Hey y'all -

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And hey if you are in the midst of a color, finish that wall and live with it overnight.

Heh - with high-strung people like W and I, this just isn't possible. Too impatient. Well, our living room is now a rich shade of "carmel sundae" and we love it. All's well that ends well, eh?

I cannot tell you how much paint we've bought to experiment with, paint a little up to see if we like it, etc. Actually I can tell you (because my office is becoming the junk room and many of the cans end up in here...) I've got 15 quart cans bought for experimentation, and 5 gallon cans that may or may not end up being used. And that's not all of it - there's other cans throughout the house. We've told ourselves that it'll be good to have all this paint, for instance when we have to paint go-carts or something like that for the boys.

Actually, I've decided to paint the garage in the style of the Partidge family bus when this is all over. Use up all these colors.

So - pretty much a good weekend. We both woke up feeling awful yesterday - sick, headache, etc. and ended up napping with each other a little in the master bedroom bed, morning and afternoon. W really liked that - said that she was thinking about sleeping in there last night, but decdided she wasn't ready. Still - making incremental progress.

Another thing - our new car started having problems... this is one of those scenarios where, previously, W's and my frustration would have fed on each other. She started getting upset - and I stayed calm - Hey, no problem. It's under warranty, let's just drop it off and it'll be just fine. I'm SO PROUD of myself - I've really got a handle on my negative reactions to things. It makes such a big difference - really helped W to not overreact too, we had it back to us by the end of the day, no problems.

I've found overall I'm not getting upset about things much at all anymore. It's really, really nice to not have to deal with all that in myself.

Bought a few decorative things for the house too which W is really happy with, heck, I am too. Good stuff.

Well, tonight W got in a funky mood, irritable, depressed. Too bad - I'm not sure what to do to help her with these moods. She went to bed early, I went down there a little later and offered massage - good stuff. Well, the good news is that when she gets in these moods and sees that she's targeting me with negativity, she recognises it and leaves the room for awhile. I'm going to try to give her some time alone this week - we've all been sick on and off for three weeks, the boys have been hard lately, I think she just needs to recharge a bit.

Well, later y'all - will catch up with you all soon -

- Bill