And on the 7th day, She rested

because it's raining.

 

I've been painting non-stop for 7 days (with the exception of a lovely lunch and some serious bargain hunting with my DDFF on Thursday,) and I'm dog ass tired.  I've showered and shaved and showered and shaved and, while all the blue paint comes off quite nicely, the freakishly strong and resistant primer remains on my feet and legs and arms.  It's been there since Monday.

 

We were going to be able to finish up the house today, so we thought.  We need a super duper speedy once over second coat kind of deal, to paint the trim satin white, and to paint the foundation.  At the very least we'd get it all started and the rest could be finished after work tomorrow, etc.  But nope.  There's a storm.  And we desperately need the rain -- but we also need to finish the freaking house.

 

We would have finished painting a normal house days ago.  B and I make a great team and we both have extensive painting experience, so we have it down.  But, see, our house is not a normal house.  Nope.  The owners before us (or before them?  I don't know) put cedar siding on the entire house.  And then they stained it some sort of strange steel color.  But check it out - they chose bizarre siding that doesn't overlap in a plank style, nope, it has ridges, and they installed it sideways, so you have to go in by hand with a tiny little toothbrush looking thing to get the bloody paint into the "I'm a bonehead idiot who doesn't know how to install my siding" crevices and ridges.  And, as if that wasn't enough, when they stained it, they didn't do the whole toothbrush looking thing, so there is still exposed wood in some places!  So, not only do we have to roll the thing in 1.5 inch knit rollers, we have to go in and cram paint into the devil's ass crack a zillion and twelve times more than once -- with primer and paint!!!   And sweet jesus on white bread, they even pussed out when it came to painting the foundation.  We have exposed foundation on 3 sides of the house.  Our house is on a hill, so part of the basement is under ground, part of it is not.  Two of the 3 sides has minimal foundation exposure, but the third exposed side is 1/2 foundation.  The previous owners painted the foundation on the two least exposed side, but left the largely exposed side unpainted with drips and drops and streaks of the strange steel color from the house.  So that side is going to take 2 or 3 coats of color.  Wonderful, eh?  Fucking morons.

 

Not that I'm bitter or anything.