In our very first house each of the bedrooms had lights with ceiling fans. They were great! So when we bought this house I requested that we put ceiling fans in the upstairs bedrooms. Scott got right on the one for our bedroom and with the help of his handy brother Roy, got it all installed. It was marvelous. (Apparantly it was not an easy task to undertake and he hasn't jumped on getting the one in Megan's room installed) A word to the wise, a celing fan chain thingy will break when a 5 year old, even a cute 5 year old tries to hang from it. See I put her in time out in our room and when she came out she was holding the chain in her hand. Unfortunately it had broken from inside the fan which would require it to be taken apart and fixed.
Said 5 year old is now 6 and after nearly a year of not working the fan is running once again. Only after on a HOT early summer evening Scott decided to be all handy like and fix it. This was like around 10:00 pm mind you and I was exhausted, hot and ready to climb into bed. But being the loving, kind and supportive wife I am (ha ha) I agreed to help. Helping meant to hold the very hot part of the ceiling fan with the lights that was hanging precariously from the ceiling while he attempted to fix it.
An hour later the thing is sorta fixed, and I have stripped down to my under clothing because I had sweat dripping from standing on the bed while holding a VERY hot light. By sorta fixed I mean that the fan worked, except for the fact that it is always on - on high. A few days later I mentioned the ceiling fan ordeal to my SIL and she said that her brother had a ceiling fan in their living room that just quit working after running for EIGHT years straight. I made the mistake of telling Scott and he no longer felt the urgency to fix it right away. Considering that we had the hottest summer in South Dakota history I was fine with that. Now that our temperatures are below freezing in the evenings I no longer care to have a ceiling fan running ALL-NIGHT-LONG.
Perhaps it will be fixed in time for next summer when we will just leave it on all the time again.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
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The image of you holding the burning hot light part while balancing on the bed for an hour is too much! Maybe next time you come by you could dust my ceiling fan for me. We just have the one.
By the way - I actually don't like ceiling fans. They make me dizzy. I think I inherited this from my mom. I can remember her sitting in the family room, shading her eyes because the ceiling fan was bothering her.
I'm not sure why, but the thought of your fan being on constantly for months at a time strikes me as so funny.
I did not inherit the fan/dizziness problem Wendy and our mom have.
Fans don't make me dizzy. My MIL gets dizzy with fans, carousels and anything spinning. It’s sad but funny at the same time.
Reading about you holding the fan, with the hot lights and the sweating made me tired, and hot. And craving ice cream.
See what you did?
Ouch! I'm spiralling back to horrible memories of my roommate snarling at me "Hold it straight!" as I helped her assemble an IKEA bookcase (they look easy - but don't be fooled!).
Ugh! Does it ever get better? I love being cool, but having a ceiling fan going FULL blast this time of year!? Uh...no thanks! Can't you just get the chain and replace it!? (Maybe I don't know much about home repairs, but there's gotta be SOMETHING you can do!) Sorry about your problems! Hope it gets better soon!
I've heard fans are a pain in the rear to hang and fix for that matter.
Fans make me dizzy too. I can't watch tv with the fan on in our family room. Secret Agent Man thinks I am weird, but not for that reason.
no cool story's hat makes me dizzy too.
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