Man it got HOT!!!
We have been having a very mild Spring here and are still sleeping under a Doona at night.. normally they would have been cleaned and packed away months ago!
Then suddenly it got hot.. not just warmer, but HOT.. real Summer weather for Oz.. with high 30's and some days at 40 Degrees C. So we seemed to have missed out on Spring altogether, although the trees are still a bit confused about what they should be doing about now. Some of them are reflowering for the third time since September.. poor confused Nature.
With the heat came my daughter's insistence on painting her bedroom purple.. she obtained our landlord's permission and started work.. three weeks ago!! It began with me telling her how to prepare the old surfaces for new paint, and that she would need to undercoat the areas sanded back, etc. She did that okay it seemed... emphasis on 'seemed'.
Once she had a go at putting the first coat of white around the top of the 10 high walls she found it was WORK.. and soon began to disappear all day and late into the night to avoid having to do it. When asked she simply said, "I'll do it in my own time."
So she got a friend in to do the painting around the top.. and he got stuck on enough to finish it on the day. Good stuff. But, he had made such a mess, white paint on the bedhead, white paint all over himself and the other girl who was here to 'help'.. oh, and white paint in the carpet.. and the paint roller left to dry out in the rolling tray filled with white paint.
Yeah... I'm over White Paint now.
The next morning the same young bloke arrives here to touch up the white where necessary... or so I thought at the time. Instead he started on the purple.. and as he did I could hear him slapping it on the walls with a brush, so I went in to see what's happening.
Had to tell him not to do all the painting as the girly said she was going to do it, etc. So he left.. leaving paint everywhere again.. there's more purple on the drop sheets and carpet than he got on the little section of wall he started working on!!!!!
Well that was enough for me. I phoned the girly and told her to be here on Sunday so we could do the painting together.. and she did arrive.. about lunch time, saying she only had an hour to spare until her boyfriend finishes work. Oh, is that right then girly? Aren't you thinking that getting your room done would be the priority?
Silly old dad, what makes you think that?
The next day was 40C + and so no painting was going to happen that day. I tried doing a test area above the doors but the paint was drying quicker than I could reload the brush to continue. So that day became a rest day, trying not to overheat myself.
And the next days was too hot... another almost rest day.
Then I phoned the girly again about getting the next coat of colour on the walls, and was told I had to wait another day for her to have the time to spare... teenagers!! No idea about real life prioritising yet.
Well the next day arrive, the girly arrived again after lunch and we started in to it with all seriousness to get it done before she "had to leave". We blasted the second coat on in only an hour and a half... except for the tricky parts and the three doors.. the tricky bits being where the wall frame meets the in a corner between two doors.. tight and dark in there it was.
I ended up working a few hours more late at night to get the last of the second coat finished off, then began the trim colour around her window frame.. and that was enough for me.
Today I go in to see how things have settled.. looking good so far. Lots of mess from the teenagers to be cleaned up though and I won't be the one doing it.
Part of me was hoping the girly would get home today and start on the first coat of trim colour.. but it's now 1:30pm and no sign of her. Methinks she is thinking I will finish everything off for her and she will only have to clean up and sort the room back out again with furniture.
Nuh-Uh!! I'm done... I can walk past it without being peeved about how long one room is taking to get painted by the one person who wanted to do it all herself.
Oh okay then.. Yes I am a little bit peeved about it. But I won't let that wreck my whole day or week.. or month.
Did I tell you I was buying a motorcycle this year.. Yay!!!
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