Whoo Pig Sooie blah blah blah.
And if losing the game weren’t enough, for some reason I decided to paint our guest room today, not that I don’t have FOUR HUNDRED OTHER THINGS I need to be doing, but we’re getting bunk beds for Alex’s room and it’s creating a domino effect in that we’ll be moving the bed he has now into the room across the hall – the one that D has been using as an office – and so we’re moving D’s office into the den area at the end of our bedroom, and the former office / soon-to-be guest room will have to be painted, so I thought I’d go ahead and paint Alex’s room while I was at it, but somehow I ended up painting the current guest room instead of the other two rooms that I was planning to paint because I guess I was sick of the blue walls not to mention that I’m crazy.
But the blue is hideous, for what it’s worth.
So this morning I decided YES, TODAY I WILL PAINT, because we’ve lived here almost a year now and I have wanted to paint the guest room the whole entire time but just haven’t done it because I would rather sit on the couch and watch DVR’d episodes of House Hunters while reading blogs and eating peanut butter and drinking diet Coke.
I am very refined.
Anyway, I had to put primer on the walls first because the blue is so dark, and I thought the priming process would be super quick, but for some reason painting renders me completely incapable of approximating time. I always start off thinking, “Oh, it’ll take me 30 minutes to tape the room and an hour to paint, so really, I should be completely finished within two hours,” only I forget the part about how it takes more like two hours to tape and SLIGHTLY LONGER THAN FOREVER to get paint on the walls.
And so what was going to take me two hours, TOPS, has now taken more like six, and I have been in the guest room ALL NIGHT LONG and have only gotten the primer done.
Which means I’ll get to paint the walls tomorrow! I am so fake excited!
So that is why I’m telling the internets that I’m painting – because I’m hoping that you will come back here tomorrow or Monday and be all, Hey, where are the pictures, we want to see the room you painted, and I need that kind of accountability because what I want to do more than anything right now is to shut the door to the guest room and pretend it doesn’t exist and go sit on the couch with the aforementioned House Hunters, blogs, peanut butter and diet Coke.
You are welcome to join me.
Well, Sister, I am with you! It never takes less than FOREVER and it is a miserable process. But here is what I do-
Grab the nearest 16 year old you can find (I’ll loan you mine if you like. It’s not that she enjoys painting but, heck, the girl is 5’9″ so she can reach the high spots.) Next, grab the CD player and blast Meatloaf from the speakers. It works even if you’re not a Meatloaf fan. If you enjoy Mr Loaf, you sing along and time flies. If you despise Mr Loaf, you work all the harder to finish quickly.
So, either way it motivates you!
Oh my.
It must be some sort of sickness.
We in the Singer household are wallpapering the hallway this week in preparation for the eleventy thousand guests which will darken our door on Thursday evening.
What have we gotten ourselves into????
Pretending something never happened or doesn’t exist is a favorite coping technique of mine.
I say, close the door. Find a nice picture in “Martha Stewart” and post it. Well, that wouldn’t be very honest, now would it.
Press on, woman.
Yup, I for one will be waiting for pictures :)
I despise painting but I love having a new color and seeing other peoples new colors too.
Hey, where are the pictures, we want to see the room you painted.
Did that help??
Well Whoo Pig Sooiie! And early Merry Christmas since the strong rumor is that Nutt is gone! Oh sweet mercy, if that were true!
I am among many who cannot stand our excuse for a coach and even beating y’all does not take the bitter taste away. He needs to go!! Now! Last year!
Okay, rant over.
Congrats on painting. Our guest room is blue as well. I hate it…with a passion! It is that light, icky, generic blue that was used by an old lady and then a tween boy. It pukes….but the feller refuses to let me pick up a paint brush! This is his first house and he is so overly protective and cautious. But just wait…..as soon as I catch him in a weak moment, I am slapping some white or something over that sickly sky blue! *blech!*
Painting a room is a lot more work than I usually realize. I recently finished a bathroom, it took me 7 hours! I thought it would only take 1…
I have painters coming to do my entire main floor including the kitchen on the Friday after T’giving and I haven’t even picked my colors. Save me a seat next to you. I’ll be bringing a jar of Nutella and a spoon.
