A Treemendous Day

So, on this particular Saturday (or as my friend Robert and I so affectionately call it for no other reason than the fact that we are ridiculous:

. . .
Splatterday.

ah yes. So, on this particular one, I am told I will be working at the leasing office, even though there is sideways rain with pellets the size of rhinos, 60 mph winds tumbling things everywhere and thunderous notions coming from the heavens. . .
Not to mention a flood warning and a tornado watch.

Fun.

On this day, I also have a visitor in town. . .my friend Mike. So, he is visiting Florida during this time of tumultuous weather. . . and I was hoping that I wouldn't have to work today so that we could stay home and watch movies, giggle at some of our witty word games and things of such nature. . .

Not the case.

So, here we are. Natalia, my co-worker and I sitting staring at each other bored to death with nothing to do in the office, when all of sudden residents come storming in (ha, no pun intended) complaining that a large, tall tree has fallen at the opening of the complex disabling anyone from coming in and out of the community. . .

tis true, this lovely majestic brown and green wonder had tumbled over from the wind and now we had hundreds of frustrated residents.

As fate would have it, the maintenance were unable to be reached at this time and the other venues were putting us on hold. . .so, at this point, it looked like there was no hope to try and fix the issue. Basically we needed someone with a chainsaw to cut it in several pieces and then have a couple guys move it to clear the road. Unfortunately with our difficulties in finding help, this process took about an hour. . .in the meantime, Natalia and I wanted to kill people. (haha. I kid. . .or do I?)
I swear we must have gotten about 60 calls like, "Do you know there is a tree down????"

And of course we would reply, "No. We don't." or sometimes "Oh yeah, we know. We put it there. . .ON PURPOSE so that all you crazy people would call and effing yell at us."

Also during this time, there would be only 15 service calls about leaks from the storm.

Finally our guys got her majesty cut down and they moved her ass aside so that people could enter and exit.

Victory.

Once hearing this, my manager instructed us to leave early at 3pm. (Halleluja) . . . and being the absurdity that I am, I called Mike and asked him if he felt like jumping into the pool which was overflowing at this time.
(What? It just looked fun.)
When Mike approached the pool, he noticed that there were black spots in it. And being the goof that he is, he said, "Shan, what the hell is that in the pool? I'm not going to swim with some alligators."
. . .right. . .So, as it turns out, they were lawn chairs. We dove in and dove right back out.

It was worth it.

Then, we ended this lovely day with homemade Pina Coladas. . .which I gave Mike complete control of.

Bad idea.
I love the boy, but he doesn't know a darn thing about making a drink. He poured the entire contents of the pina colada mix in the blender with no ice and 3 teaspoons of rum. I mean, I'm not trying to get us hammered or anything, but I would have balanced it a little better than that. haha.
We drank some of it, made contorted expressions which said "um no." and then drank some juice instead.

Basically, it was a treemendous day.

:)