The Rainbow House OR We Moved to the Dump

So our house finally sold and we had to quickly find a place to rent.  We were lucky enough to avoid an apartment, but the house we are in temporarily does leave a few things to be desired.  I like to call it the rainbow house because the inside is painted very badly with all the colors of the rainbow:

Red.  So red is a hard color to paint with, I'll give them that, but if you're not a good painter you should just stay away from it, which they didn't.  It's in the kitchen, dining room, master bedroom, Zay's bedroom, and the loft.  Also, notice these awesome full-window stickers of fake stained glass.  Classy.

Orange.  It's a good thing we won't be here long; the orange in the kids' bathroom is so obnoxious (think Tangerine Splash) that Eliza would never be able to put her makeup on in there because when you go in you have this orange hue reflected all over you.

Yellow.  I'm not really complaining about the yellow. It's in the loft, Isaiah's room, and the living room.  A few different shades.  There's even some on the ceiling and the baseboards in several places...

Green.  (I always have a hard time spelling that without an "e" on the end.)  Eliza's little girl room is green and blue, not really very girly.  I was whining about her having monkeys in her room (which are way too masculine for a sweet tiny girl) until I remembered that the window valance, bedspread, and laundry basket I already have for her room also have monkeys on them.  So I'm no longer anti-monkey.  I AM, however, anti-foam monkey hot glued onto the wall, with several of them ripped off leaving a big blob of glue.  It's cute.

Blue.  This is, by far, my favorite room.  It's part of the master bathroom.  I love love love the padded foam toilet seat (which has several tears in it which I know just let the foam get all filled up with germs, which then jump out onto you anytime you sit down...) and how they painted the side walls to match the seat.  And then, just in case you don't like cornflower blue, there is this bright obnoxious blue on the back wall just to balance things out (in a very unbalanced sort of way).



Purple.  The other part of the master  bath is painted pink (as are some of the walls in the master bedroom (the ones that aren't red with fake stained glass window stickers in the windows)).  All around the room you can see the pencil marks where they marked the lines for this purple stripe that circles the room.  It's awesome.

Now, lest you think I'm a big whiner who worries too much about things that don't really matter, let me clarify for you.  I AM a big whiner, and I do worry too much about things that don't matter.  However, I am not really bothered by all the crazy colors and other things that are "wrong" with this house.  It's just temporary--if it wasn't I'd invest the time and energy it would take to fix the paint jobs--and even if it wasn't, the most important things about my home are not the wall colors; the most important things are Jerel, Eliza, and Isaiah.  But I won't miss this place much when we leave!

THE DUMP:  I don't mean that our house is a dump, I mean that we live right by the dump.  For a few days I thought "Hmm, they do a really good job of odor control."  But then the winds must've changed or something because sometimes it's really stinky around here.  I run around checking diapers and they all come up clean, and then I remember we live by an enormous pile of garbage.  On the plus side we have lots of birds around, so it's almost like living on a nature preserve...