Building a table

So these are some of the things I do all day while I'm home alone when Kyle has to work. I usually go down to the corner cafe then go over to the markets and get what I need for dinner that night or any other random things we seem to need. If its not raining I'll go walk around the neighborhood and get lost and find my way back. This all needs to be done before 1 or 2 because thats nap time over here for everyone. All the shops close up for a few hours and go have huge lunches then sleep till its time to open up again for the evening. So today I built a table during those hours! Kyle bought this table from the NEX (the Navy Exchange on base) because the table he had barely fit the two of us, let alone a crowd if he ever had one. Plus his kitchen is big enough and he had gift cards so might as well! They delivered it around 9am and just put it in the kitchen then left. So it was up to us to build it. Well that was a bigger task than I expected when I started opening up the box. 

This was the only piece that was broken luckily.  Super glue and its fixed! The table was simple enough to put together. All I needed to do was screw the 4 leg posts into the corners and the table came with an allen wrench so I didn't need to go out and buy one of those. Seriously, I don't know how easy I have it with our garage full of two of everything until I need to build something in a foreign country. So Kyle doesn't own a drill, which was fine for the table. He has a screw driver, thankfully, so I could fix this piece.

But once it came to the chairs, we needed a drill. I sent him a message while he was at work telling him to buy a drill, and Advil. This was going to be a headache. The chairs came unassembled of course. There were the backs, the pads and then 2 legs with 3 supports, all that needed to be screwed together with an allen wrench. My hands were so red and raw by the time I finished the third chair I got half way on the fourth one and gave up. I was even using a rubber glove near the end so it was easier on my hands, there were just so many that I had to do it was killing me. 

Kyle came home and found me on the balcony with sore hands wrapped around my coffee mug. He bought a drill so he plugged that in to charge and I walked him through finishing the last chair. Once they were all finished, he had to screw the supports in place, that was the reason for the drill. 

So Ta-Da! Pay no attention to the pile of boxes in the corner or the dirty dishes in the sink, this project took a lot longer than I expected so I didn't get around to those. Its a really pretty table and fits perfectly in his kitchen! The chairs are super comfortable too and its the same hight as the counters so I can use the table as an extra workspace when I need which is soooo nice. The little table he had didn't cut it for me because its really short so I did a lot of bending when I used that one which got painful.

 Also, Kyle bought these when we were in Capri. This is outside the front door, that is his doorbell and alarm key slot. Theres a key fob that I have on my keychain that you stick in that slot and push it to the left to disarm and to the right to arm. Green light means go. Red is no.

♥ Mae