The Bent Spoon and Other Goodies...

Today the Husband had off for Yom Kippur! We spent a nice family day with Miss B., as usual, though, Kitchen remodel events did find their way in to our day... we went to our local Stonemark/Innovative Stone granite yard to view our "slab" (make that 2 slabs) for the kitchen. We had chosen "Arctic Moon" which has a really neat look to it, however, it has apparently been discontinued because of some sort of "supply" problem. (Leave it to us to find the blood diamond of granites... the damn stuff comes from Brazil so I don't really understand, but whatever...) anyway they have two slabs earmarked for us but when we went to check them out they had a *lot* of pitting/chips. So, we're going back tomorrow and they're going to pull other slabs for us to view (specifically, in "Majestic Sand" and "Champagne Pearl". They have all kinds of great names like "Casino Royale" and "Gold of Troy" They all kind of sound like B movie titles.

Then we hit up Best Buy and got a great deal on a Sony flat panel LCD TV. This was made even better when, as we're leaving the store we realize there doesn't appear to be a remote control in the packaging. How is this solved? First the Best Buy guy claimed that "not all the tv's come with a remote" (okay, do we look that stupid?) then, the Husband is told by Best Buy's finest that "Andrew's got a box of remotes in the back". The guy claims, as long as it's the same brand and "as long as it says "TV" on it, it'll work". Hopefully this is true.

Finally, our night ended with a visit to our favorite local ice cream place, The Bent Spoon! Husband got a malted with dark chocolate ice cream and butter-walnut ice cream. I got a scoop of milk chocolate ice cream and a scoop of peanut butter. There was lots of sharing involved-- mostly with Miss B. Yum!