Painting the living room

For Xmas, Erica and Tony gave Leina a bucket of paint and a day's labor toward painting a room of her choice. This past Saturday, the gift was finally redeemed. Leina has been going back and forth between colors for several weeks. It was down between Brown Bread and Haze. She wanted it to be dark. Finally, with minimum cajoling from her accomplices, she chose Haze, the lighter of the two colors. She didn't take as long to decide which room to paint: her big dining/living room area.

They got up early on Saturday and did all the taping and washing and painted the ceiling, then painted part of the hall and then it was onto the big room. Leina spent most of the time on her knees painting the trim in her room, while Angie did the same in her room, leaving Erica and Tony with the rollers. Leina bought them lunch at Sub Station in West Portal, splitting a pastrami sub and drinking it in the backyard, where Leina looked jealously at her neighbor's deck and wished she had one herself.

Tony didn't do a great job painting, and they almost ran out of paint, but they finished in time for Leina to go and attend Auntie's Buddhist Church conference dinner in Oakland. Auntie wouldn't save her a seat, so Leina had to hurry.

She is pretty sure she wishes she had a darker shade, despite what everyone else said. But she was too nice to ask anyone to help her repaint.