I had to use that title for this post... only because as I was thinking about our past weekend, that pretty much sums it up. Of course, here it is Thursday and I'm just now posting about last weekend? The week itself has been fairly uneventful, therefore... on with the about our past weekend news.
I'll go in order. Our kitchen light hasn't been working properly for quite a while. It is a four tube fluorescent fixture, which gives off great light when it works, but for nearly a year, it has only been functioning on two bulbs, which was still decent lighting... probably why we put off fixing it for so long. Then a while back we replaced the two bad bulbs and the light was great for about two weeks or so, then those same bulbs went out. After replacing the two bad bulbs a second time, the entire four bulbs just started dimly flickering. It was maddening! We researched it online and were trying to debate replacing the ballasts or the entire fixture. Replacing the two ballasts ended up being half the cost of a new fixture... guess which direction we went? It was actually pretty easy to wire in the new ballasts, just uncomfortable as it is all above the head work. Now our kitchen light works better than ever!! It always feels so good when we can do home maintenance ourselves. Rarely do I actually have the confidence to trust that I can successfully complete home mainenance/improvements.
Which brings us to the books part of last weekend. The Fairfax County Public Library book sale was last weekend. I love these book sales. They occur twice a year (once in spring and once in fall) and I make it a point to attend both. Lucky for me, two of our local FCP libraries were holding their sales on the same weekend. Buying books is definitely a weakness for me, so at least I wait and buy them used at a great price and help out our local libraries at the same time. I ended up with a paper bag full of books for each day that I attended the sale (three). Keep in mind that they aren't all for me, lots for the kids and a few for Jason... but that doesn't really matter when the fact is that our bookshelves here at home are overfull.
Yesterday, the painter finally came to touch up the damage from the woodpecker . Let's cross our fingers that infernal bird relocated far far far from here!!
This coming weekend is our last weekend before our trip to Florida for Thanksgiving. I'd say that we won't be doing anything other than preparing for our trip, but who are we kidding? We truly never begin preparing for any trip until the day or two before we are set to leave. I'm actually getting excited about the trip this year. It could be our plan to take the kids to Disney World... maybe the excitement they are feeling is infectious?
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