Fuck you primer. Fuck you bubbles.

It's like this: I've got a friend who's done her fair share of household projects. She asseses the wallpaper and says, "just peel it off where it's coming up, you don't need to steam it all off or anything, just put joint compound on the seams." I like this advice and plan to follow it. Then the most helpful Home Depot man ever looked at me sort of strangely when I told him I planned to paint over 30-year old wallpaper, but did not attempt to deter me after I innocently assured him it was "stuck on really well still."

And now, a day later and a husband short of a painting partner, I am two walls in and screwed. The primer (tinted no less!) has soaked into my god-forsaken, day-of-the-dead (flower) -motif wallpaper and caused it to bubble in three or more quite conspicuous locations.

I am not going to fix it. I refuse. I have the aching-arm syndrome from using one of those long extension rollers, I have primer in places god never intended, and I am almost done with it and ready for my base coat. I did not mean to texture my wall in such a manner, but so help me, it will be bubbly and you will like it!

And when the glazes go on to make the beautiful faux finish of Home Depot fame, the bubbles may be disguised enough to last out my stay in this atrocity of a 1979 bi-level I call home.

Pictures coming soon.