Paint spots
Most people, when they paint a room, go in, slap some masking tape on, and start painting.
OmegaDad, on the other hand, becomes a perfectionist freak.
First, he finds every. Single. Spot. On the walls that is even slightly scuffed or marred. Then he patches it. Then he sands it. Then he sprays texturizer on it.
Then he masks of every. Single. Piece. Of non-paintable stuff.
Our latest brainstorm was to purchase a paintsprayer, thinking this would make things easier in general.
Bwahahahaha!
Excuse me while OmegaMom goes outside and double over in paroxysms of laughter.
Bwahahaha!
Now we have the opportunity to not only mask things off, but to put plastic all over things!
OmegaDad and OmegaMom spent the morning taping plastic sheeting on the ceiling of our bedroom. Admittedly, this could have been avoided if OmegaMom had wanted the entire bedroom to be the same color, but I’d like sage walls and creamy white ceiling.
Even OmegaDad, the painting perfectionist, said at one point, “Y’know, if this room were even slightly smaller, it would be easier to just use paintrollers.”
Ya think?
Ah, well. OmegaDad is out purchasing WD40 or a similar unguent, needed for the paint spraying machine. When he returns, he will enter into the bedroom, close the door behind himself, put up plastic sheeting and masking tape over the doorway, and spray himself silly in his hermetically sealed bubble.
At least this time he has had the sense to purchase a respirator. Normally when OmegaDad plays with chemicals in a spray format, it’s to clean bathrooms, and his philosophy is that if a little bit is good, a lot should be a lot better. Then he gasses himself, spends the rest of the day in a headachy daze, and leaves the house smelling vaguely like an industrial waste site.
(My whole thought about the spray painter was that it would be handy for such things as, oh, painting our workshed out back–the exterior. Or painting various pieces of furniture.)
It snowed last night. Not much, pretty much just a dusting. More is predicted for tonight.
