How To Paint Your Kitten Blue, and other fun holiday tales
Okay, here comes the big, long catch-up post. If you have the attention span of a two year old, or you don't feel particularly compelled to read about me blathering on about the incredible excitement of my past couple of weeks, feel free to hit that little 'next blog' button at the top of the page. I'll understand. Bastards . . . sniff . . .I finally finished painting Megyn's room, and it looks freaking awesome, if I say so myself. And I do. Yes, I am that good. The top half of the walls I did in a pale pink color wash, and the bottome half I did in a lavender color wash, so the paint is all swirly and looks really, really cool. The boarder (freaking pain in my ass summummabitch . . . ) is the Hugs N Kisses boarder from Lowe's and it's pale pink and lavender. The cute little silver curtain rods I got have pink jewels on the ends of them, and her curtains are pink. I hunted down the perfect comforter - at Walmart of all places - in pink with lavender accents and cool glittery stars. I got her soft lavender sheets and Auntie Nicole got her a cool purple throw pillow for Christmas. I also took a strand of the rope lights we had lying around and wrapped the strand around the rails of her loft bed. It looks super, super cool. So her room is finished and it's bad ass! I took pictures, but I haven't gotten them developed yet because we still live in the dark ages and haven't bought a digital camera. I have 8 million rolls of film I need to take to Safeway.
I got all that done before Christmas, and I busted my butt to finish it. Since I'd been at the painting thing for a couple of days and couldn't be bothered to clean, and Shorty is a typical male who firmly believes that the middle of the living room is where his dirty socks belong, our house resembled nuclear waste dump site. After I shoveled out our house, scrubbed, polished and waxed until everything was gleaming, I was totally in the mood for some relaxation, so we spent the next few evenings doing dinner and movies with friends.
Christmas Eve nite we went over to Rob & Terra's absolutely amazing house, met Terra's parents and hung out with them for a bit before heading to Bobbi and Aaron's, where a bunch of our softball buddies were chillin. It was so good to see everyone. I keep forgetting how freaking weird Shorty is when he's around the guys. They kept us rolling on the floor laughing all nite. I'm still sticking with my opinion that Shorty's farts are way worse than Aaron's. Don't ask, just trust me. Bobbi got me hooked on Bombay Sapphire gin and tonics, which I've never really liked before. I got ripped on for sucking down an 'old person drink' and had to endure snarky comments from Shorty while he was chugging But Lite. I only have one thing to say - I wasn't the one with a hang over Christmas Day, now, was I? Let's play I win!
Christmas day we packed up The Kid and the truck and headed to Delta to spend the nite with Shorty's family there. We started at his Mom and Mike's house, opened presents and stuffed our faces before dumping Sam with the kids and heading over to Shorty and Nicki's Uncle Dale and Aunt Debbie's house. I'd never met them before, so I was a little nervous, but they were hysterically funny and we had a blast. We got back to Nicki and Sam's, threw the kids in the bath tub, got them off to bed and then spent the nite playing Scattegories. I dare you to think of another beer besides Koakanee that starts with the letter 'K.' The one important thing I learned from that weekend; Uncle Dale makes a mean Long Island Iced Tea!
Monday saw us heading back to Fairbanks. Nicki, Sam and the kids spent a couple of days with us since Tylor had a hockey tourney in Fairbanks, and his hockey team ended up winning the tournament, which was awesome! The rest of the week we hung out with friends and went to dinner a lot because I had about had it with trying to keep the house clean. It was clean, it was staying that way and I was done.
