My New Addition

Drip.

Drip.

Drip.

That's what I've been listening to for the past 3 months.  I desperately needed a new faucet.

And my friend Monika was awesome enough to help me over my birthday weekend.

There were a few set-backs... first I couldn't find the main valve to turn off the water (nice girly move there)... then the nuts were corroded to the pipe and Monika & I were not strong enough (another girly move) so we had to call my friend Ben to help.  While waiting for Ben we found that my new faucet was missing a part... so back to Lowe's.

Finally we were on a roll once Ben showed up.  He ended up installing shut-off valve thingies (since they were missing).  Then handed over the tools to me & Monika... well mainly Monika. haha!

We still needed some help from Ben - thank goodness he stuck around... but we finally got it installed and it looks GREAT!!

I even have a cool soap dispenser now!

Now onto a new counter top... ;)

My New Refrigerator... finally!!

I have been wanting a new refrigerator FOR-EV-ER.  Ok, really since I moved in my house in 2008. Anyway - I finally saved up some mola* & was ready to hit the Memorial Day sales!!
*Thanks to my grandparents for letting the family know I wanted a new frig, I got lots of useful gift cards for Christmas!

I did a lot of research online, but you really need to go to the store to open them all up a thousand times to make sure it's your soul-fridge.  After some searching, I found the perfect one for me!  A Samsung at hhgregg.  And, lucky me they could install it the next day - even though it was a holiday!!  So I cleaned off my old fridge and got ready.

BEFORE:

Thank goodness I didn't have a ton of food in my fridge... and thank goodness for my helpful Thirty-One bags to hold all my food!! (what the heck is on the TV?)

So the delivery guys shows up & does some measuring and says this might not fit.  (WHAT?!?!)  They take out the old fridge and bring in this mammoth looking thing and by golly, it doesn't fit... it's too wide!  Dumb me measured from the wall to the side of the cabinets... not the molding on the floor to the side of the cabinets. Apparently this is a 'common' mistake, so I'm not the only dumb one out there.  The guys couldn't help me with that (liability issues) so they put everything together, hooked it up & left.  I grabbed a screwdriver & saw from my handy dandy tool box (thanks DAD!!!) and went to work:

I did it!!  YAY!!  So lets push in the fridge.... pushing, pushing, and then stop. HOLY CRAP the fridge is too tall... by a quarter of an inch.  OMG - what do I do!? [Insert some girly unnecessary crying and calling for help]  My parent's arrived with more coolers since it was going to be awhile, and one of my best friends, Ben, arrived with his table saw.  Between my dad and Ben, they shortened the cabinets above the fridge a little over a quarter inch and the fridge slipped right in... like a glove.  There are no pictures to document this as I was freakin' out a 'lil bit. :)

Finally all was well... my parents went home and Ben went shoe shopping.  Time to put life back together.

AFTER:

Pretty right????

And my favorite part?  The shelf for wine bottles... or bottles of water (lol):

It was a long, stressful day, but well worth it in the end!  I looove my new fridge!!

Also - shout out to hhgregg who was awesome!  In fact as I wrote this blog, the sales associate from hhgregg called to make sure everything turned out ok... since he was one of the ones I called for help!