Day One

It was with great anticipation this morning that Tally, Caitie and I set off this morning to buy some paint. Our first stop was at Maccas where our favourite barrister, Erin, made us some scrumptious coffees and was titled Tally's "official coffee bitch".

 Next stop was to one of the hardware stores. The guy tinting the paint seemed to be little overwhelmed with a rather large order so asked us if we had something else to do. We wandered off and bought a pack of rollers, brushes and trays from Crazies and returned to wait. After sipping coffee, mmmmmmmmmmm coffee, and chatting with the people who's order was being tinted, (no Andrew, I will not carry your huge buckets of paint for you!) it was finally our turn. After a very close call of me handing over the wrong colour card and realizing at the last second, the first tin of paint was tinted. I couldn't get the green in gloss as they didn't have the right base, so semi-gloss it is. No problems, I can work with that.

 Then it is time to get the purple. "Nope, can't do that one. It needs a deep base and I don't have that." "Ok, how about semi-gloss" "Nope only have white in 1 litre" "OK, how about 2 litre?" (See, I am flexible and can adapt to change, no problems at all. Just ignore the symptoms of stress I am displaying now) "Nope, don't have it in 2 litres either. Have you looked to see if there is another paint which is a similar colour?" Lets note at this stage that this isn't as simple as choosing a new colour as the kitchen cupboards are half painted, and have been that way for just a little amount of time, like since last Easter. Of course due to the way that my life is filled with fantastic luck and fortune, no other paint company makes a colour anything like this awesome purple. So what is the solution to this problem? Well it is simple. The guy orders in more base for me. And how long will that take? Oh around 3 - 5 days. 3 - 5 days of my one week off work to paint the kitchen. There are times when I just love living in a country town. So now the guy has taken my colour card and has written on the back of it what I want as he won't be there next week and is going to have to ask someone else to order it.

 Does anyone want to place a bet on the likelihood of the paint not being ordered and the colour card being lost thereby ensuring that I have no way of matching the colour. I agree, I think that this has a fairly high probability factor. Anyway, behold: the amazing green paint, the very cool kit from Crazies and the not yet obtained purple.


Let me just say finally, that when I tried to add this picture, it was upside down. Yes, it has been one of those days.