Big Ouch!

I absolutely hate the lighting in my kitchen. Well it's not that I hate the lighting so much as the placement of the light switch. At night I almost always leave the light over the sink turned on just so I don't have to go fumbling for the light switch if I want something to drink. I walked in there to find that someone had turned both lights off. Now here's the first problem. The light switch isn't near the door that leads to the kitchen. It's in the middle of the room under a row of cabinets. Yes I know my way around my own kitchen enough to walk through it in the dark, but there's almost always going to be something in the middle of the floor that I won't be expecting like one of the dog's toys. Hubby's also bad about placing the dog's water bowl right in my path to the light switch.

What's problem #2? We've got a big deep freezer that sits under the cabinet right in front of the light switch. The freezer sticks out so far I have to tip toe to reach the light switch and I almost always end up jabbing the freezer handle in my side. It's bad enough to do it in the daylight but in the dark...OUCH! Of course tonight was yet another incident of handle in the side. I'll have another big bruise tomorrow.

We seriously need to move the light switch, but if I'm going to make hubby go to all that trouble I'm going to go ahead and replace the light as well. It's one of the old school fluorescents that takes the 2 light tubes, and I absolutely hate it. Not only is it ugly, but it's a pain to change when one blows. I think some track lighting would look nice in there. I might just have to talk to hubby about it.