Kitchen Renovation - Part 2/10

This update is about the ongoing saga of choosing the right granite for our kitchen. If you want nice granite for your renovation, be prepared to get pushy (and wear proper footwear at all times)! We were looking at granite in a couple of different places, including our cabinet store, another renovation place across the street, several tile and granite stores, and a wholesale distributor called "Terico". Terico has the cheapest prices by far, but they also carry very nice and unique granite. You just have to be lucky enough to get the good stuff while it lasts, and don't expect any hand-holding from the staff there. There all a bunch of grumpy dudes (including the woman running the joint). I think it might have something to do with the fact that they open at 5:45am every morning. Yup, 5:45am! I'm usually in the middle of my last or hopefully second to last REM cycle at that hour... I'm sure there's a medical link between jerk personalities and lack of REM sleep... accentuated by inhaling granite dust all day.
Anyway, Terico had 2 slabs of a really nice granite called "Shalimar Gold". It was the nicest one I saw out of everything we had seen so far, so I was pretty set on getting it for our kitchen. However, the granite gods were having fun at our expense because although the slabs were 1 foot longer than the typical length (typical 8 feet), we were short by exactly 1 foot of granite. I tried a bunch of other granite yards near Terico, and throughout the South Bay but very few people carry that particular type. It turned out that Terico did have another piece in stock, which was on hold for someone else, but yada yada yada we ended up getting that piece too. YAY! How has my life done such a 180 that getting 3 pieces of matching granite makes my day?