Tying up loose ends...

I am trying to finish up some thoughts that I have going around my head.

1. I have been watching the new Battlestar Galactica (okay, new to me). Pretty damn good!
2. I have been working this past month with my Manufactured Home Park, which is now a Cooperative. I am the Communications Committee Chairperson and interim Secretary on the Board of Directors.
3. World of Warcraft is addictive. BUT I LOVE IT! So much to do!
4. Did I mention that I love iTunes? I do, it makes it so easy to listen to music.
5. I can't wait to see me son.
6. My ear infection is over, but I still have some hearing loss in my left ear. It comes and goes. The doc thinks that the drainage tube (Eustachian) is not at the correct angle and so I get fluid in my ear which blocks my hearing.
7. Still no real job. Which sucks, but I am getting stuff done at home. Anyone need a graphic designer?

I think that is it... here is my iPod playlist:

• La Tortura - Shakira
• I Don't Wanna Know - Sheryl Crow
• One - U2 & Mary J. Blige
• The Cruel War - Dolly Parton
• Twelfth of Never - Dolly Parton

Kids say the darndest things...

Okay, I figure I should list the cute/funny things my kids say, before I forget them and have a record. Plus, I am gonna need some blackmail.

Tayta:
When we lived in Hilltop, there was a ASIAN DELI that was behind our house, we would pass by there occasionally when we were able to enter our park through the back gate.

Around the time that mikayla was learning to identify letters, she would ask Amy what things said. So she asked Amy, "Momma, what does that say", Amy told her, "Asian Deli" but Tayta couldn't hear her, so Amy yelled louder, "ASIAN DELI" and Tayta says right back to her in offense, "I'm not an Agent Smelly". So ever since then, that has been the Agent Smelly place.

Tayta would say, "Zippy Do Da Day" with this weird country accent, that would crack us up.

Buddha:
Just the other day, Grandma Cindy was watching them while both Amy and I were out. Grandma said a not-so-very-nice word (not a swear word, something like hell or damn) and Tayta told her, "Grandma, that is not a nice word" and Buddha leaned over to Tayta and said, "Grandma is old, so she doesn't know any better."

Bear:
Bear had odd words for everything.

One time when her Aunt Jennifer was watching her, Bear kept asking for smell-sorals. Jennifer couldn't figure out what it was, and kept telling Bear that she didn't have any smellsorals, and Bear kept telling her that she did have smellsorals and told Courtney the next time she was over she could have some.

So Bear kept talking to Jennifer like she was insane and by this time Bear was bawling. So finally Jennifer called Amy and asked her, "what in the world is smellsorals?"

Amy was at work and half paying attention, so she didn't know. So Jennifer put Bear on the phone and she told Amy that she wanted Smellsorals. Jennifer got back on the phone and Amy told her that Bear wanted Marshmellows. Amy had to hear Bear say it to know what it was!

Never paint stripes...

Alright, I said it... For a week I have been painting Dominic's room.

We got the crazy idea from his comforter set. It has a matching border and lightswitch cover. So we took the border in and matched the colors at Home Depot with their cool paint computer!

We picked 3 shades of blue (although I argue with Amy that the lighter shade is more purple than blue, but she just ignores me.)

Amy and Cindy cleared out the room, and then took down these strips that covered over where the sheetrock panels were seperated. Amy then mudded them over and used this sheetrock paper stuff to cover it (which we ended up ripping down, cause it bubbled and looked bad) so we just sanded down the mud.

So then we marked the colors and taped out the darkest color. I then painted it, and we let it dry after a few hours and then went to tape up for the medium color. I biffed and went to reposition the paint and it ended up peeling the dark paint. I was pissed.

So I IM'd my good friend Kiki (named changed for security reasons--LOL), who used to paint as a job, and she told me what to do.

So I had to sand the walls, (they were pre-wallpapered panels that had this vinyl like wallpaper) so the KILZ would hold. Then we had to put on two coats of KILZ, then remark the rooms, then tape up for the dark.

So we painted the dark and waited a day for it to dry. IT COULD NOT BE TACKY. Kiki stressed that a lot.

So we then decided instead of doing all that work taping up for all the colors, we decided to have white stripes in between each color, so then I was able to paint the medium and light in one day as well.

So we let that dry, and then peeled off the tape. BUT, the paint bleed underneath (because the vinyl wallpaper stuff is textured), so the lines weren't clean enought for me. So Amy went with white and filled in the white lines.

So, after all that was dry and everything was peeled off and cleaned up, we put up the border.

And we are done! I hope you enjoy the photos.