We started out this morning (after lovely Lance got some extra rest) at the Home Depot. We wandered for quite some time staring at the most fascinating things -- things like light fixtures, toilets, doors, tiles and wood stain (WOO!). We ended up leaving with a new front door knob and deadlock for the house so when we first move in we can install them ourselves and have different locks. We also picked up a new paint brush which is very... nice. Home Depot started ranking things so you supposedly don't have to think as much when you buy. You can get Economy-->Good-->Better-->Best. To me it kind of yelled at you "YOU ARE CHEAP IF YOU DON'T SPRING FOR THE BEST AND THE OTHER ONES SUCK!" but that's okay. I am happy to announce that we spent the extra $3 and bought ourselves a "best" rated paint brush! Also, quick side note about the Home Depot: I haven't been there much, but every time it was like pulling teeth to get ANYONE to help you out. Today that places was FLOODED with employees. They were everywhere! You couldn't go up or down an aisle without someone asking if you needed assistance and sometimes the employees traveled in packs so if you did need help one would break off from the mother ship and the rest would continue their journey. It was nice... except today we didn't need any help with anything. I am sure when we return to buy our primer and get our new fencing that we'll have to stand in the middle of the store and sing Karma Chameleon to get anyone's attention.
After the Home Depot we headed up to Walmart to buy a stainless steel trash can. We found a Simple Human one we loved at Crate and Barrel but it was ridiculously expensive for something that was going to hold trash so we found a comparable one at Walmart (even made by the same company, just their "economy" brand) and grabbed that. We also picked up our paint shirts so we have something to wear while we're painting. One of us (me) packed up everything that we wouldn't mind ruining and old left out clothes we regularly wear.
From Walmart we headed back to Magnolia and grabbed lunch at Niko's Gyros in downtown Magnolia. If you are looking for amazing greek food, try this place! We LOVE their gyros and they have an awesome greek salad. After lunching for a bit and playing with the dogs, we headed to Builders Hardware and Supply on 15th avenue. That store is confusing to say the least. You are bombarded with thousands of knobs and handles and we were a little lost. There also seemed to be no one working there so after wandering around and locking and unlocking tons of different doors and touching all their germ ridden knobs, we headed to Miller. Miller Paint is close by and a locally owned company so we thought we'd support local and buy some stuff from there. We're getting all of our colored paint from them (I can't wait to test the colors! The testers are sitting in the hallway waiting, too!) and we picked up an extra paint brush, a bucket holder for the ladder, a few rollers and this amazing "push button" roller that extends to 9 feet that you can screw any hand roller on top of. It will be perfect for our super high ceilings and walls. Leave it to me to be excited about a paint roller! But seriously - you push a button and it extends! How handy is that!
Anyways, after our super exciting day we're ready to have some dinner then hopefully it's still light enough to take the boys (the dogs) to the park so they can play a while. Tomorrow will be even more exciting - HAIRCUTS! Yep. That's the Dyson life.
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