Put on my blue suede shoes, and I boarded the plane...

WAIIIIIIIIIT.... stop the presses. My shoes are not blue suede. They're now light blue, leathery paint covered Adidas sneakers. I did however board the plane just before the asscrack of dawn on Monday.

While there is a general cost to home improvements, there has been an incidental cost of $3,040.
Paint for week 3 of the NFL: $250
Not doing research for week 4 of Kevin's (my brother) Knockout Pool: $2200
Making a second poor choice for week 4 in the "loser's pool": $800
The aforementioned now blue Adidas sneakers: $40
Weekends of aggravation and soreness: Definitely not priceless...

So week 5? of the NFL... I think its week 5, at least that's what someone told me. Consisted of another weekend of painting. Di swung over Friday afternoon and we started workin on the second coats of mountain honey and sweet sage... or maybe mountain sage and sweet honey... ok, the YELLOW and the GREEN rooms. What's left? The BLUE room! We picked Yacht Harbor. Where they come up with these names? I mean yeah harbor goes with yacht, but it could have been shipwreck yacht, which might provide some insight for these projects.. Unfortunately Di had to call it a short weekend, but she's put in plenty of hard working time. Wanna hear something funny, Bryce made soup again on Saturday. I spent Sat afternoon/evening working on the blue room, to get the first coat down. I made it over to Chez Bryce around 11 pm, and after a few pieces of cheese, was ready for a few hours of wii.

Sunday, I rolled off the air mattress... groaned, and said "oh boy, another day of blue." I rocked and rolled through, and only broke one paint roller extender. DO NOT BUY THE PLASTIC ONES! So, during most of the Giant game, I finished up coat #2 of the blue room. Funny thing, I was even able to paint over the spackle spots in the living and dining rooms I had to do because someone could not wait 10 minutes for me to do that before painting the second coat. Thou shalt remain nameless.

End result, a nice blue room, clean floors ready to be sanded... and another check out the door.

FYI: I didn't paint that picture with the really cool swirly effect, that's called glare.

What's next? the chicken or the egg? Floors get done Thurs, Fri, Mon and maybe Tues. Furniture comes on Friday! I'll finally have a bed up there. Just need to figure out the TV stand issue, so I can hook all those goodies up! I also plan on trimming some hedges this weekend, and fertilizing the lawn.