paint dilemmas and other stuff

lowe's.. ohhh lowe's.

yesterday i went to get some more paint to finish the kitchen. their green wasn't coming out and they were having trouble and i was there for an hour. yep, a whole hour! talk about a waste of time. not to mention, when alex started painting with it, it looked lighter than what was already on the wall.... but we figured it would dry to the right color.

NOPE!!!!

wrong color. off by a lot actually. so now i have to go back to lowe's today, get a refund and hopefully a free can of paint in the correct color. which i don't even know if they can give me the correct color.. so that should be interesting! but talk about a pain in the rear.. we wanted to have everything completed last night and then hit this paint snag. alex was pretty livid. hopefully it goes smoothly at lowe's.. i mean, when i hand them a paint swatch, shouldn't they be able to match it??!??

anyway.. we have three showings today even though we're under contract. which means we have to keep our house looking nice and clean and put together. after this weekend it will be nice to start moving things.

it's freezing here at work which makes me a little less productive. i turned the a/c off but i don't think it's making a difference. i can't turn my heater on because the girl in the other room is on the same breaker as me and has her heater on, so if i turned mine on it would flip the breaker and i'd take out power to three computers. so i have my blanket on and i'm hungry and it's pretty awful.

i have class tonight.. it's the last full class thank goodness. it's very easy and the teacher just drags it out insanely. all i want is for her to do the chapter, and not include any personal stories, but honestly.. i think i've heard more personal stories over these 8 classes (not including 2 test classes) than i have about what's in the chapters. sure they're supposed to relate but i don't care about a couple you sold a house to 10 years ago or that you had to flip through a big book before the mls went online. so now tonight we're doing 2 chapters and then reviewing which means i'll be there the whole 6-9 because it usually takes over an hour to do one chapter, let alone two plus reviewing!! not looking forward to it. plus the class is so small i can't not pay attention because she'll notice. needless to say, i can't wait until this class is over! i might mention some of this in my review of her.

i also just want warmer weather. is that so much to ask? and maybe for gas prices to go down. you can't tell me that supply and demand is balanced at this point. there's obviously tons of supply and not as much demand and yet the price keeps going up. whyy?? oh yeah, greed. our country is really out of wack. school lunches are terrible and making the kids fat which will turn them into fat adults which our health care system can barely support. i know it's hard to lose weight but if you're going to get diabetes later in life because you're fat now.. just lose the weight and you won't get diabetes (in most cases).. i just don't get it. everyone is SO lazy!

i digress.. it's only tuesday and and i hate that the workweek is 5 days long. ALSO, i got a very late notice invite to a shower in a couple weeks.. on a weekend that i'm already super busy during. so now i'm going to have to take off work so i can get the stuff done that i need to do. it's insane. late notice though.. seriously? invites for showers should be out at least a month in advance, not 2 weeks. sorry for the venting. i should get back to work.... in my ice-cube.