The other day when I was trying to clean the air ducts, I ended up falling and hurting myself.
I am more than a little bit clumsy, that’s for sure.
It seems like every other day, I am tripping and falling or hurting myself in some way. My friends and family all laugh at me about it, but sometimes that gets old. I wish that I was more graceful because I don’t really like having bumps and bruises all over me all the time from self-inflicted injuries! Today, I decided that I was going to try to clean the air ducts in my house myself. My ventilation system has not been touched in a long time, and I started thinking about how dirty it must be on the inside. I did not want to call my local HVAC company to have them come and do the ventilation system professionally, though. I just don’t have all that much money in my home improvement budget right now. That’s why I decided that I wanted to do it myself. I should have known better than to try and climb a ladder to clean my ductwork myself, though. I mean, I know that I hurt myself a lot, and that should have just been a warning sign to me to stay off of ladders! I didn’t, though, and when I was up on the top rung of the ladder unscrewing the air vent cover in the ceiling, I got all tangled up in my own feet and I fell all the way to the floor, just missing the couch. I could have broken my neck! Thank goodness there were throw pillows on the floor. They broke my fall.