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Christmas in October

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

In the apartment industry we have a trade show once a year, hosted by the apartment association. This is where vendors for all kinds of things (maintenance supplies, landscapers, painters, laundry services...) set up booths, give away free stuff, door prizes, and food. The theme was sports...so I went dressed as my favorite football player...Damian (Have I mentioned that he played Arena Football when I met him?) I just missed winning the costume contest...no prize for second place :( And seriously, is fly fishing a sport? I guess she won for creativity.

Aside from lots of cool things like the level, screw driver, flashlight all-in-one, and the samples of cheer detergent, lots of pens & candy; I won a doorprize! (My brother-in-law swears I am the luckiest person alive. I always win something.) No, I didn't win the 4 tickets to the Falcons game. No, I didn't win the GPS navagation system, and nope...didn't win the $500 cash. What did I win?

A SHOP VAC! So all the men last night were like "Umm, what are you going to do with that? Can I have it?" So I tried to trade if for 2 tickets to the Falcons game...oh well. Instead I am now the Best Girlfriend Ever in Damian's opinion, because he got a new shop vac last night. He is so excited!

Maybe next year I'll win the $$$$!

posted by Stephanie @ 10:07 AM

8 Comments:

At October 17, 2007 at 4:51 PM, whatagem said…

I want a shop vac! I thought about buying one after we got the retarded dog (she pees EVERYWHERE) but then I found out how much they were.

I asked the husband to bring home the one from work and he said, "NO! It's full of sewage. You don't want that thing in the house!"

HA HA!!
At October 17, 2007 at 5:47 PM, hotroxboggsy said…

Hilarious! You are the luckiest person alive! It's really ridiculous! You ever play the lottery? You might want to think about that... and if you win, remember who gave you that idea... Hehe!
At October 17, 2007 at 8:45 PM, Becca said…

Congrats on being so lucky! I don't win anything, but I don't even know what a shop vac is, and I'm pretty sure my husband doesn't either, so I don't think we'd want it even if we did win.
At October 17, 2007 at 10:58 PM, Daszzle said…

Ha ha, that basically means that you have the best boyfriend ever. My boyfriend would be with you trying to swap for football tickets. Me... well I'd probably be looking for something like a trip to NYC so that I could catch a musical or ice skate in Rockefeller Center. :) I'm glad you walked away a winner though.
At October 17, 2007 at 11:53 PM, linda said…

Fantastic! Think of what you can vacuum with that little yellow bee. That means you can drop your standards a bit around the house and just pull out the vac when it gets too messy.
At October 18, 2007 at 2:47 AM, Rahul said…

As a guy I so would have traded football tix for that shop vac..That might be one of the greatest invetions ever. Picks up water and dirt? Unreal!
At October 18, 2007 at 7:04 AM, Stephanie said…

Gem: I belive the retarded dog would be an outside dog! As for the work shop vac being full of sewage, that is why my maintenance crew doesn't know I won it. They would come up with every reason for needing another one!

Niki: I never win the big prize, just always something. So playing the lottery, I would win like the powerball only or something. I guess it's still something.

Rebecca: Oh, the things you can do with a shop vac. Like RS said, you can vacuum water & dirt! It's super duty & no more paying to vaccuum out my car!

Daszzle: Oh, I would so choose NYC over football, but there were no tickets for that :)

Linda: OMG! I hadn't thought of it that way! I can always count on you to be thinking logically!

RS: Tix would have been nice, but I guess this is the gift that keeps on giving! ;)
At October 18, 2007 at 9:55 AM, prin said…

Let the renos begin! lol