Why do home improvement projects never stay small and simple?

Yesterday we made another run down to Tukwila, this time early enough to hit Ikea before they closed, and managed to pick up some new bookcases and a chair for our cat, Zoë. Yes, yes... I know! But it'll also be useful when we have guests down by our computers and it gives her a chair to sit on that's at easy arm height next to rackham's desk chair, and should keep her from trying to perch on the back of his chair (she's way too big to do it comfortably and ends up sliding off onto his back). Oh! And we discovered that Ikea also has a hanging shelf system (it's designed for garages but will work perfectly for what we need) and it's much cheaper and more configurable than the Elfa system we were looking at on Tuesday. Yay! And then we went out to dinner at Zoopa again... this time with 100% fewer crazy people (at least that we noticed).

So, today I cleared the bookcase we had against the wall we want to put the hanging shelf system on. The idea was to move it out of the room and patch the wall tonight, then maybe paint tomorrow so we could pick up the shelving system and install it this weekend. *insert hysterical laughter here*

( And then it just one thing after another )