Of quick fixes and semi-sconces...

Have you ever had a harsh, sudden realization that prompted an emergency fix? Didgeridoo Boy gets cardio in his sleep. It's how he loses weight so fast on a diet of junk food and Monster Energy Drinks, and I've come to accept it as one of the many wonders involved with being in his company. But part of said cardio involves knocking the same thing, rolling, out into the middle of the bedroom floor every single morning. (It's not me or the dog, although he's come close.)

Perhaps you'll think it's very dorm room, but Didge and I have a thing about mini lights. Our house is festooned with them all the time; they're draped over the mantle, stuffed into vintage spaghetti lamp globes, suspended under kitchen cabinets. We're not old-school heads or too lazy to buy proper light bulbs - we just dig mini lights. And what Didge keeps knocking, rolling, out into the middle of the damned bedroom floor every single morning at what I am sure is a designated time is one of the light-filled, vintage spaghetti lamp globes. (Absorb the bit that says, "vintage") He said he needed a bedside lamp, and this is what I put there. He liked it.

Didge is not a careful man, not even in his sleep. He thrashes about like a goldfish that's hopped out of its bowl; I swear, I have seen him kick and hurl himself through a sidelong flip in order to turn over. And that poor DIY lamp has taken a beating. Saturday morning, it crashed harder than I've ever heard it crash, and when I went upstairs to pick it up, I noticed that it had flown/rolled further than ever before. I'm not keen on having one of my *vintage* spaghetti lamp globes broken, and hadn't realized that as a possibility until then. I'm a chick - I'm wired to be careful, so it takes me a while to even conceive of such things. Who chucks lights in their sleep, anyway? Am I married to the only man who does this?

It dawned on me: What if it smacked the dresser and shattered? So I took the lights out of the (vintage) spaghetti lamp globe and put it far, far away from him on the other side of the room. And then I came up with a non-chuckable, TEMPORARY fix:

Yes. That would be a string of lights hanging from a 3M hook on the wall above his nightstand. Let's hope he doesn't get his hand caught in it doing his sleepytime calisthenics. Any ideas for sturdy, unbreakable bedside lamps that can withstand such things?