It started with a closet

Senior Jefe is not the most handy guy on Earth. He does great in engineering; it just doesn't seem to translate to home repair. I am not sure how that works. While he was home, I left him to tackle putting up the new towel bars I bought and painting the closet, so I could finish off the guest room.

Senior Jefe decided to tackle the closet first.The paint that was in there was probably some shade of off white 20 yrs ago when it was painted (No, I'm not kidding). It has yellowed with time and looks just disgusting. He was painting it Day Spa, which is Behr's interpretation of white with a little bit of blue tint. To say I LOVE this paint would be an understatement. It seems to be either pale blue or white depending on the lighting.  Anyway, I come home from work and he asked me to check his paint job before he took the tape off. Holy Hannah; that boy left huge areas unpainted. He says he didn't see them, couldn't see them, even when I pointed them out. He argued it was in part because of the paint color. I am inclined to believe he couldn't see the difference. So I ended up finishing painting the closet while he moved on to the bathroom towel racks.
No luck there either, he decided to move the hole I marked and as a result, hit the electrical wires to the outlet. Enter the electrician, followed by me hanging the towel bars.
I sent Senior Jefe to clean out the other spare room (office) closet of any old uniforms, etc that he no longer needed or used. Ever since the Navy went to Smurfoflauge (what else can you legitimately call the blue digital camo), I have been asking him to ditch all the stuff that is no longer authorized, so I can get plastic tubs for the rest. Normally, I would just leave them in the cardboard moving boxes, but given the whole brown recluse situation I am dealing with, I don't want those buggers to have any leeway. That we got sorted.
Then I had a "wonderful, terrible idea".
I should paint that closet too. Then I won't have to pull everything out again later and put it back again. So I asked Senior Jefe if he would take first pass at the closet. I came home to an amazing dinner instead. And it went that way until finally it was time to head East.
When I got back, the floor of the office was covered in boxes, bags for Goodwill, etc. So I spent one day in the lab procrastinating that by helping with my friend's research, followed by pulling out the paint and painting the closet. I still have paint in my hair from working in that tiny closet. After it dried, I put everything away. But then that little voice that anyone who has ever owned a home knows all too well kicked in: "Well, gosh, that DOES look nice, but the rest of the room looks like crap with that nasty aged paint. It won't take THAT long to finish the whole room.
Famous last words.
Apparently that shitty paint was the only paint that had ever been on those walls. I don't think there was even a primer on there before. I had initially bought Day Spa for the laundry room (paint + primer in one) and subsequently used it on the closets. All the other rooms I have worked in had been recently painted and with the exception of the eggplant and pumpkin colored kitchen/dining room (no, I'm not kidding; someone actually did that), I was able to quickly paint two coats without having to pay for the all-in-one. I decided to use some of my left over paint to paint the office. This was my first mistake. It took, not 1, not 2, but 3 coats to get the paint evenly adsorbed on the walls. So what was a small job, quickly became a big one that took almost all of last week.
It isn't all a loss though. I learned my lesson. My bedroom isn't much different than the spare room. I am looking at paint colors for it now. I probably won't paint until August, but now I know paint+primer always quicker. If I could have found a low VOC or no VOC all-in-one paint, I probably wouldn't have been in this silly situation in the first place. Locally, that is tough to do.
Right now, I am fixing the tape bleed areas in the living room, kitchen, dining room and finishing changing all of the outlets out for new white ones instead of the yellowed old ones. When that is done, with the exception of putting down new flooring, I will be over 60% done with all of the prep to put the house on the market when I graduate. That's a good feeling, especially after the drama I have had with the State of KS and our yearly tax argument. That, however, is a subject best saved for another day.