Oh — when you post pictures — will you tell us how you go about decorating your house? Do you pick a theme? Do you paint every room a different color? Do you coordinate stuff?? I love to know this sort of gab about other people’s houses.
If I had a TON o’money — I’d bet painting all the time. Alas… I’ve got none. This paint job has to last a lift time. (SNORT)… yeah right.. but that’s what my dear husband said before it was quite dry.
So — I’ll be living vicariously through you honey!! Do tell!!
Pass that peanut butter over here will ya?
I hate to paint. I think I like the end result though I’m never really sure that it’s worth it. But I feel your pain. For some stupid reason, we (it wasn’t me in the we) decided to paint the living room, hall, and kitchen. Silly we. I could have kicked him. But I didn’t. I just smiled and painted. And painted. And painted. (and listened to all 3 extended versions of Lord of the Rings TWICE before we were finished.) God speed!
What a beautiful sight to be greeted by at the top of your blog this morning!! :-D WhoooooPigSoooieee is right!! ;-)
And yes, we are waiting for pictures. Maybe they will motivate me to get the remaining stuck-on wallpaper off my dining room walls and buy some primer here!!! (We’ve been in the middle of pulling wallpaper for an *embarrassingly* long time. Ack!)
What color are you painting? We not only want pictures, we want DETAILS! :) Paint brand, color, finish…what kind of bedding you’ll put on the bed.
If you painted it “Pig Sooie Red” would Shannon come help you? :)
I’M SO EXCITED TO SEE PICTURES. I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE THEM FIRST THING MONDAY MORNING.
And when I say pictures, I mean “after” pictures.
First thing.
Monday morning.
How’s that for pressure?
Bring on the pictures! I completely sympathize w/the domino effect. We got a new desk for dh’s office, which displaced some bookshelves, so they moved to our room, which in turn needed to be rearranged and painted, etc. Or does this fall into the “might as well” category?
I feel you pain sister! We’ve just had the 4th Birthday Party. (a.k.a. Flight of the Bumblebee mad dash to get the house just so.) I’ve taken to the couch and don’t expect to come off it for a week or more.
Happy Painting… it’ll be so pretty!
I totally feel for you. I dislike painting very much, thankfully hubby thinks its fun. I am more than happy to keep him in paint and brushes because I am sweet like that.
Hope it doesn’t take you to long.
julie
Right about now, at two weeks post partum and slightly overwhelmed with LIFE, shutting the door on a whole TON of things and enjoying House Hunters, blogs, peanut butter and diet Coke sounds like the best thing on earth. So when you sit down to take a break in the midst of your painting and decide to indulge in a lil of that, let me know. I’ll be right there.
I’m sorry…but you won’t find me making you accountable. I waited THIRTEEN YEARS to FINALLY paint my hideous guest room. It was a wretched greenish/yellowish neon color. THIRTEEN YEARS!! And of course THAT was the room we said we’d paint FIRST when we bought the house, it was soooo hideous. Ah well…priorities change, and painting reality sets in. I don’t mind PAINTING, but I very much mind clearing out the room, taping, and covering the floor. VERY MUCH MIND. So anyway, I am VERY impressed that after only ONE YEAR you are tackling this!
oh too bad on the game :(
instead of the park and starbucks ,eating pb & j and drinking diet coke,reading blogs sound like heaven *and I should mention potty training and a overtired dh who worked sat ..has me exhausted
GO HOGS GO!! Yeah, that kinda threw me as I was welcomed by the sight of my beloved Razorback!!! :) Wooooo Pig Soooie!
And, I thought you might go on to say that the room you are painting is razorback red….it would be beautiful!
Hang in there Boomama!!
Whenever we paint a room I always have to block off an entire weekend to do it. And yes, we do stay up late and get up early. :-) We also either order pizza or cook something in the crock pot, because I am not cooking on painting days. :-)
And YES, we want to see pictures. :-)
That’s just how I feel about painting- fake excited.
I love to paint. Seriously I do. My husband thinks we lose square footage because I paint sooo much!!! If I lived closer, I’d gladly paint for you.
The last quick paint job I did lasted me DAYS. I hope your is much shorter.
