Dr. Pepper at its best

I grew up drinking Dr. Pepper. Everyone in my family had a different drink. I drank DP. My brother drank Coke. My dad drank Pepsi. My mom drank caffeine free Diet Coke. (When I was young, we called in diet caffeine free Coke but I think caffeine free Diet Coke is better. Not sure why.) The fact that we all drank something different meant that going to the store for ‘coke’ was quite an expensive excursion.

As I got older, I began adding other drinks to the rotation. Coke, Root Beer (YUM!), Pepsi. Sometimes even RC Cola. But lately I’ve been sticking mainly with Coke. For some reason, Dr. Pepper just didn’t sound very appealing to me anymore and I didn’t understand why.

But yesterday, I figured it out. At work, we have a coke machine. Drinks come in a can. I get Coke. At restaurants, they have fountains. I get Coke. Why? Because out of a can or from a soda fountain is not Dr. Pepper at its best.

Dr. Pepper is best out of a 2-liter bottle. It’s weird, I know. It just tastes different. I suppose a 3-liter bottle would work, and MAYBE a 1-liter. But a 20-oz. bottle? No way. It just don’t taste right.

Questions? Comments?

Yay for food!

I’m not a big BBQ fan. It’s almost a sin to live in Texas and not love BBQ. But I don’t. There. I said it. And I’m not ashamed!! Also, I’m not a big fan of the side dishes that always accompany BBQ. There’s baked beans, coleslaw, and potato salad. What’s up with potato salad? I mean, of all the wonderful ways to fix potatoes, why do we have to go with potato salad?

I work for a tax and accounting software firm. A quick check of the calendar reveals that today is April 13th. Things are pretty busy over in the tax department. Luckily, I don’t work there. I work in the accounting department and we are painfully slow today. Our call volume always goes up the day AFTER tax season ends. Apparently people are too busy doing taxes to worry about their books right now. And I’m okay with that.

Anyway, because it’s getting near the end of tax season and the powers that be like to take pretty good care of us so that people don’t go crazy and start yelling at clients and other such nonsense, they decided it would be a good idea to feed us. And I won’t argue with that.

Monday was La Hacienda Ranch. Oh, my goodness. I LOVE La Ha. They have the BEST beef fajita meat EVER. When I go there, I order a side item of just the fajita meat. It’s scrumptious. Thinking about it now is making me hungry again!

Today was Sonny Bryan’s Smokehouse. And I must say, THIS BBQ is worth something. The BBQ chicken…mmmmmmm. Yum. For real. So if you are ever in the mood for BBQ, you must see for yourself. Click here for a location near you.

Lil’ Tiny Baby Duckies!!!!

I love spring. But I guess you already know that. I particularly love it today.

At my apartment complex, we have a pond that is home to numerous birds. First off, we have swans. Swans are mean. They hiss at my dog. And so my dog is scared of them, but he hides it well. We also have these ugly turkey-looking ducks. They make cute lil’ babies, but they, too, grow up to be ugly turkey-looking ducks.


But then we have NORMAL ducks.

I’m not particularly fond of birds normally. I’m afraid they will bite me or poop on me. Or both. But in the springtime, ducks make duck babies. And this morning I saw them!! About 10 lil’ tiny baby duckies!

Dey was so coot!!! I dust want to pick dem up and queeeeeze dem!!!! But I fink Dywan might twy to eat dem.

NOTE: To understand the above, you must say it in the “talk to the dog/baby/cute-little-anything” voice.

Another random survey

I took a survey today.

Here's what it said about me:

"You are constantly trying to make a favourable impression and endeavouring to be considered as that someone 'special'. You are pretty good at using various tactics and strategies that give the impression that you are in control. Maybe you are - but you are constantly watching to see whether or not your endeavours are truly appreciated. Be careful... just as 'you' may be endeavouring to influence others, 'they' may indeed be influencing you.

You 'need to be needed'. As an idealist you are intolerant of anything short of special consideration from those close to you. If you do not get what you seek you are apt to become reclusive and you will close the doors on all those within your sphere of influence.

You feel tired - worn out and listless. The last thing that you want to do is to be in an open conflict with those around you that are forever tormenting you. What to do? That's the rub. You are feeling that you are being choked - unable to breathe.

You pretend that you are a carefree individual and that nothing really bothers you - that you are so self-sufficient that whatever problems beset you they simply flow off you as water flows off a ducks back. You are experiencing considerable stress, trying to conceal yourself from the rest of the world. In actual fact - deep down, you are not at all happy. You feel lonely and you need someone with whom you can 'Let your hair down' and share your hopes, dreams and high standards. You are imposing unnecessary self restraint on yourself. You would like to demonstrate the unique quality of your character to all and sundry.

Sometimes one fears that its not worth formulating new ideas and projects because whatever you seem to have done in the past has never worked out and you are tired of, as they say, banging your head against a brick wall. No one seems to care. So now you are trying to get away from it all by withdrawing into a 'fantasy land' but unfortunately 'fantasy land' is just that and sooner or later you will have to return to reality so why delay the inevitable? When you do return, you will find that the situation is not as tough as perhaps you thought it was."

It's pretty interesting, although I think there's some imperfect grammar in there... I wonder what THAT says about me.