weekend roundup

No weekend - no matter how relaxing - would be complete without home improvement projects. Merrystar painted the doors in the upstairs hall while I touched up the stairwell, attached the tall bookcase to the wall, and hung new cellular shades in the living room. The shades look much better than the venetian blinds, especially on the double windows - can’t wait to put up curtains in that room.

I am so glad that those doors are painted! The old trim looked orangey-purple next to the solid white trim.

Let’s see… Watched Two Towers this weekend. Still has inexplicable logistics (elves at Helms Deep in four days???) but overall still quite good. Return of the King looks excellent - no surprise there.

Went to IKEA (listening to ABBA on the way) at Merrystar’s suggestion that we get a billy with doors for the bedroom stereo/CD collection - assembled and installed that on Sunday. Works very well, looks nice. Why is it we keep coming back to the billy? Oh yeah, that’s right, because they’ve changed everything to be funky and lime green. I put my foot down at anything larger than a lime-green breadbox. Even then, I think I’ll put my foot down.

Found the first couch we both liked at Ethan Allen - but it’s twice as expensive as it should be (and that’s on sale). Found another couch at IKEA - but it comes in dark brown leather only, other colors not likely to arrive before 2004-2005. Everything else is too deep for Merrystar. We just want a shallow couch, people! Argh!