Chili, Chilly and tile

I can hardly believe it.....our temperature is going to 48 in the evenings here starting tonight! Can I hear a rousing hallelujah! For those of you who have already seen those temps you can at least be happy for us here in north Fla.
The husband just laughs because he knows the very 1st thing going on the stove this weekend will be my famous Chili! Simmering all damn day! Hmmmmm I can almost taste it! Daughter hates it and everyone else asks for the recipe. Daughter says they are trying to improve it. LOL You can only do your best raising them right?

The husband & I are tiling the kitchen counter tops, its my 50th birthday present. I currently have the lovely and everlasting 1988 Formica. Scratched and stained every where. I have scrubbed and polished it over and over trying to clean it.
Its U-G-L-Y.
I have looked for months for exactly what I wanted. I knew what color, what style everything. I was on the Internet researching and shopping. Nothing! Totally frustrated. Then one Saturday I finally found it at the last place I thought to look. If it hadn't been for daughter calling & wanting me to pick up g-daughter #1 "because shes on your side of town" I would never have found my tile.

To keep within the budget we are installing ourselves, not hard and we have done this before. Originally we were quoted $5.50 a sq.ft for Lavastone which is almost like a mexican in thickness, but has the deep rich color of a mosaic, perfect for counter tops. YEH!!!! Totally in my budget with some left over! Whooowee! While we are getting quantity etc. figured out the "screw you" rock rolls out and the sales rep says "I am so sorry the previous price I gave you was for a 4x4 square, each, the actual price is......$30.00 a sq. ft.! OMG!!!! Holy Shit!!! Now to some that wouldn't be too bad but me? Oh hell, after I gave banker hubs mouth to mouth to resuscitate I told the rep I would let him know, I HAD to think! He apologized again BUT he could lower the price to $20.00 because of the error. We went home.

I was in a crap-ass mood all weekend because I had what I wanted, I was misquoted and frankly I was just PO'd about the whole thing. Dammit! Never fails when we think everything is going along great on a home project in rolls the "screw you" rock. Husband felt terrible, we talked, fudgetted, re-measured in case we had too much, you know all the things to try and figure out how to work around the "screw you" rock. Well, the husband surprised me Wednesday when I left work he called "Order your tile I figured out how we can pay for it and not kill our budget". Good 'ol banker husband...I sure hope he likes the tile when he gets out of jail!!!! LOL*

*Only kidding on the jail thing....we did figure it out and the tile is being delivered next week.

P.S.
If you have a chance to read Sh1ts and Giggles it's a good read today and a heart warming post.