I haven’t got much to share today, sadly. Yesterady wasn’t an exciting day. Of course, some of it was feeling really tired from poor sleeping the night before. The rest of it was just a quiet day.<\/p>\n
I did not end up getting the paint for the nursery yesterday. The guy there was a bit frazzled for some reason, so he was having problems communicating well with customers. The people in front of me were downright confused before they left to call someone to clarify exactly what they needed. And he stressed me out by the manner in which he told me that he needed a dry paint sample, that he couldn’t use wet paint (and it couldn’t just dry for 15 minutes). So I took the paint stirrer and went home again. I have two dry samples this morning, so the shade of yellow should be as close as it’s going to get. And I guess I will try again today.<\/p>\n
EDIT: Here’s the paint situation.<\/span> The room intended to be the nursery is yellow with the alphabet stenciled around the top of the wall. Unfortunately, as it was a little girl’s room originally, the color choices for the alphabet are distinctly girly (lavender, coral, sage green). I would never choose these colors (except maybe the green), and they are very difficut to match to gender-neutral baby stuff. So the yellow will stay, and the alphabet will go. They did leave us a small amount of the exact paint color (called ‘daffodil’ when it was originally used 7 or so years ago), but she didn’t leave any info about where they bought it or what brand of paint it was. And it will not even begin to cover the stencils (every room we’ve repainted has required 3-4 coats to cover her color choices). So we have to get more paint in a very close shade of yellow so that we can paint 2-3 layers to cover the stencils and a touch-up coat on the rest of the walls. END EDIT<\/span><\/p>\n Of course, coming home paint-less meant my afternoon, which was going to involve some work in the nursery, was now very, very open. So I cleaned up the piles of stuff around the house and put lots of things away (like folded laundry). I even made our bed. Then I sat down and read for a while. <\/p>\n Eric grilled steak for dinner, so we enjoyed that. He spent the evening “hacking” a friend’s computer (with permission), and they were quite entertaining to watch harass each other online. I tried to find something to watch on television (no luck) and ended up reading some more until Karen called. We chatted for about half an hour. <\/p>\n Today’s agenda is pretty open, too. Not sure what the day will hold at this point, but I think the sun is just starting to peek out from the clouds. It’s supposed to be a bit cooler today, so that should be nice! Happy Wednesday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I haven’t got much to share today, sadly. Yesterady wasn’t an exciting day. Of course, some of it was feeling really tired from poor sleeping the night before. The rest of it was just a quiet day. I did not … Continue reading