Paint under my nails

Well, I know that you guys have all been missing my blog! I have spent the last couple of weeks working on Ashah's room. We are almost finished in there!

Just to let you guys know what I have been doing, here is a copy of my "to do" list:

Monday 7-24-06
Paint shelf white (2) coats each side
Put felt pads on back of A's dresser mirror
Move A's furniture back
Clean door hinges
Touch up paint on A's ceiling
Do dishes
Do laundry
Iron clothes
Measure A's window for new mini blinds
Put globe back on A's light

Tuesday 7-25-06
Clean Livingroom floors
Lay down carpet pad under rug
Paint A's desk chair (2 coats)
Paint A's desk (2 coats)
Dishes
Clean/Paint baseboards in Livingroom (2 coats)
Final touch up paint on A's walls
Clean paint supplies, etc out of A's room
Clean Livingroom windows/Scrape old caulk out

Today 7-26-06
Caulk Livingroom windows (Jeff did this!)
Sand hall table to distress (already did it this morning!)
Clean door hardware (done!)
Pay bills (done!)
Do Dishes (done!)
Paint Livingroom windows and trim
Touch up Livingroom wall paint
Paint door opening into Kitchen
Paint trim in A's closet
Paint casing above Livingroom doors
Spray paint door hardware white
Paint A's jewelry box white
Straighten boxes of Garage Sale stuff (done!)
Update blog (done!)

And, these are the things that I would like to have completed by this weekend:
Paint all trim in Hallway
Paint interior side of Front door
Paint casing, baseboards and corner blocks (this needs to be done before Jeff puts them up so that I only have to do touch up work to finish them out)
Clean out Kat's room
Take Garage Sale stuff to April's old house
Stain front threshold

Okay, now here are some handy painting tips that I have learned so far in this Home remodeling journey:
1) To determine if a surface has been painted with latex or oil based paint, rub a tiny bit of alcohol in an isconspicuous place. If the paint comes off, it is latex based! (Yes, it does matter when repainting to know what you are painting over.)
2) Following the above tip, alcohol is great to soak old door hardware in to easily remove old paint. Also good to soak your paint brushes in after cleaning.
3) Before using a roller brush to paint walls, wrap it in masking tape and then pull it off. This will remove all of the little fuzzies that get stuck on the wall!
4) To save a roller or paint brush for the second coat when you don't want to wash it out and wait for it to dry, wrap in in a walmart bag or saran wrap. It will stay nice and moist!
5) To avoid getting paint on your baseboards when painting your wall or vise versa, trim out with the painter's tape and then apply a thin coat of the coler that you want it to stay (if your baseboards are white, paint a thin coat of white over the tape). By the time you have finished the process, the tape that you painted over first will be dry and it will be time to start with the new color. This prevents the new color from seeping through the tape because the thin coat of the original color has already done the seeping and dried, sealing it all up. Was that as clear as mud? Ask me in person if it didn't make sense and I will use my hand gestures to help describe the process! LOL

I am tired!

'Till next time,
Necia

1. Grab the book nearest you, turn to page 18 and find line 4.Eyewitness to America: Pocahontas saves John Smith "strange triumphs and conjurations they made of him, yet he so demeaned..."
2. Stretch out your left arm as far as you can. What can you touch? Box of Kleenex.
3. What is the last thing you watched on TV? That 70's Show
4. Without looking, guess what time it is.7:42
5. Now look at the clock. What is the actual time?7:43
6. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?Nothing but the Freezer (kids are still asleep!)
7. When did you last step outside? What were you doing?Last night, went to grocery store for milk.
8. Before you started this survey, what did you look at?A joke about Global Warming from Linda Causey
9. What are you wearing?Shorts, t-shirt.
10. Did you dream last night?Yep, about beautiful Tuscan pottery!
11. When did you last laugh?Last night, watching TV but I don't remember what it was now :(
12. What is on the walls of the room you are in? Lots. World map, US map, educational posters, bulletin board.
13. Seen anything weird lately?Same as April: Ron's Mule-Faced Woman
14. What do you think of this quiz? Stupid ~ I need to get ready to take Kat to the orthodontist but I have been guilted into taking this quiz by April.
15. What is the last film you saw?Haven't seen a film, but the last movie I saw was Must Love Dogs.
16. If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy?A new house in Wichita Falls
17. Tell me something about you that I don’t know. I pretty much think that everyone know everything about me! Some may not know that I have OCD (just with hobbies, though, not with housework!) I guess you could call it selective OCD!
18. If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt and politics, what would you do? Gravity that effects certain body parts. (I had to go to The Little, Brown Handbook to see if I should be using "effect" or "affect". Silly!)
19. Do you like to dance? I LOVE to dance.
20. What would you say to George Bush if you met him?Nice to meet you?
21. Imagine your first child is a girl. What do you call her?This one isn't hard... Katarina.
22. Imagine your first child is a boy. What do you call him? Kenneth (after Jeff's Dad which is also my Dad's first name).
23. Would you ever consider living abroad? What April said! "Sure. As soon as Ron decides that we need to move class to either Mexico or say, St. John, I'm in."
24. What would you want God to say to you when you reach the pearly gates? I am hoping to slip in unnoticed and then hide behind a lot of my friends in line behind Ron!
25. 3 people who must also do this quiz in their blog: I am going to have to find more friends with blogs.