Things I Learnt Today While Painting

While painting the walls of our foyer/entrance area, hallway and dining room today, the following things occurred to me:

1) My father-in-law is a wonderfully kind and generous man for helping me out on two (going on three) Saturdays to complete this job.

2) Paintbrush bristles are really annoying when they come off the brush and get stuck in your paintwork right at the end of your carefully-perfected paint job on the most prominent wall of the entire room, causing you to effectively have to start that wall again.

3) The level of lighting in the dining room is really bad and makes it hard to see where you've already painted after 4pm.

4) Going over an area more than once without allowing it to dry does not count as 'multiple coats' or save time/money/energy/paint.

5) If you let your cats into your newly-painted house, they will invariably gravitate straight to the wall with the fresh coat of paint on it and rub up against it like they're old friends.

6) Wifey even looks absolutely adorable when she's 23 weeks pregnant, wearing tracksuit pants, an old jumper, and a paint (or surgical) mask over her face to avoid the paint fumes that are permeating throughout the entire house from harming her or the baby.

7) Sam Newman is sometimes a real jerk on the radio, during Triple M's pre-football show. (This wasn't actually a new realisation; it was just one that I had cause to think of during the day.)

8) When you're paying more attention to the radio than the job you're doing, sometimes it's easy to apply a whole coat of paint to a room that turns out to be the wrong colour.



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Distracting yourself from the task at hand so you have to return to the store and buy extra paint to undo the wasted efforts of 10 litres of 'Cleo Yellow'? ...

"WATTYL THEY THINK OF NEXT?"


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