Vanity LightLast night my wife picked up a light fixture to go over the new mirrors that were installed in the house.

By the time I got home it was dark. But I don't like to wait on things, as you can tell by my blogging habits.

So I convinced my wife to stand with a flash light so I can install the fixture. Here are the steps I took:

(1) Shut off power the fixture at the fuse box
(2) Read instructions
(3) Took off existing light bulb fixture
(4) Tied new wires to the light source
(5) Attached plate to wall
(6) Took off plate from wall after realizing I forgot to attach "mounting screws"
(7) Attached mounting screws and reattached plate to wall
(8) Grounded electrical to grounding source, attached wiring to light fixture
(9) Removed grounding, removed wiring, detached plate from wall after noticing the screws I used were too long

RANT: Why didn't they say use the shorter screws? Why in the picture are the mounting screws longer than the non-mounting screws? Why are the mounting screws given three different names in the directions.

RANT OFF

(10) Put on new mounting screws
(11) Attached plate to wall bracket
(12) Grounded electrical to grounding source, attached wiring to light fixture
(13) Attache fixed to mounting screws
(14) Capped off mounting screws
(15) Put in test light bulb and turned on lights
(16) Turned on power in fuse and it worked
(17) Installed light covers
(18) Screwed in light bulbs (energy efficient ones)
(19) Leveled the fixture

Then ran off to play basketball. It made me 15 minutes late.