picking paint

I am picking out paint for the small room next to the bathroom. This is a room that is off the dining room and acts as a passage way to the only closet in the house and the only bathroom in the house. And, that's what we've always called it - "The Room By The Bathroom." This room was carpeted. Unfortunately, the three untrained small little PIA (pain in the a**) dogs love using this room as their personal potty parlor. Needless to say, the carpet is just nasty. I'd had enough. Previously, I had purchased some flooring that is a really neat product. It's these vinyl planks that look like hardwood. But they are basically indestructible, and impervious to water/liquid. I had intended to use this for the La Casita. La Casita was Aunt Mary's little house that I was in the process, off and on, of trying to remodel so I could live in it. This process was never completed, and now I find myself living in Mama's house with Aunt Mary. Since I already had the flooring, all I'd have to pay for was the installation. I had arranged for the guy to come to Falfurrias, from Corpus, this past Saturday. He was two hours late. He stopped to get this under-flooring wood stuff and staples for his staple gun thing. (Notice my higly technical construction lingo...) Well. He was fixin' to start stapling when, lo and behold, WRONG SIZE STAPLES!!! Did I mention that Falfurrias' hardware stores did not have staples to fit his stapler thing-y??  And, that the closest place that MIGHT have the right size staples was about 35 minutes away and that it was already 2:30 on a Saturday afternoon and the guy and his helpe still had to drive back to Corpus to go home??? And, he can't come back till MAYBE Wednesday. Crap. So, the furniture that was in this room is still parked in the living room. There's 4 boxes of flooring, 2 huge pieces of the plywood floor stuff, a big bucket of glue covered with plastic in the middle of the room. So... what did I do??? Decide to paint the room.  So, after about 5 trips to Ace Hardware to find paint, and after trying no fewer that 9 paint colors, I picked the color, which was actually the first one I t ried... It's called "Hey There." Who comes up with these names? Anyway, it's a soft, green that is sort of on the yellow-ish side of green. It's a departure from the off-white that's there now, to be sure. But, I've been feeling a little on the down side, having lost Mama and all, and thought it would be fun to have something kind of cheerfull and spring-ish.... So, just when I'd made up my mind, and was heading to Ace Hardware, Aunt Mary informs me that yellow and green are her least favorite two colors.

Jeez.