Dude, what you should do...seriously...is install it while she's sleeping tomorrow night. She gets up for Christmas and *BAM*, new faucet.
I second this, last xmas I got my wife a new coffee machine {Bunn MCA}, I had to get her a commercial coffee maker since she was sick of having to pour water in it, so I had to run another cold line up from the basement {gotta love wirsbo pex} to feed it, so I had it all done and plugged in to make her Xmas morning coffee...
Although installing a faucet is one of the things I hate to do with all my heart, I think for xmas I would have one of my guys come up and install it after she went to bed, of course I would do it myself but I don't fit under the sink, and if I tried to we would end up needing a new sink, counter, cabinet and window over the sink....
I really like Kingston Brass faucets, they are one of the last good faucet makers around, most of the big names have sacrificed quality for quanity, delta, mohen, ect they now sell two different grades that look identical, one for the big box stores and one for the supply houses {in some models}... A good two handle faucet with ceramic discs and real brass cartridges is what you want to last you forever, since changing them isn't easy... Although Adam seems to love doing it..
I have techs in your area Adam, just a phone call away to get that baby thrown in by a licensed master mechanical technician, lol.... Holiday rate that started 2 and a half hours ago is only $185 an hour within 10 miles of Hopkins and 95 with a 1 hour minimum and fuel surcharge for anything over 10 miles. 2 techs have gone out twice already and its warm out, I would wait until the 26th before I paid $200 an hour, but no one knows how to put on a sweater, heat up water on the stove, and plug in an electric heater anymore... 1 hour service call costs as much as 55 gallons of oil...
