Word Magnets

Our theme in the main living area during May and part of June is black and white, which is great for Greg's birthday, graduations, and Father's Day.  Word magnets get put on the fridge, and we all work at composing silly, whacky, philosophical, and poetic lines.  If we have company, sometimes they'll get in on the fun.  My favorites are usually those with humor:

Man, horrible black galoshes like my bed.

Dogs do their time with family.

Toward the end, we start getting a little desperate to use EVERY word (which we accomplished this year!), and the sentences aren't always correct English:

Kid said, "This woman want my candy."

I am silent if she ask us for live skin.

I love this one, because Greg often says I'm on the "puter":

She was on the puter.

And we had a good laugh over:

They cry when you play ball.

All our lines were on the right fridge door; last year, they were more spread out:

Painting Adventures

Painting has been WAY more work than we ever imagined! First, we moved a bunch of Kylen's stuff into the living room where it remains to this day. Other stuff we moved to the center of the room. Then, Greg taped borders which always needed to be done first with each coat.

Our first layer was this grey primer.
We kind of liked how the primer looked and actually thought about leaving the room that way!

We followed the primer with three coats of the Glidden Victorian Red. We had a little trouble with streaks, but for the most part we are happy with the end result. We are now in the process of removing tape and doing touch-ups.

The journey isn't over yet!

Thursday 13: Painting Positive

Painting Kylen's room has turned into a WAY bigger job than we ever could have imagined. We had scarcely begun applying primer before I thought of The Glad Game in Pollyanna. We were in desperate need of a little entertainment and humor. This did the trick . . . for about five minutes.

13 Reasons To Be Glad While Painting

1. We will never need to paint this room again (hopefully).
2. We could be using a toothbrush instead of a paintbrush.
3. We could be doing this for a living.
4. We’re saving lots of money by doing it ourselves.
5. Painting 300 square feet is better than painting 301 square feet.
6. At least there aren’t borders all the way around every single edge.
7. Kylen has video games to keep him entertained.
8. I have blogging to keep me entertained.
9. Greg has the paint and paintbrush to keep him entertained.
10. All the ugly marks on the white walls are getting covered up.
11. We are spending quality time together during hours of mundane work.
12. It’s exciting waiting to find out whether or not our tape leaked.
13. When we’re finished, it’s going to look awesome!