A Little Help From Our Friends

Actually, kind of a LOT of help.

May we please take a moment to hail the fabulosity of Gibb, Barbara, Jeanne, Ellice and Nicole? These beautiful, wonderful, amazing people came to our house yesterday and helped us paint.

I will freely admit that Katherine and I are watching the end of our ropes rapidly receding into the distance. Painting a 1600 square foot apartment was, to put it mildly, daunting.

In addition to some long hours, Gibb and Barbara brought some really necessary expertise to the job, which was really good because K and I have become increasingly ill-equipped to make judgment calls. Our brains are basically running out our ears at this point.

We got three out of six rooms painted, plus about half the hallway. Katherine says we're a little shy of half done, I say we're a little more than half done, which pretty much describes our natures. I tend toward "the glass is half full" and Katherine tends toward "there's a chip in the rim of the glass and it probably means I have a brain tumor."

(Look! We can still make jokes! We're not licked yet!)

Anyway, the sight of the cavalry rolling in was as good for our states of mind as for getting the work done. So thank you, thank you, thank you Gibb, Barbara, Jeanne, Ellice and Nicole.