aw, fucking paint color trouble!

this weekend was supposed to be split into painting my bedroom and getting out and enjoying the sunshine. rollerblading was in the cards. so was lots of rides on the motorbike to destinations unknown. oh, but then i started painting. i got about a wall done in the color i'd chosen ("stella blue") and decided i hated it. so i bitched about it to my mom, whom i call when i have home decorating dilemmas because her place looks so amazing and, well, she's my mom, and then went to pick up a gallon of the other color i'd thought about putting up ("emerson garden"). somehow, while at the paint shop, i got my head turned towards another green ("seaweed") and bought that instead. now i'm sitting in my bedroom the next morning, everything still mostly covered in plastic, staring at one wall with some streaks of a green i don't particularly like over the original yellow and one wall covered in a blue that's starting to grow on me ... i think ... or not.

this is why i design on the computer. i need to be able to see the thing i imagined in my head "on paper." i need to be able to tweak and adjust it. and i need to be able to scrap the idea altogether without having to actually spend several hours recovering from my error. either that or i need to be more patient with processes that aren't computer based.

anyways, my current idea is to try a green up against the blue. so one wall would be all blue and three would be all green. mom says it sounds "weird" but, well, it's worth trying. i'll probably end up with four walls of blue but the effort involved in giving the crazy, weird idea a chance is fairly small and worth the result. besides, more than one person thought painting my living room a dark red was nuts. now what do you think, huh?? thhhpptt!

oh, and if you're wondering if this is a hereditary trait, it is. when my parents painted their living room and dining room, they sat around with ... what was it, mom? twelve pints of different versions of what was basically white trying to decide on a color. so it's not just me.