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Renuzit TriScents Home Makeover Semi-Finalists

May 9th, 2008 | 2 Comments | Posted in Entertainment, House, Lifestyle, Technology, Videos, Women's Issues, vote

In my bathroom at home, I have the cheaply priced 97-cent screw-top Renuzit air freshener, and I must say, they’re a lot more effective than candles or spraying, and they don’t overwhelm.

Renuzit is having a contest where participants are instructed to upload a video explaining why they feel like they deserve a Home Makeover in the contest titled “Transform Your Home with Tanya Meme.” Tanya is the star of A & E Emmy-nominated show “Sell This House!”

The girl in the screenshot above sings a hilarious song about how her Mom worked really hard to earn money to give to her for her education so she could earn her degree, and now with no money they can’t afford to fix up the kitchen, so she needs a home makeover.

I felt bad for the girl, but I enjoyed her out-of-tune singing and the hokeyness of her video. Go visit the contest page and find her in the semi-finalist gallery and vote for her to win! What’s great is you can vote every single day, once a day, until June 7th. If most of you do this, she’s almost sure to win.

The winner with the most votes will receive a $20,000 makeover with Tanya Memme - so vote early and often. I’m tempted to enter, but I don’t actually own my home - I’m a renter. Still, it’d be neat to have some lady come in and do $20k worth of fix-ups to a place I did own.

Tags: A & E, Air Freshner, contest, funny, song, video

My Favorite Pants

May 2nd, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Business, Daily Life, Entertainment, Entrepreneurship, Lifestyle, My Life, Technology, Tidbits, online shopping

240x180 My favorite pair of pants is awesome for several reasons:

They’re bondage pants - meaning they have straps and chains that go to various hooks and holes all around the pants, giving me endless configuration options, or the option to remove them completely.
They have huge pockets that don’t bulge when I carry stuff.
They’re cool looking.
They are white with black trim, the only white pants I own.
I bought them at Hot Topic a few months ago because I wanted to hang on to my youth for just a little longer.
The legs zip off, so they’re also shorts. How novel!

These pants are also very comfortable, and I’m glad I bought them. They make older folks uncomfortable around me. You’ll probably notice a lot of the goth kids or the kids who are into heavy metal and dark make-up wear them. And then there are regular people like me who just like them.

Who am I kidding? Me? Regular? Blah. I don’t think I could be normal if I tried. I don’t mean that in an arrogant, non-conformist sort of way. Just more of a “I’m a weirdo” kind of way.

Dockers is having a TV commercial contest - you should create a video detailing “A Day in the Life of My Favorite Pants” and submit it to NBC’s website here: Dockers contest

If you’re a budding film maker, you could win a chance to see your ad aired during The Tonight Show with Jay Leno! That’d be a huge break for just about anybody that wins. Check it out!