Remodeling - Day Twenty-Six

Today started off with me cleaning and setting up the kitchen while Harry was painting the door of the Coat Closet and the the Door Jam. Once he was done with that he replaced the lock of the door and put new silver colored door knobs on. Then it was time to spray paint the hinges in a silver color as well.

Once all that was accomplished, we headed out to the Rental to pick up the stuff that we wanted to give to recycling and a few more bags that would be going to Charity (Out of the Closet). So we got there and found our landlord and his wife busy cleaning the Rental. We put the remaining bags into my pickup truck and then gave the keys back to our landlord. We then ended up chatting with Bill and his wife for quite some time. They are very nice people and we’ll be inviting them to our house warming party.

After that we dropped off the stuff for Charity and then headed back to our house. On the way we stopped in Santa Clarita to go shopping at Stater Bros. I haven't shopped at a Stater Bros since I lived in Corona as they don't have them in the LA area.. it was nice to be back to one, it was always my favorite grocery store. We bought a lot, we planned on stocking up a bit since it's a 20 minute drive to here. We wound up spending just under $500, which I expected but Harry thought we were be way over. We did have two shopping carts both full to the top. After that we headed home and unloaded the food and stored it in our new kitchen. After that we had dinner and watched some TV.

boise, in a day.

when really fun things happen among college roommates, we call it "wahoo weekend". consider this "wahoo weekend 2009 - 2.0"

who:

andi {and olive}

aubry

cindy

what:

aubry and andi spontaneously road trip and concert crash the jason mraz show with cindy.

where:

boise, idaho

when:

sept. 25-27, 2009

why:

because we're cool like that.

{and serious suckers for college nostalgia... and jason mraz.}

the day began at the farmer's market... and shopping downtown.

baby olive was a super-trooper. just like her mom, she'd pass up nap time for a solid day of shopping.

she's happy because we're shopping. and, just like me.. the act of spending money makes her smile.

and, of course, no andi-aubry trip would be complete without a taste of the local cupcake-ry. sadly, there was lots of room for improvement.

previous adventures seen here and here.



we spied a local paper with mr. a-z's face on the cover. slightly embarassed, we made a few attempts at a self portrait of the four of us. didn't work so well...



thankfully {but still slightly embarassed}, strangers offered to take our picture.


here's the difference between red rocks and the idaho center:

1. red rocks: pre-sale ticket day - we get seats in row 41.
{pin-head size jason}
2. idaho center: three days before the show, row 16.
{close encounter jason}


thankfully... ideally... perfectly... the boise show was ENTIRELY different than the denver show. i mean, if i'm going to see him twice in a week... traveling 300 miles in both directions... the least he can do is give me two different mind-blowing shows. thanks, j-dawg sassy slacks.

and, the best part of the night came when he thanked "the beautiful people of utah" for coming to the show.

how'd he know? he must read my blog...

two places at once.

andi. cindy. {robin}. aubry.

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this weekend while the west coasters were at the jason mraz concert, robin was running the sweaty, yet still surprisingly swanky half marathon in the hamptons...

what she didn't know, was -

she was secretly at the jason mraz concert, too. an amazing feat.




in case you don't remember, robin, here's how the night went down:

it started here... on the frederiksen's front porch.



you sat in the front. cup holder.

and then we went to dinner at costa vida. i carried you in my back pocket.

i think you ordered a sweet pork enchilada. hot sauce. black beans. no pico.


yumm, right?



you sat on the shanty blanket. kept it warm.


would you believe me if i told you we bought you your very own seat?




we enjoyed the opening act. g. love was a little skeezy, though. skinny slimy.

i'll have you know i carried you everywhere i went.

i held your head-on-a-paint-stick in my hands {almost} the entire time. i held on tight... especially during all of our favorite songs.