I've been so busy dominating TAKS coordination. Duh!!!
Seriously with everything that's been crazy at work, we decided to go ahead and have our popcorn ceilings removed. Oh boy! Was that a fun treat! We had a plastic bag covered play house. The house was a complete disaster. I spent 3 hours cleaning tonight while Randy was partying it up at the Astros' home opener. I'd rather be cleaning, but still I want to complain about it.
I will be spending all day Saturday mopping (again, for the third time), vacuuming, and hauling things back to their designated spots. It looks like the powder monster is still winning the battle as their is a thick film everywhere.
Thank you Uncle Sam for funding the popcorn removal and mini blind repairs. The next project is the loft. We want to turn it into a media center. But we need a new couch to make this all happen.
YAY!!! Furniture shopping!!! YAH!!!! I love furniture shopping!
Furniture shopping with Randy...not so much YAH-ing anymore.
He always puts his frugal pants on when we go to make big purchases. And our salesman didn't exactly help us out.
We found the perfect couch for the living room. It's a leather dual reclining sofa. Ohh la la. This is me NOT bragging, because in order to brag you must have or own the item. We left empty handed.
Why might you ask?
Well apparently our sales guy flunked the "how to sell couches" seminar.
Randy: So do these couches ever go on sale?
oh geez...we are so close to buying this bad boy. In fact, we left the house with a cheerful, "Let's do this!" We went to go buy it not haggle. We already shopped around, sat in a gazillion couches, and even measured with a tape measure. Guess who was nerdy enough to bring a tape measure?
Sales guy: Occasionally
Randy: What does occasionally mean?
Sales guy: Well you see when I first started working here, we would have a big sale one time a year. But now with the economy the way it is, we usually have 3-5 sales.
Randy (only hearing the number 5): So when will the next sale be?
Sales guy: (chuckles) They don't tell us that sir because that would dissuade people from buying.
(Alright so he must have passed one or two tests in his sofa selling training... He's starting to grow on me, but then he pulled this number...)
Sales guy: Here's what I can do.
(Oh boy, he's going to cut us a deal. I'm thinking, "wow, my husband rocks at negotiating.")
Sales guy: I'll add your name to my list of customers to email when we have a sale.
WHAT??????????
What sales person ever uses that line? Don't they want an immediate sale? We were about to fold. And then he pulled that number with the whole emailing business. Do you think Randy hesitated in jumping all over that?
Randy: "Well that sounds great."
Of course it does.
Back to the car with the goober behind us probably selling our email address to every third party he can think of.
Email? Really?
He put our name on a scrap of paper. I'm going to go out on a limb and say it was probably completely unofficial.
2 lessons learned...
1)Don't go furniture shopping 15 minutes prior to closing regardless of what your husband says as he assumes "they'll cut a deal when it's closer to closing time." They're only interested in email addresses at 8:45pm and not selling things.
Way to go sales man! I bet you haven't seen the top of the white board in the break room that's labeled, "top sales people."
2)There's always an opportunity to learn something new about engineering.
Randy was more interested in taking pictures of this drainage system set-up.
I was complaining about the whole email nonsense, when he throws the car in park, jumps out, and says "I'll be right back."
Alright! Way to run in and claim that couch Randy! I just knew that couch belonged in our house!
Wrong!!! He bends down to take pictures and measure something in the concrete.
Geez...
I think I hate furniture shopping now.
