Tuesday, January 4, 2011

how I spent my birthday

Yesterday Ben and I bought seven new light fixtures. How many light fixtures do we have in this house? Well, about seven. They are all hideous. We bought a fixture for the foyer, the hall, the little dining room that we are using as a library, two for the kitchen and two to go outside the front and side doors. The fixture for the "library" will also have a ceiling fan - the only one in the house. We got quite used to having ceiling fans in our last house, and it didn't seem right not to have any.

When are we going to install all these fixtures? Well, we're not. We are hiring someone to do it. We need some electrical work done anyway, and when the electrician was here a couple of weeks ago, he said it would be any easy thing for him to do. Imagine that. Someone who thinks killing the power and switching the fixtures is easy. I can't begin to tell you what a hassle it is for the two of us to do something like that. If you have ever done it yourself, perhaps you know.

In addition to the light fixtures we bought new house numbers, window well covers, and a large recycle bin. We also took a little print - perhaps it is a lithograph - to the local framing shop to have it framed. So I spent my birthday shopping and buying things - a great many things - and that made it a great day. I just really don't want to know how much we spent. I mean it.

7 comments:

jamanci said...

shopping is fun, but but what about food? do tell!

Ben said...

Well I'll tell you how much we spent, we spent [REDACTED] in one day!

jsdknits said...

Regardless the money, sounds like fun! Soon, your new place will be your place.

Ben said...

Actually it *was* practically fun. We're both happy with the lighting fixtures we were able to find. I'm glad Anne is OK with me not doing all the installations. :-)

The food was really good, we went to the Candlelight Inn in Catonsville. Perhaps a future blog post?

Kitty said...

that's so nice! What fun? I would have loved to do that.

I wish I could have recommended a good light fixture source for you. There are a couple places online that many architects use that are very good and relatively inexpensive. I know how that stuff adds up.

Mark and I installed our kitchen pendant. Not as bad a process as you'd think.

Kitty said...

oh, and Happy Birthday!

anne mancine said...

Thanks, Kitty! Yeah, we have done it before too - guess that's why we don't want to do it again.