It’s been a tough weekend to be painting; it was 93 degrees and incredibly humid. But we’re starting to feel quite a time crunch to get things done before E moves in. So although this post doesn’t come with more before-and-after pictures, you can just picture the last couple of walls in the living room and kitchen turned from grubby off-white to peach. They look really nice.
Yesterday, after we had painted a first coat on the walls, E and I then collapsed in the bedroom in dire need of a nap before attempting paint coat #2. Just as we nodded off, M came wandering through the bedroom on his way to the bathroom. Never mind that he could have used the other door to get to the bathroom without going through the bedroom, or used the other bathroom. His innards have been a bit upset lately, so we attempted to doze while listening to a good 10 or 15 minutes of grunting. Grunting ceased, silence reigned for about 15 seconds, and then he called out, “Mom? Can I take a shower?”
So we attempted to doze while listening to the shower. Then we were treated to about 5 minutes of the random thumping around that always seems to follow M taking a shower. Judging by the sound, M wasn’t bothering with a towel. He must have been trying to flail the water off by flinging himself into walls or something.
M then went into the living room. He couldn’t quite settle down to read; instead it was flip…flip…flip…flip as he browsed through his books. E finally got up and shut the door so we wouldn’t have to listen to the flipping.
Silence. For 15 seconds. And then the hamster, who had been temporarily moved to the bedroom so he wouldn’t inhale paint fumes, decided it was time to get a drink. Clink-clink-clink-clink from his water bottle. E and I couldn’t help but giggle at this point. We were starting to feel doomed.
Another 15 seconds of silence, and then E’s Blackberry, which had also been temporarily relocated to the bedroom to keep it away from paint, went off. E turned it to Quiet mode.
Another 15 seconds of silence, and then the hamster decided it was a good time to move food from one corner of his cage to another. Scrabble-scrabble-scrabble.
Thankfully, the hamster must have decided it was too hot and humid to redecorate his cage (maybe this means he has more sense than we do), and he settled back to sleep. And then, finally, FINALLY, E and I were able to get our nap.
Oy. I’m moving and have to face settling in…I both look forward to it and dread it. I’m exhausted tonight after packing the kids’ rooms without them (which gave me a chance to toss things willy nilly…shhh).
Hahn — and here I was feeling fortunate that M let me pitch the hardtack he made for a school project several months ago! Clearly I missed my chance to do a clean sweep while he was at overnight camp a week ago. Let’s hope we’re all nicely settled in before school starts.