New Beginnings: Day Three

No, still no pictures. Instead, I will share a funny story (at least I think it is funny) that is just so Nanci, you will have no choice but to laugh. Just know that I was originally going to leave this post at two simple words: painting sucks.

I was so excited to be painting my own home the wonderful colors that I meticulously picked out at Home Depot over the weekend, I refused to listen to my husband when he told me that painting was hard, tedious and time consuming. Bah! Grab a roller, slap some paint on the walls and away you go. I can have the whole damn house painted in three days. I am a painting dynamo!

Yes, you're already laughing, but that's not the funny part. Here's the funny part:

After four hours of hard, tedious and time consuming painting, we realize that we are most likely going to need more paint in order to properly complete the second coat on the kitchen. No problem, I say. I'll just run to Home Depot tomorrow and get a quart or two of Mystical Seas.

This isn't Mystical Seas, Tim says, reading the top of the paint can we have been using to paint the kitchen for the past four hours. This is Lion, he says. And I freeze. I freeze right there in my Lion colored kitchen, carrying on an internal debate as to whether or not I should admit what I have done. The debate is ended when I can't contain my laughter at my own stupidity. What's so funny? Tim asks. So I tell him.

We just spent four hours painting the kitchen the color that was intended for the bathroom.

Needless to say he wasn't all that amused. Luckily he got over it pretty quickly and we have spent the past two hours spontaneously laughing out loud at our ridiculously ugly kitchen. (In my defense, the paint color is actually quite nice. But in painting it a nice color, we realized that the non-wall parts of the kitchen are so hideously mis-matched, there's really nothing we could have done to make it any better. Or worse, for that matter.)

So we march on toward Day Four, hoping I don't screw up tomorrow as badly as I did today. And if I do, at least we can laugh about it.