Ow

[morsla]

Painting weekend contained much painting (of houses, this time!). And pain, though I think that's necessary when spelling it out. I have several newly discovered muscles, all of which can clearly say "Ow!" when requested to move.

aeliel and I stayed at the lovely umbra_mentis's house on Friday and Saturday nights - replacing long drives back to Somerville with good company and good food. We had some help from Em (Saturday & Sunday morning), Wally (Saturday and half of Sunday) and Robyn (Saturday), and got a fair bit of work done.

Yesterday was a long, long day. aeliel and I got home after midnight, after painting for a little over thirteen hours. We still haven't finished everything, so I guess we'll move the furniture into the middle of each room... there are two wallpaper borders to go up, and a few rough patches to fix. Still, pretty good for two days of work. Borders will probably need to wait until we have extra hands to help - even if we hadn't been exhausted and needing to go home, I don't think the two of us could have put them up last night.

I still like painting, despite it eating my weekend. I think the rest of the house will gradually get some more colour over the years - like a big cherry blossom mural on the bedroom walls, 'cos we can :)

Comments

[umbra-mentis.livejournal.com]

Ouch - if by the end of the move on Wednesday the place isn't quite liveable feel free to pack a bag and I'll pull out the sofa bed for you again.
Let me know when you want to put up the borders - I can nip over and give you a hand.

[morsla.livejournal.com]

Thankyou!

We should be able to get everything in an inhabitable state by Wednesday. Louise has managed to find a place selling wallpaper paste, so we might try to finish that particular job on Thursday night.

[umbra-mentis.livejournal.com]

No probs - just let me know exactly when/if you need my hands (and presumably the rest of me) to help out. :)

[aeduna.livejournal.com]

Heh, it wasn't until you said 'wallpaper' that I realised you didn't mean 40K models :)

[morsla.livejournal.com]

:D

It's been a confusing week - painting (models) vs painting (houses), work (layout) vs work (uni).