You better use it

So when you buy 13 gallons of paint you better use most of it. When you have the sun of mustard walls and the green monster kitchen it's not very hard.  Putty the walls, sand, fix anything that looks weird. You may need to do this more than once.  During the nonstop painting though we still needed to find time and pack. So we shifted our focus to getting moved out of the apartment we have been calling home the last few years.  

Lucky for me the well planning of Katy has allowed us to already have packed half of our apartment.  She has the inside connection when it comes to moving supplies since she works in a dept store.   Boxes of all shapes and sizes, wrapping paper in binds of 100's, a huge box of Styrofoam with various  cardboard shapes and squares. This makes packing tight boxes with all your stuff a sort of fun puzzle.  After a few days a large mountain of boxes begins to grow in the corner of our living room. The book boxes are my favorite to pack because they are simple and you get good satisfaction knowing you have packed a box with 0" square inches to spare and weighs 60 pounds.  It is more interesting though when your cutting up Styrofoam and card board to securely lock all of your large glass serving dishes, and other weird shape kitchen things. There seems to be at least 7 kitchen boxes not including all the cups. Kitchen items seem to be gathered at an alarming rate;  of course target doesn't hurt this process as I have keenly discovered in my few years of marriage.  I was hoping to find that one item that you exclaim aloud, "oh my god I totally forgot about this!", but alas no dice.  Then again I didn't really have time to get into the memory boxes, they just pretty much went into box mountain.

The taping, sanding, and fixing weird stuff, this is the fun part. You get to use your various tools you purchased from the hardware store, and apply your man skills. It ends right about there. Then lay down plastic all over the floor, and prepare for the next 20 hours of painting.  Don't worry it's just a minor thing called physical labor.   As you find out after several days painting takes pretty much all of your muscle groups to complete.  It is a great jump-start to your "I need to get in shape spring is coming" mindset.  There is an upside to all this painting though... it ENDS! :) (at least in its mass quantity). You will not be able to doubt that the results of this multi-day and night affair will make your place look anything but comfortable. It pretty much transforms the place, and you really have that sense of pride set right in.