Monday, April 7, 2008

Almost, Not Quite

So when I'm feeling a little blue, a little down, a little confused about my life, I like to change my surroundings. Its a thing. Earlier this week I rearranged my living room. It makes me feel better. This last Saturday I was feeling a little down and so at about 9pm I headed over to wal-mart and bought a gallon of orange paint for my bathroom. The problem with buying paint from wal-mart is this, the color is mixed by hand. No, no fancy machine/computer thing-y for that billion dollar retail chain, nope, just a guy, reading the back of the card, and sort of doing the best he can. Twice this has worked out ok for me because, lets be honest, a spur of the moment, night time paint purchase is rarely well thought out so the color is more of a whim then a heart set, matches everything perfectly type choice. Anyway, this time, the third time, the paint was awful. It was freak show banner red-orange. It was glowing, it sucked light into it and somehow shot it out into the hallway. I'm not sure how this happened, I just know that it did. You could sense when you were getting close to the bathroom because of the radiating red/orange glow that spread out slowly from the door. So last night Rob had to go out and get another color. We will put that one on tonight. We will see how it goes. The problem with whim painting is, once the whim has passed, I have little to no desire to return to the project. Alas, I have no choice with this one.
The second project to go awry this weekend was my first dress made to sell. It just didn't quite work. I'm not sure what happened, I used the same pattern I used for a dress that I love. But this dress sucked. Truly. It looked like something your gramma used to sleep in when you were a kid and would have sleep overs at her house. Horrid. Ug.
I will persist. I have to, I have too much fabric not to.
To top everything off, Eli has been sick all weekend so Rob and I had to trade off staying home with him while the other went to various planned events such as cookouts and whatnot. It was sort of sad because Rob has to be in class every night until 8 so we don't get much family time and separating on this gorgeous weekend just wasn't what I had planned. I think at times I get a little crazy when the majority of my time is spent in the company of only children. I love love love my kids, but, well, sometimes a person needs adults around.
I just keep telling myself it's just one quarter and it's oh so worth it. But man do I miss school.

1 comment:

junglentink said...

ohhhh so that's the story behind the orange bathroom. i will have to look closer next time :) i like the idea of orange in a bathroom though!