I Suck At Home Improvement

Today has been just one of those days.

Normally, Wednesdays are Prince Spaghetti days where I get to see some of my friends. Unfortunately for today, all of us couldn't get together. It was just as well because I actually had a bunch of errands to run.

My errands began at Walgreen's where gummy bears are on sale for the week. Gummy bears! Bouncing here and there and everywhere. Gummy bears are my Achilles heel. I could eat a whole 5 pound bag in a day (which I may have actually done at one time). They are just so deliciously cute.

Anyway, I had coupons for gummy bears of course. On top of that, I had another coupon for "Friends and Family". And on top of that, I had their reward dollar coupons. Mathematically, the price should have come to fifteen cents for the five bags.

Sadly, that wasn't the case tonight. Apparently, there is a coupon limit per single transaction at Walgreen's. That limit seems to be six coupons. So instead of fifteen cents, the total actually came to one dollar and fifteen cents, which is still not bad for five bags of gummy bears. And while gummy bears are priceless, I would have much rather preferred to pay fifteen cents than a dollar and fifteen cents. But whatever. It's gummy bears!

On my next errand run, I went to Shaw's which is located right near the Walgreen's. The deal there involved their Box Top for Education promotion where a given number of items had to be purchased in a single transaction. And of course, I had coupons for that as well.

So, I loaded up my cart with the items from my list. Well, I loaded everything with the exception of one item which of course was the last item on my list. Turns out, the store did not have any in stock. And since the promotion was to purchase a given number of items in a single transaction, I didn't have enough of those items. Thus, I had to go back to each aisle and put back everything that was on my list. Fun.

From there, I made a pit stop to my BFF's (Kerry) house. That was definitely the bright spot of the day. Anytime I get to see my BFF is a good time. Kerry had asked that I help her fix her ceiling light in the dining room which had just stopped working when she recently painted her place.

Now, I suck at home improvement, but I figured I'd take a look at the electrical task. Originally, I thought the issue was a result of the switch. After all, I tried connecting the original fixture to the wires with the switch turned on and nothing happened. So tonight, I brought a new switch with me and installed it at Kerry's.

To my surprise, the fixture still did not turn on. After contemplating the issue (or as Kerry commented... stared at the fixture for some time), I decided to try attaching her lamp to the ceiling receptacle. Lo and behold, the lamp lit up. Based on that, I think the issue is the fixture itself. So I'll have to install a new ceiling light another day for Kerry. (And yes, the lamp is no longer attached to her ceiling.)

Regardless, it was good to see and hang out with Kerry. Among the topics of conversation that came up were Simply Lemonade (which is very delicious), her use (or lack thereof) of her electric stove for baking, the possible ghost in her basement, and one of her projects that she is working on. I mention the latter only because it involved SQL, which is right up my alley. Needless to say, it was fun.