I should be priming.....

I should be in the extra bedroom priming the walls to get rid of the navy bottom half of the room. I should actually be at work. I have a raging sore throat and one ear. Talking is out of the question today....too sore.

I have company coming again in another week and a half. A&T and T's folks are going to be here for a night and a day. Coming to get the mattress, dresser, and anything else I can give to A&T. With no truck anymore, I am not delivering anymore. But I like company...so this is cool.

I really want to have that bedroom painted when they get here. I got the wallpaper border stripped and patched and sanded so far...now it needs primer to hide the navy blue. I will probably paint one wall, if not all, the color of the kitchen. I am NOT buying more paint...I have almost 5 gal of the kitchen color and am gonna use it. If someone objects to the color being the same...they can just turn off the light so they won't see it....hee hee.

I still have a lot of painting to do in here. The hallway from kitchen to the front door still needs done. My room needs done. Woodwork still needs done. The front room should be done again, too, but I don't know what color. The doors need done (was too cold to paint them...metal doors) now that it has warmed up. For that matter...the garage could us a coat to clean it up. Oh lord, I don't even want to think about moving all that crap in the garage to paint....aaarrrggghh.

It is a very gloomy day today and that isn't helping matters much either. I would love to curl up in a ball and alternately read my book and watch movies. But if I am gonna play hookey....I should get something accomplished. Painting will not aggravate my sore throat. So I should paint.

Speaking of painting.....I bought all the needed supplies Saturday to start my multi-canvas painting for the big, blank wall in the family room. I have one, maybe two, of the three canvases figured out in my head....the third will come. I have not painted with oils for many, many years. The paints I bought are water soluble...no more chemicals!!!! I cannot stand the smell of turpentine. Even the low odor stuff was enough to make my head hurt. So we will see how these handle in comparison to regular oil paints. Play time!!! I haven't painted on bigger canvases before either...so this will be an experiment all round. The canvases are 30" x 40"...big! I am doing a landscape...mostly made up from photos taken of things I liked. A tree here, a fencepost there, and a barn thrown in for good measure. I will have to get out all the pictures I took in Amish country....the fields were gorgeous with the corn all shocked and the fall colors. That trip was in '94....and it has been in my head for all this time. Oh well...when the new easel gets here this week it will kill me until I can start. Patience.....

Must go try to eat breakfast. Tummy is complaining...throat is revolting. Later.....