Painting the Ceiling

I spent this weekend painting the ceiling of our toilet.  Nick ripped out these funny old cardboard squares from the ceiling, the kind you would throw your pencils into in grade school and try to get them to stick.  Then he patched the holes.  Then we fitted moulding around the top (really just to cover up the biggest holes).  The molding was cool because they only cost us about 3.95 each, plus we had to buy a mitre block but was overall really cheap and easy to put up.  I must admit I'm skeptical of anything cheap - and this moulding was made out of styrofoam - not plaster.  ugh...  but actually the fact it was styrofoam worked out perfectly because our house is really old and nothing is at a right angle.  So we were able to push and bend the moulding to fit, whereas if it had been plaster that would be a definite no go.  I have to confess I can't even tell.  It looks exactly the same as the expensive plaster stuff.    

With the moulding up it was time to paint.  Nick hates painting.  I didn't realize this translated into "Nick will do a shitty half-assed job at painting when forced to" until I made him paint some cupboards with me and then I threw a complete bitch fit when I saw his finished product - cupboards with big globby drip marks all over them.  So I tackled this project myself.

I actually don't mind painting.  But I have learned that painting ceilings is a different story all together.  First of all this toilet is tiny and I can only stand on a ladder to paint half the ceiling, then I have to stand on the toilet to paint the other half and this is about a foot lower than the ladder so I can barely reach the ceiling from there.  Then you have neck strain.  I am actually in pain from the bizarre position my neck was in for hours yesterday and today.  Looking up is actually really uncomfortable.  Another problem : Small space with lots of paint fumes + looking straight up = dizziness.  Oh and then there is the tingly/prickly feeling in my arm from reaching and having it straight in the air for long periods of time.  Painting ceilings is definitely no fun!

But being finished with painting ceilings is awesomeness!  Woo Hoo!  Martha Stewart would be proud.