Reese’s Pieces chocolate-peanut butter snack bites.
Oh, God, someone shoot me now. Please.
I’m in Hershey’s chocolate caramel kisses heaven right now. Milk chocolate on the outside. Creamy caramel on the inside. Somebody help me!
Am back–didn’t take long, did it?
I swear I am not making this up, but when I entered his business abode, he greeted me and then said, is your husband with you? I couldn’t resist, not if you gave me peanuts M&M’s, I couldn’t. I turned all the way around and said, “it’s just me”. He looked at (no doubt he thinks I am certifiable) me and said, “I thought your husband would be here.” I said, “nope-just me. This is my thing.”
I did talk to my husband and mentioned the above bit about “whatever Eleanor wants”–he said he would do it! I am surprised and pleased. But, it will have to wait until next time, I suppose.
I have some sympathy for the guy–it must be alot like the bridal industry and maybe (given his age) he is more comfortable talking to the husband. But this is business–and from where I sit, you do business with the interested partner–not the silent one!
He quoted me a price for the cabinets, uninstalled (because I had told him that we were going to do the installation–in fact, we probably will still get our handyman to do them). He does have some valid points: our kitchen is non-standard, and we have some areas with soffits and some not–and I want all my cabinet space that I have now–I don’t want more soffits. We need a place to eat (he designed a breakfast bar), and that entails some more custom cabinetry.
I just don’t know. One thing I hate is shopping–for cars, for appliances, even for shoes, really. I will go back to Ikea (and to HomeDepot) to see what they offer, I suppose. I just want it done (and that attitude can get expensive).
It doesn’t look like my inheritance will cover all of it (but it comes very close).
Kinda down now and am pilfering candy from TnT bags here…
Somebody’s got to explain to me what a soffit is. I’m a soon-to-be-homeowner, and I need to know this stuff.
Shit, I own a home and I don’t know what it is!
A soffit is the little bumped out wall-like area above the top of your kitchen cabinets if they don’t go to the ceiling. It’s dead space.
It’s also the covering on the exposed rafters between the outer wall and your eaves.
Yeah, yeah, V-Bob, but we’re talking kitchens here. Quit showing off! 
Good karma to Lissla hubbie. Hope it turns out to be nothing serious.
Only about 50 Trick-or-Treaters for us on Monday. Made the serious tactical error of handing out the crappy candies to the teenagers and saving the good ones for the cute wee 'uns, instead of being mercenary and getting rid of the crappy ones first and saving the good ones, so there weren’t many of the good ones left at the end. The leftovers don’t seem to be very durable, either, as they appear to be evaporating into thin air during the day while I’m at work. Mrs B bought these ones, and her definition of good and crappy goodies doesn’t always match mine, so, I’m not pointing any fingers (yes I am, but you can’t see me!), but, say no more, say no more, a nod is as good as a wink to a blind man, know what I mean, know what I mean??!!!
Sorry about that. And now for something completely different! [cue The Liberty Bell March]
Yesterday was mostly a loss work-wise. We had a mandatory orientation session for the new department, which was a classic example of someone in management suggesting something and then passing it down to the peons to actually carry out with no direction as to what the purpose of it all is supposed to be. The whole thing was poorly organized - 4,000 attendees (half morning, half afternoon), a couple of miles from where any of us work, and “You have to provide your own transportation” = instant traffic jam x4 on the street leading to the venue. Then the whole thing turned out to be mostly a rah-rah session with no actual information about any of the changes which will be happening as the department is set up and organized. :rolleyes: The Deputy Minister did get in a good line about the new department offering SIN on Demand, however 
. (We issue Social Insurance Numbers, and this is a new program for the cards to be made up and handed out while you wait. Wonder how long it will be before some killjoy renames the program.) [crickets] … [/crickets] Eh, maybe you had to be there.
Darelin - re: soffits - In a well-utilized kitchen, there is no dead space, everywhere has little-used kitchenware and appliances stuffed into it. The space above the cupboards is obviously intended for this use (punch bowl, other punch bowl, big roasting pan, little roasting pan, really big roasting pan, wafflemaker (note: must make waffles for breakfast this weekend), spare Dutch oven, Mason jars).
I gotta replace some soffitts on the garage. Don’t think I’ll get to them before the spring. They should weather one more winter.
She asked for a definition, and the word has multiple connotations. :wally
Besides, Sean isn’t talking about the cabinets hung on the outside of his garage.
