Painting Vacation

This week begins our painting vacation. J. has the whole week off from work, and I have the last three days. The to-do list includes:
-removing wallpaper from the dining room and kitchen
-painting the living room, dining room and kitchen ("woodland snow")
-painting the office walls ("tea stain") and the trim ("white")
-replacing several of the outlets and covers
-flipping the dining room light so it points upward
-some touchup work in the blue bathroom
-tiling a wooden drink tray, which will serve as a test of technique for the upcoming passthrough project
-some odds and ends, like rehanging some of the blinds so that they roll up right
-J. would like to change the living room lights for recessed, although I would rather add a storm door. Most likely, we won't have time for either.

We also plan to take advantage of the already paid-for daycare and see a movie matinée. And there's discussion of trying to recreate the vanilla vodka smoothies that we had two summers ago at a super swanky DC hotel. Will report back on all accounts at the end of the week.