I warned those around me that they are all fodder for this blog.   Just to show you that I’m an equal opportunity blogger of who did something funny…I’ve chosen myself for today!  First, for those of you who don’t know me personally, it’s only fair for you to know a little background.  Oh – and by the way – thanks to all of you for coming along for a little encouragement or a giggle when you read along!

I’m an only child, married to an only child, and together we have an only child.  Weird, I know!  It wasn’t in my plan – but it was in God’s plan.  And it’s all good.  However, from time to time my only childness rares it’s not so positive side!  Today being one of those days!

In our home, we have had the discussion that it’s time for me to go back to doing most of the driving again. The man in the house hates to drive.  Let’s just say it’s really obvious!  He’ll admit it, too.  I used to do all the driving when we were together and then I did a number on my back.  Some days it’s all I can do to ride along and grit my teeth from being uncomfortable from my back issue.  Some days it’s just from the driver!! Hehe!  We decided it’s time to car shop.  The vehicles we have aren’t the best for me to drive.  One is way to low (and actually is on it’s last leg), one is sort of ok and the newest is too high and hard to get into causing more pain than it’s worth.  Last weekend, thoughtful hubby made me go and get in and out of a bunch of cars and then drive them.  It over taxed my back, but was very successful in ruling some vehicles out.  Oh – and I can only buy Chrysler as he’s a Chrysler man!

Yesterday, we go to our local Chrysler dealer to look at their stock and drive a couple I didn’t manage to drive at the other dealer.  Besides, need to buy local, you know!  We narrow it down to one vehicle.  The one I don’t like the look of the most!  A little more background to be shared….I’m a real car girl.  Love me some shiny sporty looking cars!  This car, uh, nothing like it.  We come back off the lot to go inside to figure out logistics and there it is!! The car I actually wanted.  The car I wanted two years ago when we bought our other car.  And this one is even prettier than two years ago.  A black Journey with chrome wheels.  Ahhhhhhhhh!   Now what do I do?

The salesman says,  “Oh, we shouldn’t get in that, it’s sold already.”  WHAT????  So, then I have a real struggle and we talk a little more and I say I really want to think about it.  He goes into the showroom.  We are literally climbing into the car and our Salesman quickly comes over and says, “I don’t know what the office means, but they said that if you want this Journey – first sign, first get.”  Hmmm, is it the sign by five rule…it’s 2:45 PM!!

So, I get back out of the car.  Hubby just puts his head down then says, “I’m not in this one, you will have to decide which will be better for your back and only you can decide that.  I know you like the pretty.  All I’m saying is you need to decide cause you’re not blaming me if you buy a car you don’t want!”

So, I get the two vehicles side by side.  I try to get in and out of them to compare.  Yes, of course my back is now killing me from all this climbing business and I’m getting more confused as we go.

An hour later, I decide to go with my Brain and not my Heart and chose the one that would be best for my back.  Do the paperwork and walk away.  It will be ready today.  In fact, got the call two paragraphs ago that it is, in fact, ready for pick up.   Argh…..

Lost a lot of sleep last night!  Text daughter this morning about my problem.  Why on earth did I call the indecisive one?  This girl takes over an hour to decide to BUY the outfit she came to buy!!  No help there!  Hubby, text him.  He informs me I’m exhausted!  Great help there!

So, I decide maybe I should pray about it.  God’s always there, right!  So I do.

I let my husband and daughter know that I did pray about this car thing!  I told them both that God told me he really didn’t care because all he ever had to chose from was sandals or donkeys, so he couldn’t actually relate!

However, I know better.  God does actually care and He did actually speak to me about this whole event.  Not an audible voice, but a “voice” that brought me to the fact that He does care about what we do with ourselves.  The verse came to mind about our bodies being a temple of God and that it is our responsibility to care for them while on this earth.  I knew which car I should be bringing home.

In conclusion, if you live around here and see me on the road, will you wave at me in my boring, military bland car and yell….”Way to go girl, finally taking care of yourself!”

…..and that’s all I have to say about that!

Tammy

Something happened today that reminded me of a funny story!  Surprise right!

You may have read in a blog or two that I am married to a real sugar head!  Well, he loves sugar in all sorts of ways and especially when there is a “deal”.  Leave it to McDonald’s to come up with a deal AND it be sweet!

