happy day

Dave and Robert have returned and are starting the final sanding before the painting begins. The cats have been herded into the bedroom with their box, food, and water. Robert will be here most of the day, but when he goes, I should have a pretty, blue bathroom.

Mom's stopping by after she gets off work today, so I'll see her around 3:30.

I had an invitation to go to the Jimbos' for the weekend for General Conference (twice a year, church gets broadcast from Salt Lake twice a year instead of us going to church), since he has satellite and a huge TV, but Robert will be here all day, and Dave's coming back tomorrow to re-hang the door and replace the mirror and switchplates and stuff. So that part of my weekend is trashed, but I'd rather get the work done this weekend than have to wait.

BLUE!

Blue blue blue! Not white! Blue! (Though the ancient Greeks would call it bronze.)

It's drying darker than I expected, but it's really quite nice. Slightly on the yellow side of sky blue, but nowhere near aqua or light teal. Pretty pretty pretty.

I kept the swatch of color from the store where I bought the paint, so tomorrow I can put the swatch against the wall and compare the sample against the finished product. Then I'll have an idea of how the other paints will turn out when they're actually slapped on the walls. What I'd really love to do in the living room is blend a medium blue at the bottom with a light blue at the top, but I can't see Robert doing that. Nor do I think he's going to like the idea of me trying it myself and taking a quarter of this gig away from him. I'll just take a risk and do the whole room in the medium blue, since I already have light blue in the bathroom.

Two weeks to the kitchen, dining nook, and hallway. All of those are going to be in white, so I don't have to buy that paint, but I do need to put my books away so that the bookcases can be detached from the wall. This is a very good time for me to weed through my stuff, because I have so many freaking books and CDs and VHS tapes and DVDs. At least with some of those, I can get rid of them using Swaptree. (And get more stuff that I don't have room for.)

Bubba the Hutt has emerged from the bedroom, but he's still slinking around a little bit. Haven't seen Boo-Boo yet. The smell is probably offending their dainty little noses.

It took Robert six hours to do the bathroom. I'm sure he's going to be here all day when he comes to paint the kitchen and hallway (cupboards and drawers and closets and all) in two weeks.

Edit: Rather than making another post, I'll just add onto this one.

I need a shower curtain, I keep finding places where dust is hiding, and the room still reeks of paint. But I have a warm brownie in one hand and a cold flute of Martinelli's in the other; I am on my way to a nice, long soak with my yummies, a dozen candles, and the laptop with a QI DVD inside. If I have any energy once I'm all pruney, I shall get caught up on reviewing WIPs; I'm at least a week behind on Leap of Faith, and -- *GASP!* -- I read but never reviewed the latest update of The Love You Take. (I know. I'm awful.)

Have a good night, loves.