We're in hot water!

PG & E came bright and early this morning and put our gas meter back! We now have hot water again!! (I'm sure everyone at work is breathing a sigh of relief!)

Lots of progress on the house over the past couple of days. When they do the finishing details, at some point things start going quickly (or seemingly so). The tile in the downstairs bathroom is in. I had to pick out grout color this evening (when will these decisions stop?). The hardwood floor is completely in, and they've installed the mantelpiece and the stainless supports for the kitchen (bar) counter. The carpet tiles for the upstairs office have been delivered, and I suspect they'll be installed soon.

The kitchen cabinets are continuing to be the most challenging part of the remodel. I was so excited that they had finally arrived, but it's apparently just not that easy. The installer and someone from the store have to be here to "receive" the delivery of the 56 boxes in which the cabinets will be delivered, presumably to make sure that all the pieces are delivered. But perhaps there is some special handling or fanfare that comes with the kitchen cabinets, and I'm just not seeing it. As a result, trying to coordinate between the kitchen salesperson, the installer, and the delivery people is a nightmare. And here I thought that it would be simple, since we have contractors here all day every day. Nope, that would be just too easy, and of course, you wouldn't appreciate the cabinets as much if it were that easy! Originally, we had scheduled delivery for tomorrow, but then the folks from the store couldn't make it that day. So they tried to reschedule for Thursday, but that wasn't going to work for the delivery people. So the store tried to reschedule for next Tuesday, at which point I had a conniption fit, since the cabinets are the gating factor for us finishing this project, and every day of delay costs us more money. So I think we've worked out a compromise and the cabinets will be delivered on Friday, and the installer will start work on Saturday. Because there is a tremendous amount of coordination to be done with the other trades, every time the delivery date changes, we have to reschedule the tile guys, the hardwood guys and the electrician. It's very very annoying! I do hope that I get firm confirmation tomorrow that the cabinets will truly be here on Friday.

Well, after that rant, I think I'm going to go take a shower now :)