Too Much Paint!

I have had a lot of time to myself (hopefully not for long) like I said in the last post and I do a lot of silly things. This post is about the silly time I spilt 1 gallon of dark blue paint on my tan carpet while James was gone. I still run the situation through my head as to how it happen and I don't know. I know that I put the paint in my room because I am in the process of painting my bathroom but not all the way done. So it was me who did not put the lid on all the way, that I did not mean to do. But how it tipped over I have no idea. Max and I were both in the room with the paint. I was making the bed, Max was doing his usually run around the house playing with anything that he comes in contact with. so it could of been him but I think it was to heavy for him to tip over. And I am sure he would be playing in it if he saw that paint. I don't remember touching or kicking the bucket. I think I would remember because it is mostly full and would be heavy enough for me to touch it. I just don't know what happen.
So here is how it happen. I just happen to look to the wall and saw my paint was tipped over and had run all over my floor. I had no idea where to begin with this one. The day before JAmes and I bought some cheep towells at WalMart that where on sale and grabbed those and started to slop up the paint. Max by then had noticed that cool color from under the towells and started to help me (not very helpful). I would soak up what I could then rinse it off but as you know paint it doesn't just wash out, it slowly bleeds out. So I did that for a little while and tried to keep Max away from the paint... Then I had an idea to call my friend Gentri (who saved my life). She was coming over for dinner and I asked if she would come a little earlier to watch Max. The great person she is gladly came and helped me out. Infact she helped me out a ton. She was barrowing her Moms steam cleaner which she let me barrow. That thing saved me hours and hours of soaking and rinsing. I don; know what I would of done without her.
Well after a lot of steam cleaning I got a lot of the paint out but not all of it. That would be impossible. But now I have a big blue stain on my carpet. We never did like our carpet so it gives us more motivation to replace it.But that isn't going to be for another several years. I fixed my carpent problem with a green rug. It sits off center in my room but it looks a lot better then it did. The best part of it was Max. When he saw that rug,he fell in love with it. He was rubbing, patting, lying on, cralwing all over that thing. He would not get off it. I have a funny video that I will try to post later.

 

The floor after I steam cleaned it. It did a great job cleaning the floor but I found one flaw, it moves the paint around. It sits so close to the floor that it would smear the paint. But believe me it did more good then bad.

 

The beautiful rug I got at down east and Max loveing the new rug.