The Honest Courtesan

After living with the ceiling lights as we had them for a while, Jae decided they looked much too “college dormish” for her liking, and decided they should go around the edge instead.  That of course meant I had to get up there and redo them, because even though she has mostly recovered from her brain injury, she is still subject to intermittent bouts of balance loss, so it isn’t safe for her to be up on tall ladders.  I was pretty sure she was right that the new design would look better (because she usually is about such things), and I was willing to do it, but I also dreaded having to go through all the trouble of taking them down and putting them back up.  Well, at the beginning of last week I finally got in the mood, and discovered to my relief that while taking them down was indeed an annoyance, putting them back up was relatively easy because now that Jae was sure about the placement, we were able to use the adhesive backing on the strips to affix them to the steel.  We’re not really sure it will stick permanently to the wooden members we ran it on, so I also used decorative tacks spaced evenly to give those parts extra support.  And once I saw how good the first two strips looked, it was easy to motivate myself to do the other two last weekend.