Nursery Blues

I took this week off to finally work on the nursery, and so far, it’s been one disaster after another.  My mother came up to help me, since I’m overwhelmed by the enormity of the task, but I feel as if her trip might very-well have been a waste of time.  My wife and I can’t come to an agreement on the design.  This will come as no shock to anyone that knows us, because we can’t agree on anything design and fashion-related.  I acquiesced to her desire to have the theme be a magical kingdom, but instead of something simple, she wants me to go all Thomas Kinkade and paint this elaborate forest scene on the walls!  Now, while I might be artistically-inclined, I am not a painter.  I actually loathe painting.  Despite that, the ask is well beyond my limited abilities.

So, I have been agonizing over the design for days now.  I have been looking up variations.  I have changing and rearranging sketches on paper and in my head every day.  My biggest roadblock is that the design, while definitely cool, doesn’t really say “baby” to me.  It’s far too adult and not enough kid.  So, I’m trying to figure out how to appease my wife and baby it down a little.  An idea came to me today to get inspiration from the 1977 version of The Hobbit, which was an animated adaption of the story.  I’m not sure why exactly that remnant from my childhood came to mind at this precise moment, but it did.  I’m also not sure why that remnant of memory should be in my head at all, since it came out before I was even born!  So, we shall see.  Based on the current way things are going, I’ll probably end up changing the design again tomorrow.

The other issue that happened to put a wrench in my plans was that my mother brought a little projector with her.  The thought was that we would use it to project images on the wall and then sketch them to make it easier.  However, the projector only projects images off paper, whereas I thought it plugged into a computer.  Not a deal breaker, but just an added complication to print the pictures first.  So, when we went to print the pictures today, I found out that our printer has no ink.  The wonderful ink plan that we purchased has failed to send us any ink, and now when we need it most, we find ourselves dry.  I don’t want to go buy ink, because I feel like I’ll be double-purchasing it.  So, I did the only logical, sensible thing that someone in my position could do.  I got onto to Amazon, and I bought another projector.  The funny thing is that it was still probably cheaper than buying ink!

So, while we wait for the projector to arrive, my wife and I will continue to fight about the design.  And I will watch yet another day go by without any progress at all.  This is like a prawn-flavored crisp!