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Yes, I made a purchase.  I think it was the right thing to do.  You tell me…

I hired a painter to paint all of the trim, doors and baseboards in my house, along with a few other painting jobs.  He’s doing a great job, but having your house painted basically requires moving.  You don’t have to move it all out of the house, but you do have to move it all away from the walls.  It’s a good, forced spring cleaning.  Does anyone actually do that anymore?  Spring cleaning is something I remember from the 70’s, the smell of Pinesol for days and rooms we couldn’t touch for weeks.  When spring hits, I get spring fever, and the last thing I’m going to do is clean my house.  It should be winter cleaning.  Okay, I’m done with the rabbit trail.

The painter has been getting the paint, but he was working, I was running some errands and we needed a gallon of Black Bean flat paint from Sherwin-Williams.  I was driving right by there, so my choices were to make him stop painting and go get it or I could pick it up for him.  I chose to pick it up for him.  It just made sense.  The whole painting job makes sense.  He needed to work, I needed to get the painting done, and it’s not something I was ever going to get done on my own.

The brown paint looks great, as he used it to paint over my colorful thought bubbles mural.  I miss my mural a little bit, but the bright, wild colors were not calming.  The new color is calming and the consensus is that I have an adult room now.  It was getting a little old hearing people ask which of my kids’ room it is.

Am I in trouble?