Water Water Everywhere...

Funny story. I was over at my friend Misty's house last night eating dinner when this guy shows up to do a water softening product demo for Misty and her husband. I guess their friend had signed them up for it in order to win a gift certificate or something. Well the guy starts demonstrating how "gross" florida water is by doing tests to show how much chlorine and minerals are present. He tells them that they have really hard water and hard water has been linked to rectal cancer and other ailments. So we're listening to him and having fun doing the tests and laughing and being goofy. Stupidly, we think this shpeel will go on for like 20-30 minutes.

3 HOURS LATER HE IS STILL THERE and he is hyping his ionic water softening system by reading from a binder. He goes around and starts cleaning stuff with his "soft" water. He cleaned 2 mirrors and their tiles! Then he took a freshly laundered washrag, wet it down, squeezed the water out of it and showed that there was still some soap in the rag. So I said "Remind me never to drink water that I've squeezed out of a dish rag again!" Then he starts to namedrop saying "Nasa uses us!" and GE just merged with us.

Finally, he sits us all down and goes over the pricing. The funniest part is when he starts by saying he is NOT a salesperson and he's only trying to help us out. Baloney. Turns out the system is like $6000. He keeps saying you're saving so much money, etc, etc. And here's the kicker. The deal is good for one night only. Surprise surprise surprise! So Misty and Robby say they have to think it over and they would have to call the company back if they were interested. They stated that they do not make $6000 dollar decisons on the spot. So then he get's a bit testy and says "What's the problem?? Is it the price??" and Misty is like "Yeah, thats part of the problem." At this point he GETS ON THE PHONE and pretends to call his "supervisor"(it's now around MIDNIGHT, mind you) to see if he can lower the price. Who calls their supervisor at midnight?? I ended up leaving the room and he starts talking really loud to his "supervisor" and makes another ridiculous offer thats like 5 dollars cheaper and again it gets rejected. DUH. So then he starts talking on the phone again and saying garbage like, "I know we're the best company" and "I know our product is superior but they have to think it over". So he won't leave. This goes on for about 25 minutes. He is so obviously stalling. Then he proceeded to be rude to Misty and Robby saying crap like, "you're indecisive after I showed you a three hour demonstration? What's the problem? What's to think about? You want clean water don't you???" Tina has had it by now and chimes in because I am totally disgusted with the pushiness of this jerk, so I say, "I have a suggestion, Why don't you tell people the price before you do your demonstration???" That shut him up and he went into the other room to talk to "Mr. B." The supposed inventor of the system!!!! Robby forgot that there was a very pointy knife on the table so he nonchalantly went in there and pretended like he was clearing things and grabbed the knife and hid it. Hahaha! We thought he was never gonna leave and we were gonna be stuck with this psycho freak! Then Misty calls her sister and I think that freaked him out so he's like "Mr. B, I gotta go, I'm being kicked out of the house!!" Then after all that crap, he's like, "I understand that you have to think about it and i would do the same thing." Liar!!!! It took him like 2 minutes to unpack everything when he got there and 30 minutes to pack it all up. Imagine that! So he finally left after 25 minutes of stalling!!

Tina's warning of the Day: DO NOT AGREE TO A HARD WATER DEMONSTRATION!

The DaVinci Code movie

Yay! I just found out that Tom Hanks is going to be starring in the upcoming DaVinci Code movie! I love when books i read get turned into movies. It's so great to see it on a big screen.
Here's the link;

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6471862/site/newsweek/

I went to Goodwill yesterday and bought this Resume almanac for a dollar. Ha. It has 600 resumes so I'm hoping this will get me motivated to start putting mine out there. I also bought an old Arrested Development cassette(remember that song "Tennessee" and Mr. Wendall?) and a Julie Andrews Christmas cassette tape. Do we all remember what cassette tapes are? ;) Question. Does Tina have anything better to spend her money on? Apparently not.

