Failed projects = Whiny Wednesday!

A little lack of blogging lately....distracted by real life. :) With 3 weeks left of school (and one of those weeks being 4 days filled with events that require parent attendance - yes, awards assemblies, talent show, field day, I'm talking about you) I have been busy fulfilling my to-do lists that are not kid friendly. So I've been making my dentist appointments, planting our garden (for the 3rd time), oil changes, blah, blah, blah. One such appointment I've been putting off is having our carpets cleaned in the kids' bedrooms. So late last night, I had everyone haul everything out of their room that was on the floor and moved to our living room. Here's a view of the junk treasures. Seriously, all of this was on their floor. And I'm even a person who detests clutter on the floor. We are obviously doing some major cleanout before this goes back into anyone's room. ANYWAY. This morning Marty was asking me what time the cleaners were coming and it dawned on me that I did not receive my usual confirmation phone call yesterday. I ran to check my calendar, and sure enough, they are scheduled for FRIDAY. Which means my spare living room will look like this until FRIDAY. No biggie, more time to clean out, right?

After dropping the girls off this morning I do a check of their rooms and decided with an almost empty room and an almost empty schedule I could tackle a project I have put off forever - painting the wall behind Avery's bed green. I grabbed my leftover paint samples and threw a little on the wall to make myself commit to the project and I was off to Lowe's for some supplies. Came home, fed the boy lunch, made sure he was down for the nap and I was ready to PAINT. Cleaned and assembled all needed tools, grabbed the blue tape and started to wipe down the walls. Hmm, there seemed to be a little mud stuck on the wall in a place or two. Strange. How would mud get behind her bed? A little scrubbing revealed a tiny hole. And then another. And another. Then it hit me. Could I possibly be seeing termite damage? Surely not. Surely. A minute later, I'm going straight to the phone book to call Terminex and schedule an inspection. There's no way I'm playing around with even the REMOTE possibility of termites. So now I can't paint. And now her room has to stay like this until the inspection is over. 2 failed projects + possible termites = a not so good day. Oh well. At least I updated the blog, right?

I'm going to include a rant here just for a moment. Of course I went straight to Google and searched for signs of termite damage. I thought it would be helpful to view the images so I could compare what I was seeing at our house. Why does every image search on Google have to be so severely disturbing? The first 4 pages are filled with homes that are literally DESTROYED by termites. Like there is half a wall left after the termites have their way. I would consider that a level 10 on the termite destruction scale. Since my house is still standing, and I'm only looking at 4 pin holes in a wall, I'm guessing we would be a level 1 or 2, if we have anything at all. Where are those pictures? I don't think they are on google images. A month or so ago, when Nathan had allergies to the extent that his eye swelled shut, I did an image search of allergic reaction. Well of course, every creature that has had some life threatening, disfiguring, allergic reaction to their eyes spanned the first handful of pages. Why don't they lead in with a level 1 and work their way up? It really irks me and puts me in a foul mood. Some people have "Wordless Wednesday" posts on their blog. Consider this my first entry of "Whiny Wednesday". It's much more appropriate.