{Painting Thoughts}

• Some things actually do go bump in the night.
• It could just be a loose spindle that you’re painting that echoes in the quiet, old house.
• If it’s dark and raining outside, if it’s dark and quiet inside, if you’re up late painting, every episode of Law & Order: SVU will replay in your mind.
• You will think of every feasible reason why all of those episodes are completely inapplicable to your situation.
• All the same, you refuse to go near the basement.
• You will wonder why there are fake pine needles on your stairs.
• You’ve probably vacuumed the stairs 26 times since Christmas.
• You realize this is a lie.
• Everyone knows what kind of house keeper you are, even if they just met you.
• You would only vacuum that often if you lost some sort of bet.
• You would never enter into some sort of bet where you knew if you lost you would have to clean your stairs 26 times.
• You wonder if people in solitary confinement have silent conversations in their heads like you are doing now.
• You wonder if there is some sort of painting program at prison.
• You realize if you ever did go to jail, you would get eaten alive.
• You console yourself by knowing you will never go to prison.
• Even if you’ve been driving around Oregon with a Colorado license for well over a year.
• You take back any time you ever thought or said anything about Bryce never doing anything around the house.
• It was untrue.
• You start thinking of potential blog post ideas.
• You wonder if you should do a post with painting tips.
• You talk yourself out of this because no one wants to read a post about painting from you, who is no perfectionist.
• You think maybe it’s time for another giveaway.
• You rack you mind for ideas and come up with nothing.
• You wonder if perhaps the readership will come up with their own suggestions.
• You look at the time.

The stairs are almost done so look for a post tomorrow or Saturday with the final pictures.

Katie