Today in Pilates my teacher let us do a ball class as our Thanksgiving treat! It was so much fun. We had to balance on the big rubber ball and then we had to do all these exercises with it. But the most fun was the ball aerobics we did at the end of class which was bouncing up and down on the ball while moving your legs and arms. We looked so Goofy but it was GREAT!!! We were having way too much fun with that one.

I LOVE THE NEW MALL!!!!

Yay for the new Avenue at Viera. Great Mall! It was my first time going there today and I had a good experience. There weren't a million people there and I found parking really easily and there's a huge Old Navy store. Yay for cheapness!! I can get freakin $20 dollar jeans there. Ok, maybe I'm too excited about that but so what.

I'm going to watch my mom sing in a variety show tonight. Hope she doesn't get too nervous with all the people watching her. EEK! OK, gotta go get ready.

Lovin it!

I loved the new Bridget Jones movie! Awesome!! I had been waiting for this movie to open for about 2 years now and I was very pleased with the outcome! Yay!!

Also am thinking about getting hair cut tomorrow. No, I won't be cutting it myself again although that was all the rave 2 months ago.

another day another dollar

well I started my day by waking up at 4:30 AM to a lovely power outage. So what do I decide to do? Well, light five candles, of course. Now the problem was locating a candle and a lighter in the dark dark darkness. After 10 minutes of feeling my way through the house I stumbled upon both of these items(I'm still amazed that I found them). Since I was up, I let my dog Shadow out in the back yard. I happened to look up at the powerlines and there were glowing embers falling from a box up there. I assumed that this was not normal. Very weird. So either something blew a fuse up there or an animal was fried to pieces. Anyhoo, the power stayed off for a half hour and I just sat up and stared at my candles til it came back on. So anyway, after going to sleep for 4 more hours, I rolled myself out of bed and got ready for pilates(I LOVE PILATES!!!).

Before I left, I noticed the lizard! The infamous lizard that had been silently running around my room for the past 24 hours. So I made it my personal mission to catch and release this lizard back into the wild. HAHA. Easier said than done. The little stinker ran under every piece of furniture I own. I cornered him like 5 times and he kept sprinting away like a maniac. So finally, a half hour later(I've been chasing him the whole time), I finally corner him again, and get this, he's so tired he doesn't even try to get away. HAHAHAHAHA. I see him breathing so heavy. Poor, stupid lizard. If only he knew that I was trying to help him, maybe he wouldn't be so stupid. So I picked him up and yelled for my mom to open the doors for me. I take him outside and chuck him in the grass. He's still breathing heavy. I think he's in shock because he keeps sitting there. For all I know he's still sitting there! Anyway, I guess you had to be there;)

So then I go to Pilates, and Leah( my instructor) kicked my butt, as usual. She comes up wiith these freakin hard moves, like balancing on your tailbone with both legs in the air held up in front of you as you slowly roll down to a reclined position. Yeah, pilates is definitely not a class to be taken lightly.

Anyway, after pilates I headed to the MCT to work on more set construction. Today we put up a chair rail around the entire set. It took forever bcause we had to make 45 degree angles to match up the pieces of wood in the corners. And I am a total chicken with the saw and the nail gun, so it took a little longer. But I must say the set is coming along mah-velously, thanks to Misty and Myself. The set is being prepared for a show called, A Tuna Christmas. Don't ask me what it is about because I have no clue. The set is supposed to resemble the sky and the desert sand. Still no clue. Tomorrow we paint the clouds. I'll upload a picture when it's all finished if I remember.

Ok, I've written a short novel so I'll quit now.

Premiere!!

Woot! My first blog entry. Well, let's see. Um... yeah. I got nothing. Usually I would keep on erasing everything that I write until I write something funny or clever but I say SCREW IT! Your just going to have to read all of my nonsensical ravings.

I'm so Happy! I got off work Thursday so I can go see RENT for the second time. I wonder if it will be as exciting the second time around seeing as I know every word to every song in the whole show. Woohoo!!