Painting a table you find curbside is fabulous. Think of the advantages. It's not every day you get to:
Spend time and money on something you got from someone else's trash.
Confirm that no local stores carry the brand of chalk paint that you want to use. This in turn gives you the chance to acknowledge you are too impatient to order it online.
Talk your future daughter in law into going with you to an antique mall nearly 2 hours away because they carry the paint. Spend time, gas and toll money to buy product. Go to lunch at a restaurant where a childhood friend is the manager.
Lend future daughter in-law paint brush because you have talked her into painting a piece of furniture as well. Don't do proper preparations, Begin painting even though you will be leaving for zumba in less than an hour.
Use a cheap craft brush to ensure that paint does not go on well because , after all, your good paint brushes are in the shed .
Ditto for paint stirrer.
Use something totally ineffectual to stir paint.
Paint anyway. This also will help ensure paint won't go on properly.
Let yourself get a little discouraged that your piece doesn't look like the beautifully painted one you saw at the antique mall. Try not to think about the fact that owner has painted multiple pieces with this product and she probably prepared better than you.
Ignore the things you should be doing such as writing or cleaning or paying bills. Fixate on poorly painted object on your back porch. Determine to make progress on said item.
Keep looking for a good paint brush.
Decide you will be brave and check in the shed where you know they are stored.
Think about information from MOMD a week or so ago advising that until shed door is fixed it would be good to avoid opening shed door unless absolutely necessary.
Decide looking for a paint brush is absolutely necessary even though other tasks are looming large in subconscious.
Open shed door. Think to yourself: Yep, he was right about the shed door. <insert shoulder shrug and sad face>.
Look around in shed. Be aware that snake or other vermin is just waiting to drop on head for punishment for opening shed door.
Give up looking for paint brushes as there is chance you might find spider or some other unpleasant surprise.
Try and shut shed door. Give up on that.
Use this blog to inform MOMD that shed door won't close.
Use winning smile to soften the blow after he realizes this is what happened. If this does not have desired effect remind him how much you love him and that someday in the near distant future there will be a freshly painted table on the back porch.
After all, it was free. <insert shoulder shrug and impish grin>.