Slurpees or Salads?

I promised pictures and am finally delivering...

It was a very long day at work.  I did take a quick break and talked to a friend who actually is having a worse week than I am.  Just a tough one.  I think a lot of people have stress and feel completely overwhelmed.  It just seems to be the way of the world these days.  Nothing is easy or simple.  I wish I had a quick fix for all of us.

I was driving home after work and was thinking that a lemonade would taste really good.  Chick fil A has good lemonade - with or without sugar.  I got off the freeway and headed for the drive-thru.  I guess I wasn't paying attention because if I had, I would have noticed that there were what seemed like a million cars ahead of me.  When I did finally come to this realization of course it was too late to back out of it.  There were probably 4 cars behind me and I knew they weren't letting me out!  I had never seen so many people eager to buy a chicken sandwich.  I was super annoyed!  I FINALLY got up to the board to order.  Placed my order and was immediately told that it was Customer Appreciation Day and because they appreciate me, they were giving me a free 3 strips of chicken with sauce.  Ok so now I got it.  All of these people found out they could get something for free and headed where I was headed.  It was another 10 minutes before I got to the actual window for the lemonade.  And of course my free chicken.  Total time for 1 lemonade?  About 25 minutes.  Brilliant idea, Jules.  But...Chick fil A appreciates me!

Speaking of food - I have been a bit disturbed with 7-11 commercials on the radio.  What is this I hear that 7-11 is now serving delicious beef taquitos and fresh, crisp salads?  Why?  What has happened to society?  I grew up thinking that 7-11 was strictly "The Slurpee Store".  7-11 sells Slurpees, people!  Not salads.  If you want a freakin salad, go to the salad restaurant.  If you want a burger go to the burger joint.  If you want a burrito, go to the Mexican joint.  If you want pizza... And if you want a Slurpee...duh!  Imagine hearing a co-worker talking to someone at their home.  "Honey, I'll stop by 7-11 and grab us some dinner, ok?!"  Really????

Here's a few pics that I have taken this week...


Lake Hodges
(taken from my street)


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Lake Hodges in the early morning
(taken from my driveway - my only "lakeview")

Here is one of the goats that Roxie and I go to visit every day.  They have gotten used to us coming by and run down to the fence!

And Zoe LOVES the yard...

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Hi Blog Followers,

I really need a laptop because the computer that I use is upstairs here at my house.  I rarely come upstairs.  Moving to this new house has completely changed my home lifestyle.  I used to spend A LOT of time on the computer at the old place.  Maybe because it was convenient?  I sometimes miss the coziness of a smaller home.  I would love to have a laptop downstairs so I can blog, check FB, email, scrabble, etc.  A typical day for me (after work) is that I get home, greet any animals that are home, and kick off my shoes.  Then I grab something to drink, my Nook, and my Cell Phone and I head outside to the balcony.  I sit out there every night for a long time.  The cat and dog love it.  We watch for the horses to trot by and for the big gray owl to make his or her way to the big tree across the street for the night.  That would be the same tree that blocks my lakeview from the balcony and also blocked the fireworks last night!
Everything is so quiet here and I pretty much have zero stress. 
Yes, I know...I am going to post pics.  I say that every time I blog.  But I really am.  This weekend is the weekend for pictures!  I will even post a picture of my favorite goat who lives down the street.  She is SO sweet and loves to be petted.  I sure wish I knew her name.  Everytime I walk by that house, I never see anyone.  The goats are fat so someone obviously lives there and feeds them.
Happy Friday to everyone. ♥