Thursday, September 14, 2006

Hand over the Merlot
and no one gets hurt

Merlot dutch boy paint, that is.

Yeah, Tuesday night I painted at the new house. I worked 8 hours at my job, got to the house and finished trimming a window, put one coat of green up in my kitchen, had some grub with Darin and went into the bedroom to put up coat number two of the merlot red color. I was on a ROLL! Ran out of paint, went to get the other gallon of Merlot and I can't find it anywhere. You know, the second gallon of merlot that I had mixed while getting the first gallon so they match all perfectly. And then I come across a gallon of paint labeled "oregon trail". I was half expecting to see little donkey's pulling a covered wagon galloping out of the paint can like in the DOS computer game from 6th grade. I hated that game. I killed my family every time. Every time.

Oh no.. no little donkies pulling a covered wagon.. just the pukiest color like the-first-time-a-babies-tried-carrots-poopy kinda yellow.

Not the one I had mixed.

Not my pretty merlot.

Hmff. So I didn't get my red walls finished. Not even close to finished. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that it's going to take 4 coats of paint. No joke. We have textured walls most of our house and I'm pretty sure:

textured walls + my pretty merlot = I'm the stupidest paint picker outer ever

Yeah, so I was a tad frustrated. Someone went home with my merlot and I got their oregon trail. =/ Prolly the other cute couple at the Menards paint kiosk. Mr. Menard's paint dude and I are tight. He should have known that puke yellow doesn't fit into my decor.

Anywho, no red walls to show you. =(

8 comments:

Dina said...

I laughed out loud at the Oregon Trail memories!!! Hahaha - you crack me up. Love ya!

Kat said...

bummer dude! that sucks
hopefully you'll get more fabulous merlot asap!
so funny about oregon trail- i LOVED that game!!!! the whole family dying part did suck though....

Erin said...

Oh Darcy, I love you! You seriously crack me up! And it probably will take 4 coats. I painted a room a deep burgandy color and it took A LOT of paint!

RACHEL =) said...

Yea, red takes TONS of coats... have learned from experience, and it's not fun!!
BUT... just think how PRETTY it'll look when you're finally done! ;)

amber said...

Ok, first thing. That title made me laugh. Second thing, I had totally forgotten about Oregon Trail. Too funny! Yeah red paint doesn't cover easily. We have red in our kitchen/breakfast area and even the "professionals" had a hard time getting it even. We still have a few streaky spots:(

rev said...

hahaha, ROFLOL, you're too funny. especially explaining the kind of color yellow.... :) and i was glad i didn't puke today, thanx :)

monica said...

You're such a busy bee, I can't believe you have that much energy, but then again you're still young. =) Can't wait to see the walls!

Unknown said...

I don't remember the color name of our red bedroom, however I do remember having heart failure when we did a few coats and I thought it looked all splotchy!! However after it dried, I was good to go! Red is a hard color to paint with and paint over! But, it's so pretty when it's done right!

I always died in the Oregon Trail game too! Snake bite, or dysteria or whatever that word was for getting the RUNS!!! I could never shoot the Buffalo either!

Can't wait for some house pics, I bet it's looking great already!!