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Sep. 19th, 2014
My swim this morning was good. I love starting the day with a swim but I'm kind of grateful that the pool doesn't have early morning swims every day. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays are just perfect. I'm beginning to enjoy the variety of having to swim at different times on different days. Tomorrow, for instance, when the alarm goes off, I can just roll over and listen to the news a bit and wake up gradually. It's kind of nice to have the variety.
Today is blinds day. The blinds guy is coming at 1:30. I am ready.
My condo is a kind of tube. At one end is the door to the hallway/elevators and at the other end are 2 7x5 foot windows and a sliding glass door. The window end faces east. So I'm used to fighting morning sun. But, since they built the building across the street, as the sun sets it bounces off that building so I have glare twice a day not to mention the heat.
I used to lower the shades before I went to bed and then raise them about mid-morning. But now it's an up and down thing all day and every day. They no longer go up easily. So I tend to leave them down 24/7. This is ok in the summer. Not ideal but not horrible. In winter, though, the leaves are off the tree and I can see stuff. I want my windows unblocked so I can see stuff.
When I replaced the mini blinds with UV shades, I wanted motorized ones but the designer who was managing the project talked me out of them. I've regretted that ever since and I plan to fix it.
It is likely that there are many more years of life in my current blinds but I don't care. I want to be able to rise and lower the shades with a remote control so that's the goal today. I dug around all kinds of blinds and shades websites to see if I could get even a ballpark on how much this will cost and I'm still not sure. In my head, I'm hoping it will be less than $3,000.
The other thing on today's agenda is also money connected. I'm waiting on a check - an old fashioned paper check - supposedly on its way via the postal mail. It's a really big check. And I'm not really comfortable having that kind of money just floating around maybe landing in a junk mail pile or slipping out and falling in the trash or just getting lost in the mail.
It should be here today and I can get it into my checking account. It will be what I live on for the next four months. I'd like it to be safe so I can worry about something else.
Today is blinds day. The blinds guy is coming at 1:30. I am ready.
My condo is a kind of tube. At one end is the door to the hallway/elevators and at the other end are 2 7x5 foot windows and a sliding glass door. The window end faces east. So I'm used to fighting morning sun. But, since they built the building across the street, as the sun sets it bounces off that building so I have glare twice a day not to mention the heat.
I used to lower the shades before I went to bed and then raise them about mid-morning. But now it's an up and down thing all day and every day. They no longer go up easily. So I tend to leave them down 24/7. This is ok in the summer. Not ideal but not horrible. In winter, though, the leaves are off the tree and I can see stuff. I want my windows unblocked so I can see stuff.
When I replaced the mini blinds with UV shades, I wanted motorized ones but the designer who was managing the project talked me out of them. I've regretted that ever since and I plan to fix it.
It is likely that there are many more years of life in my current blinds but I don't care. I want to be able to rise and lower the shades with a remote control so that's the goal today. I dug around all kinds of blinds and shades websites to see if I could get even a ballpark on how much this will cost and I'm still not sure. In my head, I'm hoping it will be less than $3,000.
The other thing on today's agenda is also money connected. I'm waiting on a check - an old fashioned paper check - supposedly on its way via the postal mail. It's a really big check. And I'm not really comfortable having that kind of money just floating around maybe landing in a junk mail pile or slipping out and falling in the trash or just getting lost in the mail.
It should be here today and I can get it into my checking account. It will be what I live on for the next four months. I'd like it to be safe so I can worry about something else.
The check arrived and thanks to the wonders of the modern world and my smart phone, the $$ are already in my bank safe without my having to leave the living room. Ahhhhhh I am very glad to have that whole thing behind me.
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And, Jason, the shades guy came, and I have no idea how much it's going to cost me but he has the PERFECT solution for me. And he's very nice and organized and efficient and did I mention nice? (I love it when work people/service people come to your house with their own shoe booties. I never ever let them use them and sometimes it's a struggle. I bought carpet that shoes no dirt for a reason. BUT the fact they make me tell them no sets a tone of respect for me and my house that you just can't buy with words.)
