Last year, Chalupa and I were getting ready to move into our house, and I wanted to paint the living room. Painting a living room isn’t the most complicated home improvement task of all time, but I haven’t done very much painting and was nervous that I’d mess it up if I tried to do it myself. So I did the obvious thing: I called my Aunt Tammy. She bought some supplies and came to the house one afternoon, and together with my Grandma, our good family friend Patti, and my sisters, we got the room painted in no time. I didn’t just call her because she’s great at home improvement far more complicated than painting a room, but also because she’s the first…
