OT - Rough Week - Need Prayers - Update

I want to thank all of you for the wonderful posts of good thoughts and
prayers. It's been a comfort. My friend, Brenda, is still healing from the
surgery and won't start treatments for a bit. But she's hanging in there for
now. She appreciates all the prayers and good thoughts and is touched by
everyone's thoughtfulness.

As far as the house goes. It's finally coming together. We close Thursday
afternoon and plan to start painting that night. It has all turned out ok so
far. I'm still kind of holding my breathe until we have actually signed our
life away.

Thank you all again for your thoughtfulness.

Hugs,
Mika

Just a feeble thought before coffee here - If you're going to be painting at
night and a ceiling happens to be on the list - do you know that they make
ceiling paint now that goes on 'pink' and later turns white? I only see
that done on HGTV, don't know how it goes. It does sound like a very
helpful product. It is just hard, hard to see where you are, where you've
been and if you missed a spot. Polly

"Mika" wrote in message
...
I want to thank all of you for the wonderful posts of good thoughts and
prayers. It's been a comfort. My friend, Brenda, is still healing from the
surgery and won't start treatments for a bit. But she's hanging in there
for now. She appreciates all the prayers and good thoughts and is touched
by everyone's thoughtfulness.

As far as the house goes. It's finally coming together. We close Thursday
afternoon and plan to start painting that night. It has all turned out ok
so far. I'm still kind of holding my breathe until we have actually signed
our life away.

Thank you all again for your thoughtfulness.

Hugs,
Mika

I saw an ad for that stuff the other day. Looked like a smart idea.
Bet our expert Kathy knows about that kind of thing. I imagine Mika
will be doing scrubbing and prep work long into the night and maybe
painting during the day? I bet this time next week she will be pretty
sick of painting. (btdt, but oh worth the work!)
Congrats on the place Mika. So glad it is getting close. Continued
thoughts and prayers for your friend.
Hugs, Taria



Polly Esther wrote:
Just a feeble thought before coffee here - If you're going to be painting at
night and a ceiling happens to be on the list - do you know that they make
ceiling paint now that goes on 'pink' and later turns white? I only see
that done on HGTV, don't know how it goes. It does sound like a very
helpful product. It is just hard, hard to see where you are, where you've
been and if you missed a spot. Polly

Polly Esther wrote:
Just a feeble thought before coffee here - If you're going to be painting at
night and a ceiling happens to be on the list - do you know that they make
ceiling paint now that goes on 'pink' and later turns white? I only see
that done on HGTV, don't know how it goes. It does sound like a very
helpful product. It is just hard, hard to see where you are, where you've
been and if you missed a spot. Polly

The 'pink' ceiling paint does work very well. There is one feature to
note, though. After it has dried to white, if you happen to experience
a leak in the ceiling it will turn pink again until the leak dries.

The painter who did our kitchen ceiling a few years ago was pretty
shocked when he opened the paint container that I handed to him. When
he saw the pink, he looked at me in horror and asked "do you LIKE this
color?" English not being his first language, it took me some time to
convince him to just try it!

Rita L.

Rita L. in MA - One-eyed Mutant Ninja Quilter :-)

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"Mika" wrote:

I want to thank all of you for the wonderful posts of good thoughts and
prayers. It's been a comfort. My friend, Brenda, is still healing from the
surgery and won't start treatments for a bit. But she's hanging in there for
now. She appreciates all the prayers and good thoughts and is touched by
everyone's thoughtfulness.

As far as the house goes. It's finally coming together. We close Thursday
afternoon and plan to start painting that night. It has all turned out ok so
far. I'm still kind of holding my breathe until we have actually signed our
life away.

Thank you all again for your thoughtfulness.

Hugs,
Mika


Woohoo! Kim, I'm so glad things seem to be improving! But don't hold
your breath -- we might need to send the paramedics and delay the house
closing. :O

--
Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas
sw.foster1 (at) gmail (dot) com (remove/change the obvious)
http://www.sandymike.net

But that would be a really good thing, right? You'd notice a leak
immediately.
Roberta in D

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:00:28 -0400, "Rita L. in MA"
wrote:

Polly Esther wrote:
Just a feeble thought before coffee here - If you're going to be painting at
night and a ceiling happens to be on the list - do you know that they make
ceiling paint now that goes on 'pink' and later turns white? I only see
that done on HGTV, don't know how it goes. It does sound like a very
helpful product. It is just hard, hard to see where you are, where you've
been and if you missed a spot. Polly

The 'pink' ceiling paint does work very well. There is one feature to
note, though. After it has dried to white, if you happen to experience
a leak in the ceiling it will turn pink again until the leak dries.

