let the swearing begin
It's here. It got delivered last night.
This is what it's supposed to look like when it's finished:
Minus all the strange children, unless of course they're included in the cost, in which case we'll put them to work helping us build it. And then they can fold some clothes or something.
It is my sincerest and fondest wish that somebody else puts this thing together. I've already recruited Charles; now I'm working on enlisting my dad to assist him. I've asked my mom to notify me the minute she discerns that he's in a halfway decent mood, so I can jump in and beg for his favor. I told her, I don't care what time of day or night it is - as soon as you see him smile, you call me. Immediately.
As if we weren't punishing ourselves enough, we have also taken on the task of painting our downstairs. Drew is visiting with Nana and Papa, so we have exactly one week to paint approximately 1000 square feet of wall space. Yay! Oh and did I mention that we're not taking any time off work, so we're doing this all in the evenings? Double yay!
Sunday night we taped and trimmed two rooms - the dining room and Drew's playroom. Last night, I went to Lowe's and bought the paint (only $200 - vs. the $1,200 that the professional painter wanted to charge us. Now if we can avoid killing each other, Charles and I will have struck quite a bargain!) and painted primer in the dining room.
The primer is a dark grey; we're using it because we're painting those two rooms a dark red over white, so the Lowe's guy told me to use primer to cut down on the number of coats of paint we have to use. Or something like that. I don't know. What I do know is that this morning our dining room looks like the inside of a submarine.
"We can just leave it like this and call it our Yorktown room," said Charles.
Tonight my plan is for me to paint primer in the playroom while Charles puts the topcoat on the dining room, and then we'll begin the massive task of taping and trimming the hallways and the living room. Fortunately, we're painting those areas a pale yellow, so we don't need a primer.
If we get this all done by Sunday, with no fatalities, it will be a sure sign that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
LMAO! Your Yorktown room? I can so hear Jeff saying something similar! I hope the painting is coming along!
Posted by: Kelly | Thursday, March 22, 2007 at 08:31 PM