Moving moving moving. How fun. In the last four days we emptied both the Billy room and Claire’s old bedroom. As we moved stuff out of those rooms, we had to put them in our dining room, our kitchen, our master, and our living room. It got to a point by this morning where I could not even walk in my house.  Then it was time to paint the new guest room/office. Donna and I both have always wanted a tan room. Do you know how many colors of tan there are!? We got a few samples and slapped them up over the blue on the walls, and we hated them all. We got three more samples the next day. We hated them. They were all too red, pink, yellow, or blah. I had two former students, Stephanie and Anqi, over for tea the other day only because I wasn’t about to cancel on them since I never see them. We’d scheduled this a month ago, and they get sensitive when they don’t see me.  After they left, I was on my way back to Lowe’s again, and this time I took all 6 crappy samples with me.

The lady at the paint section looked over my samples and laughed at me. She said if I wanted tan, she’d give me tan. She gave me four samples and told me that I would LOVE one of them for sure. She also said tan would look terrible over blue, and we’d have to paint for sure. Primer. Two coats. Ugh. Let’s see, my time frame for painting just tripled. Errr…. so I texted Stephanie and Joe and begged for help. They both agreed and we were ready to start in the morning about 10AM.

I got back with the paint after picking up Stephanie, and Claire, Donna and Joe had the room taped off. Then we began to primer the room. Well, I’d love to tell you the short short version, but there isn’t one. We put two coats of primer on the damn walls, I had to run off to the dermatologist for an hour, and Joe had to go to work after two hours. About 1pm I decided to pull out the super QVC roller my mum bought us about 6 years ago. It fills the center of the roller with paint, so you don’t have to dip the roller in the tray. I rolled two full walls in minutes. It was cool until it began to leak all over the place! It splattered all over me, my clothes, and everything around me. Of course the carpet was covered in plastic so we were good! Stephanie followed behind with parts I was missing, and we kept working. Well, about 6PM we finally finished the room! Well we finished the best it was going to get. I was sooooooooo sick of paint! We decided to reward Stephanie (who was still there!) with Dairy Queen before driving her home. Claire and I crashed about 9PM after taking her home.

Today Donna kicked me out of bed at 6:30AM because the carpet cleaners were coming at 8AM to clean the new Guest Room/Office and the Billy Room, which still had furniture and a turtle tank! Donna said we missed spots on the tan room and she was up until 1AM painting. Err… So we finished up in there, emptied the Billy Room and began cooking bacon. Luke from Chem Dry showed up about 8:30AM and we were really itching to put Claire’s new bed up.

Oh yes, Donna’s been searching CraigsList for a new low loft bed for Claire, and we found one Wednesday. I thought it looked ok in the pics online, so I called the lady Thursday morning. She was happy to hear from me, and we made plans to head over there that night. We got there and loved the bed. It was about 4′ high and came with a bookshelf for underneath. It also had a slide and a ladder. The side rails were nice and high, and we immediately bought it.

So now it’s Saturday and waiting for the carpets to dry was like watching paint dry (hehe), and by noon we were ready to put everything together and reclaim the rest of our house! We’ve spent about 9 hours now moving stuff around the house and putting things away. Both rooms rock, but boy am I sick of cleaning!

Claire for one ADORES her new bed and new "Purple Room". She played in there for several hours by herself today. I gave her one of those removable push on/off lights that she could keep in her "cave", but sometimes she just leaves it on. After we put the mattress on, she understood why she needed it because it was so much darker. Although we don’t like the mattress, and we’re going to replace it as soon as possible. It’s just old. Anyway, back to work. I have about 400 books to put away on my shelves.