The past few days have been an exercise in what could go wrong, will go wrong. And even those things that don't go wrong will be fraught with obstacles so as to eat up most of your time. Make you rip the hair from your head. And cause you to drink straight out of the wine bottle.

Okay, maybe I only fantasized about the last one because WHO KNOWS where the bottle opener is in this kitchenless house. Let me detail the problems for you, so you can share some of my pain:

1) Cabinets on one wall did not fit in the space. How that could possibly have happened, I have no idea. In the end we were able to take one cabinet out of the run and have them fit. But I am not thrilled with the layout now. Not much I can really do about it though since I can not magically make my wall longer. But this lead to another problem...

2) Sink cabinet is off centered to the window. Not completely off where someone might think it was done that way on purpose, no off just enough that it is obviously a mistake. That lead to:

3) Moving the window over six inches. Which meant:

4) The light outside the window that was centered in between the window and the backdoor had to be moved over. And then:

5) The outside siding had to be redone. And of course:

6) The interior wall had to be resheetrocked. And also:

7) The light over the sink had to be moved and centered. And the kicker to the entire thing:

8) When we went to put the sink into the cabinet, it was too big. Even though we ordered the cabinets and sink from the same place. We had to return it and scramble around for a new sink to fit the space. We found one that cost over twice as much as the original and as an added bonus was a royal pain in the butt to install. Those were only the issues we faced on that one wall of the kitchen.

I took the photo above of my husband cutting out the new hole for the sink and he gave me "the look" right after. The look that says "take my photo again and I might strangle you with the camera strap." I reminded him that one day we would look back on it and it would be funny. That day isn't today. I'll let you know when it happens.

The Devil Queen has a comic he drew that made me laugh outloud. I know people on the internet say all the time that they are laughing out loud, even rolling on the ground while doing so, but honestly how often is that really true. This made me laugh because I work from home and my husband is always asking me why I can't just paint up a room since I am home.

Adventures on Willow shows photos of their almost finished kitchen. More finished than my kitchen, so I am a little bit jealous. Cooking on a camp stove has gotten really old. I don't even like camping.

The Healy House is working on their front porch. Jacking it up and dealing with wood rot. Guess what project is up next at our house?

When she isn't blogging about her life at Notes from the Trenches, Chris is busy trying to rescue her house from a century of neglect and bad taste. The house might be winning. She can also be found blogging about DIY issues and design at DIY This N'That.