Occupy Wall Street March 10/05/11

I participated in the March to support the Occupy Wall Street March, the millionaires need to be taxed appropriately. I agree with Warren Buffet, he should not be paying less in taxes then his secretary. We live in the greatest country in the world, how can the "haves" completely use and abuse the "have nots" when it's the "have nots" that are their teachers, firemen, police, WE are they're customers, they're consumers, they have built their fortunes on our hard earned money. Visit We are the 99% read their stories. See if you don't agree, we are only asking that Millionaires get taxed under the same rates they did under Clinton. We need to balance the budget by increasing tax revenue and ending unnecessary wars, I agree we do need to ensure that money gets spent wisely. But giving tax breaks to the rich is decimating the middle class. And the middle class is what has built our country. Here are some photos of yesterday. Please share.

More pics of kitchen/dining room renovation

To save money we opted to do the painting ourselves, which means myself. This Martha Stewart Light Strokes paint is definitely the fanciest paint I've ever used. We needed something light to counter balance the dark cabinets, and this has some kind of metallic silvery element in it that makes it sparkle. I've been working on this and stripping the paint off the doors in the foyer which isn't fun, it's a LOT of work, but it's getting there. I enjoy painting much better.

My painting tips: Protect everything that needs it with plastic and blue painters' tape. Use a squeegee to make sure the blue painter's tape is sealed tightly to the wall. Paint in bare feet if you can, since you will know right away if you step in paint and will be less likely to track it all around the house. Use a plastic bag as a paint tray liner, this makes for easy clean-up. I learned this trick from John's old company's handyman, Izzy. Put on some good music.

What is this??

Mystery thing a ma jig, two of these came with the cabinets. NO ONE knows what it is. Not the person I bought my cabinets from or anyone in my facebook list.

I am somehow the proud owner of two of these weird plastic parts, it's got magnets all down the back and little spokes sticking out that it looks like would hold a bunch of tiny little flags. Does anyone out there know what this is?

Black Walnut Slab will be our breakfast bar

Construction snags

Cabinet drawer face will have to be replaced. Minor thing compared to moving the water lines.

A few snags in the installation of the cabinets, looks like the cold and hot water lines need to be moved over the left so that they are directly under the sink, if not the carpenters have to cut the backs of two cabinets. This requires another water shutdown and technically we are only allowed one. The building management office will get back to me to see if we are allowed another one. The trash bin provided by my cabinet maker doesn't fit in the cabinet they provided. My cabinet guy is going to do some research to try and find an alternate. He looked for this before and had a lot of trouble. Also, the one drawer face came with a big scratch, but he said that's an easy fix, that they can just provide a new drawer face.

Boo. Things were going so well too. This issues aren't too horrible, I'm sure it will work out...I just knew things were going too smoothly.

Cabinet Installation, from earlier today.The

These are the upper cabinets laid out for them to hang. I had to re-order another cabinet for above the fridge since the fridge we wanted was a little taller and wider then we originally thought.

Love the laser level that they use to make sure everything is square and straight.