Builder "Bob-bie"
BY JENIECE TORANZO, MESA, USA — I must say, yesterday was an interesting yet amusing night. After work I went and met up with Cyndi and Nick at Wildflower for dinner. YAY! They finally had the soup bowls! Every time that we went there or Paradise Bakery, they were all out of them. Bummer huh? During dinner we discussed Sundance, projects, and miscellaneous topics. "Tippy toe, tippy toe" After dinner, we decided to help Cyndi with her returns so we went to CompUSA first. We found the MAC aisle and were checking out all the goods. Cyndi ended up buying a sweet lookin' microphone! It definitely makes you sound more professional when you have to interview people at Sundance!
After that, we went to Target and did a return there. You'd think out of a pile of 500 receipts that we had, one of them would be a match for the drawer liners we were trying to return. But nope, we did not have the right receipt. Go figure huh? Since Cyndi couldn't get her money back, we had to do an exchange. So we had to go pick something else out. But get this. We could only get something from the "A" section. Not the "B" or even the "D" section, but the "A" section and only the "A" section at Target. None of us had ever heard anything like that. We had to spend the money in the same department. We wondered what would happen if something from the "B" section or some other section "accidently" got into the mix of our stuff. Hmmm. Makes you wonder huh? I sure do. Ha ha. It was tempting to try it out but we didn't. We were good and followed the "rules." At first we weren't sure if there was anything that we could exchange it for because all we found was the pet aisle. Soon we realized, after walking around some more, that the "A" section was a lot bigger than we thought and there were more items that we could choose from. It actually ended up being a lot of fun. We were all silly and goofy while quoting some lines from SEINFELD and just having fun. We went from aisle to aisle picking out the necessities that Cyndi needed. When we got to the soap aisle, Nick and I had fun sniffing the different Dial soaps. We were trying to pick a good smelling one for Cyndi. We ended up getting four different scents. We agreed that we didn't like the foaming ones because it feels like you are washing with air and not really killing all the germs and what not. At least that's our theory and we sticking with that. I must say, the whole experience reminded me of the show "The Price is Right." Trying to find enough stuff to just barely go over the limit without having to go back and get another thing.
Later, we alll went back to Cyndi's place and helped her put her cabinet drawers together to put her dvd's and tapes in. Nick and I are kind of opposites when it comes to hands-on projects. He mentioned that he didn't really care to build things and yet he was willing to come and join us and work as a team. It was awesome. I must confess, I love to build things and figure out how to put them together. When I watch my sister's kids, sometimes I take them to Home Depot to buy a supplies so we can build things together. It was funny cause Cyndi said that I looked like a girly girl and it didn't look like I would know what I was doing.
Maybe that's why I enjoyed Zambia so much. It was one giant puzzle that we had to figure out. I thought it was really neat when Alec and Jacob made a whole new light kit out of thin air. And then, when they built the budget dolly, that was cool. When we were working on the feature, we had to do the same sort of thing on set all of the time. We would need a jail cell or a court room or something else we didn't have and we'd have to build it out of nothing. Somehow we were able to do almost everything. The only thing we couldn't "build" immediately were bunches of children for the scenes in the schools.
We couldn't stop laughing as we tried to put the cabinet together because of some of the conversations we were having. There were a lot of priceless moments, if you asked me. We mentioned that we should have had the Doc cam there. There was the time where I had to get inside the "box" in order to put the screws in right. I felt like the little asian man on "Ocean's Eleven" when he came out of the box in the safe. I also felt like I was one of those clowns in the circus -- you know where a whole bunch of them come out of this itty bitty car and you're like "what the.....how'd they do that?" It was fun though, yet I'm sure it was goofy to look at. We had moments when we felt like we were in Zambia again. Good times, good times.
(By the way, my feet are NOT that big. The photo was taken with a forced perspective making me look like I could have been in LORD OF THE RINGS without the prosthetic feet.)