Saturday afternoon (Dec 31) I learned another important lesson about painting with kittens in the house. I would have sworn on Shorty's life that the two furballs were downstairs in the family room, so I carried my little paint tray up the stairs to our bedroom, set it on a chair, and turned around to shut the door and lock them out. I looked down and there was Jazz, sitting at my feet blinking at me in that sweet, innocent, I'm-not-up-to-anything-and-I'm-adorable way that he has. Apparently my kittens can beam themselves as well as communicate telepathically. I picked him up to take him out of the bedroom and turned just in time to see Ariel jump onto the chair and land with all four paws squarely in the middle of the paint tray. The very full paint tray. Powder blue paint splattered everywhere! I dropped Jazz, snagged Ariel and rushed to the bathroom, dripping pale blue paint all along the carpet. The next 20 minutes was spent rinsing and drying off my very upset baby kitten. Jazz followed me into the bathroom, so I was able to lock him in with me and not have to worry about him playing in the paint. So now I have a very fluffy, clean, fuzzy gray princess and huge paint splatters in my carpet. Any ideas on how to remove paint? If they work, I'll send Shorty to your house to cook and clean for a month. (You don't want me, trust me. I burn water.) I started in on painting our bedroom walls and made sure Thing 1 and Thing 2 were locked out before attempt #2. They sat at the bedroom door and meowed and pawed at the bottom of the door until Shorty came home to entertain them. I know, I'm so abusive. Spoiled little crap heads . . . I finished slathering paint on the walls, hopped in the shower and we headed to John and Jill Cole's house for New Year's Eve, where we started the festivities off with Beer Pong. Nat and Jill were the reinging 5 time champs, and Shorty and I tried to take them on but we lost by one cup both games. We managed to lay the smack on Bobbi and Aaron, though! It was the Giants (they're both over 6 feet) vs the Shortys (Shorty's 5'6", I'm 5'5") and we pounded on them! There were several rounds of jell-O shots slurped down between games. At first I tried to be all lady-like and delicate, and after a few beers and Jell-O shots I gave it up and used my fingers. I also managed to spill beer down the front of my shirt, so I was wet, sticky and smelled like the inside of a keg, and we hadn't even been there two hours. God, I missed partying with our softball friends!! Our poker tourney was interrupted by the count down and after we did the drunken 'hug and kiss all your friends and tell them how much you love them' routine we stumbled back to the table and I won Shorty a butt load of money. We were all set to stay and John & Jill's but Collen and Justin offered to give us a ride home so they could check out the house, and that's when I discovered that I should probably be drunk every time someone comes to visit, because our house wasn't sparklingly clean like I usually try to keep it, and I didn't give a damn! That's the first time I haven't scrambled to make sure everything was picked up before company came over and the first time I wasn't worried that someone wouldn't think our house was clean enough. (I have a seriously unhealthy house cleaning issue. Everything must be clean and I will not have people over unless the house is picked up. I'm very anal, obsessive and psycho about this, and I feel really bad for Shorty because I'm constantly cleaning.) There was left over pizza on the counter, towels laying on the bathroom floor and my curling iron was out on the counter and I really didn't care! It was great!
After we recovered and The Kid got dropped off, I finished my faux finish on our bedroom walls on Sunday. (I ragged on cream colored paint, but I did it really lightly, so our walls are pale blue and streaky. It looks like of like the sky. It actually came out perfectly!) Shorty had to work on Monday, but I had the day off, (HAHA!!!) so, after re-arranging our bedroom, I ran around to Lowe's and Jo Ann fabrics for the finishing touches. So our bedroom is done! And I love it!!! The walls are a pale powder blue and the curtains are eggplant colored and they fall to the floor on both windows. It's actually a really cool combination. I was a little worried, but it looks awesome. Our bedspread is pale blue with eggplant colored accents, so it goes really well. You almost don't notice the ugly deep blue carpet! My favorite thing in the room is the vanity, though. We had this table that we were using for the computer before we got the computer desk, and an old mirror framed in really dark wood, and there was this huge space on wall in our bedroom. I didn't want to clutter up the wall with pictures and cover my pretty paint job, but I had no idea what to do with that space. I got rowdy watching HGTV one afternoon and saw that they were making a vanity. (Yes, sometimes I do watch HGTV. Don't tell - it'll ruin my bad ass image!) Well, I sprayed some texture on the frame of the mirror and then sponged eggplant and pale blue paint over the texture. Then I hit up JoAnn fabrics for some satiny eggplant colored material, which I draped over the table. I put a couple of cute little picture frames up, and now I have a cute little vanity! Only, the chick at the fabric store is retarded and gave me waaaay too much fabric, so I covered the kittens' bed and seat cushion on the whicker chair in our room with the remainder of the fabric. It looks awesome! Now all I need to do is finish the kitchen, living room, downstairs family room and upstairs hallway bathroom. Sigh . . . .
posted by Arctic Skipper @ 4:44 PM
3 Comments:
Kurin - Japanese Beer
I win!
DAMN! Where were you on Christmas nite when I needed you???!
It's still Japanese, but it's actually Kirin....my mistake.
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