My Top Chef Moment (+ B&A)

It's the small things, I tell you. If it's a small thing to troll around Home Depot for an hour, craning your neck to pick out a ceiling fan, then bribing a good friend to come over and spend two hours putting it up while you create an Italian meal completely from scratch. Then, yeah.

For your viewing pleasure, I present to you our new dining room ceiling fan!

Before

After

Things I like about it: (1) It looks less fake-woody and more modern, (2) I like the patterns of light it casts (around the room versus straight down), (3) I think the dark color blends with both the painted wall and the picture.

I was having a Top Chef moment while the guys were installing it. We made homemade spaghetti noodles, home made meatballs, and sauce from scratch. The sauce had been simmering for hours and was ready to go, but I had to try to time the pasta and meatballs around their progress with the ceiling fan, and our stomachs finally decided that they needed to pause mid-way through. I was flitting around the kitchen, barking orders to G, and really empathizing with the contestants on Top Chef who have to do this every single challenge. I would have a nervous breakdown.

But all's well that ends well! I don't have a single picture of the pasta, which was amazing, so let's take a look at the construction process.

We ate by mood lighting.

Chef Campo is the real deal. He rolled in with this Home Depot bucket, complete with a TOOL APRON on it. Who has that? Like, no one!

Let's do this.

Pass us more beer, pronto.

That's when things got a little cray cray.

Ta da!

Look at that light pattern! It's like eating in a refined disco joint.

And that's it, peeps. I have more tutoring than usual today, and must hit the road in just a few minutes. This is wrong on every level I can think of, but if we want to continue with the house projects, we're gonna need, like, money, so...