Happy Marde Gras :)

This is Rick on Fat Tuesday at work. He's wearing/riding(?) a flamingo he has named Floyd. There's a Pink Floyd joke in this somewhere, but I'm not sure how to phrase it.
We walked around the mall, handing out free beads to kids and people. It was fun.

Today I had to work for 4 hours this morning. I don't normally work on Wednesdays, but they needed me to because they were in a meeting. As a result, my schedule is all weird this week. I'm off work on Friday... which NEVER happens.

We got a tax refund. Jim took the van in to Christian Brothers to get a tune up. All it needed was an oil change! So it's good to hear that the van is fine. We always seem to have car trouble at the worst time, so I'm glad the van was checked out by the car docs. :)

Jim is gonna get me an appointment at an optometrist. Regina suggests the doctor that has an office adjacent to the Walmart, but she says that even with an appointment, everyone ends up waiting in the waiting room for a long time. I wore glasses all through junior high and high school. I lost them freshman year of college (2001). Jim wants me to replace my glasses before I take my driving tests (or practice driving for that matter). It makes sense. Vision should come in handy while operating a vehicle.

Jim got Allan some new leather sandals at the thrift store today for $1.50! Good job Jimmy. :)

Valentine-ish Pics

Latex balloons only stay inflated for 7-10 hours. So at the end of the day Thursday, I brought home display balloons from work to take Valentines pictures with.

Jim's at the table behind us, reading a cookbook.

I work until 9pm on Valentines Day, so I don't think we are doing anything special.

Found these on the computer Tonight

I found over 100 pics of Allan's elbow tonight.

One day I tried to explain to Allan that he wears a thermal shirt when it's cold, to protect him from the cold. He interpreted that conversation to mean that his thermal shirts transform him into the super hero, "Ice Man". He says he shoots ice from his long sleeved elbows. I think Allan was taking these self pics to catch his Ice Man powers on film. lol.

He's showing off an x-box controller.

Help get me a $50 Bonus

If you are familiar with Denton, TX, please vote for the Denton Record Chornicle's "Best of Denton" Issue.
Here's a direct link to the contest. http://tinyurl.com/cnuph9

The store I work at COSTUME & DANCE WORLD has come close to winning for Best Specialty Store, but has never taken the prize.

If the store happens to win Best Specialty Store (#30), then ALL the employees are rewarded with $50 bonuses from our boss!

I know some of my co-workers could really use it.

The deadline is April 2nd.

Jewish Super Bowl Food

Today Elaine finished the Old Testament in her Read with Me Bible and has moved on to the New Testament. She said she's done with the old stories and is reading the "new stories" now.

I'm in this online group called Denton FreeCycle. I just got all this scrapbooking stuff from my new friend Ellen, all for free. :) She had more than one copy of multiple scrapbook magazines, so she gave me the duplicates and some other scrapbooking treats.




I painted the window at the store again. It's the store's 30th Anniversary (6 months at this location). Since it's also the month for Valentines, I painted a border of hearts and bows.



Robert loaned Jimmy this cookbook with lots of Jewish recipes. Yvette drove me home from work on Sunday and I found Jimmy was cooking dinner while he listened to the Super Bowl. You'd have to ask Jimmy for the specifics about what was in the food he made, but it was good.




There's chicken, carmalized onions & peas, cabbage & red onion slaw, and spinach rich pilaf.

This is Cherry SOUP.