We have passed reasonable …

We are into silly.

Yesterday we put coat number FIVE of red onto the livingroom walls. It needs at least one and maybe two more.

I made the discovery through talking to another hockey mom that there is a special primer for dark colors. After four coats of red had been laid down. She also told me that friend of hers had painted a room red once.

It took EIGHT coats of paint.

Sigh.

This is why it is better to purchase paint at paint stores rather than large conglomerate, chain, hardware stores. The employee at a paint store might have informed me that such a primer existed and would be preferable for using underneath a strong color … such as red.

Sigh.

In other news, we got a phone call yesterday and were happily informed that our new bed is coming.

Two weeks early. Now I need to finish painting the livingroom so I can paint our bedroom before the new bed arrives. Here’s the new bed … it’s quite beautiful. We bought our first bedstead used, when we were first married. This is our 20th anniversary gift to each other. We’ve been looking at it with longing eyes for three years now.