Sunday

In the midst of the remodeling, we forgot to mention our new English Pastor Moa. He was born in India and he came here to study. He is married with 2 children, a boy and a girl. He is very nice and we hope that he will work out.

Sunday was an easy day. After service, we went to (again) wine tasting at Santa Clara University. It was a fundraiser for the alumni. There were a lot of people and a lot of food. We invited Gail and Jim to come along. Daddy had a great day. He got 6 bottles of Bell Cab from the silent auction and he had the wine maker signed a couple of bottles. Daddy will tell you more when he sees you. On the other hand, I did not get anything. But, that was a blessing. When we got home, Allen called and gave a progress report. He needed two gallons of paint before he will put up the cabinets and floor. So, off we went to OSH because there was still no tax. My goodness, do you know how many shades of paint you can get????? It was so hard to decide because I cannot really see the color. But, finally, we bite the bullot and got two gallons. I thought it was good.

Monday, the workers finalized the drywall seams and prepared the floor. Allen came by and took our cabinet receipt for pickup. On Tuesday they started to paint. Oh, by the way, we had dinner at L & L Monday and Round Table Pizza on Tuesday. On Wednesday, I had a doctor's appointment in the afternoon. So, we decided for me to take a couple more hours off to go to Oakland to pick out the granite. We got there around noon. Some guy showed us the batch of granite and told us to choose. We just looked at each other and smile because there was no way that we could see the differences. Somehow, we managed to pick out 7 of them. We prayed that they will be the same color. If not, c'est la vie. By this time, I was hungry. We went to eat at this small Chinese restaurent. Daddy had spare ribs with bitter melon with rice and I had cod with vegetable with rice. We had a lot of rice left so we boxed them up for dinner. After lunch, we went to my doctor's appointment. Everything is fine. But my white blood count was low. So my doctor told me not to be near any sick people and washed my hands frequently. We had a little time before my appointment. I asked Daddy if he would mind to the store which had the touch handle faucet. Daddy said okay to just look. So, we went. When we got to the store, the sales person was happy to show us the faucet which he had installed. It was nice looking and very handy. I liked it. I thought Daddy liked it, too, until he told us the price $525. Wow, it was a little expensive and that was that. After the appointment, we went to downtown Campbell because Daddy wanted to buy his comic books. Along the way, we checked out a couple of hardware store to look for our cabinets handles. I wished I could put pictures here. We found one that was really cool looking but again it was too expensive. It's okay. I don't really need expensive handles which will break eventually. Then we went to buy broccoli beef at Tsing Tao for dinner with the rice leftovers. When we got home, there were cabinets all over in the garage. That looked good. That night, Daddy was surfing the net and he found the FAUCET at Amazon.com and it costs $339 with free shipping and no tax. Guess what, we are now a proud owner of the Delta Touch 2O faucet. It will be here on Tuesday. My contractor, Allen was a little concerned. We'll see.

When I got home on Thursday, the cabinets were all up. Allen was there talking to the workers and was a little concerned on the spacing of the stove. Once again, I stressed out Allen with the new kind of stove with no backing. We hoped everything will be okay when the stove comes on 10/10. Please pray for the stove comes earlier. Then we went to dinner at Taco Bell. I was a little full so we decided to go to Home Depot to get the cabinet knobs. We decided to buy the regular round porcelain knobs in bisque color. They only cost $1.89 each. We loved them.

On Friday, Daddy went to pick up the range hood in the morning just in case that they wanted to put it up. They did not have time to do that because they laid the floor tiles. We were short so tomorrow we had to go get some more. They floor looked very nice. My goodness, the kitchen is coming together real fast. We are very excited to see the finished kitchen. But, we are looking forward to cook again......no more fast food. Tonight, we had pho............