So, the sugar buzzed guy saw a billboard with the new $.50 cone advertisement.  Now mind you, this is the same man who while driving cannot see the huge truck coming at us if his life depended on it, or mine for that matter!  But — have a sign about something sweet — now we have great vision!

Have you ever stopped to realize or even notice how many Golden Arches there are in a couple mile drive? After this past week of driving around town, I can tell you that there are quite a few of these in our ten mile radius.  Most of which we have had to drive through for Mr. Sugar to get a $.50 cone.

Today was no different!

We were moving our daughter to her new apartment.  As we were coming home, we passed yet another Golden Arches and some certain someone felt he “earned” a cone for his hard, sweaty work!  So – we went through the drive thru, but today I was driving.  I pulled up to the speaker to have our order taken.  After a little while, I said, “Hmm, is anybody here?  Or is this the…..” and then I busted out laughing.

Hence, the story I was reminded of…

A couple months ago, we were traveling to a Getaway that hubby was doing Massages at.  We left early in the morning, so we thought we would go through the Chick-fil-A and grab some breakfast…and of course some sweet tea!  He pulled up to the drive through and up to the speaker.  (Laughing reliving this right now…)  We were still talking about some stuff and nobody had come to the speaker.  He looked over and then back at me to wait.  We kept talking some more and I started thinking…man what on earth is taking so long, there wasn’t even another car in front of us.  So, while he was talking, I leaned forward a bit to see the speaker.  Aha – now I know why they aren’t taking our order—but he hasn’t figured it out yet.  He talks a bit more and I am smiling so big right now and holding back the laughter that I am about to burst.  He stops and says, “What?”  I said, “Do you think they will take your order outta that?”  Then I totally lose it.  The poor man has pulled up to the trash can!!!!  I can hardly handle it as he moves up to the REAL speaker and places our order.  I try to repress the laughter so they can hear him, but am having a hard time.  As he orders, he pulls up a bit and stops.  He then looks over at me and says, “This is going into the blog isn’t it?”  I giggled some more and said, “Oh, but of course it will!”  He then just smiled and said, “See, I just give you more to write about when I’m around!

So – what should you take away from this?  You may want to look at the different items they have in the drive thru line.  Oh, and another thing – you’d better be careful when I’m around – I may be just watching and waiting for my next blog post!

…and that’s all I have to say about that!

Tammy

Whoa, I knew I was a little absent on my blog – but almost a month–whew!  Well, as you can imagine, life has happened–but don’t you fear, it just gave me more “stuff” to write about!  Just wait until you read some of the adventures (cough, cough) that I’ve encountered this past Merry month of May!

In honor of today being National Doughnut Day AND even better, my Birthday (whoohoo!) I was reminded of a story about a doughnut or three dozen to be exact.  Since my hubby heard that today was National Doughnut Day and that the wonderful Krispy Kreme was giving away a doughnut to each person who came in he decided “we” should go into Akron to get one…he said, “Because it’s your birthday!”  Ahem…who’s the sugar head in the family dear man?  He even said before bed last night, “We should get up and go when they open at 6 AM before the line starts!”  ARE YOU KIDDING ME???  I’m gonna get up before 6 on a day I don’t have to be up to ride with you to get a doughnut?  AND on MY birthday no less – are you outta your every lasting mind?!

Well, it for sure wasn’t 6, but would you believe he managed to get me out the door by 7:20?!  However, I must say – my knight in shining armor (or doofus in tin foil) did take me to breakfast first.  Oh, because my breakfast was free and he had $2.00 off his meal!  Funny man!

Never fear, though, he did manage to get to the Krispy Kreme to get that free doughnut even if we were nowhere near Krispy Kreme for breakfast!  As we pulled into the parking lot, I saw the sign.  You know the one. The sign that says — HOT DOUGHNUTS.  Then it hit me! Almost like the cars in the story that I remembered!  I began to laugh.  He looked over at me and I kept laughing as I told him, “I know the blog post I NEED to write today!”  He said, “Something about your birthday?”  I said, “Nope, a good ‘ol story about you.”  “Me!” he said.  “Yep, you and HOT DOUGHNUTS!” I said.  He just giggled and shook his head and he lowered his chin down to his chest.  “I sure give you enough material for your blog, don’t I!” he said.   I thought to myself – hmmm, if you only knew my friend!!

Without further ado… The Hot Doughnut Story!

