Mug Shot...

This is what happens when Mom's not looking for 5 minutes! I told Kourtnie this looks like a Mug Shot -- Caught with a blue marker

Hallsville Homecoming 2009

Odds & Ends

I haven't been keeping up too well with this blog...so here are a few odds and ends to post.

A couple weekends ago I took both grandbabies to my great-nephew's 3rd birthday party. It was a 'baseball party' complete with a miniature baseball diamond out in the back yard. Boston & Slayten loved playing baseball and Sutton was more interested in the sandbox! But when it came time for cake...that got all of their attention!

Sutton is so precious...he spent the night with me this weekend. He has been teething and wasn't quite himself...but I didn't mind because he just wanted me to hold him and read to him! Loved It!

Then I thought I would throw a few pictures in here of Cara's new house being built! I'm so excited for her!

A Disaster of 'Sonic' Proportions

I have a morning routine...On my way to work, I pull in to the Sonic a few blocks from work; order a Large Diet Coke w/Lime; and I am good to go all morning long. In the afternoon, I go to the break-room and fill my cup with chopped ice and pour in another diet coke and I’m good to go all afternoon.

Let me go ahead and say now that I LOVE Sonic drinks! I love the crunchy ice, I love that it is a big sturdy Styrofoam cup and not a puny paper one, and I love the fresh squeezed lime in my diet coke! It’s Awesome! And Yes, I am addicted. My loving husband indulges me when we are on road trips. He will even go as far as to stop at one fast-food place and then drive through a Sonic to get me my drink!

Yesterday, as I was headed home from work on my way to a meeting/training session, I thought I would get myself a diet coke w/lime to make it through. I pulled into the Sonic at Hwy 80 /Eastman Rd (Not my usual), and went through the drive-through. I knew it would be late when I got home so I thought I would get something to eat also. And this, my friends was the beginning of my problem.

I DO NOT like Sonic food. But I didn’t want to make another stop; so I thought I would try the new CroisSonic BLT...How can anyone mess up a BLT? It was new on the menu and came with Tot’s for $2.99. So I ordered my BLT & Large Diet Coke w/lime. Did I want tots with that? NO...Just the sandwich. Then came a 10-15 minute wait in the drive-thru to inch my way up to the window. My total was $3.02...hmmm, well if the BLT w/ tots is $2.99 the sandwich must be around $1.99??? and it is ‘happy-hour’ so my drink is half price...ok, I guess that’s right. BUT NO, I finally make it to the window and she hands me a bag with my sandwich in it...No Drink...I looked at the ticket and that was the cost of the sandwich alone...I looked at the line of cars behind me and just said ‘forget the drink’.

So...I tell myself, I really don’t need the drink. I open my BLT...and it’s not a BLT – it’s a BEC (Bacon, EGG & CHEESE)...YUCK! I ate the bacon. So that made up my mind for me...I took a left on Eden and a right on Judson and pulled into the next Sonic. Drive-thru had 3 cars in it. (I’m not going to make that mistake again!)...so I pull in, park and order a Large Diet Coke w/Lime. ‘That will be $2.05’ (SIDE NOTE: Why is it that at every other Sonic in town; my Lge Diet Coke w/Lime is $2.05...but at the one by my work it is $2.10??? hmm...I think I will have a conclusion by the end of this blog). Here comes the little girl with my drink. She hands it to me and says $2.05. I had her $2.10 (only had a dime) and she rushes away – not that I wanted the change back...but... I am looking at a Route 44 (which doesn’t fit my hand or my cup-holder) Diet Coke (I think?); No LIME...No ICE. It is at this time that I know that someone is trying to tell me something.

I give up. I head to my meeting disappointed, hungry and thirsty. Now, back to the question of why the Sonic at the truck stop near my work charges 5 cents more for my Large Diet Coke w/Lime. Actually, I don’t care anymore – because on my way to work this morning I stopped there, ordered my usual, and actually GOT WHAT I ORDERED, paid the $2.10 (maybe that nickel is because they have better quality workers!) and I am a HAPPY WORKER! A Sonic Disaster Diverted! Yea! :)