RegularDad got an unexpected day off today. He arrived home carrying a Grande Vanilla Latte for me from Starbucks, and then immediately got to work installing our new dishwasher. (Doesn’t RegularDad just totally ROCK?!)
First, he demolished the mildewing cabinets that used to live in the space where the dishwasher will reign supreme forever and ever. Then he crawled under the sink and poked around for a while and determined that the easiest way to install the thing would be to simply also install a new kitchen sink at the same time. So he rushed out to the store for a new sink and all things that go with it.
By the time he got back, it was lunchtime, so we had sandwiches and then the girls and I rushed out to a homeschool gym day. When we got home, he was on his way out again for some more parts and pieces that he needed, because he realized that as long as he was poking around under the sink, he really ought to hook up the lines for the ice maker in the new fridge. Then some friends of ours stopped by to see the new house even though I’d told them that it was a Serious Mess. But they really wanted to see it, so for about 15 minutes, we wandered around showing the house to people.
After they left, it was getting on to late in the afternoon and the kitchen looked like this:
And when the kitchen looks like this, I like to get the camera out and Capture The Moment, ya know.
“Hey, RegularDad! How’s it goin’ in here?”
“Oh, pretty good. Just trying to get this thing to work, is all.”
“Hmmm….maybe it just needs a couple of whacks with this sledgehammer.”
“I’ll get this thing working if it’s the last thing I do.”
Trust me…there’s a saint for this. There’s a saint for everything.
And then, after all else fails…
It’s your basic dishwasher installation. Things are really starting to come together around here.
*Just kidding, by the way. This post is a Spoof on Installing a Dishwasher. These are not actual, real steps one should take when installing any appliance anywhere. So, don’t even think about blaming your broken dishwasher on me.
Now, I know praying was in the instructions somewhere.
Ah, as Bob Vila would say, “The Might-As-Well Syndrome.” Going to replace the shower curtain rod, so you might as well put in a new showerhead too. And if you’re going to tear into the wall, you might as well replace the wall tile too. And if you’re gonna take that much off the wall, why not install a soap shelf.. maybe a window? New toilet? Ugh. We’ve fallen into that trap a million times. Now, when my husband starts a sentence with, “I was thinking since we’re fixing that hallway vent..” I just walk away.
It’s scenarios like this spoof, and the question of adequate storage space, that keep me from getting a dish washer. My kitchen works, even if it works at a simple level. I’m afraid of any messing about making it not work anymore!
lol!
I’m green with envy. I wish there were room to install a diswasher, but whoever designed my U-shaped kicthen area didn’t leave enough room on either side of the sink for one. And Bob refuses to install one on the side.
Drooling.
Aww, he’s a good sport.
My hub would shit a brick if I tried to take pics while he was doing something like that.
That is hysterical — and having gone through my fair share of husband repairs — shockingly accurate!
;>
RegSis
The real question is, do either the sink or the dishwasher work. Because someday, you’re going to want clean plates.
Ah, yes…that IS the question. Sadly…we’ve got some problems. Looks like we’ll need to get a different dishwasher. This one doesn’t work right. Can you believe it? Luckily, there’s a 30-day money back guarantee thing. But ugh!
And can I just say, that right after I posted this yesterday, RegularDad mentioned to me that he’d already replaced our showerhead. Because he was already getting a new sink and all. So, it made sense.
Too funny!
well now seriously. you couldn’t have a bathroom with a brand new toilet seat and not have a brand new shower head, could you?* I mean, come on. Some of the pinkness might have rubbed off on the shower head and that would just be wrong.
*this coming from a woman with a husband who would have figured out a way to hook the dishwasher up “temporarily” with it (the dishwasher) still sitting in the middle of the kitchen and the doors to the cabinet under the sink left open at all times and then, once it was that way for a day or two, somewhere in the man’s brain, he would have decided that that was the way it was supposed to be and would never, ever make it be any different. I mean, come on. Look at all that extra counter space!?!?!?!?!?!
Okay…Weaver…please see my next post.
It’s too surreal.
Oh honey! I feel your pain!! My hubby is actually a home rehabber so he has no excuses, except that when something in our home breaks and doesn’t get fixed I realized a while back this is because well, he’s just not making any money to fix it so he doesn’t bother. I’ve had a broken faucet in my bathroom shower for 8 years! Yes, you heard me right! 8 freaking years! I’ve used pliers to turn the water from hot to cold for 8 freaking years. A few months ago the hot/cold nozzle broke completely off from years of plier abuse. Now it’s just one setting – luke warm!
BTW – My dishwasher calls me a HO on a regular basis too! It really stands for hold, or so says the manel, but I’m not buying it!!