Okay, to start out, a story:

When I (Paige) was in college and living in a cheap apartment with my friends, we were doing cleaning checks and my roommate’s job was to remove and clean the light fixture in the hallway. She did, and later I was doing my job (cleaning the bathroom) and walking back to the front room, when bam! something hit me on the head. Yep, the glass light cover fell just as I was walking under it, cracked, and a piece of glass cut my hand. My roommates all came running out and checked me for a concussion (I was a little dazed, but fine) and wrapped my hand (just a minor cut). But we did have to get a new light cover.

So, a few weekends ago, the florescent light bulbs in our kitchen burnt out, so we bought new ones. As we were replacing them, the whole light fixture (a long, heavy one that holds four bulbs) fell! Well, it kind of only fell halfway and Josh was holding it (thank goodness). So we took the whole thing down and got out our power tools and measured new holes and put it new screws and thought, “Great! Now the light fixture is more secure than ever.”

We enjoyed the new, bright light for about three days, and then…

One night late, just after we had turned off the lights and gotten in bed, we heard a super loud crash! from the kitchen. I was terrified (I thought someone had broken in). Josh got up to check, and sure enough – the light fixture (the whole light fixture) fell. We had to sweep up all the broken glass from the broken light bulbs, pick up the shattered plastic cover, and move the light fixture (which we think is okay, but might be broken).

Anyway, we’re just grateful that neither of us was walking under that when it fell. :) That was our adventure in light fixtures…and we’re probably done trying to hang (or rehang) them ourselves now.