lesson learned, and lawn

I learned a valuable lesson over the weekend... Do not clean the ice out of your freezer with a hammer and chisel. The door on our small fridge in the basement would not close all the way because of ice, and rather than defrost it, I thought it would be good to just chisel it out. Unfortunately as I was about to finish I ruptured one of the coils and killed the fridge.
My lawn is getting long again. I am really having a difficult time getting motivated to mow it. It takes me about 2 hours to mow the whole yard, I really want to get a riding mower. I looked in to the small riding mowers that are just mowers, and you can get 2 garden tractors with mowers for the same price. I don't understand that. Someday we would like to build a shed in our back yard, but that is not going to happen real soon, so if we did get a mower it would probably be stored outside, so I would have to get a cover or something for it... Anyway, my lawn is long. On the topic of my lawn, TruGreen called us in March and asked if they could spray our yard in early April. I agreed to this, they were to spray fertilizer, weed control, and bug control in early April. We were charged for this in early April, but it still has not been done. I called and they informed me that I prepaid, and that they would get to it as soon as possible. As we speak the weeds are completely out of control, and getting tall, because I don't want to mow them.