To Much Paint, No Key

Well, today has been a interesting day to stay the least...and it's not over yet. Cherie and I have had a busy week full of all kinds of adventures. Cherie works at LifeTalk Radio headquarters in Collegedale, TN and she decided to get some extra hours in this week before school starts. I was hanging out there working some freelance web work when they asked Cherie to go beyond her job description of answering phones to plant some tuplips and re-paint part of the studio. I got caught up in the whole thing and offered to help. I enjoy painting every once in a while and I didn't mind helping out.

Now you have to understand that the reason they needed a re-painting job is because the walls were looking all scuffed up. The walls were painted with flat paint and the dark red color made it easy to see the scuff marks. So, they got what they were told was better quality flat paint and told us to go for it. We did our best, taping all the edges, painting all but one wall, only to find out that the walls scuffed worse then they did before we started! Wonderful. All you had to do was rub your finger on the wall and it turned chalky white. We couldn't wait to get started painting the whole thing over again. While we waited for the new semi-gloss paint to arrive I practiced writing Spanish on the wall and Cherie scratched in a nice looking heart.

We went out and had a nice lunch at El Madador and then came back to resume painting. We were a little late to the meeting tonight but we finally finished everything so we don't have to face it tomorrow morning. It looks good and I think we're on our way to being professional painters.

When we got back to the house tonight, I realized I didn't have my key to the house. I couldn't believe it! I had never locked myself out of that house before. So we were faced with either giving Mrs. Jensen a heart attack by knocking on her window or finding somewhere to sleep. I ended up calling Donald and he didn't hesitate to have us over to his house - such a good friend.
We're here at his house now and I'm so glad that we got locked out of ours! Quitze and Sarah came home and I got some great missionary advice from Sarah. We had a good talk about her time in Peru and my upcoming adventures in Honduras. It's been a blessing already and I thank God for being so awesome. It's best to just laugh at the crazy things that happen to us. God has all kinds of great surprises just waiting to spice up our lives.