“Mum! I had a dream! And the pancakes and…and I don’t hate you anymore! I love you now!”
“So does that mean all this time you HATED me?”
“Yes, but it’s ok because I love you NOW.”
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I am getting quotes for painting the house. Our interior is seriously in need of scrub and clean and new paint job. The house has been inundated with painting professionals and I just have to ask what is it with painters?? Don’t they love their job? A more sorry bunch of people I have never met. They don’t smile, they don’t talk. At first I thought it was my brown skin or my scarf (you may not get it if you’re white and non-Muslim – it’s one of the first things that I worry about when meeting a person for the first time) then I thought they can’t possibly be so many painters that are uncomfortable with a woman in a scarf, surely. So I’ve decided that they are just a sad and sorry mob who wish they had taken a completely different career path.
Just in case you were wondering, we are not doing the paint job ourselves as over the years we have lived in this home, the boys, husband, three cats and I have managed to chip plaster from the corners, scratch the door frames into oblivion, made holes in walls, written on the walls with everything from felt pen to crayon to colouring pencils to permanent markers. SOMEONE and I have a fair idea who it is, has been placing their nose picked BOOGERS on the wall. Shoes have scuffed EVERY INCH of the wall in the hallway and I am not exaggerating. So for us to actually get in there and prep the walls before painting would take us, handypeople we are not, over five years I would say.
Having said all that, the first quote has come back – $5000!!!
We may just be spending the next five years prepping the walls for painting.
Either that or I will be doing night shift for a good year or so to afford this.
$5000!! I wonder if the painter noticed any boogers.
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I saw the video of little Johnny winning his medal of freedom or whatever.
Oh my god.
Like the boy who gets his first bike for his birthday.
If you ask me – the whole of Australia should be getting a medal of freedom because we voted him out! Thanks Dub, you can just send mine in the post.