Spilling paint on your living room carpet slows the process WAY down. Just so you know.
Oh the joy in my heart when I clicked on here to see that beautiful hog! :-)
Sorry about the game but the good news for us is we are getting a new coach. Christmas came early!
Can’t wait to see pics of the painting – I’m sure it will look great.
Only one year to get to it? That’s pretty speedy in my world. I tore down wallpaper over 2 months ago in my living room/hall/kitchen/bathroom totally intending to get right to the painting. Actually, I had decided that I was going to hire someone for the job this time, but still haven’t called anyone. I cannot decide on a color and it’s driving me crazy. I feel paralyzed. So I just go into denial and pretend that there aren’t big blank walls in my house and there isn’t any wallpaper goop still stuck way up by the ceiling out of reach. They’re just textured! Yeah, that’s it. I keep watching House Hunters hoping I’ll see something that inspires me. So far the only thing that inspires me is selling this house and moving to a perfect new one that doesn’t need any painting!! Can’t wait to see your pictures. I’m sure that’s the inspiration I’ve been needing!
We have painted EVERYTHING in the past three months. The ceilings, trim, walls, even the exterior brick. Today my girls are in the basement painting ceiling tiles from the ugly drop ceiling. They are going from dingy white to beautiful greenbriar beige. It’s amazing what a gallon of paint can do (and a little peanut butter)!
Perhaps the “feng shui” woman on House Hunters can come over and give you a hand….
(that episode is burned in my mind like the fire of a million suns….)
Sophie, sweetness, I totally feel for you!
We bought our first house in August and every room right down to the garage is painted the same “cheery builder’s beige.”
Let me just say that if it was not for the fact that I picked out the flooring, countertops and other “customs” when the house was built I would spend every waking moment at Lowe’s *trying* to commit to a paint color.
Hubs wants to start with the living room/dining room or the kitchen and I am T.E.R.R.I.F.I.E.D.
He has reluctantly agreed to paint the guest bathroom first, so that way if I hate it I can close the door and cry for weeks before I have to repeat the process.
Pass me a diet coke (with crushed ice) and let’s hear it for Suzanne Whang! What’s your preference: with or without bangs? I can’t decide.
*Helps herself to spoonfuls of peanut butter*
Everything is better with ranch dressing. I’m glad you know this axiom.
Um… Whoo!!! Pig!! Sooie!!! Razorbacks!!
Sorry. Couldn’t help myself. I’m so right there with you on the whole painting thing. Ugh.
I’ll bring the peanut butter.
{{{{{{RINGING COWBELL}}}}}}
It ain’t nothin’ for me to whup a guest room.
You might’ve heard of me.
{{{{{{RINGING COWBELL}}}}}}
:)
so… where ARE the pictures?
Hey Boomama, Where are the pictures? I want to see the un-blue guest room. I bet it looks great!! (and now that I’ve held you accountable, I can tell you that if you sat on the couch and watched DVR, ate peanut butter and drank diet coke all night, I completely understand!)
Ok, we MUST see the pictures…any day now :)
If I were you, I’d have Sister and her cowbell come and whup the guest room while I sat somewhere in the general vicinity of the guest room (within conversational distance) and ate peanut butter and drank Diet Coke while chatting it up with Sister. You can hold the cowbell.
You know what, would’ve been really funny is if in our bet you’d had to paint a room Razorback red! ;)
Poor girl, I’m so sorry…sort of….
What?
No video of you and A doing the Razorback Fight Song?
I need to talk to Shannon about next year ….
Paint on, sister.
Paint on.
I have a proposal….Egg Bowl Bet!
If State loses, you have to put an Ole Miss logo on your blog. If they win, I put a bulldog on mine. You game?? LOL!!
I need to paint, too. I’m lazy, though. I’d rather pay someone to do it for me. LOL!
I love having painted! The actual process–not so much! House hunters and peanut butter sounds more exciting to me.
I’m curious–Will there be coordinated stunt pillows in the picture I will be coming back to see? Yes, ma’am, I’ll be back and I expect to see a room decorated to your fine mama’s Southern standards I know you will not disappoint.
Painting must be the “thing” to do right now. I think it’s because of the holidays coming up and everyone is thinking about the appearance of their home? Perhaps it is just that they are CRAZY!!
