I Did It!!!

It was a long and painful project two years ago, but after a lot of struggle, my balcony lights were up. I was happy since then, until a couple of months ago, the light bulbs started to burn out one after another, and soon, there were three burned-out light bulbs.

It didn’t look pretty, and I didn’t have enough light on the balcony. The reason I couldn’t replace them was the same as why I didn’t put them on in the first place: they are too high, and I am afraid of height, especially when I am on the third-and-a-half floor!

Every day, I was telling myself that I would take the largest ladder out and try, and every day I was like, “let’s do it tomorrow.” I started to think that hanging the lights up was a bad idea, since I will never be able to replace the bulbs myself. I even started to discuss with Boris what could be an alternative: how I can hang up the lights lower, should I buy some poles, or buy some floor lights.

Finally, today, when I came home early enough and didn’t have to run anywhere, I took out my tallest ladder and unfolded it on the balcony. To my surprise, I realized that I can easily reach at least one of the light bulbs. I unscrewed it and went to check whether I might have some replacement bulbs. And voila – I found a box with five replacement bulbs! (I am sure they were left from when this handyman who installed the lights in the first place).

The first bulb was easy. The second was still reachable, and I even had the courage to unscrew the bulb with two hands, and srew in the new one. The other two looked scarier, and I was afraid to let the second hand go off the holder. With the third one, I let the other hand go for just a second, and with the last one, I didn’t dare, so I did everything with the right hand, holding the socket with two fingers and rotating the light bulb with the other two.

And I am proud of myself beyond any imagination!!!