What I Learned Painting Today

Today I learned many things while painting. Here's the list:

1. Painting with two is much faster than one.
2. Willing assistants to retrieve various odds and ends keeps the process going.
3. Assistants are much more willing when there is hope of a movie when the painting is done.
4. No matter how light the blue paint, it always takes at least two coats to cover.
5. Taking the time to tape things that aren't to be painted is worth every second.
6. No matter how carefully you place the tape, there is always some paint that gets on things that it shouldn't.
7. Be sure to remove the tape before the paint dries.
8. Cleaning up right away is much easier than waiting until later.
9. Painting with two is much more fun than painting alone.
10. My children and I like the same music.
11. Dancing while painting makes it go even faster.
12. Painting works out more muscles than an hour with a professional trainer.
13. Painting a room is a sure way for a recovering perfectionist to fall "off the wagon."
14. A freshly painted room is immensely satisfying.
15. It takes longer to clean and replace the stuff removed to paint in a bathroom than it takes to actually paint the bathroom.
16. A putty knife cleans fresh paint off a tile floor.
17. A paint tray liner is worth the money.
18. No one cleans a bathroom as well as Mom.
19. One bathroom plus two teenage daughters with long hair equals a clogged sink.
20. Teenagers do not seem to understand how to put an empty shampoo bottle in the trash can. Perhaps they miss their tub toys.
21. Tub and tile cleaner does a great job getting rid of tough toliet stains.
22. Clean bathrooms attract less spiders. (Well, that's what I'm telling my children--then maybe they'll try harder to keep their bathroom clean).
23. Painting is a great time to listen to songs for use in multimedia productions.
24. It's a good idea to write down the titles of the good songs that you hear.

A few other things I'd really like to know. Am I the only person who uses a toothbrush to clean the dirt out of the outlets and off the switches? Do other people replace the face plate screws?

Coming soon...the end of the painting saga!