Things we learn about!
October 28th, 2006
So I learned several helpful things today. In chronological order I learned:
- Pay attention when you’re painting and holding a very flimsy paint tray. If the paint all rushes to one side when you move, that sucker’s gonna tip.
- Paint only over the drop cloth you laid down. Moving off of the drop cloth defeats the purpose.
- When you’ve spilled deep brown paint all over your beige carpet, screaming “fucking fucking FUCK!” will scare a Chihuahua.
- Keep things like vinegar and paint thinner in the house in case of paint spills.
- (courtesy Google) If you have nothing to clean with, flooding the carpet with water and then vacuuming it with a shop-vac actually WORKS to remove the paint. Seriously, your carpet will look practically unscathed. The shop-vac thing is genius.
- When you’re vacuuming up deep brown paint-filled water, watch that your shop-vac isn’t spewing this same liquid out the back all over your books and cds, and the carpet.
- Screaming “Mother fucking cunt fuck!” at the top of your lungs while you throw books makes even the loud-ass neighbors stop in their tracks.
- Your Chihuahua will abandon you in times of crisis.
- Shop-vacs with towels draped over them can be used to suck up the mess that they just made.
There! Isn’t that fun? We’ve learned lots and lots. Now it’s snack and TV time. Also it’s “Remind yourself why you hate to paint.” time, too.
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Only I scared a siamese instead, and I still have her painted paw prints all over my comforter.
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