The Good Kind
I mentioned here about a month ago that we were having our entire roof replaced. The inspectors we hired when buying the house told us we could get another good two years out of the beast, but when you're living underneath a 25-year-old roof that is more flammable than gasoline and a fire breaks out on the hill not two hundred yards from your house? And one morning you wake up to find your miniature Australian Shepherd running around the yard with a piece of the roof in her mouth?
You have to somehow find it in yourself not to puke when the estimates start rolling in.
Let's just say that this was our creative way of living through it:
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Becky Cochrane said:
HA HA HA HA. Funny videos are the best revenge.
09.22.11 - 11:39 AM / 1bucky4eyes said:
Cocktail shingles. Let me fetch my smoking jacket.
The white gloves really tie the whole outfit together.
09.22.11 - 11:41 AM / 2xmyrin said:
lolol I love it!!
09.22.11 - 11:42 AM / 3liefie said:
Yeah, not gonna lie, the first SHINGLES! clip kinda freaked me out... hopefully I don't have nightmares about demonic Heather coming to eat me in my sleep! Also, you're much hotter as a blonde :-)
Congrats on the new, not-quite-so-flammable roof!
09.22.11 - 11:42 AM / 4slappyintheface said:
Oh I get it ... SHINGLES! Love the dress!
09.22.11 - 11:44 AM / 5LillyO said:
I just PEE'D a little laughing so hard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
09.22.11 - 11:45 AM / 6edgyveggie said:
wow, new shingles look way gorgeous. I would have a cocktail party on your roof any day.
Shingles advice (the not so fun kind): I got shingles my freshman year of college, and every six months or so after, I've had a recurring breakout on my face... even though my first breakout was on my back and side. Then this summer, between planning a wedding and preparing for senior year of college, I had a breakout with every menstrual cycle. Sooooo, I got myself a nifty prescription for some anti-viral meds to take everytime I start to get the itchy burning feeling of an outbreak. Of SHINGLES!!! I advise anyone who's had the Shingles!! to get themselves a prescription STAT so you can kick an outbreak in the nuts when it rears its ugly head.
09.22.11 - 11:47 AM / 7Beelzebob said:
How high were you?
09.22.11 - 11:49 AM / 8Daisee said:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! This is so funny! You remind me of Bewitched! (circa 1964-1972)Didn't Samantha have an evil sister that looked like this?!
09.22.11 - 11:49 AM / 9jayfid said:
Oooh...I want Shingles now. Wait...how did you DO that?
09.22.11 - 11:49 AM / 10Sydney said:
I don't normally comment but I feel compelled. That was brilliant!
09.22.11 - 11:53 AM / 11harugirlie said:
awesome video! I got shingles at the tail end of my honeymoon. IT WAS AWESOME!
Your arms look fab btw!
09.22.11 - 11:56 AM / 12jaimedwight said:
LOVE this! Hilarious.
09.22.11 - 11:57 AM / 13Rebecca from Texas said:
OMG this is so effing great.
09.22.11 - 11:57 AM / 14Mme Wong said:
Wow! Oh, thank you for this, it made my afternoon :)
09.22.11 - 11:59 AM / 15dianemaggipinto... said:
several years ago, i paid 17k for a new roof (1600 sq ft house) plus all the other shit it needed since it had the original roof on it ... (103 years of shingles and linoleum and newspaper).
i make damn sure any visitor admires the beauty that is my roof.
yours looks spectacular! along with your shoulders .... ;)
09.22.11 - 12:01 PM / 16playrawkstar said:
hilarious! btw - your arms are looking serious ripped - hurrah for healthy, active living!
09.22.11 - 12:03 PM / 17willL said:
This was funny for obvious reasons...but really was more funny b/c I was wondering what the neighboors must think of you'd.
I'd love it if I had a neighboor doing unexplainable things like this all the time!
09.22.11 - 12:07 PM / 18kristanhoffman said:
ROFL! I did NOT see that coming.
09.22.11 - 12:08 PM / 19tokenblogger said:
I see you came up with a way of showing off a very important purchase.
Where were you when I had to pay too damn many $$$$ for a roof?
Getting a new roof used to be kinda like getting new tires. You spend a lot of money, but you don't get to show off anything for it.
Showing off a new roof will never be the same.
You looked great as "Serena," too!
Thanks!
09.22.11 - 12:13 PM / 20Zannah said:
Brilliant! How'd you get Reese Witherspoon to stand on your roof? :) Honestly, it's a little crazy how you much you look like her with that much hair on your head.
I love it!
09.22.11 - 12:14 PM / 21Lex Lemon said:
Stay classy!
09.22.11 - 12:15 PM / 22k8y said:
Awesome! Love it, so much. Having also dropped an assload of cash on home improvements recently, I have to say had I thought of videotaping it in a fabulous dress and showcasing it this way, I would have. Makes total sense.
You rock, as usual.
09.22.11 - 12:15 PM / 23curlsz said:
did NOT see that coming - nor did my co workers that just yelled "what ARE you listening to" - shingles ok?
09.22.11 - 12:15 PM / 24Shea said:
Thank you. This was awesome.
09.22.11 - 12:18 PM / 25Lauren3 said:
HOLY FUCKING SHIT
I guffawed over the original shingles video
I cackled over the pregnant redneck photos
BUT THE NEW SHINGLES TAKES IT. Effing funny.
Dude, you guys are really getting the hang of this video editing stuff too.
09.22.11 - 12:21 PM / 26jpshenson said:
First - I love the picture of Marlo in the blanket I gave her when you were in Denver.
Second - I got shingles like 3 weeks after you did and it was horrible - horrible!
Third - We also got a new roof this year - however ours was a result of hail damage and it was FREE!! If you don't count how much money we have paid the insurance company over the last 12 years.
The video is AWESOME!
09.22.11 - 12:29 PM / 27preppypitbull said:
Hilarious. That's the hardest I've laughed in a long time. LOVE the dress too by the way. You look fab :)
09.22.11 - 12:31 PM / 28KatJMoll said:
Well, that was just great! More Please!
and also: those are some buff shoulders!
09.22.11 - 12:33 PM / 29Ruthinks said:
So AWESOME!!!! The best new roof celebration I've ever seen!!!
Were you lucky enough to be at home for the hammering in of the new nails for the new Shingles ceremony?
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