Bloody Finger(s)

So, for one of the variations of the story of the Bloody Finger, you can look HERE. My version is a little bit different.

My bloody fingers are due to 10+ hours of painting. It started yesterday. I'd about had it with waiting for *someone* to decide what to do about painting and after a brief conversation where I was all like, "Just pick a color, dude," I got my supplies and got busy. It's the MacStewart work ethic--if you want something done, you have to do it yourself. And you might as well do it yourself, because it'll be, like, a thousand times better than anyone else could do it anyway. We totally rock that way, thanks to dad.

But back to the subject at hand. (Hand! HA! Get it? Bloody finger? Subject at hand? Hey...tap, tap, tap. Is this thing on?) Okay, I guess it wasn't that funny.

The entryway is now a soft blue called Mountain Air. I don't particularly like it, but it's okay. Today, I got busy in the hallway and the kitchen. They're the same color since they run into each other--a pale, creamy yellow called Summer Moon. (Both colors are from Behr.) The kitchen is about two-thirds of the way finished. Well, probably more than that. I can't move the refrigerator by myself, so I need some help to get the wall behind it painted, and then I have to take down my under-the-counter radio/CD player to finish the lower half of the wall. Then I just have to finish up around the patio door. I've got my fingers crossed that I can finish it tomorrow since my agency is off for MLK and I'll have a few hours to work on it.

Of course, finishing it will largely depend on how bloody my fingers are in the morning. Sisters, on a regular basis, I work my hands until they're bloody. No joke. But today was just crazy. Even my calluses gave out in the end and got raw. It hurts to wash them, but I know I have to, because there's paint flecks in the broken skin.

And you know what *someone* said to me?

"I think you might want to get a manicure."

Oh yeah. When my hands heal up and my nails grow back, I am SO getting a manicure.