anne's chit chat

Happy Birthday Ben! Cheers to you for a wonderful year ahead! Miss you!

Last night I made a wine trap. I did this by filling a small dish with white wine, tightly wrapping plastic wrap around the dish and then poking three small holes on the top.

I was going to catch the itty bitty fruit flies in my kitchen!

The smell of the fermenting fruit attracts them. They eventually find their way in through the holes and then are trapped.

They probably die trying to escape or…they drink themselves to death.

When I woke up this morning I had caught two!!! And this afternoon I caught another one! Three total now.

I considered taking them off.

Instead all week I slipped into the back row wishing my car could hide in an open parking spot.

It was as if every car in the parking lot were white and mine was the lime green one…with balloons and arrows pointing to it.

My self consciousness surprised me, I am not usually like this…I even asked Jake, “Do you think I should remove them?”

It was the new job, not knowing anything about these people, and wanting them to like me…that was steering me towards that back corner spot.

The road is anonymous. A work parking lot is not.

Until today when my co-worker and I had to go somewhere in his car…as we walked to his car I was incredibly aware of my back side.

I held my breath. Mine was next to his…

As we drive away he turns to me and says, “Oh, by the way, I love your bumper stickers.”

I was ecstatic!

I can’t believe I ever considered taking them off.

I worked at this little DQ in high school, every summer home from college, and even during graduate school.

That is DQ Joe in the doorway, DQ Joe is on his license plate.

We are not a Brazier, we don’t have a grill. But we do have BBQ’s, and Joe makes them with his secret recipe.

We also make all our own dilly’s, buster bars, and DQ sandwiches. We have over 15 dilly flavors, including toasted coconut, black raspberry, orange, lime, chocolate peppermint, bubble gum, banana, and pina colada.

When I was home two weeks ago I stopped in to get a pecan cluster blizzard and I didn’t recognize anyone working. I was sad, because for (yikes!) almost eight years I have been a little part of this place…where everyone knows your name.

Check out my fellow DQ alumni and good friend Meghan’s blog…she posted some funny DQ stories from this summer. Also, Jake’s sister, the amazing Katie just started a blog a few weeks ago, she is a natural blogger!