\/IMG_0594-749438.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[160]\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/uploaded_images\/IMG_0594-748923.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>See those expanses of counter space? The beautiful cabinets? The aisles of storage space?<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/uploaded_images\/IMG_0593-700498.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[160]\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/uploaded_images\/IMG_0593-700175.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note, here, the oven hood that Adam installed that prevents the cabinet next to it from opening all the way:<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/uploaded_images\/IMG_0592-739438.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[160]\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; width: 240px; height: 320px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/uploaded_images\/IMG_0592-739103.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new kitchen. Not the best pictures because you can&#8217;t truly see <a href=\"http:\/\/products.geappliances.com\/ApplProducts\/Dispatcher?REQUEST=SPECPAGE&amp;SKU=ZDP366NPSS&amp;SITEID=MON2\">my beautiful 36-inch stove<\/a>, but I&#8217;m too lazy to take more photos:<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/uploaded_images\/IMG_4429[1]-781157\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/uploaded_images\/IMG_4429[1]-780825\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We couldn&#8217;t get a proper mud room into the house, so we now have a new side entrance and cubbies for each of us:<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/uploaded_images\/IMG_4430[1]-786730\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/uploaded_images\/IMG_4430[1]-786416\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/uploaded_images\/IMG_4431[1]-749081\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/uploaded_images\/IMG_4431[1]-748386\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/uploaded_images\/IMG_4434[1]-793130\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/uploaded_images\/IMG_4434[1]-792820\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With Adam&#8217;s master Elfa pantry. I haven&#8217;t mastered the wide shot of the small space, so you can&#8217;t really see it in all it&#8217;s true glory, complete with my lovely drawer labels. There&#8217;s a whole wall on the right with more shelves and drawers:<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/uploaded_images\/IMG_4428-727896.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[160]\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/uploaded_images\/IMG_4428-727550.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(And I have a secret: we&#8217;ll need to replace our front windows and front door soon. Leo may not have seen the last of us yet!)<\/p>\n<p>More rooms to come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve got separation anxiety going on here. Serious, serious separation anxiety. The kind that keeps you up at night and leaves you in cold sweats. Because we are about a week away from the contractors being done. And leaving. Us. Me. No more, &#8220;Hey, I can&#8217;t quite reach that. Can you put in that light [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}