So, I can’t wait to see the pictures of your room!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HUGS
Hahaha! I’m so with you on this! I’ve learned quite a bit about painting in the past few years from my Dad and his buddy.
The kind of paint brush really does matter. I’d been using cheap-o Walmart specials (after all, a paint brush is just a paint brush right?) NOT! Purdy brushes are the bomb! It’s so drastically different — I don’t even have to tape off a room now and I’m not that great of a painter. So, go to Lowe’s or Home Depot and pay the extra money to get a good quality paint brush — oh yeah, and pick up some Goof Off! — that stuff works WONDERS!
Good luck with it all — I’ve been putting off painting my kitchen for too long.
I love to paint — for about the first 20 minutes and then I’ve gotten it out of my system and wish I were doing something else. Almost anything else — except maybe washing dishes. Hey, I’ll paint for you if you wash my dishes! Never mind, I think I’ll just get a Coke and call it an evening.
I figure you got enough painting comments, so I’ll just stick with
“Woo Pig Soiee, baby!” Love those Hogs!
I had to laugh. I am SOOO like that. No matter how much I have painted…and trust me it has been a lot, I still do not judge my time right. I think I can just whip it all out in like half a day. Once I have jumped in feet first, then I start remembering that this ALWAYS takes me much longer than I allowed for!
You’ll think I’m sick, but I LOVE painting. If a guy wore ‘eau de paint fumes’ cologne, I’d be hooked. (Well, excepting of course that I’m married to the best guy in the world already, cologne or no!)
But yes, it does take waaaay longer than I think every time. I’ll be checking for pictures!
Yes, I know what you mean. I think watching HGTV gives me unrealistic expectations about projects now. I find myself thinking things like, “and then I can whip up an ottoman with hidden storage” and it will only take 30 minutes…
It’s a conspiracy to make us hire professionals!
Go HOGS. It’s okay though. Just remember that they will get theirs on Friday when they play the Tigers.
Oh girl I painted this weekend too and it took forever!!
My hubby left with the kids and before I knew it he was calling to see if he could come back. What seemed like only 30 minutes had been 3 hours!!
AGH!!!
Kim
Shoot me if I ever mention the word Paint again!!! UGH!! But I do want to see pictures but the sitting on the couch with you wanching House hunters is a great idea!
We’re renting at the moment, as we’re in between houses. Everytime I get tired of looking at these white walls I think, yeah, but I don’t have to paint them!
I will not say one single word, because I lost the faith. But my faith has been restored. At least until next week…
Painting is evil.
We started stripping wallpaper off our tiny bathroom’s walls in oh—July? Now we have guests coming for Christmas. Oh my!
I’m glad you lost that bet because I came over from Rocks in my Dryer and am loving you!
Oh, and I painted for the very first time ever a couple months ago when the dh was away on business. Thought I’d do a “while you were out” on him. I had planned 4 rooms and only managed 2 and was exhausted! So much work! The painting, and the edging, and the taping and….
groovyoldlady said it better :)
Say it ain’t so!!!! I am a VOL fan and I think this has to be against the law. LOL!!! Bless your heart. Take consolation in the fact the VOLS beat them bad !!! :o)
Have a Happy Thanksgiving!!!!
Love,
Patty
We, too, have been painting. We painted my son’s bedroom and bathroom last week. We also replaced the carpet in the bedroom and put new flooring in the bathroom. Three days. Three very long tiring days. But, now, I LOVE it! If only he’ll actually play in there now…
I have painting down to a science. I get started and then yell “honey does this look ok to you? He looks at the mess I’m making, says “let me show you how to do this” and then he finishes it while I am sitting in the recliner watching tv and eating cheetos. Wallpaper is even better because I act like I can’t get the first piece on straight and it’s finished when I get done with my nap.
My Chris wanted me to tell you, he would rather eat a stink bug than post this display. Of course this is coming from a graduate of said school for his master’s degree. Before that (and always) he was and is and always will be an Aggie.
I’ve got rooms to paint when I get home and I’d rather be tarred and feathered, but closing the door and living in denial sounds pretty good to me. Hate painting – love the way it looks when it’s done.