I started the morning getting my hair cut - I had gone over two months letting it grow out and the back definitely needed to get under control. My hair really looked cute - even with all the white when David was finished with it. If I get it to look half that good I'll be happy.
My next stop was to drop off household hazardous waste at the Windsor Heights free drop off at Colby Park. I knew where Colby Park was - you can see if from the freeway and it's behind the WalMart on 8th Street but I wasn't sure what street to go down to get to it. Luckily there was a sign :) I had some containers of leftover product that Jon had used on my back porch floor that I couldn't put in the regular trash that they gladly took.
I finally get to Valley West Mall and the Verizon store - which was NOT a Shock City store but the young man told me there was one in Waukee. I had tried to find Shock Cities online but didn't find anything looking up Verizonshockcity.com. So I headed to the Qwest - now CenturyLink kiosk at the mall (where I bundle my cell and Internet) and asked if he could help me figure out the closest Shock City. Waukee. I called and figured out where the store was located and headed on my way.
The very nice young lady informed me that I couldn't just turn in my Gem cell phone and reactivate the replacement phone - no siree. I had to get another phone because I had signed a two year contract - I was not a happy camper. But she was very nice and we found a phone that I think I'll like - it's still an Android and after my mail-in rebate it will cost me $3.00. I set up my email at home - again. Evidently I did the incoming email ok but have something wrong with the outgoing email - so I'll work on that.
Tonight the kid that mows my lawn finally mowed this week - he was supposed to mow Wed after school, then it was Thurs after school. I had told him about the section of grass south of the house and he told me he would be sure to mow it this time. I was home when he mowed and saw him mow the back yard and the front yard but not the side strip. Then a little bit later I heard a weed eater and thought - no way, he's not weed eating that section - yep he did. At least it's "cut".
While I was waiting for the library to open this morning I called Dad and walked around the pond by the library and asked him what he thought of the front porch - he loved it. So it's ok to post pix of it now. Check out my enclosed front porch, enclosed back porch and very yellow downstairs hallway :)
Like the tropical/Caribbean look? :) I need to spray paint the pale yellow chair a bright yellow. And Jon will make me a small table to go between the two chairs that will have the purple tile for the top (look at the windowsills in the next photo), trimmed in the teal color with green legs.
The tv came with the house and the two chairs are my in-laws. I thought this side of the front porch has a nice "old home" feel to it. The papasan chair in the foreground will eventually go upstairs in my bedroom when I clear some things out.
Jon stained the concrete floor on the back porch and it looks ok - not quite what I wanted but it's ok. And of course then the porch needed to be painted. It had been probably 15 years (or more) since it was painted these colors.
And this stairway was a medium grey color. Glum, dark, blicky. It's definitely not blicky now :)
Jon put the peel 'n stick tile down on my bathroom floor before I started working at Submittal Exchange but a week ago he put trim around the floor - we never had trim in the bathroom. Now it looks finished.
