Kitchen nightmare
Feb. 25th, 2011 10:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vanillafluffyI powered up my laptop and was glancing through the "news" stories on my default homepage, AOL, and I ran across this, with the title of "My Birthday Wish: A Kitchen Makeover" (One writer explains why all she wants for her 50th birthday is an updated kitchen, even if her friends think she's a bore.).
Okay, I thought. Here's a gal who's my age, with one of the very same problems I've got, a crappy, outdated kitchen.
Then I clicked on the article and got a look at the kitchen she's bitching about and began to *headdesk*. Her cabinets are at least 20 years newer than mine, she has easily twice the counter space I've got, her fridge is probably from this century and her ceramic cooktop definitely is. Oh, and she has those cute little display nooks above her cabinets.
My circa-1960 kitchen has brown mock-walnut laminate cabinets, a white countertop that was originally glitter-flecked but is now just speckled and grungy, the appliances are 20+ years old and semi-functional (I have burners that don't work and the fridge is tempramental.), about three feet of functional counter space and there's not a goddamned thing cute about it.
Our little domestic diva does on to say, oh no, she doesn't want diamond jewelery or a fantastic trip for her 50th, not even a face-lift or "body work", no, *just* the remodel.
Lady, can I just slap you? Your sense of entitlement really ticks me off.
At this rate, I'm going to dent my desk.
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Okay, I thought. Here's a gal who's my age, with one of the very same problems I've got, a crappy, outdated kitchen.
Then I clicked on the article and got a look at the kitchen she's bitching about and began to *headdesk*. Her cabinets are at least 20 years newer than mine, she has easily twice the counter space I've got, her fridge is probably from this century and her ceramic cooktop definitely is. Oh, and she has those cute little display nooks above her cabinets.
My circa-1960 kitchen has brown mock-walnut laminate cabinets, a white countertop that was originally glitter-flecked but is now just speckled and grungy, the appliances are 20+ years old and semi-functional (I have burners that don't work and the fridge is tempramental.), about three feet of functional counter space and there's not a goddamned thing cute about it.
Our little domestic diva does on to say, oh no, she doesn't want diamond jewelery or a fantastic trip for her 50th, not even a face-lift or "body work", no, *just* the remodel.
Lady, can I just slap you? Your sense of entitlement really ticks me off.
At this rate, I'm going to dent my desk.
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Date: 2011-02-25 03:33 pm (UTC)I think you both deserve a kitchen makeover. And so do I. :)
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Date: 2011-02-25 03:58 pm (UTC)"Poor Fluffy has never cooked in a modern kitchen. In her humble kitchen, there is insuffient prep space and the courter is lowly laminate. She has never known the joy of granite countertops. Her refrigerator does not dispense ice or water. She does not even have a dishwater. But you can help! For just pennies a day, you can give Fluffy a kitchen she can be proud of!"
Cut to clip of aproned Fluffy standing in her kitchen, looking pathetic. "I just want four burners and an ice-maker that works," she quavers.
"Call now!" Tom exhorts. "Operators are standing by!"
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Date: 2011-02-25 04:04 pm (UTC)"I MUST have granite countertops" is what many of them say. For years when the kids were little, I worked with one burner and no oven! No homemade cakes or cookies for years. If I wanted to make any kind of roast , I had to do it on the grill. Half of my kitchen cabinets are new and the other half are the 70's style- ran out of money.
My house is older than I- build in 1957. Our bathrooms are still the original tile. Funky colors but I love it.
It is definitely funny to hear others complain about what you and I would love to have!!
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Date: 2011-02-25 04:29 pm (UTC)Granite? Heck, I'd be happy with any countertop that's less munged up than the one I've got. Corian---Corian would be great. Who am I kidding---newer Formica would be just fine! As my daddy used to say about cars, "They don't run on looks!"
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Date: 2011-02-25 05:32 pm (UTC)That's the other thing that cracks me up-- some of these new bathrooms are bigger than my entire living room and kitchen put together! ha ha
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Date: 2011-02-25 05:50 pm (UTC)And yeah, these bathroom suites are crazy---my ex's folks have a vast masterbath that doubles as the windowless room for a hurricane---which DOES make sense. If you're going to be stuck in a room for hours and hours, it's good to have a room with a toilet. The toilet has its own little cubical, so even if you have the whole family in there, at least you can pee in peace.
