Every now and then Gene likes to give me trouble about the fact that I don’t do my own nails. Like every other woman on the face of the earth, I like to be pampered every now and then. (Okay….every other week.) And like every other man on the face of the earth, Gene just doesn’t get it. So one day, about two weeks ago, I decided to show him that I can do my own nails, I just don’t want to do my own nails.
This was my first mistake.
I go into the bathroom and get out my tote of nail polish, pick out a color and begin to shake the bottle. Now, when you shake a bottle of nail polish you take the bottle and hit it against the palm of your hand, over and over again. After about the third or fourth hit I heard a little pop and felt something wet splash on me. I look around and see that I am covered in hot pink nail polish and it’s all over the bathroom, the corner of the bottle just broke off.
CRAP!!!
It’s all over the front of my shirt, the toilet, the floor and worst of all, the white tiled wall of the bathroom. Again….CRAP!!!
This is bad. Really bad.
The bathroom tile was originally an ugly peach color with white trim on the top and black trim at the bottom. (I think we got the remnant house, trust me, it was ugly.) About two years ago, Gene and I paid a couple of grand for a company to come in and repaint the tile and reglaze the bath tub because we didn’t want to deal with the headache of gutting the bathroom.
Anyway…there’s hot pink nail polish all over my left hand and a HUGE splatter of it on the tiled wall. I think to myself…’It’s ok. I’ll just clean my hands and wipe it off the walls before it dries.’ (Mistake number 2)

What I failed to remember is that water won’t remove nail polish only nail polish remover will…hence the name….DUH!
All the water did was help spread it on both sides of both hands. CRAP!!!
Now I’ve got a full blown disaster on my hands…literally. But if you notice I had plenty of time to grab my camera and take pictures of all of this. Your welcome. I finally get my hands to a point of being able to touch other things in the all white bathroom. I get a wet paper towel and think I’m just going to wipe the polish off the wall because after all, it’s just tile, it should wipe right off. WRONG!! (This would be mistake #3) It’s already starting to dry around the edges…..damn you Loreal and your stupid quick drying formula….. and the rest just smears all over the wall. CRAP!!! It’s not coming off and I can’t use polish remover because it will take the white paint off the wall.
Since I can’t get it off the wall I go start to clean it off the toilet and floor. Now, that just wipes off. ( I love porcelain) After cleaning my hands I begin to think about what I can do about the wall and decide that I’m going to have to use polish remover. Shouldn’t be to much of a problem….except that I’m almost out of remover. CRAP!!! I’m home by myself with the baby which means I can’t go get any because I can’t touch her. Gene is in a buisness meeting and I can’t call so I send a text.
Angela texting: Call home when you leave meeting. Kind of an emergency but not really.
Gene texting: What’s wrong?
Angela: Need you to stop and get a couple of bottles of nail polish remover.
Gene: This is your emergency? I’m in a meeting.
(yeah….and you’re texting me so shut up) but I was in no position to actually say this out loud…or text it.
Angela: Need to get polish off the bathroom wall. Love you!!
Not long after that text I get a phone call.
Gene: Please tell me it’s on the green part of the wall. (This whole mess would have been much easier to clean up if it had been on the green part and we wouldn’t be having this conversation but that’s just not my luck, now is it?)
Angela: Ummmm…..no…not only is it on the white part but I smeared it all over the white part when I tried to wipe it off.
Gene: …..sigh…..how bad?
Angela: Ummmm…..not to bad…hee hee….
After the phone call I thought I should go back in the bathroom and try to get some off before Gene got home so it wouldn’t look as bad. Turns out I was able to get nearly all of it off without removing to much white, there was just a tiny little strip in the crack. You just have to be careful when you do that….dab…wipe with water…dab…wipe with water…it’s very tedious
When Gene got home he took a look at the wall and decide it wasn’t too bad, although he wouldn’t quit shaking his head at me. As he was walking out of the bathroom he noticed the camera sitting on a ledge in the hallway.
Gene: Wait a second….did you stop cleaning this to take pictures for your blog?
Again…..you’re welcome.