Grandpa helps out

My stepdad, Fred, flew to NYC from his home in California to help us with some house projects before Tiny comes. We had to do some projects big and small, like adding knobs to all of our cabinets (right now we just open the cabinets using the bottoms of the cabinet doors), cutting the legs off of our kitchen stools because they are too high, installing a dimmer on our living room light fixture, attaching our cable cord flush to the wall, and replacing the faucet in our tenant's apartment. All of these things have been DONE! Or are in progress. Ingrid's family owns a lumberyard, so we have quite a set of tools for a lesbian couple. We have a sanding machine, a jig saw, a power drill with an entire suitcase of attachments, a very heavy tool box, three hammers, and some other crazy stuff. Fred was like a kid at the Lego store when he saw the sanding machine. He was like, "You have a sanding machine?" His eyes lit up. Guys are weird. But we got it done! And today Ing and I went to Home Depot before work to buy the faucet. Easy! Fingers crossed that Fred can install it without any problems.

Tonight seeing The Color Purple on Broadway. Sunday we saw The Guttenberg Musical off-off-Broadway with Ing's mom and Fred. It was really cute and funny. And affordable! And across from Sushi Samba in the West Village. Go!