Rink Mink

I blame the Travel Sized One for this... I have the paint bug... So if you need a room painted this week, I am your guy.

Oh yeah. I am actually home this week which is pretty cool. I have it worked out with the project I am on to be onsite 2 weeks and off 1 week. So a little more time with the Travel Sized One. Good times (Except she is on nights in the PICU)! The PICU (Pediatric Intensive Care Unit) has been put on this Earth to break every Resident who has entered the hallowed halls of a hospital. That could be a blog in itself.

Back to my story. So the Travel Sized One says to me (pre-PICU), "I think I am going to paint the game room. Will you help?" So I say sure, and do the thing I do best. Start to ask questions. This immediately annoys her because she thinks that I am trying to dissuade her from undertaking this task. I just explain to her that it is a pretty big task and I have to get it thought out in my mind. So we buy the brushes and the paint and the tarps and the tape and I realize that I may need a small home loan to complete one room. Man it is expensive! All that to say, we get about two-thirds to three-quarters of the way through and The Travel Sized One says, "I am glad you helped". To which I respond, "It was a little more than you thought it was going to be?" She openly admits (and I have to concur) that it is a butt load of work.

Now I am on websites looking at color schemes.

Going to The Home Improvement Store picking up swatches.

Trying to decide if the paint we like for the bathroom will match the tile.

Will it coordinate with the Bedroom?

Yep, I have the paint bug.

The title of this blog actually comes from a conversation I had with my Travel Sized Better Half. We were looking at a swatch that had a light brown called "Ranch Mink". We have a conversation an hour later where she can't recall the name and proceeds to call it "Rink Mink". We have a good laugh and then it dawns on her. She is not only turning into her mother... She is turning into mine! My mother has an uncanny ability to transpose entire words for products or businesses.

Here are a couple of examples. Cotton Patch. She refers to it as Cabbage Patch. While you may end up looking like a stuffed doll if you eat there enough I don't see the parallel. Fat Tire Beer (Mmm.... Beer). She calls it Fat Cat. Now I have no idea why a beer reminds my mother of a portly feline but hey it's her world.

So now Ranch Mink is Rink Mink... and oh my gosh, I married my mother! Only kidding. The Travel Size One has a lot of the good qualities I see in my mom but she is no way an exact copy of my mom!