And now the TV that we all have been waiting for(or just me)

Of course you all know me and know I have wanted Plasma for a long time. Wait no more guys/gals the time has arrived. You know I don't buy anything full price so I did some dealing. So the biggest shopping weekend of the year was here and I thought it would be a great idea to start looking for the deals. So I started on Friday after my last day of work at Kamp Implement and drove to our local Vanns TV and Appliance dealer. I started off with just wondering around until the Ultimate Plasma TV, I WORK on Commission, gonna sell you the biggest largest Plasma with the MONSTER cables and the Surround System guy comes over to me. His name is Aaron. Anyway, he started talking about the TVs and then we came to the Samsung HP-S4253 where the picture was clear and the colors were so vivid that it felt like you were there holding the camera. I WAS IMPRESSED(it hit hard!!) So, he starts to tell me that it's 1299.99 on sale this weekend original price 1999.99. He goes on with his sale pitch of what else I can get with the saved money some Monster Cables, which you will have to get to watch TV and the super duper Surround Sound that is originally 1800.00 on sale for 425.00 this weekend. Gonna have to admit the deal sounded spectacular. So I got myself all physic up went home did some research on the TV and then did my sales pitch to Heather. hmmmmm.hmmmm Ya so after explaining to Heather my pitch she agreed that Saturday we would go and look at the TV. When we arrived Saturday morning Aaron saw me across the room and was like "HEY ZEB HOW ARE YOU" like he knew me for years. Im like hello? Anyway, He was too much for Heather and she gave him the death glare every time he did his sales pitch. They didn't get along so ya...We didn't get the TV but again Heather was right and a better deal awaited me. That night I did some calling to Best Buy and found out they match prices of Authorized dealers so they Best Buy guy his name is Trevor answered all my questions and even went to Vanns.com and was like yes we can match that price but we can also give you 1 more year on a warranty and 150 dollars cheaper. I was like this guy will work with me plus he was very intelligent with the TV. Anyway, I told Heather that we would be doing a road trip on Sunday in search for the deal of a lifetime on a TV. She said "I'm up or an adventure" SWEET!!!!!!!!!!! I was locked in Plasma mode now. I looked at weather conditions and what do you know SNOW AND ICE.... GREAT I was for sure that Heather wasn't going to be down with that. (But again she never fails me and was completely ok with it) Sunday comes and it snowed a good 5 inches with ice. Remember I was in Plasma mode now so nothing was stopping me. We set off at 10:30 and drove 2 1/2 hours to get there in the snow and ice. Below are some pictures of how it all went down at the Billings, MT Best Buy.
First Picture is Trevor showing me this Open Boxed Plasma, which added 10% off. Again, another Zeb Deal.

Applying for the Zero Percent
Checking Out damn that's a big bill

Waiting for the idiots outside to figure out how to load a fridge onto a trailer.
Trev shrink wrapping the TV for ultra weather protection
Trying to load it into the Civic(Trev said you BROUGHT A CAR?)

I say let me give it a try I'm going home with this TV

Civil War

Well the Beavs came away with a win at the 110th edition of the Civil War. They tried to give it away there at the end, which seems to be a trend this season. I guess they just like the excitement? Now we'll have to wait another season to see who will finally break the streak of the home team coming out victorious. Looks like O-State has the bragging rights for this year, sorry Uncle Phil.

Ban on Baseball

This week, one of the greatest american tragedies occured. Jeter lost the AL MVP race to the Twin's Justin Morneau. I am personally horrified at this, and have decided to completely ban baseball until this wrong is made right...oooor, until February when spring training starts. Who's with me?!?!

Although part of me says...this is what Jeter gets for dating Jessica Biel? Ick.

Travelling Man....errr...Woman

Well I was back in the great state of Oregon this last weekend on my final road trip for the season with the Volleyball team. Not so great weekend playing wise, but I got to see Emily, Gal, Mom, Charles and Ford. As you can see from the picture, Charles was a little bit worse for the wear. Rumor has it, he got in a fight with a samoan guy at a cocktail party. Hmmmmm. At any rate, it was great to see them all.

I'm off again on another road trip this weekend. This time its Long Beach State followed by Oregon State. I'm excited to get back to the Alma Mater. I should be able to see Dad this weekend, and hopefully Damon and Charles. Looking forward to seeing what they've done with the place since Zeb left.

Hope you all have a great weekend, and anyone in Corvallis this weekend, can't wait to see you!! I'll try to take lots of pictures!

Blog Awareness Weekend

It was great to have Mom here this weekend to visit. She finally got to see our new place, and the new city we call home. By the time she got here, all the snow had pretty much melted away for her, and it was actually a pretty warm weekend here. She is never going to believe us about this whole "frigid winter" thing. I got to take Friday afternoon off of work to hang out with her, so that was a very welcome break. Mostly we just hung around together and laughed. We made a trip to the local grocery co-op (a.k.a. Hippie Central), which was hilarious. Mom was right in her element with all of the hippies, and it made for lots of jokes!

I also got to explain the concept of the "blog" to Mom, and show her what we have been talking about the last few months. Come to find out that she and Ford had no idea what we had been talking about all this time. I guess it was good that she found out now, because it took her about 5 years to figure out what an Ipod was. (It happened last year around christmas time, she finally got the guts to ask me...."so hey, whats an ipod???") Anyway, we cleard up the difference between a blog, and the classic horror flick "The Blob." Hopefully now, with this new knowledge, Mom and Ford will start checking this out and making comments.

Hope everyone had as good of a weekend as I did! Love ya!

The Bahamas

The bahamas, you say....what does that have to do with anything? Well, I'll tell you what it has to do with. ME. Because for 8 days in May, thats where I will be. Say it again, The Bahamas. Dumb luck I guess you could call it, my women's basketball team is starting a tradition of taking a foreign tour to play basketball once every 4 years. And yes, you guessed it, this year is the bahamas. Awwww Shucks. And the real kicker is, Zeb might even get to come too! So everyone keep your fingers crossed for that. I just found out yesterday, so im pretty psyched. The prospect of this trip is definitely going to help me get through this cold winter!