in an effort to make vanessa's place more marketable we decided to repaint the hallway of the main entrance. in large part because of the wall patches that were still showing from the previous owner. also, we wanted to add as much more stress as we could to this whole process. turns out we should have taken the advice of the surly home depot paint counter employee when he said, 'if you paint over one kind of paint with a different kind of paint, you gotta prime it first.' of course having been a professional painter for a summer about 5 years ago i thought my eye was good enough to tell paints apart. wrong-o. so here we are with a gallon of semi-gloss painting over god only knows what. also, the paint we bought is significantly lighter than the undercoat making the paint difference all the more noticeable. excellent.
so now we got a photographer coming over thursday night to get some sweet shots of her crib for the introweb and her place will be on the market by this weekend -- according to armondo (not an alias) the real estate agent, this weekend is a big deal for house hunters.
monday i was officially promoted to manager of my store. thank you, thank you. the extra money will be nice and the notch on the resume will be even better. but i can't help but feel a little guilty about this. i know i can't tell fastenal i'm leaving in two months for a variety of reasons. and i can't reasonably turn down this promotion. certainly the "right" thing to do would be to sit down with the powers that be and tell them my situation and work with them to get someone in here while i'm around to show him the ropes of the store. but all of the business-minded and successful people i've talked to about this have pushed me into keeping my mouth shut and convincing me that the way i'm currently handling it is the only way i can.
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