Intervention!!

I confess -- this morning in the paint store at 7:20 am, I burst into tears in front of my contractors ... and every painter in the greater Utah county area. When they asked which red I was going to pick, I had to tell them that red (yellow, green, blue, purple, magenta, violet and all related wallpapers) had been voted off the island. And then I cried. You know you have the nicest builder in the world if he will hand you a clean tissue as you begin sobbing in the back room of Jones Paint.

I told him all contractors should have a little section of their tool belt dedicated to the medication of their clients during unexpected frustrations. You know, you got your hammer loop, your tape measurer slot, your V-a-l-i-u-m dispenser. It's just incase the homeowner's paint color turns into banana peel yellow. And I don't mean a quart of banana peel, I'm talking TWENTY GALLONS of banana peel yellow. (Of course I am just being dramatic. It's not that bad.)

Don't worry, crisis averted by being nursed back to mental health by my neighbor, Amy. She keeps an emergency supply of neutral Ivory paint chips around Just In Case. Please remember Impressionist Ivory is way better than Greenmount Silk. I had to learn my lesson the hard way.