It has been exciting!!!!

Hi, I have not blog for a few days. There are a lot of things happened. On Saturday morning, we went to Orchard Supply Hardware to buy our stove and dishwasher because we didn't have to pay sales tax and we got 20% off....not bad huh?! The only glitch is that we won't get them until October 10. It is because of the bisque color that I want. That means we will have to eat out for the next 4 weeks. After that, we went straight to KZ Cabinets to pay off the balance so that our contractor, Allen, can pick them up. Then, we drove up to Oakland to buy our granite. The color that we picked out was Ice Blue. When we placed the order, we found out that they were out of stock....so SAD. Now we had to pick out another color. Do you know how hard it is to pick among 20 some odd choices???? Finally, we picked their newest addition "New Blue". After paying, we had to go to the warehouse to choose 7 slabs to be sure they matched. Before that, we went to Pacific store to buy our self cleaning, powerful, bisque color range hood. Apparently, this week they had a promotion.......a box of moon cake, an electric thermos and a $38 gift certificate. I was in heaven. I quickly used the gift certificate for a leather traveling mug with a tea leave strainer insert. It looked awesome. While we were buying, there were 2 more persons waiting to purchase. You know how we attract people in the store. Now, we went to pick our granite. But we were a little time restrained. We needed to pick up some home tour tickets for Jaime and deliver them to Jaime in SF. In short, we did not pick the granite yet and we needed to come back. So, off we went to the printing store, the person could not find the box. While we were waiting, daddy noticed that there were some flyers advertising George Lopez show. It was taking too long. So, we helped look for the box. The funny thing was that I found it and it was on top of the George Lopez boxes. No time to waste, we drove across the Bay Bridge. It was traffic before the toll booths. There was a SUV which would not allow daddy to merge into their lane. I got a little upset and pointed at the woman on the passenger side to see if she would let us it. No, she pointed to the front also. And I found out that that was a funeral procession.....sorry. Okay, we got to Jaime's place and mission accomplished. Before we went back to Oakland, Mimi wanted to look for a clothe steamer which was on sale at Macy's from 9 to 1. I told I would try. Since were near downtown, we rushed to Macy's. Daddy found a white zone parking right in front of Macy's. I told Daddy, "give me 10 minutes and i will be right back." So, I ran downstairs, found the steamer, ran back upstairs and paid at the cosmetic register. Downstaris was a mad house. I made the time......I was proud of myself.

Take a deep breath. Oakland here we come. By the time we got back to the warehouse, it was raining. The sales person told us not to choose the granite because the color would change when they were wet. So, with such disappointment, we decided to come back another time. As we walked back to our car, a meter maid was giving a ticket to the car parked behind us on the street. We looked up and saw a sign that said no parking, street cleaning between 12:30 and 3:30p.m. Wow, what luck, we would have gotten a ticket if we were choosing our granite. So, that was a good thing, I guess. Then, we went to Restoration Hardware at Valley Fair. I found some knobs that I like for our cabinets but daddy thinks they were too expensive. So, we left and look for some more. We then went to Home Depot and saw their hardware. I think there were no comparison. I agreed that we should looked for some more. I was too tired and so we went home. Jaime called and told us that there is a new kitchen faucet which you can just touch it and water will come out and stop when you touch it again. Jaime thought it was neat and we thought it would be expensive. But, we said that we would check it out.....not today........ I will let you know more about that later. Stay tuned. There are more to come.