Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Ryan's Onboard
OMG!!! Just filling out my blog and noticed a new blogger joined my followers and started one for herself. I advise all family members to follow this one closely. Catch Me If You Can. Not only is the writing excellent, it will be great fun, for me anyway, to live vicariously through a college student in today's world. Love you, Ryan.
WHOOPS!
.....so there we are driving home in that uncontrollable laughter that you only share with sisters or best friends. The kind that once one of you has it slightly under control, all you have to do is look at each other and it starts up again.
Of course this whole while I really do have to pee.
When we arrive back to 107, Johns car is parked on the street, so I decide to get as close as I possibly can, just a little tap, all the while Kris is saying,"No, don't". I stop at 1/32 inch away. Kris gets out and opens the back door to my Element and the paint can had shifted during our hysterical ride home, and Yep, you guessed it.... out the can falls, the top pops off and we loose about 2/3rds of the paint on the street, did I mention we are on a hill. I can only gather that Jackie was punishing Kris for the moniker she had given her room.
I am no good after that. I am bent over, legs crossed and squeezed together as hard as they can possibly be, laughing until tears are falling down my face. Kris is staring in disbelief, shoulders slumped, saying "Stop it. You wouldn't be laughing so hard if you did it". I was laughing too hard to say, "Yeah, but I didn't".
Now it's not like Brian doesn't have his hand full with the garage, when I try to tell him "we (well not we) spilled the paint. Brian runs down the driveway and throws a towels on it. I ran inside to get the camera, because this needed to be documented. Notice in the 2nd photo Brian is smiling, so I can only surmise that he is happy to be out of the garage and working on this new project. He always did love dabbling with paint.
Of course this whole while I really do have to pee.
When we arrive back to 107, Johns car is parked on the street, so I decide to get as close as I possibly can, just a little tap, all the while Kris is saying,"No, don't". I stop at 1/32 inch away. Kris gets out and opens the back door to my Element and the paint can had shifted during our hysterical ride home, and Yep, you guessed it.... out the can falls, the top pops off and we loose about 2/3rds of the paint on the street, did I mention we are on a hill. I can only gather that Jackie was punishing Kris for the moniker she had given her room.
I am no good after that. I am bent over, legs crossed and squeezed together as hard as they can possibly be, laughing until tears are falling down my face. Kris is staring in disbelief, shoulders slumped, saying "Stop it. You wouldn't be laughing so hard if you did it". I was laughing too hard to say, "Yeah, but I didn't".
Now it's not like Brian doesn't have his hand full with the garage, when I try to tell him "we (well not we) spilled the paint. Brian runs down the driveway and throws a towels on it. I ran inside to get the camera, because this needed to be documented. Notice in the 2nd photo Brian is smiling, so I can only surmise that he is happy to be out of the garage and working on this new project. He always did love dabbling with paint.
Is that Brian's crack showing? hahahahahahahahhahahahahhahahahaha.
We did have enough paint to finish, Brian would not allow Donna to come outside, and as I drove away there was a mound of compost on the "Room of Death" blotch-o-paint. I can't hardly wait until next weekend.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
The Best Is Yet To Come
During the entire "Operation Yuck" process I asked Donna to take some photos because lets face it, it's more fun to read with photos. What happens when we get back from Home Depot really has to be seen to be believed. As soon as Donna sends me the photos I will finished this day of the "Room of Death". A small clue... remember who called it the "Room of Death".
Monday, March 22, 2010
Never Laughed So Hard.
...Okay, we are heading to Home Depot and I am trying to stay positive. I do the polite thing, and ask if anyone needs anything while we're out, now I'm thinking something to eat, maybe a sandwich or salad. Well...Brian, God Bless him, needs something for the screen door he is working on, spline. Kris and I are both thinking,"What the hell is spline?", at least we had enough sense to ask him "How much?" When going to HomeDepot for paint, I'm fine, I know where, what color, how much and type (we opted to get eggshell with NO primer). Spline is a different story. Kris went one way, I went another. 20 minutes later we catch up to each other and find it, only to discover it comes in a variety of widths. Kris just slumped her shoulders and said, "Why isn't anything easy anymore". I just started laughing, it wasn't regular laughting, it was Home Depot on a Sunday laughing. Kris knew she only had a limited amount of time to get me out of there. (Oh yeah! we got one in each width).
We decided to get something from BurgerKing. Kris directed me to the drive thru like my Garmin, it wouldn't have been so bad, but it was in the same shopping center. As we sat at the menu board, Kris let me know, in her most gentle voice, the she thought we had to move up to order. Well that got the laughter going again. Then as I was gobbling my red meat and starting to feel normal again, I just looked around at the blue sky and the daffodills and said "Isn't is nice out, it's good to be alive", and Kris said, "Yeah and we're spending the day in the room of death". I almost wet my pants.
