Stiff After Three Hours
Filed Under (Daily Posts) by Cynthia on Sep 21, 2008 9:36 pm
Tagged Under : Chatter, Home
Man, I am getting old. I spent only three measly hours this morning sanding and cleaning two of the walls in the spare bedroom. And I am so stiff now I can hardly stand. You’d think all the dog sports I did would actually get me in better shape. Or be more flexible, anyway. But apparently not.
The first picture is before I emptied out the room and started. These last two are after I was done with the two walls. Whoever lived here before us must have smoked, because the walls are yellow and dripping. Not as bad as some I’ve tried to clean and paint over… but bad enough. Plus, whoever painted didn’t put any primer on the baseboard or the door molding. I’ve been sanding it off completely, and easily. And I just don’t know if I’ll have the gumption to sand it all off, or if I’ll just sand most of it off and call it good.
Maybe my sister will like to come help me paint once the prep work is done. 
Painting takes the least amount of time, though. Prep takes about 100 times longer. Oh well.. it’ll get done. I’ve been avoiding this room for almost nine years. It’s the last upstairs room to get painted (well, except the kitchen, but the kitchen is gonna be gutted so it doesn’t count). So finally I’m getting around to it.
I’m not rushing, though. I’m taking it easy and only doing what I feel like doing at one time. I don’t care if it takes me all fall, or all winter. I want to do it slowly and do it right.
Not sure what color I’m going to paint… the carpet (the only room in our house left that has carpet) is blue with grey flecks. And I don’t want either blue or grey, and I’m not sure what will match. Oh well, I’ll find something!
On this day..
- I Gotta Quit the Sugar - 2009
- My Mouse Died - 2007
I wish you the best of luck on your room re-do. I hope it goes TONS better than mine did. Tomorrow we’ll be going into day 4 of painting ONE room.
Nonas last blog post..Contest Pimping & Blog semi-review
I do owe you big time on the painting, cuz I remember you helping me w/our house
So, lets see….. I think I am free November 14th 
But really, just way ‘when’ and we are there XO
Chriss last blog post..Bodies
Well, congrats on this step. It is always very hard to completely re-do the room. It is very time consuming and you have to have a lot of patience and energy for every aspect.. Painting is hardest thing for me
I’m impressed that you did all the prep work. It’s very boring and tedious! (Must admit, I usually skip that part pretty much.) I’m sure the room will look great when you’re finished. Even though it seems to be going slow, it’s really worth it to do it right because you’ll be looking at it a very long time most likely so you want it to look good.
Karen, author of “My Funny Dad, Harry”s last blog post..Home Sick Fighting Off My Cold