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Date: 2011-02-25 06:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-25 06:40 pm (UTC)House-warming present: A can opener. Or maybe a shoehorn.
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Date: 2011-02-25 06:47 pm (UTC)If we don't downsize to something smaller, we'll probably wind up downsizing in situ in a few years by moving our bedroom downstairs.
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Date: 2011-02-25 06:50 pm (UTC).
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Date: 2011-02-25 05:00 pm (UTC)Especially the voiceover by the mustachioed one. Or maybe Morgan Freeman, if Tom isn't available.
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Date: 2011-02-25 05:16 pm (UTC).
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Date: 2011-02-25 05:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-25 05:43 pm (UTC).
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Date: 2011-02-25 05:21 pm (UTC)I hope somebody commented to her that the above is a sit-on-your-ass problem, not a home makeover problem. *fumes*
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Date: 2011-02-25 05:54 pm (UTC).
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Date: 2011-02-25 06:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-25 06:13 pm (UTC)That space beside the fridge bothers me, too. I'd bet that the dishwasher is under the counter there.
I'd have my microwave in that nook.
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Date: 2011-02-25 06:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-25 06:47 pm (UTC)None of this has actually happened...yet. Awaiting the day, I have a salvaged length of countertop that's going to go from side to side, I want to put storage and recycle bins below it, and some pegboard above, because I'm one of those people who prefers frequently-used things at hand, not in drawers. It's rather like that space where Miss Thing has the barstool, the differrence being, I'm working with what I've got instead of whining about it. /smug superiority
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Date: 2011-02-25 06:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-25 06:22 pm (UTC)Then I'll need a fast trip to New York to find out What Not to Wear, because I've been fat forever and the new and improved me is going to be able the size I was when I was 12 and *thought* I was fat.
Finally, The Bachelor, silver fox edition, winding up with My Fair Wedding.
Yeah, I know. I'm crazy.
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Date: 2011-02-25 07:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-25 09:45 pm (UTC).
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Date: 2011-02-25 10:28 pm (UTC)I double-dog dare ya to write that crossover!
(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-25 10:33 pm (UTC)Gibbs, Sonny Crockett, Cpt. Picard, Magnum, Jesse Stone, Commissioner Reagan, (three Sellecks are better than one)
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Date: 2011-02-25 10:46 pm (UTC)My silver fox list would have to include some incarnation of Jeffrey Dean Morgan---probably Dr Edward Marcase. Ditto Sean Bean, Kurt Russell, Ciaran Hinds, Liam Neeson, Joe Mantegna, Jim Beaver---unh! I am having SUCH a hot flash!
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Date: 2011-02-25 07:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-25 09:47 pm (UTC)Hey, Mike and Frank are picking on Staten Island this week (Sundeay night)! I can hardly wait to see that!
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Date: 2011-02-25 07:39 pm (UTC)I'd be happy with one that doesn't feel like its trying to kill me. Although honestly, the whole apartment is pretty malevolent, but the kitchen has the burners and knives and other ways to commit mayhem.
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Date: 2011-02-25 09:48 pm (UTC).
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Date: 2011-02-27 06:04 pm (UTC)cavewoman chirping ...
Date: 2011-02-25 09:15 pm (UTC)Re: cavewoman chirping ...
Date: 2011-02-25 09:56 pm (UTC)* Some replumbing required.
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Date: 2011-02-26 07:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-26 04:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-26 06:10 am (UTC).
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Date: 2011-02-26 04:44 am (UTC)Like you I thought her kitchen was waaay better then mine. I'd just kill for some storage space. My pantry is a bunch of wire shelves hanging on the wall that leads down to the basement. Yep it sucks!!
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Date: 2011-02-26 06:11 am (UTC).
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Date: 2011-02-26 10:19 am (UTC)We can commiserate together about our lack of a decent kitchen
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Date: 2011-02-26 04:33 pm (UTC).
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Date: 2011-02-26 07:34 pm (UTC)