Painting the garage floor

I was garage sale-ing a couple of weekends ago and stopped by this guy's place who had a painted cement floor. His garage was immaculate (this is not something i had ever considered, prior to "settling down".), the floor was beautiful. So I started asking him questions about who had done it, how long ago did he paint the garage floor, was it difficult? Well he did it 10 years ago, by himself, it wasn't hard, and I should go and see the good people at Home Depot for help. So I went to the store, got hit on by a scary middle-aged clerk (I may have to start whipping out the Bali engagement ring for shopping trips to the hardware store in Colorado), bought the stuff (it comes as a complete package with cleaner and instructional DVD) and headed home.

The whole process of cleaning the floor wasn't so hard...although the acid that I had to use did really burn my hands. But, overall it was pretty easy. Then the epoxy sealent/painting process began...oh my god, I so didn't think this all the way thru. I mean, I was smart enough to realize i would need things like paint brushes, paint pans, and rollers...but things like paint thinner and masking tape...yeah I know, so obvious, but so not something i even considered....I mean in hindsight at least I was smart enough to remember to open a side door so that I could get back into the house.

The thing with epoxy sealant is that once you start painting, there is no stopping until you are done...So about halfway through, when my body was aching from bending over with the roller (I know, one could attach a broomstick to the roller so one does not have to bend over...but scary guy at home depot connected the broomstick to a brush head, and wound it so tight in his excitment to ask me out, that I couldn't get it pulled apart...hence the need to do the entire garage on my knees.) I was unable to stop.

And as I got closer to finishing, I had two horrible thoughts...1) oh my god, the paint roller thing is stuck to my hand (the glue had begun to solidify and I hadn't realized it)....2) I have managed to get paint all over my body...including my feet. How am I going to get back inside the new house? And worse, how am i going to get to the shower once I am in the house?

After finally finishing the job, I realized the only solution to my dilemna was to lay in the grass and wait for the paint to totally dry on my body, so i wouldn't track it thru the new house. Man oh man the things I do to keep my parents' house clean.