Ugh I tell ya...Why does everything break at once"!  Ya know"!  I'm not necessarily a believer in Mercury Retrograde but seriously, lately", I might change my tune.  So today, it's how to install a kitchen faucet and replace a garbage disposal.
Heh.  Yes.  Both.
First our kitchen faucet started leaking in a weird spot, up where the flexible hose met the tall stem.  And ah boy, was I oh so super sad.  I love this faucet.  It's simple, uncomplicated, modern, tall, and yeah, simple.  
Of course my first inclination was to fix it but a fix wasn't apparent so ugh, I was sadder.  Thinking back, I spent sooo long searching for a swanky yet affordable kitchen faucet, I was not excited to search anew. But.  I was hosed.  
Ah, I can still make a pun though.  
Only thing about that kitchen faucet was that it was sprayer-less.  So, setting out, I hoped to fulfill that spraying desire, wishing said sprayer would assuage my sadness.
Goodness, faucets have changed!  I sought something similar but lo, I was sadder yet to not find it.  Or, I should say, one that was similar but wasn't all plastic parts.
Pressed, because after all this is our kitchen, I presented Mike with about three or four or five options and he picked similar to this,* a sort of commercial sprayer type as surely it appealed to his restaurant days of yore.  
It arrived, I showed it to him and after a pause, he said, &...