We made it out of the store!

We did actually make it out of the store. We got everything home and my husband proceeded to ready the countertops to install. He made the appropriate cuts and we began to fit them on top of the counters. It's the darndest thing... I never knew how it all worked. I guess I thought a cabinet and countertop unit came premade as one unit and you had to make it work in the space. As he was fitting them to the cabinet tops I was fascinated. All he had to do was line them up and screw them down. It looked so easy.

The long piece you see above was ever so slightly bowed. It wasn't bowed enough to be visible but it was enough for my husband to see it needed to be weighted down to secure. "Hop up there," he said, "I need you to sit on that spot to push it down."

"Uh... Ok," I hopped up on the counter in the middle.

"Hug your legs to your chest," he says, "We need all your weight concentrated in that one spot." So there I was, sitting on my new kitchen countertop, covered in sawdust, curled up in as tiny a ball as I could muster, trying to push this six foot of 1.5" countertop down a few millimeters.

My husband was crouched down below me, screw gun in hand, and readied to send the long screws through the cabinet wall up into the countertop. Suddenly, I hear, "I hope these aren't too long and they screw into your butt..." And the loud WHIRRRRR of the screw gun.

It was too late to jump off. I just hugged my legs tighter and hoped for the best.

Spoiler alert: They weren't too long. I hopped down unscathed.

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Y'all ever cut wood with a saw? You ever see sawdust? It is clean, that's true. It gets EVERYWHERE. I work in a clean room. I was on duty the next day. I had to get all the sawdust off before I walked in there. No one wants sawdust in their IV medication that is flowing into their vein. My husband took us out on the deck, picked up the leaf blower, and blew us both off. I thought that was so smart. Of course, then I went and took a shower.

I know, I know, the sink still isn't installed. That comes soon, I promise. For right now I am going to leave you with the happy thought that I didn't get stabbed with constructions screws in my rear.

I never knew leaf blowers were so handy! If you need one, this one has pretty good reviews.

Be well y'all.