All Kinds of WRONG

I tried to paint my room last night.

I was all set up. NPR's All Song Considered was streaming from my laptop, my pajamas were on, and I had a fresh paint can at my feet, feeling geared up and ready to paint for hours. Opened the paint can...things looked good...then I put my first strip of paint on the walls and....TA-DA! Poop. It looked like Poop.

Absolutely NO WHERE near the color I wanted. I don't know how this happened? The night before at Pete's I picked out this color from the pile of swatches I had brought along with me. It was between this one and one that looked just looked a little too hued pink. He must have an extremely bright room and I, a dark dungeon of gloom, because the silvery purple I loved so much and so confidently bought first thing yesterday morning looks like sayitwithme POOP. I just don't know what I was thinking? Oh wait, yes I do, "I don't want it too be too light because then I'll wake up and be all 'Holly crap my walls are purple' and I'll feel like a 7 year old little girl". Stupid, stupid me.

"Violet Evening" by Laura Ashely DON'T BUY IT

This is just really frustrating because I have not much time before I need to be out of my house and I wanted to paint while the new room was semi-empty. Twenty-three dollars and one night of perfect painting free time....GONE.

So now here's the question: Do I leave work early today to try and correct this problem and get the painting out of the way so I can concentrate on packing? Or do I work, and paint in bits and pieces around boxes and a huge mess in the room? Decisions!!

Lesson Learned: Don't get deep into a gallon of paint until you have a little bit on your walls. Because if it looks like poop like it does in my case, you'll have a gallon of Poop Paint laying around your house for the rest of you life. AND NOBODY WANTS THAT!