I finally did it!

Yesterday I accomplished a task that had been on my mental (and sometimes paper) to-do lists for about 4 years: I fixed the wallpaper in the nursery. No, I’m not talking about floor to ceiling wall paper, I’m talking about a simple, classic pooh wallpaper border, about waist-high around the room. No ladder work required. See, with the help of my friend Lydia (who has since moved to Alabama), I put up a wallpaper border around the wall of the room with the wall below it painted a bright cheerful yellow. This was about 4 months before Judah was born in 2003. Somewhere around that time I also got a kitten. The kitten grew, and got big enough to sit on the windowsill in the baby’s room. Before Judah had even moved into his nursery the cat decided to jump down from the windowsill, using her claws to slow her decent, incidentally catching the new wallpaper border and tearing it. Unfortunately, this was not in an unseen corner, but smack on the part of the wall that one sees first when looking into the room. If I’d fixed it right then, it probably would’ve been a simple glue job, but I didn’t. And eventually the boys got big enough and tall enough to start tearing at the already torn part themselves, eventually making a 3-foot-long stretch of the most visible part of the wallpaper look absolutely terrible. All of this time of course I kept thinking “I need to fix the wallpaper in the nursery. I should do that soon. It won’t be that hard. etc..” and not\’c3\’82\’c2\~being able to enjoy the most decorated room in the house because of the obvious wallpaper snaffu.\’c3\’82\’c2\~So, 4 years later, and 6 months after I’d bought some new wallpaper border adhesive for the job, I finally did it! It probably took about 40 minutes, maybe an hour. 4 years of procrastination and 40 minutes of effort. Why do I never learn?!!