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and then there was light!
Dec. 28th, 2008 11:49 pmMy husband is teh awesome!
Our living room had this extremely ugly light fixture over the doorway, which is in front of a closet so is sort of a hallway in itself, and no other source of light. We had a standing lamp with five bulbs and an uplight, and then we would always turn on the lights in the connected dining room. It drove us crazy because there was no actual source of light in the room. We have talked many, many times about putting ceiling lights in there but honestly, it was just one of those things I knew would never get done.
Enter Evelyn, who finally broke that lamp she's been working on for so long. It was the main source of light in the room, but after a year of her pulling on it, she worked the wires free inside it and it was deemed unsafe for further usage by the resident electrical specialist (ie, M.) So, when our choices became buying another light or getting around to actually putting in a lamp.... M decided he was going to Get It Done. I must confess that I was skeptical, and also initiated a trip down the lamp aisle at Walmart while plans were still being made, but he stuck with it. He was up in the attic first thing this morning for a recon mission, and then went off to pick up supplies in the afternoon. He didn't get started on the actual installation until five, and he finished it up at about eleven, taking a break for dinner and then again while I put the baby to bed. We have a pretty new light over the door, and a ceiling fan with light in the living room. All by himself! (Or, with minimal assistance from me, mostly consisting of entertaining the wee one and adding input now and then. However, I had to keep Evie out of the living room most of that time, and she was both sick and immensely sleepy and therefore high maintenance, so I think I worked at least as hard as he did..hehe.)
The second best part was that he took Evie with him to Lowe's, leaving me home alone to get some things done in blessed solitude. Heaven!
Of course, we didn't have the type of light bulbs that the stupid thing required, so we still actually don't have any light in the room, but those should be easily obtained. :) We were able to test it with borrowed-from-another-place bulbs, at least. I can't believe that we finally have a ceiling light in that room! It's so great. I hate sitting in the dark.
Now it is past our bedtime but we are ignoring the clocks in favor of some blissful lounging time. Random story here.. I showed E a picture of the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
helloheater family the other day and named all the people in it. Today, she saw the picture again and so we were looking at it together again and I asked her, "Where's Nathan?" and she pointed right at him. And I am all, "oooh, my kid is so smart!!" So I asked her where Heather was...... and she pointed right at Nathan again, and said, "Baby." So, umm, maybe sometimes it is just a coincidence, when she does something amazing and clever. Rarely, to be sure.
Cute and clever and non-coincidental happenings of late: pointing at the chimney in her little house and saying "HO HO HO!", sitting down with a bottle of play nail polish a few minutes after being shown how to "paint' her fingernails and ripping her socks off to paint her toenails and... why is it so hard to think of these things on demand? She is cute a lot, that's all I'm saying. Oh, and she finally has enough hair and enough patience for me to put it up in a ponytail or even pigtails! Super Girly Girl Mommy is happy about that.
Okay. I guess I should give up and go to bed. I let M spend an exorbitant amount of money in a home store today and I see him shopping online right now so I'd better hustle him into bed before he does more damage to the checkbook. :)
Our living room had this extremely ugly light fixture over the doorway, which is in front of a closet so is sort of a hallway in itself, and no other source of light. We had a standing lamp with five bulbs and an uplight, and then we would always turn on the lights in the connected dining room. It drove us crazy because there was no actual source of light in the room. We have talked many, many times about putting ceiling lights in there but honestly, it was just one of those things I knew would never get done.
Enter Evelyn, who finally broke that lamp she's been working on for so long. It was the main source of light in the room, but after a year of her pulling on it, she worked the wires free inside it and it was deemed unsafe for further usage by the resident electrical specialist (ie, M.) So, when our choices became buying another light or getting around to actually putting in a lamp.... M decided he was going to Get It Done. I must confess that I was skeptical, and also initiated a trip down the lamp aisle at Walmart while plans were still being made, but he stuck with it. He was up in the attic first thing this morning for a recon mission, and then went off to pick up supplies in the afternoon. He didn't get started on the actual installation until five, and he finished it up at about eleven, taking a break for dinner and then again while I put the baby to bed. We have a pretty new light over the door, and a ceiling fan with light in the living room. All by himself! (Or, with minimal assistance from me, mostly consisting of entertaining the wee one and adding input now and then. However, I had to keep Evie out of the living room most of that time, and she was both sick and immensely sleepy and therefore high maintenance, so I think I worked at least as hard as he did..hehe.)
The second best part was that he took Evie with him to Lowe's, leaving me home alone to get some things done in blessed solitude. Heaven!
Of course, we didn't have the type of light bulbs that the stupid thing required, so we still actually don't have any light in the room, but those should be easily obtained. :) We were able to test it with borrowed-from-another-place bulbs, at least. I can't believe that we finally have a ceiling light in that room! It's so great. I hate sitting in the dark.
Now it is past our bedtime but we are ignoring the clocks in favor of some blissful lounging time. Random story here.. I showed E a picture of the
helloheater family the other day and named all the people in it. Today, she saw the picture again and so we were looking at it together again and I asked her, "Where's Nathan?" and she pointed right at him. And I am all, "oooh, my kid is so smart!!" So I asked her where Heather was...... and she pointed right at Nathan again, and said, "Baby." So, umm, maybe sometimes it is just a coincidence, when she does something amazing and clever. Rarely, to be sure.Cute and clever and non-coincidental happenings of late: pointing at the chimney in her little house and saying "HO HO HO!", sitting down with a bottle of play nail polish a few minutes after being shown how to "paint' her fingernails and ripping her socks off to paint her toenails and... why is it so hard to think of these things on demand? She is cute a lot, that's all I'm saying. Oh, and she finally has enough hair and enough patience for me to put it up in a ponytail or even pigtails! Super Girly Girl Mommy is happy about that.
Okay. I guess I should give up and go to bed. I let M spend an exorbitant amount of money in a home store today and I see him shopping online right now so I'd better hustle him into bed before he does more damage to the checkbook. :)
