Great Gagily Gooks!

Whew, what a weekend!

Busy, busy but soon I will take a break!

It all started out on Friday. I bought my supplies Friday afternoon at lunch time and Friday night when I came home from work, the painting of my bedroom began. Ugh Ugh Ugh! haha

First off, the paint very very watery (Never buy Glidden paint!) so it took me *3* hours just to paint my room!
While painting, I was kneeling painting toward the bottom of the wall behind the big screen tv. When I stood up, the corner of the TV dug into my back and ripped at my flesh, cauing a tear about 6-9 inches in my skin. Bleeding and screaming in agony, I stood up and lost my balance. I fell into the hydrogen lamp which fell over on the floor causing the glass bowl on top to shatter all over.

I slit my thumb on the wall scraper. It felt like a big papercut on my thumb, no even worse, a cardboard cut! Then a blister the size of a pee appeared over the split area rendering my thumb useless!

Ouchie!

haha

Saturday, I woke up and expected to hear birds singing while I stetched and looked at my beautiful new green walls. Well, there were no birds and the paint looked like shit. Not only was it blotchy and would require a second or third coat, but the color was this old person antique puke green. Immediately I got pissy and said that if I have to go to Homo Depot and buy more paint and paint the room AGAIN, I'm going to do it in a color that wasn't so revolting!

So, I picked a nice light olive color that looks great! I really love it! (Back to using Behr paint). I then started to redo my switches and outlets before Morticia came over. (My goal was to have it all done before he came over so we can hang out and do something fun for a change!) I re-wired and put on my new light switch. Boom! it worked! I redid the telephone jack! Boom, it worked! I re-did 3 outlets! Boom, they worked! I thought "Yes! I did learn something!"

Morticia came over and then it went all wrong. We were down to our last two and we couldn't get them to work. Realizing they must be connected, we still couldn't figure out the problem. Finally after 4 hours at 7pm I gave up and called a electrician. It was after hours on a weekend so they said the charge to come out would be 150 bucks. I grumbled, but with wires hanging out of my wall, there was little else I could do but accept their offer.

Well, this smelly blue collar man comes in my place, I explain the situation and he says "Before I start any work I have to write you out a quote". a few minutes later he hands me an estimate for 500 bucks! I was so mad I promptly kicked him and his horrible B.O. smell out of my place and called Mike (My old boss and friend). Since he is a manly man and owned his own house with his wife and kids, I knew he had to know what was going on! Sure enough he did! He helped me correct the problem over the phone (The outlet connected to the light switch had a crossed wire) and at 10:30 at night all was well. Whew

Morticia and I got some food and watched Sorpranos from the week before then I just fell asleep. I slept 11 hours.

Sunday, I decided I wasn't going to do anything paint related. Morticia came over and we spend the day searching for hotels for our trip. We got them all booked except for Amsterdam. We will do that this week.

So, here it is Tueday. I am going to Homo Depot at lunch to but a gallon of Ultra Pure White Semi-Gloss for the doors and trim in my bedroom and finiching the room up tonight. It looks so good so far.