A Post That Doesn’t Resolve Anything

Speaking of plans and goals and being resolute for the year ahead, we have a terrible problem with lack of space and adequate organization for our stuff.

We’d looked at kitchen tables, small ones, before deciding this probably wouldn’t work in such a small space.  Somewhere along the line, we saw a butcher block style island/organizer that would work perferctly to help with counter and storage space.  Eventually we decided that would be what we’d do, rather than bothering with a table.  We can get one of those when we have a bigger place.

So that was on Deb’s Christmas list; one of those floating counter/storage units for the kitchen.  This was unabashedly our year of “for the house” presents.

I ended up seeing this baby in Wal-Mart:

It was different from what we’d seen previously, around half the price - a bargain, in fact, and had the advantage of being 19” wide with the extensions down, and 40” wide with both extensions up.  Yay for extra counter space when making cookies!

It has three baskets that can hold much we have no other room for, and a supplemental drawer for some of the overflow of utinsels or whatnot.  It’s mobile, with brakes if you want it to stay put.  Part of what slowed us down getting something like this was the baby’s swing living in the middle of the kitchen floor.  She’s growing so fast, its days will be numbered, and in the meantime it’s easy to do a “which thing hogs the center of the kitchen” dance as needed.

It was impractical to sneak this in and wrap it (or wrap it at all), I couldn’t leave it in the back of the truck, didn’t feel like hiding it at the office, and didn’t think of hiding it in the cellar.  So it was an early “present” that was really for the house.  She had it on the list of stuff she wanted, and was thrilled.  With the other stuff too, like the new mixer, pans, etc.  Which was why I got a book too.  There had to be something that was neither edible (mmm… Lindt truffles) nor for the house.

I managed to improve our storage slightly around the same time, just by taking some hooks I’ve had for years, screwing them into holes that were already there on cabinet ends and such, and hanging things like pans and cutting boards from them.  Yay for creative simplicity.

Speaking of gifts, another gift she especially liked was this shirt:

Heh.  Her brother sent that, and you can see how pleased she was.  Ah, the old alma mater.

I’ve been tempted to do some kind of post about the year ahead, goals and such, but haven’t been able to come up with something yet.  Doesn’t help to be slogging through a sickness-induced fog.  I am not one for “resolutions,” but it does work as a demarcation time for evaluating things and planning or pondering what’s next.  I’m certainly doing some of that, if quietly.

1. I HAVE GOT to get one of those shirts.  I know Exgaucho Ben will want one too!!!  Hehehehehe.  We used to go do that, you know (well, not actually, we tried though....)

   Posted by caltechgirl  on  01/01  at  09:08 PM

2. I must get this shirt. Then I will wear it and walk around SF and LA, saying “Yes, I’m from Fresno, got a problem with that?”

   Oh, and we didn’t tip cows, we just called out to them. It didn’t take much to amuse me in high school.

   Posted by Ben  on  01/03  at  03:31 AM

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