Just call me “Handy Danny.

Now before you laugh, let me point out that my level of handiness is very low. So even minor achievements are something to be celebrated in the Miller household.

Before leaving for our Christmas trip, I installed a new headlight on our van. It was somewhat hard to do. Even though I had instructions from our owner’s manual, the lights themselves were just really hard to get to. I hesitated pulling very hard on them because I wasn’t sure I had the right part and didn’t want to break anything.

I got fairly frustrated, but then I thought of certain people who I know that tend to get frustrated and quit at things and how it frustrates me to see them quit at things that I think they *could* do, if they kept at it. So I kept going and in a “life lesson for all of us” (&copy 2007), I managed to pull the lightbulb out of its socket.

Only to find that I had pulled out the right one. Errr the wrong one. Errr the one on the right, which was the wrong one (i.e. the one that was still working). 😀

In any case I got it all taken care of finally and didn’t even have to yell at anyone. Carolyn will have to report whether or not “the tongue flick” came into play.

Then last night I braved the demon bugs of our basement and flipped a breaker switch. A week or two ago some of our electrical outlets in the kitchen and the outside light stopped working. We wondered if maybe it was a breaker but neither of us really knew what we were doing. So anyways we went down there to investigate last night, and as usually is the case with things like this, it was laughably easy. The breakers were actually already labeled and the one marked “Kitchen – GFCI” looked different than all the others.

I was actually wondering if we needed to replace it or something, because when I tried to move it to “ON” it wouldn’t go. But Carolyn just turned it off and then back on, at which point it worked and then our lights and outlets started working.

So….. go us.