Back in the winter of 2004, Larry (my hubby) and I were watching a food show called “Unwrapped”.  They were talking about Krispy Kreme and were showing how they made them, where they started and many more things about the company.  Then they told that when they had fresh, hot doughnuts they would turn on the sign announcing to passersby they had them.  We both looked at each other and said simultaneously – “I didn’t know that, did you?” and laughed.  Growing up, we had no clue that’s what that meant.  Most of the Krispy Kreme shops in our area had closed down and there were very few around.  We thought that was really neat, but didn’t have opportunity to see one lit or even try a hot doughnut anymore.

Until we went to Myrtle Beach on vacation that August.  We went with another family that year to celebrate the graduation of their “baby” and our “only” from high school.  Since we had been there several times, we decided on one of the days to venture up Highway 17, show them around Myrtle and get supper.  So the six of us adults loaded into our van and off we went.  We did some shopping (you Myrtle fans know you have to hit Broadway on the Beach!),  did some sight seeing and grabbed some supper.  We were heading back south on Hwy 17 to our condo where we were staying when it happened.

IT happened.

A near death experience regarding this IT.

Why?  Because there IT was.

The HOT DOUGHNUT sign turned on and there IT was.

OH MY WORD!  What happened next became the scare of our five lives and a great story to this day.
Noticed I said scare of “five” of our lives.  Not the driver mind you…but have any of you ridden with THIS driver?  And I’m not talking about me!

The HOT DOUGHNUT sign comes on and the sugar head driver sees it.  Did I mention it was on the opposite side of the road?  Have any of you been to Myrtle?  Then you know (or will now) that Highway 17 is more or less a four lane highway.  Most cars go at a pretty good clip, so what happens next was truly a near death experience–for five of us.  Only one was giggling with glee.  Not being mean to the other five–just thrilled to find the HOT DOUGHNUT sign.  Geeeeesh.

So put your virtual vision caps on and picture this.  Ready?

Moving down a four lane highway going an easy 50 mph.  Driver sees the HOT DOUGHNUT sign on the Krispy Kreme building go on, giggles and yells HOT DOUGHNUTS–then shoots over four freakin’ lanes of super fast moving traffic to pull into the last parking spot in the parking lot.  He swoops across the lanes and zeros in on a spot like a bird dive bombing the last worm.  He jumps outta the car and gets in line for doughnuts.  Didn’t ask if anyone wanted one or what kind.  Not sure he even cared at that moment!  Mind you – NO one in the car has said a word.  Not one word.  This is not a quiet bunch either.  At this moment – they were silent.  Wait, they weren’t speaking, but I do believe you could hear five fast beating hearts.

Within a few minutes,  Larry returns to the car with a huge smile and produces three boxes of a dozen each of the HOT DOUGHNUTS.  He hands them to me and says, “Hold these while I get a donut.”  He whips open the top and pulls out two donuts and proceeds to eat them trying to juggle the hot donuts.  Meanwhile, I’m still holding the boxes and the rest of the car is still silent.  He says, “Isn’t anybody gonna try these while they are hot?  And I mean they are hot!”  He just looks at all of us and lowers his eyebrows trying to figure out what’s going on.

Finally, I hear a gasp for air and from the rear bench in the back of the van our daughter blurts out, “Geez, Dad, you nearly killed us for a hot doughnut, was it worth it?”  He giggles and replies, “Yup, these are really hot and really good.”  There’s a really long pause and all you can hear is Larry chomping away on the hot doughnuts.  We then break into hysterics and pass the hot doughnuts around the van.

We have laughed and re-told that story for years.  Anyone who knows Larry and his driving ability (or lack thereof) has always said, “Yeah, I could so see Larry doing that!”  Poor Larry – his reputation goes forth before him!  Oh, and you don’t even want to know how many HOT DOUGHNUTS he actually ate at that time.

To this day when we run across a Krispy Kreme in any of our travels we have a particular ritual we continue to do in our car.  First we brace ourselves, THEN we look for the sign and if it says “IT” – we yell “IT” – and hold on for dear life!!

So – in honor of National Doughnut Day, go find yourself a Krispy Kreme.  If the sign’s not on, ride around until it is.  To make it fun for yourself, don’t let anyone in on this adventure that is in your car.  Once the light is on – make sure you yell—HOT DOUGHNUTS—then swoop into the parking lot and get your free donut today!

….and that’s all I have to say about that!

Tammy