We decided to get something from BurgerKing. Kris directed me to the drive thru like my Garmin, it wouldn't have been so bad, but it was in the same shopping center. As we sat at the menu board, Kris let me know, in her most gentle voice, the she thought we had to move up to order. Well that got the laughter going again. Then as I was gobbling my red meat and starting to feel normal again, I just looked around at the blue sky and the daffodills and said "Isn't is nice out, it's good to be alive", and Kris said, "Yeah and we're spending the day in the room of death". I almost wet my pants.
...And The Fun Keeps On Coming
Kris and I have decided to meet at mom's to start the painting. I have the paint and it's a beautiful day, what could possibly go wrong. I went to Home Depot on Thursday, so I would not have to compete with every guy in Anne Arundel County getting things for their honey do list. Home Depot on the weekends is my worst nightmare, it's no picnic during the week either, I think I'd rather poke my eye with a needle.
Kris is there when I arrive, so we get started. The room is only 13 x 13, we'll be out of here in time for a matinee. To avoid having to prime the walls, I got a gallon of Moonlight White with primer and the paint mixed together. I thought,"Great, what a time saver this is going to be". It became pretty apparent after putting on the first coat it was going to need two. SHIT!!
"Oh well we'll go to a later movie". I don't know how much you know about paint, but primer is not as easy to put on as regular paint. Well when you combine the 2, you might as well be applying Elmer's Glue. It was heavy, it would not spread evenly or smoothly, basically it was a smearfest. We are on our last wall and now it's becoming very clear, we are going to have to get another gallon. SHIT!!!SHIT!!! Home Depot on a Sunday, here we come...SHIT!!SHIT!!SHIT!!
Kris is there when I arrive, so we get started. The room is only 13 x 13, we'll be out of here in time for a matinee. To avoid having to prime the walls, I got a gallon of Moonlight White with primer and the paint mixed together. I thought,"Great, what a time saver this is going to be". It became pretty apparent after putting on the first coat it was going to need two. SHIT!!
"Oh well we'll go to a later movie". I don't know how much you know about paint, but primer is not as easy to put on as regular paint. Well when you combine the 2, you might as well be applying Elmer's Glue. It was heavy, it would not spread evenly or smoothly, basically it was a smearfest. We are on our last wall and now it's becoming very clear, we are going to have to get another gallon. SHIT!!!SHIT!!! Home Depot on a Sunday, here we come...SHIT!!SHIT!!SHIT!!
The Fun Begins
I know there are a million things I need to catch you up on like Tucson, Terry, my quilting, training for a half ironman that I signed up for when it was really slow at the shop, but I've got to tell this little ditty before I forget any details.
A few things need to be done at mom's house to get it ready for the market, so Kris and I decide to tackle Mom's room, and I do not use the word tackle lightly.
Kris and I were going to meet on Saturday after I got off work to start on "Operation Yuck". Fortunately for me, Kris had to go over earlier because she was taking Kevin's mom to "Godspell". I say fortunately, because before any painting could be done, the walls had to be washed down to remove the nicotine that had altered the pale pink walls to beige, and guess who got there first.
Now when I used to wash down walls, I used a bucket of hot water and 409.
Welcome to 2010, Donna has this little steamer called the "Shark", that when filled with water and put next to the wall, it pretty much strips all the nicotine from the paint. It also made it drip down the walls in such a manner that it could have been used for a scene in "Amnityville Horror". Thank Baby Jesus that the walls weren't red. Now as Donna is creating the next set for Nightmare on Elm Street with "The Shark", Kris is wiping down all the walls with a bucket of water and Pine-Sol, and all I can think is, "man, am I glad Kris had to take Jean to that play, or that would have been me". Instead I taped the trim and had a lovely conversation with Donna. I was done in 20 minutes and that was only because I took a 5 minute break for water. This isn't bad at all.....
A few things need to be done at mom's house to get it ready for the market, so Kris and I decide to tackle Mom's room, and I do not use the word tackle lightly.
Kris and I were going to meet on Saturday after I got off work to start on "Operation Yuck". Fortunately for me, Kris had to go over earlier because she was taking Kevin's mom to "Godspell". I say fortunately, because before any painting could be done, the walls had to be washed down to remove the nicotine that had altered the pale pink walls to beige, and guess who got there first.
Now when I used to wash down walls, I used a bucket of hot water and 409.
Welcome to 2010, Donna has this little steamer called the "Shark", that when filled with water and put next to the wall, it pretty much strips all the nicotine from the paint. It also made it drip down the walls in such a manner that it could have been used for a scene in "Amnityville Horror". Thank Baby Jesus that the walls weren't red. Now as Donna is creating the next set for Nightmare on Elm Street with "The Shark", Kris is wiping down all the walls with a bucket of water and Pine-Sol, and all I can think is, "man, am I glad Kris had to take Jean to that play, or that would have been me". Instead I taped the trim and had a lovely conversation with Donna. I was done in 20 minutes and that was only because I took a 5 minute break for water. This isn't bad at all.....
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