This is a piece of a bigger picture. I welcome one and all to guess at what it is. In one week I’ll give the answer, and post a new one. Good luck and may the guessing begin.
Esta es una parte de la foto grande. Hay que adivinar lo que es. En una semana regreso con la respuesta y otra foto. ¡Suerte!
We had the missionaries over for dinner (a couple times recently, kinda seems to end up once a week for periods of time and then once every other month other times). We like to ask if there is anything they have been missing or anything they would like to try out. Well, we found out that neither Elder Vance or Elder Naegle (pictures forthcoming) had ever had a souffle. Or, Chocolate Soup as some young people call it, it still tasted good!
This is a piece of a bigger picture. I welcome one and all to guess at what it is. In one week I’ll give the answer, and post a new one. Good luck and may the guessing begin.
Esta es una parte de la foto grande. Hay que adivinar lo que es. En una semana regreso con la respuesta y otra foto. ¡Suerte!
I had never had one of these (29 years old and never had one before!). I met up with a friend who invited me to lunch. I was not hungry, but I was thirsty, and had never had one, and saw the machine, and so I had to have one. How is that for a run-on scentance?
So the camera decided to focus on the brick behind my head and I was not in the mood to keep taking pictures, so this is what you get. Me “enjoying” my first (and probably last) Icee. Unless I find myself in urgent need of sugar without caring how it tastes. And you can sort of see my cute haircut, one side of my head anyway.
This is a piece of a bigger picture. I welcome one and all to guess at what it is. In one week I’ll give the answer, and post a new one. Good luck and may the guessing begin.
Esta es una parte de la foto grande. Hay que adivinar lo que es. En una semana regreso con la respuesta y otra foto. ¡Suerte!
When Matt, Ronda, and the 4 Gs came for a Halloween celebration, I recieved my new camera. And for some reason I took a picture of Matt’s hair. Here it is.
After reading that it sounds like they brought my camera, they did not. The delivery truck guy brought it. And I like it!
Last week, we had two experiences where we derived benefit from the mistakes of others:
Story #1:
We were at one of our local department stores, buying pieces for a halloween costume. We went as convicts, which was simple to do: scrubs with a number painted on, and some makeshift waist-chain handcuffs. We found the scrubs, but the top didn’t have a price tag on it. No big deal, we assumed it was the same price as all the other tops, which was $10 or so.
When we went to check out, the cashier rang up our things, and when he got to the scrub top, he started looking for the price tag, which was nowhere to be find. He looked a bit perplexed and annoyed, and Marcia said “it must be free!” (This is something we often say when a price isn’t immediately apparent, and doesn’t usually get much response from cashiers, especially at this store that doesn’t like to give up a cent if they can avoid it.)
The cashier looked at Marcia, and then said in a rather pathetic I-have-a-cold-and-feel-like-crap voice, “And I’m gonna give it to you free too, because I’m sick and don’t want to be here.” And then he put the scrub top in the bag without another thought.
Free scrubs! Score one for Marcia and the sick cashier.
Story #2:
Saturday night, we decided to order pizza. We had a coupon: Buy an extra large specialty pizza at regular price, get a large one-topping free. We thought that was a pretty good deal, so we called and ordered. This particular pizza place has a specialty pizza that Marcia really loves. To protect the innocent, we’ll call it the “spinach” pizza. We ordered an extra large spinach pizza, and got a large pizza with tomatoes (yes, tomatoes are excellent for a one-topping pizza) free.
We went and picked up the order, and when we got home and opened the pizzas (ALWAYS check the order before you leave the store… I know better), we found that the spinach pizza had onions and mushrooms all over it – both things that Marcia doesn’t like on her pizza, and which I didn’t remember ordering.
I called back to the pizza place, and explained that I thought there was a mistake. At first, the guy said “that’s what comes on the spinach pizza, which is what you ordered.” Then he realized what had happened: There is also a “spinach DELUXE” pizza in their computer system, and he had printed a ticket for the deluxe, when we had only ordered the regular. He asked if I wanted a regular spinach pizza instead, and I said yes.
I went to exchange the corrected pizza (they did offer to deliver it free, but it’s faster to just go pick it up), and when I took the original offending pizza in, they said I could keep that too, since all they would do is throw it away anyway. While Marcia won’t eat the mushrooms and onions, I will, so free pizza for me!
So, TWO extra large pizzas and one large for the price of one extra large – that’s a pretty good deal. Score two for me and the pizza guy with marginal reading comprehension skills.
A few years ago, when gas prices crossed $2.00/gallon, I decided that gas cost too much and I was going to save money by buying a bike and riding it to school and for other transportation around town. Of course, I discovered that I really enjoyed riding the bike, and became a pretty hardcore cycling enthusiast. I bought a nice racing bike, have discovered the wonders of spandex cycling shorts, and have legs that are disproportionately strong when compared to the rest of my body.
But I digress… The point is that yesterday, more than 3 years after $2.00 gas prices prompted me to make a major lifestyle change, we filled up our cars for $1.93/gallon, a price unseen since early 2005.
Here’s how:
We have a local grocery store that has an associated gas station. If you buy items at the grocery store, you get a discount on fuel from the gas station. The discount is progressive – spend up to $50, get 3 cents off; up to $75, get 5 cents off; up to $100, get 8 cents off; and if you spend more than $100 at the grocery store, you get 12 cents off of each gallon of gas.
What enables this whole plan is that the grocery store’s customer service counter will accept payments for our gas/electric company. So yesterday, we went to the grocery store, paid our utility bill (which was well over $100), and got our reciept, complete with 12 cent gas discount.
Gas prices have fallen pretty dramatically over the last few week. The going rate for the cheap stuff in town was $2.05/gallon yesterday. $2.05 – 12 cents is $1.93!
So we, filled up both cars for under $2.00/gallon.
I had two work at the preschool twoday. It was fun. Maybe twomorrow I will be up two telling stories. Twoday Jacob surprised me by showing up with a dozen pretty pink roses. Making all the Girls that work there say, “Aawww!” I was impressed two.
We went out two eat. We had not tried the restaurant yet, and had heard mixed reviews. It was ok. I have leftovers two eat later or for dinner twomorrow. And two commemorate the day we took a picture of ourselves. I love you!
If we can manage it, this picture intends two make it intwo the rotation in the poloroid frame.
Oh, and we voted, though Jacob did not get a sticker.
This is a piece of a bigger picture. I welcome one and all to guess at what it is. In one week I’ll give the answer, and post a new one. Good luck and may the guessing begin.
Esta es una parte de la foto grande. Hay que adivinar lo que es. En una semana regreso con la respuesta y otra foto. ¡Suerte!