Dear Dad,

OK, Dad, here's the pics you asked for. For everyone else out in bloggerland, my awesome Dad has volunteered to come out and be a handiman slave for me for 2 whole days!!!! The kittens requested that they play jingle ball with them the entire time, but I have some other plans. I am sure they will get a bit of jingleball in though.
The kitchen light:

Closer up of the light in the kitchen.

Top of sink:

Underside of sink:

CLose up shot of the disposal.

An undershot of the sink and disposal. The disposal is an optional project. I don't have the new one yet, since I was a bit nervous to buy the wrong one.
This is the light I installed that worked before I put it up, and now it doesn't, and, yes, I changed the bulb and also switched the wires. They are lavender and pale yellow.
This is the light in the bathroom that I would love to have moved over to at least be over the sink. I am going to be getting a new light fixture, so maybe we don't have to move it, just get one that will cross over?

...and these are the kittens who need to be entertained.

Thank you Dad!

Mint.

Last night I decided to celebrate the last of my 4 day holiday stretch off work. My "celebration" consisted of a nice hot bath, candles, (OK, just 1 candle) 2 kittens snoopervising, and some nice music. What celebration bath is complete without a fizzy-ball? None.
(Fizzy balls are fantastic solid powdered bath salt thingies, that once you drop into the water begin to fizzle, releasing pleasant aromatherapeutic scents, soft skinned fantabulousness.)
So I had the bath all prepared, slipped into the water and dropped my newest fizzy-ball into the water.
Now, I was all into the Christmas scene yesterday, so I grabbed the one with the shiney green wrap. Most are lavender, or melon, or strawberry or some other girly smell.
What I was not expecting was the intriguing scent that then filled the room.
Mint.

I felt like I was in a tub of toothpaste.
I tried to relax, I tried to think of relaxing, but I simply could not get past the mint smell.
I felt the draw to go brush my teeth taking over me.
So take it from me. Mint is not relaxing. Mint is not a soothing scent. Mint is not romantic, calming, or anything else happy.
Unless toothpaste makes you happy.
The bath ended up being cut short. Not even the kittens liked it. They wrinkled up their nose at it. Very unkittenlike.
Anyhow, learn from my mistakes. Don't choose Mint for your next fizzyball bath.
YOu can thank me later.