The painter who did our kitchen ceiling a few years ago was pretty
shocked when he opened the paint container that I handed to him. When
he saw the pink, he looked at me in horror and asked "do you LIKE this
color?" English not being his first language, it took me some time to
convince him to just try it!

Rita L.

Rita L. in MA - One-eyed Mutant Ninja Quilter :-)

Wow! I've never seen it Polly. It's not very often that I get to watch HGTV
though. I'll have to check into it. I think we'll mostly be putting the
primer on the walls tomorrow night though. The walls have almost 50 years of
nicotine built up.

Hugs,
Mika

"Polly Esther" wrote in message
...
Just a feeble thought before coffee here - If you're going to be painting
at night and a ceiling happens to be on the list - do you know that they
make ceiling paint now that goes on 'pink' and later turns white? I only
see that done on HGTV, don't know how it goes. It does sound like a very
helpful product. It is just hard, hard to see where you are, where you've
been and if you missed a spot. Polly

"Mika" wrote in message
...
I want to thank all of you for the wonderful posts of good thoughts and
prayers. It's been a comfort. My friend, Brenda, is still healing from the
surgery and won't start treatments for a bit. But she's hanging in there
for now. She appreciates all the prayers and good thoughts and is touched
by everyone's thoughtfulness.

As far as the house goes. It's finally coming together. We close Thursday
afternoon and plan to start painting that night. It has all turned out ok
so far. I'm still kind of holding my breathe until we have actually
signed our life away.

Thank you all again for your thoughtfulness.

Hugs,
Mika

Polly Esther wrote:
Just a feeble thought before coffee here - If you're going to be painting at
night and a ceiling happens to be on the list - do you know that they make
ceiling paint now that goes on 'pink' and later turns white? I only see
that done on HGTV, don't know how it goes. It does sound like a very
helpful product. It is just hard, hard to see where you are, where you've
been and if you missed a spot. Polly

I've seen it in action, it works very well. That being said it was
being brushed on and DF said he was having a little trouble seeing
where he had painted as it was changing colour so quickly, so it
probably works better with a roller.

--
Melinda
http://cust.idl.com.au/athol

You got it Taria. Got to scrub the walls and primer it first to cover the
nicotine stains. Then the paint. Oh I can't wait to see the transformation.
I took my Brother embroidery machine, Brother workhorse machine and HQ16 all
to the shop last week for the annual tune-up while everything is all packed
up. Today I picked up the Brothers and noticed a really pretty embroidered
valance over the window in the shop. I was talking to the girls about
making something like that for two of the bedrooms. The shop owner went
through some of her books and gave me three curtain books. I am so excited
and can't wait to get started now.

Hugs,
Mika


"Taria" wrote in message
...
I saw an ad for that stuff the other day. Looked like a smart idea.
Bet our expert Kathy knows about that kind of thing. I imagine Mika
will be doing scrubbing and prep work long into the night and maybe
painting during the day? I bet this time next week she will be pretty
sick of painting. (btdt, but oh worth the work!)
Congrats on the place Mika. So glad it is getting close. Continued
thoughts and prayers for your friend.
Hugs, Taria



Polly Esther wrote:
Just a feeble thought before coffee here - If you're going to be painting
at night and a ceiling happens to be on the list - do you know that they
make ceiling paint now that goes on 'pink' and later turns white? I only
see that done on HGTV, don't know how it goes. It does sound like a very
helpful product. It is just hard, hard to see where you are, where
you've been and if you missed a spot. Polly

"Sandy" wrote in message
...
In article ,

Woohoo! Kim, I'm so glad things seem to be improving! But don't hold
your breath -- we might need to send the paramedics and delay the house
closing. :O


LOLOLOL ok Sandy you got me on that one. I promise not to hold my breathe
any longer. We definitely do NOT want to delay the closing any longer. That
will be one less emergency run the paramedics have to make too.

Hugs,
Mika