The Raffle at Work

For the past few weeks at work the "Morale Committee" has been promoting this raffle fundraiser they are doing. Several units at work put together themed baskets.. such as a Texas basket, a Spa basket, a Toy basket, a Baby basket, a Tea Time basket.. there were about 10 of them. I looked over them and considered buying a ticket for the baby basket.. but it didn't look that great. Tuesday of this week (the day before the final day) they put out another baby basket that was MUCH better! and I thought.. well heck, the raffle is almost over and this is super cute.. I probably have a good chance of winning it. The tickets were a $1 each or $4 for 5.. so I bought 5. I kept an eye out to see how many other tickets were put into the can.. and by the end of Wednesday there was a bunch of tickets in there.. I thought damn! I'm not going to win after all!

Today was the drawing.. and I'll be damned if I didn't win the basket!! I'm proud of it! It has some cute stuff.. 2 baby blankets, a fun link toy, powder, body wash & lotion, bibs, even flo bottle, socks, pacifiers, wipes and a toy monkey.. all for the bargain price of $4 and I helped out our Morale Committee! Here's a pic of my winnings!

One of the Worst Feelings..

..is seeing this in your rear view mirror.



This morning I was driving David's truck to work, Diego was in front me in the Vue because the Altima is currently out of order. Anyway, We hadn't gotten out of the neighborhood yet.. when I see police lights in the rear view mirror. I was like "Whhhaatt?" I'm not speeding!! So I pull over.. and the officer comes to the window.. and says.. I pulled you over because you ran that stop sign.

UGH! I hadn't even thought of that!! probably because I never think about the stop signs in our neighborhood. I generally do more of a pause & roll.. than a stop and go. I do usually keep an eye out for cops though.. I blame the time change! I didn't see this particular cop because it's so dark in the mornings now! I don't know where he was sitting.. probably in front of my face!!

I was a little more nervous, because I was not in MY car... I was thinking oh great!! he's gonna give me shit for driving someone elses car. I just explained that it was my brother in laws vehicle.. and that he is in Iraq.. yes,I said Iraq.. for the sympathy factor! haha jk.. Iraq was just what came out of my mouth. The officer gave me no trouble.

Anyway.. the nice officer ran the plates and my ID.. gave my info back and told me to be more aware of my stops signs and to have a good day!! I said YOU HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY!! and I drove off!!!

Thank GOD for no ticket!!!*knocking on wood*

Pop Tarts!

I was begining to get tired on my every morning instant oatmeal.. So I decided to go to the vending machine and get a pop tart! I put my 90 cents in the machine, the coils turned and my pop tart fell out.. the coils kept turning.. and another pop tart dropped.. and then the last pop tart dropped.. I got the entire row! To bad there weren't more left in the machine! I could have walked away with 10 pop tarts!!