Paint Fumes

I've finally decided to paint the cabinets in my kitchen. I've hated the color ever since we moved in her and my hatred has deepened since we repainted the kitchen walls a year or so ago. I keep thinking I need to save up some money and pay someone because all the websites on how to do it make it sound extremely hard with suggestions of painting with some type of special putty first to make the paint stick and rigging up some kind of thing on the shower curtain rod to hang the doors up to dry. Oookay. So, night before last I grabbed some white paint and some brushes and talked Mark into taking one of the cabinet doors off for me. Since this process involved power tools he happily obliged.

So far, so good, but I've realized that at the rate I'm going it's going to take me at least 2 weeks to complete this project. This is as fast as I can go given the need for two coats per door and on each cabinet and the need for them to dry for 2 hours between coats and overnight before replacing. I only have so much space in which I'm willing to paint and dry doors and that space will hold about 3-4 doors or drawers a day. Add in that both sides of the doors have to be painted and throw in a dash of paranoia about the kids messing with it all if I paint while they're at home and that two weeks may take even longer.

The up side is it's not nonstop painting so I am getting other stuff done. The down side is that I'm going to be sniffing paint fumes quite a bit for awhile. I took some pictures today and I'll post them as soon as I either load Photoshop onto the new computer or Mark tells me where to find this great photo program that is "hidden" on here. Since it doens't involve power tools I'll either have to wait a few weeks or do it myself.

Recalls

Is there anyone out there who has not had something they own, ate or borrowed recalled in the past year? I'm getting tired of it. The latest in the bunch? Some cub scout badges. Somehow that just seems wrong! If nothing else, surely we can rely on the scouts to check things out before they buy. Apparently not. And lucky for us, the den leaders are in charge of collecting all the "bad" ones from their dens to turn into the scout shop. Bleh. Like I needed one more unpleasant job.

Name Tag

Candy over at House 'o Beauchamp tagged me on this.


1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet, current car) Bo Passat
2. YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (favorite ice cream, favorite cookie) Butter Pecan Chocolate Crinkle
3. YOUR FLY “GUY/GIRL” NAME: (first initial first name, first 3 letters last name) D-Denise Ham
4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal) Green Monkey
5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born) Elaine Midland
6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (first 3 letters last name, first 2 letters first name) Hamde
7. SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd favorite color, favorite drink and add” the”) The Black Margarita
8. NASCAR NAME: (first names of your grandfathers) James James (seriously - but they both went by their middle names, which would be Edwin Scott)
9. STRIPPER NAME: (favorite perfume, favorite candy) Musk Lindt Truffle
10. WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s and father’s middle names) Jean Bryan


Looks like I'm supposed to tag 5 more people. I tag:

Sula
Angela
Jenny
Megan
Dawn

You people better be reading my blog.

Bush vetos children's health insurance bill

ARGH! Grrr. I don't usually get too political. And we all knew this would happen. But I'm still hopping mad about it.

Call me a flaming liberal, but I just can't fathom opposing health care for kids!

President Bush on Wednesday vetoed legislation expanding a children's health insurance program by $35 billion over five years.
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"I think that this is probably the most inexplicable veto in the history of the country. It is incomprehensible. It is intolerable. It's unacceptable," said Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, who pleaded with Republicans to help overturn the veto.

I'm w/ Ed on this one.