The Evolution of My Kitchen

In the beginning, I had a kitchen.  It was a cute little kitchen, thought it was very dated.  See the wall behind the trash can?  On the other side of that wall there was a shower - it was like a little room.  It too, needed to be updated.


My biggest dislike about this kitchen was it had no dishwasher and a VERY outdated sink.









 I asked my landlord and good friend if he could replace the sink with a new one and add a dishwasher.  To me delight, he suggested a complete kitchen remodel.  And so in December, 2012, the adventure began!







The first task was we decided since the shower would also have to be replaced, why not reclaim that space for the kitchen?  So the shower was demolished and the walls came done and a new shower was added to the existing beautiful porcelain tub!

I wish I had taken a picture before it got to this point.

 The entrance to the shower from the bathroom side.

The view from the bathroom once the walls came down.

And again, from the kitchen.

Eventually, the bathroom was sheetrocked and the new shower in place!



Then things looked like this.  Note the old sink is still there.  

 And then, lots more demolition and I moved into what I refer to as  my "camp kitchen" mode.  I thought this would last maybe a month or so.   I was SO very wrong...

For at least 3 months, this is what my kitchen looked like.  I cooked on a Cuisinart griddle for the most part and my coffee maker resided in my living room.  In retrospect, it really sucked!!

Then, sometime around May or June, all of this happened!

And then I came home from a week away in July, expecting more to have been done.  There was.  I had NO sink.  Within 3 days, I had a temp sink...

So here we are at the brink of September.  All of the following pictures I took this morning.  I just want it to be done.  It is frustrating and disruptive to me.

There are also cabinets above the sink area.  The moral of this story is - renting an apartment from a friend has it's challenges.  Let me just say this.  The pro's of living here FAR outweigh the cons, and I am not posting this because I want to bash him in any way.  Eventually it will be the kitchen I want it to be and my home will feel settled again.  So comment all you want about the kitchen, but any negative comments will be removed. 

About me

I work for a well known Healthcare IT company and have been there going on 10 years.  For the past 3 years, my role has allowed me to start working with SQL, and I haven;t looked back,.  I eat, drink, and breathe SQL and want to learn more.  Nothing is more exciting to me than having a job where no 2 days are alike, and the learning possibilities are endless.

I have some goals for the year ahead and hope to chronicle the journey here, as well as keep myself accountable for setting goals and achieving them.

I suppose the first thing I need to do is figure out how to customize Blogger to my liking.

I just attended SQL Saturday #184 in CT this past weekend and met some really amazing people in the community.  I know they will not remember meeting me, and that is ok, but my goal over the next few years is to be on the way to becoming one of their peers and even present at some SQL Saturday events!!

I want to be a DBA.  In many ways I already am, in that the things I do day to day are things a DBA (and often a Sys Admin) would do, but I have to learn as I go.  I am good with that as it is fundamentally the way I learn.

I recently purchased the Exam 70-461 Training Kit Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and have set a goal to take the exam  by 8/1/13.  There are 3 exams total for SQL Server 2012 and I plan to have taken (and passed) all by 3/1/14. 

At the age of 52 (!) it is really exciting to me to still be learning new things, to have every day be not like any other, and to feel like my life has so much further to go!!