Tuesday Tribute: Carhops at Sonic Drive In

Each week, give a shout out to someone (or something) that you think deserves recognition (be it good or bad) with a Tuesday Tribute.

I'm doing a Tuesday Tribute this week to the carhops at my local Sonic Drive-In.

Every single day I show up at this retro-yet-modernized fast food joint for a large Dr. Pepper.

Why every day? Because my local Sonic has a perfect (stress on "perfect") blend of syrup and CO2. Add that to the crushed ice and styrofoam cups...a large drink will last half the day!

But, Dr. Pepper aside, the carhops at my local Sonic are AWESOME!

Being there everyday, we've got to know each other pretty well. You know what they say, though, about familiarity, right? It can breed contempt...at times.

That's never the case, however. These girls are always friendly and upbeat. The ones I have gotten to know very well will ask about my children and, when I was pregnant, they always asked how I was feeling. And when I had gestational diabetes during my last pregnancy, they joked around as they brought me Diet Dr. Pepper.

On several occasions, a few of the girls joked with me or my husband (who often runs out and grabs my daily refreshment) that they would know when the baby was born because there would be a sudden switch from diet to regular.

These carhops also don't lollygag around either. You often see them bustling from car to car, delivering orders at break-neck speeds! So this also insures that I'll get my order quickly.

And last, I really appreciate these girls' patience. In this day of plastic, Sonic installed those self-service credit/debit card on the menu boards. Unfortunately, when using this method of payment, the receipt offers you no means to leave a tip as often found in other dining establishments. Just because it's fast food doesn't mean they don't deserve a tip. After all, they bring your order to you, so that's very deserving of a tip!

But those silly machines don't recognize that. So when I'm stuck paying by this method it's usually because I'm cash poor. But never without fail do I still receive a smile or friendly conversation (and they know before they deliver that I've paid by debit card). So I always make sure I include a much added bonus with the next purchase and tip.

Overall, I love this place! I've been so often the Carhops are very much like friends, even though we never associated outside of the daily business transaction.

So here's to the Sonic carhops who bust their humps making sure my Dr. Pepper addiction is fulfilled quickly and easily every day!

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A Shout Out To My Top Entre Card Droppers (Tuesday Tribute)

For this week's Tuesday Tribute, hosted by Halftime Lessons, I want to give a BIG Thank You to my top Entrecard droppers for the last month!

March was my first full month of blogging and having an Entrecard on my site. So I really appreciate these folks who took time to visit a "noobie"!

Below are the top ten who took time during March to visit my blog everyday and let me know they were there by "dropping" their card:

DROPPER	DROPS
The Misadventures of Lee Ann	11
Work At Home Mom Revolution	8
Family Health and Home	6
The Story of A Princess and Her Hair	4
Wedding Cake Hints	4
My Second Trial	4
Bantering Blonde	3
Custom Blog Designs	3
My Life With The Crazies	3

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Website Review: Girly Things

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Jay and Deb, hosts of Tuesday Tribute, is offering a new spin on this weekly meme: a prompt. Each week participants will be given the choice of doing a tribute of their own chosen subject or one suggested.

This week's Tuesday Tribute prompt is to recommend a website.

As a crafter, I've chosen Girly Things; a website offering free hair bow making instructions along with other neat craft projects!

I especially like this site because the information found there is very detailed, helpful, and FREE. As the site says, "Why pay for what should be free?"

At Girly Things, visitors will find over 50 bow or other craft projects along with information on how to start a bow business and creating a website for that business.

If you love making hair bows or other girly crafts, you'll love Girly Things!

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Tuesday Tribute:

The more I listen to and watch the news, the more disgusted I become. So for this week's Tuesday Tribute, I'd like to give a shout out to the United States Congress:

Dear Congress,

As a taxpaying, property owning, voting and law-abiding citizen of the United States of America, I want to thank you for all of your recent hard work as it relates to the finances of our country.

I want to give you this heartfelt thank you for passing out bailouts like it's dime store candy. Bailouts that are sure to indebt not only our children and grandchildren, but our great-great-great grandchild. That's assuming that America is still its own country.

I want to thank you and Miss Hilary Clinton personally for recently promising the Palestinians $900 million dollars. After all, they should be rewarded for burning our flag and dancing in their streets immediately following the events of September 11, 2001.

I want to thank you for handing out billions of dollars to the CEOs of huge corporations that flew in with their hands out in big corporate jets. I may have given you the benefit of the doubt if these executives had flew coach; a lot more credit if they had gone "green" (as you and our new president like to tout so loudly) and pedaled in on a bike.

There just aren't enough appropriate words to express my heartfelt appreciate to you for essentially placing our country in what will result in bankruptcy.

I hear through the grapevine that Washington is being bombarded with tea bags these days. If you're as dense as I believe you are, you may not be getting the message: your approving taxation without representative (it's not what your constituents want you to do) and come next election...YOU'RE FIRED!

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Tuesday Tribute: My Mom

First my first Tuesday Tribute, I thought I'd do a nice tribute...to my mom.

I choose my mom because who better to pay tribute to than the person who gave you life.

And not only did she give me life, but she has stood beside me every step of the way. Even when I didn't deserve it.

She raised me to know right from wrong. To be a good person. To be independent and strong.

And I know I disappointed her during my teenage years. Boy, was I a handful.

I remember when she learned that at the age of 17 that I was going to be a mother myself. She was so disappointed in me. She'd had such high hopes for my future - college, a wedding, then children.

In a split second, I was destroying all her dreams.

I had never seen my mother so devastated. I thought she would never forgive me.

Five months later, I gave her a grandson. While her hopes had been crushed, you could never tell the way she held her grandson and looked at him.

And each and every time I have had a child (four times in all), she has been there by my side; she has been my strength in the most difficult of parental situations. She has loved her grandchildren without conditions, even when they too have disappointed her with choices they made (well, the oldest two - the only ones old enough to be held accountable).

After having my first child, she once told me that once you are a parent, you are a parent for life. I'm not quite sure that at 18 I understood that, but I do now. Because even as life hands me lemons, she is there to remind me how to make lemonade.

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