So my house doesn’t have a dishwasher. Been living here for a little over 7 months and it is torture to do dishes by hand. Luckily my fiance lives with me, and does most of the dirty work. Well, to ease her pain, I finally got around to getting a dishwasher installed in the house!

A week ago, Friday, I hit up Home Depot for some materials. Her uncle came by on Saturday and helped me to remove a cabinet next to my sink, install a dishwasher and build a side panel to cover the exposed side of the dishwasher. We ran into some snags with the electrical but it all turned out ok and got it done before dinner time.

The next day I hit up Home Depot again after I decided on a plan for the cabinet that we removed. I was going to turn it into a rolling island!. Got our stuff and she helped me with the project. We added a back to the cabinet, a top, and casters to the bottom. A little caulk, spackle, and some sanding to cover up all the seems and we were done for the evening.

Fast forward to this past weekend. We spent Friday night putting on the base coat (primer) on the new side panel and on the rolling island as well as a first coat of paint. On Saturday we did our second coat of paint and added a little peel and stick cabinet liner to the top of the island. And the project was complete!

In the future we want to get a nice large butcher block to attach to the island, but seeing as they cost a lot, we are going to wait for a little while before we do it.

Below I have a picture of what the kitchen looked like when I first moved in and what it looks like today.

I was looking through my phone at some pictures that I have taken in the past. I found a good one of my cat doing what he does best, laying down and sleeping, lol. He always manages to sleep in some real awkward positions. I have no idea how it can be comfortable. He’s normally much worse than in this picture.

Thought I would take a shot of my desk here at work.  Looks pretty messy from the picture, but that’s what happens when you’re busy trying to get work done .

Today they finally completed the project they started this week for giving us techs more light by adding some florescent lighting directly above every bench.  Otherwise it was extremely dark in here and hard to see when trying to soldering tiny electronic parts. We all had some other type of temporary desk lighting of some kind to cope with the darkness of this building they put us in. We been in this building since october last year, and it’s half as bright as the old building. I’d have to say, it’s a big difference.

So last year I went on a Caribbean cruise with friends and family.  One of our pit stops included the country of Belize. Here are two of my favorite photos that I took from there that I thought I would share.

This first one below is a shot as we were leaving Belize City and heading back to the cruise ship.  The water there is beautiful and also very shallow for a long distance.  The cruise ship has to dock in the water and we took smaller transport boats to get us to and back from Belize.

This next shot was while we were on our way to do some cave tubing (which was a lot of fun).  I snapped this shot while walking toward the area where the this cave tubing camp area was.  It was located in the middle of the jungle.  The scenary was fantastic while we were walking and while in the tubes underground.  I wish I had brought a waterproof camera with me.