Anyway, after we did the You Don't Need The Booties, Honest, dance, he came in and sussed out the situation and carefully questioned me about exactly what I was saying and what I wanted and then showed me options. Of course, I fell in love with the fancy one. It's like fabric shutters. You can go all see through dark like I have now or shades all up OR there's a third option I'd never even heard of where the dark lifts up and reveals a semi dark.
PLUS! I do NOT have to have one shade for the sliding glass doors. I can have two so I can get air in the opening and still block out some light.
AND I can control it all via a remote control - by individual shade or all at once.
I am sooooo excited. 2-3 weeks. He's going send me the quote tonight or Monday. I am sure it's going to be pricey but I am so worth it.
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And, Jason, the shades guy came, and I have no idea how much it's going to cost me but he has the PERFECT solution for me. And he's very nice and organized and efficient and did I mention nice? (I love it when work people/service people come to your house with their own shoe booties. I never ever let them use them and sometimes it's a struggle. I bought carpet that shoes no dirt for a reason. BUT the fact they make me tell them no sets a tone of respect for me and my house that you just can't buy with words.)
Anyway, after we did the You Don't Need The Booties, Honest, dance, he came in and sussed out the situation and carefully questioned me about exactly what I was saying and what I wanted and then showed me options. Of course, I fell in love with the fancy one. It's like fabric shutters. You can go all see through dark like I have now or shades all up OR there's a third option I'd never even heard of where the dark lifts up and reveals a semi dark.
PLUS! I do NOT have to have one shade for the sliding glass doors. I can have two so I can get air in the opening and still block out some light.
AND I can control it all via a remote control - by individual shade or all at once.
I am sooooo excited. 2-3 weeks. He's going send me the quote tonight or Monday. I am sure it's going to be pricey but I am so worth it.
Merry Christmas to me
Sep. 19th, 2014 06:49 pmJordan, my shades man, sent me the quote just a bit ago. And he gets even more points for not making me wait until Monday.
My estimate was pretty off - soup to nuts including tax and dealer prep, etc - it's going to fall just under $4,500. BUT, I love them and I'm still worth it.
Plus - and here, he nearly loses a few points - I discovered he left out a major selling point...
On the quote, he listed the exact name so I could go to the website and, once there, I discovered that in addition to the remote control... there's an android app!!! And it's in both the Google Play store and the Amazon App store so I can put it on my Fire tablet and my phone! Oh yeah, baby.
They are Hunter Douglas Nantucket sheers. The ones I ordered look like the dark striped ones past the guy in this photo. That's their midway position. The dark stripes can be flapped down so that the shades are a dark translucent. Hunter Douglas Nantucket
I signed the contract and sent it back to him with my credit card info and told him Let's Do It!
While I was typing up this entry, he replied and said my shades were on order. Again, he could have easily waited until Monday and I so appreciate that he did not. Happy Happy Happy.
And if that wasn't enough excitement, the Mariners are ahead in the 4th.
My estimate was pretty off - soup to nuts including tax and dealer prep, etc - it's going to fall just under $4,500. BUT, I love them and I'm still worth it.
Plus - and here, he nearly loses a few points - I discovered he left out a major selling point...
On the quote, he listed the exact name so I could go to the website and, once there, I discovered that in addition to the remote control... there's an android app!!! And it's in both the Google Play store and the Amazon App store so I can put it on my Fire tablet and my phone! Oh yeah, baby.
They are Hunter Douglas Nantucket sheers. The ones I ordered look like the dark striped ones past the guy in this photo. That's their midway position. The dark stripes can be flapped down so that the shades are a dark translucent. Hunter Douglas Nantucket
I signed the contract and sent it back to him with my credit card info and told him Let's Do It!
While I was typing up this entry, he replied and said my shades were on order. Again, he could have easily waited until Monday and I so appreciate that he did not. Happy Happy Happy.
And if that wasn't enough excitement, the Mariners are ahead in the 4th.