{"id":427,"date":"2011-08-15T17:26:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T21:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=427"},"modified":"2011-08-15T17:26:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T21:26:22","slug":"i-need-light-fixture-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":"I Need Light Fixture Assistance!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Just thought I’d share the view from my deck this morning when I paused for five seconds from all of the moving-related work to just enjoy the view.<\/p>\n

Well, the administrative details involved in getting three small people ready to enter two new schools kept me busy for longer than I had hoped today, although we did accomplish a great deal. Now here I am, in the late afternoon, sitting at my computer and for the life of me, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember what I was going to post on today. If I hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just moved, I would have written my ideas down. But I did just move, so my idea is floating around in what is becoming the vast chasm of my mind along with ideas on things like where to find the particular pencil grip that my son needs for school and where I put the kids\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 lunch boxes when I packed them a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n

Help.<\/p>\n

So, this will be a little ditty about Jack and Diane, two American kids growing up in the heartland<\/del> few sentences about a minor household irritant. Specifically, the light fixtures in my kitchen are driving me insane. See, this is where I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m at mentally in life right now.<\/p>\n

Why are they driving me insane? Last week I mentioned that the previous occupants of this house failed to see that cleanliness is a virtue. That is the nicest, mildest way I can put it. More accurately, the level of filth in this house is one that clearly took serious effort and time to achieve. So, since the house is basically bordering on repellent, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m cleaning like crazy and thus in the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What needs to be cleaned next?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d mentality. Seriously, I wake up in the middle of the night and think about what I should clean next in the house.<\/p>\n

So, what does this have to do with the light fixtures? Well, take a look at them.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>My beef is with the tinted edges of the glass shades on the light fixtures. I know the tint is for effect, but every time I look up at one of them, for a second, they just look like they need a serious scrub down. Thus, every time, I start to reach for a chair and something to clean them with and then remember that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153effect\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and not dirt. Then, I stand there dumbly for a few minutes trying to remember what I was going to do before I looked up at the lights. I do not think it is an exaggeration to say this has happened at least three dozen times since I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been here.<\/p>\n

Since I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not overly partial to the glass anyway, and have this secret fear that the urge to clean it will not dissipate with time, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to replace the glass shades.<\/p>\n

Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions, particularly about the type of glass to use? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a long, long time since I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve shopped for light fixtures or given them much thought, so, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know. Maybe hexagonal-shaped peach-colored glass is all the rage now. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d sure have no clue. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a good full kitchen shot yet, since most of my countertops are still covered with boxes, but here are a couple close-up shots of the countertops (granite) and the cabinets in case that helps. \"\"<\/a>The appliances will all be stainless.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be obliged if any of you have any thoughts based on this limited information, because we all know I certainly don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have any coherent thoughts myself on much of anything at the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just thought I’d share the view from my deck this morning when I paused for five seconds from all of the moving-related work to just enjoy the view. Well, the administrative details involved in getting three small people ready to enter two new schools kept me busy for longer than I had hoped today, although […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[444,441,105,100,443,434,442],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islandlife","tag-beach-house-lights","tag-i-cant-stop-trying-to-clean-my-light-fixtures","tag-island-life","tag-island-living","tag-lights-in-an-island-house","tag-moving-to-a-new-island","tag-redecorating-an-island-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}