Home Improvements

It was a busy weekend for me. Saturday Buck came over and put in some recessed lighting in our bedroom. We had 6 lights put in. 2 on the left, 2 on the right, and then 2 above our bed. The ones above our bed are on a different fader from the others. So that is a nice feature.

I "helped out" which consisted of standing there and talking to him while he did all the work. I'd had him a random tool or light fixture from time to time.

Our ceiling fan in the bedroom had been making noise on and off for a while now. Sometimes you wouldn't hear anything and other times there would be this loud clanging noise. It was so annoying that the noise would wake us up or keep us up to the point that we would have to turn it off. So I picked up a new fan from Lowe's and put it up myself. It took me pretty much all day to do cause 1) it was the first time I've ever hung a fan and 2) I'm not handy at all. The down bar on the fan I took down was smaller than the one I was putting up so I had to go back to Lowe's and buy a bigger one. So that took me a little while to switch out.

I got everything up and power to the fan. Knowing myself I was almost certain that when I flipped the switch it wasn't gonna work. To my surprise it came right to life, but it wobbles a little bit. So Buck is gonna come over today and try to balance it out for me. I tried for like an hour to balance it but just couldn't get it to be wobble free. I was proud of myself that I got the old fan down, the new one up and working and I didn't kill myself doing it.