Things accomplished today:

1. Odd-colored patch under the light fixture we replaced in the kitchen: painted.
2. Peeling ceiling paint in the bathroom: scraped and re-painted.
3. Warping and de-laminating bathroom door: liquid-nails’ed back into shape.
4. Slow drain in upstairs bathroom: de-slowified.

Things I learned:

1. Popcorn ceiling is terrible, in that it’s basically impossible to match an old application with a new one, and thus, if it ever needs to be repaired in any way, you almost have to re-paint the entire ceiling in that room.
2. Popcorn ceiling is kind of awesome, in that it hides imperfections in the underlying surface, so the previous ceiling paint I didn’t entirely scrape off just kinda disappears.
3. How have I lived 36 years without knowing about liquid nails? That stuff could fix the holes in the Titanic, I’m pretty sure. Never going to be without some in the house again.
4. Kids will stuff anything down an open drain, just for the curiosity of it.

Things I may or may not have shop-vac’d out of the kids’ (and my!) bathtub drain:

1. Seven pounds of hair (interesting as I don’t have any)
2. Two matchbox cars
3. A collection of bathtub markers
4. One missing cat (alive)
5. One missing cat (deceased)
6. A previously undiscovered Dead Sea Scroll
7. Five dollars