Knobgate 2011

Ugh.  Mama said there'd be days like this...  The past week has been a blur of making plans, phone calls, waiting on quotes, and general panic about when will SOMETHING get done in the house.  We knew this would be difficult.  We just didn't know the extent. 

With the chaos surrounding us right now it is surprising that something so seemingly innocuous and small is at the heart of a great debate in this marriage (dun Dun DUN *cue the foreboding music).  What tiny little thing could this be?  Kitchen cabinet knobs of course!

In an incident that shall from now on be referred to as Knobgate, Jeff and I locked horns while attempting to choose exactly the right knobs for the exact and perfect cabinetry we spent hours choosing--and the biggest hunk of our budget spent upon.  Er...Gigantic, actually.  See, I narrowed down our choices based on my sense of what would look really nice.  It's a choice that will effect the aesthetics of our kitchen, so it requires thoughtful consideration.  However, if I had known the trouble to befall me and my better half I might have simply ordered the knobs that I liked best rather than to open the can of worms that was unleashed into our lives.

Knobgate began when I brought up the choices on the computer and rather than looking at the style and material of the knobs Jeff was only interested in which was the cheapest.  AUUUuuuuuuuuuggggh!  He's such a guy.  This started a nearly 2 hour and exhausting debate in which Jeff's voice went all hypernasal as it tends to become when he gets excited about something; excited in a negative way, mind you.  Apparently the choices were the knobs that broke the camel's back because he was adamant that the knobs I liked best weren't worth the money.  Jeff isn't a very strong camel.  Ok.  So then he went into all sorts of nerdy histrionics about budget this and budget that and there was a tornado of Looney Tune's Tazmanian Devil inaudible utterings as he unleashed all of his renovation frustrations at once.  All of this over knobs!

So I comforted him and we discussed the projects at hand and finally narrowed our choices down (throwing out the very nice crystal knobs I chose) and decided to allow the deciding vote to go to our designer, and we are still waiting for an opinion.  In the end I was swayed to his way of thinking.  In the end, are the knobs really that important?  Nah.  I wish I wasn't so particular about things, but Jeff is the most important thing in the world to me and his feelings are paramount to me.  His happiness is my priority.  It's just kind of funny that we agreed on all the big stuff and then disagreed over little knobs;-) 

We'll see what decision is made.  Stay tuned!