YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE CAESAR

We have a dear friend named Caesar, who is willing to help us at any time we are in need.  Usually we call on him when we are in need of physical labor, moving hook-ups, or spicy tamales.  But today, we called upon him to help install a shiz-load of lights that needed to be hung from  the world's tallest vaulted ceilings.

Unfortunately Jax doesn't have electrical experience, or we would have sent his brave butt up that scary ladder and said, 

"wire it up son!".

(remember the smoke detector story?)

The home we bought was a foreclosure.  The dude that owned it/lost it, took a few things with him in his move.  

A water heater, 

central vac, 

random window blinds 

and 

the expensive hangy-downy light fixtures. 

Unfortunately, he didn't take the pigeons or his basement porn collection with him!

uhgggg!

The tight-wad from the bank-repo came and installed $3 ball lights in the place of chandeliers.

Yah...like no one would notice!

These ball lights have been a thorn in our eyeballs since we moved in.

We knew that it would cost a grip to replace said ball lights with the lighting we wanted, so we figured it would be a project that we would have to wait on for a year or so.

WRONG!!!!

We hit the light fixture jackpot stumbling onto a 70% off sale at Lighting Design in Draper!!!!!

HALLAH FREAKIN' LUYAH!!!  

WE SEE THE LIGHT!!!!

We were able to get all the fixtures we needed for a little over $400!!!!

This picture is of the area where an entry light should be....

NOT A BALL LIGHT!

My hell!!!  

Doesn't anyone watch HGTV?!?!?

This was Caesar's first  lighting task we gave him to work on, and it took a bit....mainly because he could only work with ONE hand since his other hand was holding himself on to the ladder!!!!  

This dude fears nothing and WILL NOT give up! 

Viola!!!!

The picture does NO justice for this beautiful piece.

It's just as lovely from the outside as it is the inside.

ahhhhh....I'm smiling :)

Ball light #2 is in our dining area.

Yes, I know....

LAME!!!!

Stupid bank thinking they could get away with this!!!

Well, I guess they did, because we were the fools to look past it. 

But this is the best part!!!!

WAIT FOR IT.....

WAIT FOR IT...........

NO, NOT YET......

OK!

READY???!??!?

A for REALS 

Mexican-Jimmy-rig-ladder-light-hanger-device.

Just get a good look at this contraption!!!!

I couldn't hardly watch these two!!!

For one thing, 

Caesar has a family!!!!

If anything happened to him, I could never forgive myself AND his wife would KILL me!

For ANOTHER thing, 

that little blue step ladder that is bungied to the 40' orange ladder, which is also holding the weight of Caesar at the same time, is about 

20 years old and rusted in all it's joints.

Somehow they pulled it off.....

Viva la Mexico engineering!

This was the final piece I needed for my dining room.

LOOOOOOVE IT!!!

Now for the island light.

I barely had enough wattage in this room to power a flash light.

This was my most frustrating ball light!

I just wanted to punch that light right in it's ball!!!

This was also the most difficult replacement because of the weak support anchors in the ceiling.

Caesar came through again with his Hispanic magic and now........

I have mucho light-o !!!!

yaaaaariba!!! 

yaaaariba!!!!

We also replaced the original ceiling fan with this larger bladed one.

We will move the original fan into the bedroom.....

THAT IS, as soon as the bedroom wall/closet construction is complete.

'As the General Contractor's drill turns' 

will be continued.......

It truly is a soap opera!

Please tell me that we aren't the only jerk-offs that are under continual  house re-vamping?!?!

It's a sickness!!!

We need an addict support group.