Painting progress

We peeled off the painters tape this weekend, only to discover that some of the green paint seeped behind the tape, leaving tiny blotches on the edge of the baseboard. So I spent yesterday afternoon crawling around the baseboard on my hands and knees, touching up the wall with a tiny brush from the girls' watercolor set.

I think it's done. Don't look at the baseboard too closely, but the colors look nice, particularly the lavender. Now we have to figure out the new furniture configuration so that the bunk beds can be taken apart.

It's absolutely absurd. Every time I've brought it up (maybe ten times in the past three weeks) the girls have adamantly refused to discuss it. We have three dressers: a small one which can go under the window between the two beds, a tall one, and another small one which is topped by a hutch. With the bunk beds separated, we only have room for one of those two. The taller one will store more clothes, but the smaller one has the hutch, and where else would we put all the knick knacks and tchotchkes that are stored there? And whichever one we choose, where the hell would we put the other one, once we move it out of the room? I'd hate to get rid of either one, since they match the bedroom set, but there's no room in either the basement or garage.

It'll be a backbreaking job to get those beds apart, move the re-painted bookshelves up from the garage to the room, and get everything rearranged. It's particularly hard when the girls refuse to make a decision about the dressers. Argh.

Slughorn is cast

Hurrah! It's Jim Broadbent.

Excellent choice.

Jim Rigney (Robert Jordan)

A number of people on my friends list have noted Jim's passing. I only met him once, at Mike Ford's funeral. scott_lynch has written a lovely tribute here.