STEP 1: Because you’re sick of the hideous light fixture in your bedroom, decide to install a ceiling fan in its place even though you’ve never done anything remotely like this before.
STEP 2: Buy ceiling fan.
STEP 3: Read instructions and think this will be easy and you should have it up in a few hours.
STEP 4: At the end of Day 1, after hours of texting a truck driver friend asking what to do next and when your arms are so sore and tired you can no longer hold them over your head, give up and resolve to continue the next day.
STEP 5: On Day 2 accept offer of help from a man you’ve been chatting with on a dating site. When he comes over learn he had no intention of helping you with the fan.
STEP 6: After getting rid of Mr. Not-So-Helpful, get back at it. Decide to start the wiring job over. Spend hours looking for dropped screws, but eventually manage to get the rest of the thing assembled.
STEP 7: Turn on the breaker and switch. When your newly installed fan doesn’t work, cry yourself to sleep feeling like an utter failure.
STEP 8: On Day 3 after Mr. Not-So-Helpful texts you that he’s not that into you, take down your dating profile because men suck. Troubleshoot your fan installation to see if you can figure out what’s wrong. Have no luck whatsoever. Cry some more.
STEP 9: On Day 4 decide you’re going to adopt a St Bernard and call an electrician. Try one last time before waving the white flag of surrender.
STEP 10: Almost fall off the step ladder when you flip the breaker and the fan works!
STEP 11: Decide guy that has listened to you whine about fan for the past four days while driving over-the-road is actually a nice man. Tell him so. Make arrangements to meet up.
Maybe it took longer than expected but great job!
Posted by Kate Crimmins | November 29, 2020, 12:35 PMThanks! I am rather proud of myself… and of my friend too. Couldn’t have done it without him.
Posted by Rumpy's Kitty Siblings | November 29, 2020, 12:44 PMHe’s useful! I was told to keep Hubby ‘cos he was useful. That was in 1989 and we’re still together!!
Posted by pensitivity101 | November 29, 2020, 12:42 PMAnd he seems to know the right things to say to calm down a pissed off and upset woman.
Posted by Rumpy's Kitty Siblings | November 29, 2020, 12:43 PMdefinitely worth getting to know!!
Posted by pensitivity101 | November 29, 2020, 1:20 PMSounds like a good deal all around! Hope it continues this way!
Posted by Bernadette | November 29, 2020, 2:00 PMUpdate: looks like my friend is homosexual but hasn’t admitted it to himself yet. Oh well. I can at least be supportive of him as he comes to accept himself.
Posted by Rumpy's Kitty Siblings | November 29, 2020, 3:57 PMThat turned out really well in the end although it wasn’t easy to do!
Posted by Leah | November 29, 2020, 3:30 PMThis is par for the course for me. I simply refuse to accept there are things I cannot do, then drive myself and those around me nuts when it doesn’t come easy for me.
Posted by Rumpy's Kitty Siblings | November 30, 2020, 2:00 PMIt’s looking good! If you’re doing anything overhead it seems to be 10 times harder than it should be!
Posted by Clowie | November 29, 2020, 3:52 PMEspecially when you have no idea what you’re doing.
Posted by Rumpy's Kitty Siblings | November 29, 2020, 3:56 PMHooray! Nice job, Jen! Sorry it took kind of a circuitous route, but yay for you, oh She-who-installeth-ceiling fans! 🙂
Posted by meowmeowmans | November 29, 2020, 10:23 PMThere is simply no stopping me!
Posted by Rumpy's Kitty Siblings | November 30, 2020, 2:04 PMWell, congratulations! The only time we heard our lovely electrician swear was when he was installing ceiling fans 😀
Posted by Animalcouriers | November 30, 2020, 2:34 AMI wasn’t getting the wiring right. After three days I decided to try that one more time and day four did it!
Posted by Rumpy's Kitty Siblings | November 30, 2020, 5:01 AMThey’re much more complicated than you’d imagine.
Posted by Animalcouriers | December 3, 2020, 2:20 AMCongrats on getting the fan working. Good luck with the ‘nice’ guy. 🤞🏼
Posted by Tails Around the Ranch | November 30, 2020, 1:29 PMI think I’ll need more than luck, but thanks!
Posted by Rumpy's Kitty Siblings | November 30, 2020, 1:48 PMYeah, I was trying to be generous. 😊
Posted by Tails Around the Ranch | November 30, 2020, 1:49 PMlove this, my witty, clever friend!
Posted by Susie Sexton | December 2, 2020, 5:27 PM