Most modern American kitchens have an open shelf above the cabinets–this is the soffit. Or it would be if the space were just a bumped out bit of wall with no shelf.
My cabinets go all the way to the ceiling–except over the sink wall where there is an arch–and two soffits, one on either side of the sink. These soffits are not the same size (it’s an old house!). I also need yet a third size cabinet for the refrigerator wall. And we haven’t even talked about the stove or the breakfast bar…
I usually like remodeling projects–we have successfully added on a master suite and a front porch and back deck to this house. I have painted every room myself, wallpapered and stripped paint and refinished etc… and we had the baths redone.
I don’t know why I am so curmudgeonly about the kitchen. I am just pissy about it and that’s that. It NEEDS to be done, if only to help sell the houes to pay for my nursing home bills down the road…(that was a joke, people!).
If moods are choices, I wanna 'nother look at the menu!
Goodness gracious, slow down people!! I miss a couple of days and you’re nearly to the bottom of page three!
Tupug, I’m sorry to hear about your doggie.
Bobbio, you’re just coming up with all kinds of <snerkworthy> comments.
I had the oddest thing happen to me at the grocery store last night. After paying for my groceries I headed on over to the customer service desk to scan my lotto ticket for last Saturday’s drawing. As I scanned my ticket, it came up with “Sorry, not a winner”. There was another lady standing next to me waiting to purchase some lottery tickets. As I tossed the ticket into the waste basket, I noticed the lady looking at me, so I said, “Story of my life…” and kinda shrugged. At this point the lady looked directly at me and said, “Things are going to change for you in about three months.” I just kinda looked at her dumbfounded. She then said, “Yeah, right around February 22nd”. Now I was really dumbfounded. I just didn’t know what to say. All I could squeak out was “Well, I guess I’ll have to pay attention around February 22nd”. I tell you, I was totally non-plussed. She didn’t look like a weirdo, just a regular kinda person. A weird goose-bumpy feeling came over me. At any rate, I shrugged it off and headed on home.
While eating dinner, I told Mr. Taters about the incident. He got all weirded out too, and he’s one the most cynical people I know. He kinda laughed and said I need to make sure and buy up every kind of lottery ticket around that date. Maybe it’s finally our turn to win.
I took off from work early today and need to head out now and get my son’s glasses repaired…a…friggin…gain! After that, I need to meet with my daughter’s class advisor. Another busy day for me…
This can be somewhat confusing 'cause soffits can refer to the underside of the roof overhang on the outside of the house, see here , or to enclosures at the juncture of the walls and ceiling inside the house, see some not very good pictures of kitchen soffits being framed here.
Basically, if you enclose the area above the wall cabinets up to the ceiling, that’s a soffit, or if there is a lowered area around the perimeter of the room, which could contain lights, etc, that’s a soffit also.
I’m much better at building things than explaining tem, sorry.
Sheesh! You guys are fast. * posts while I was typing mine up.
Do I get credit fro trying, anyway?
…and what about the health benefits of Halloween?? The antioxidents (sp?) in all the chocolate I’ve eaten since Monday are working all over my bod.
Well, like og said to the blond who kept praying to win the lottery, “you have to buy the tickets!” BTW that happens to be Washington’s AND The Princess[sup]TM[/sup]'s birthday.
So does that mean Tater’s will get a dollar and a tiara?
No, no, your chances of wnning the lottery are only slightly better if you buy a ticket. Why waste the money? When all that good karma is working you’ll find the winning ticket on the ground.
Some twit got to the store and bought up all the Reese Peanut Butter Cups ahead of me. Grr. On the bright side, Mr. Lissar was given another kilo of chocolate, and this one is Cadbury’s Dairy Milk and Peanut Butter Bars. They’re pretty good.
We can’t get through at the doctor’s office, (they have the most annoying either wait for forty minutes to get a human or only-voice-mail thing right now) so we’ll probably go up there tomorrow and park ourselves until someone will see us.
Time to do dishes, sterilize the kitchen, and make chili.
Mmmmm… pot roast. First of the season!
It’s the day of the dead and my altar is up, but no marigolds to be found this year. Which explains the bouquet of chick-o-sticks.
There’s antioxidents in chocolate? I’ll have to stock up because oxidizing is bad-- turns you all orangey, unless you’re vulcan and then you’d be green.