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Tuesday, August 05, 2003

 
About the lavendar paint...

Maggie and I have been sharing a room since we moved in with my parents (over a year and a half ago) and since I have a few weeks off between semesters I have decided to move into the spare room so we can each have our own rooms. She is moving from a toddler bed to a regular single bed, so we bought her all new bedding and she wanted to paint the walls purple to match her hearts and flowers quilt. Yesterday we went to Home Depot to get the paint. A very helpful man named Art helped us pick out everything we needed and even sold us a gallon of the best paint they have, which was a lovely shade of lavendar, for only $5. Apparently someone had them mix it, didn't like the color & returned it.

The room I'm painting used to be my sister Chrissy's room and for some unknown reason she GLUED pictures to the walls. I'm not quite sure what the reasoning was behind that and why she didn't just use tape or tacks but now I have to scrape the walls. She also stuck an entire galaxy of glow in the dark stars on the walls which are quite hard to see in the daylight on white walls. So this was my project for the day and after about an hour of trying to detect quarter inch size star stickers & peel them off of the walls, I decided I had had enough for a while & took a nap. Yes I know I didn't work for very long, but I have a three week break and am really not in a hurry.

Apparently my mother (who was home from work) and my other sister Brandi decided to also take a nap, leaving Maggie to watch cartoons in the living room. This is nothing unusual, Maggie frequently is the first to wake up in the morning or doesn't take a nap when the rest of us do & she's really good about entertaining herself & staying out of trouble.

When I opened my eyes upon awaking from my slumber, the first thing I noticed was that part of the wall directly across from me had been painted lavendar. I figured my mother was trying to see if the paint was going to cover in one coat or something. I then walked into the living room to check on Maggie and there on the middle of my mother's living room carpet, was the entire gallon of lavendar paint, upside down. I looked at Maggie in shock, and she said, "I don't know how that happened, Mommy." Upon further questioning she then replied that "the kitties knocked it over", then finally admitted that she wanted to paint the room all by herself. How she got the lid off, which usually requires a screw driver to pry off, I still have not figured out.

Finally my shock and disbelief subsiding, I started doing the only thing I could think of...yelling for my mommy. It was at this point that Maggie realized the magnitude of what she had done & started bawling, "Papa (that's what she calls my dad) is going to spank me reallly really really really really really (she said really about 20 times) hard!"

Fortunately the paint was water based and after my mom & I (mostly my mom) got the majority of it up, my dad wet down the nice purple stain on the carpet & used his shop vac to vacuum it all up. I couldn't believe it all came off. I hope Art at Home Depot can mix us up another batch of that lovely top of the line lavendar paint.
Tina 6:01 PM