1-6-13 Sunday (Tomatoes And Bacon For All)

Jim’s mom is so “gift considerate”.  She always seems to pick out things we’ve mentioned, hinted on, or she knows for a fact that we like.  For example, we LOVE her oatmeal raisin cookies and peanut butter cookies.  She gave us each a Christmas pail filled with the recipe, and dry ingredients premeasured.  We made these shortly after Christmas…

She also gave us a bird seed wreath.  She knows we love the wildlife but we didn’t even have a feeder.  Just while she was here, we counted 8 beautiful male Cardinals in the backyard at one time.  We hung up the wreath, the birds never found it before it melted in the rain a week later.  The seed was on the ground though so they’ve been enjoying it that way.  We decided to buy a cheap feeder and bird seed while grocery shopping Saturday.  We’re gonna give this a try.

Restaurant Week is approaching and we have made reservations for 3 restaurants.  Stay tuned at the end of the month while Jim and I eat like royalty for 3 days.

Speaking of food, on Saturday, Jim and I went to Five Guys Burgers and Fries for dinner.  We love their burgers and never have issues there until now.  Nothing major, just stupidity I guess.  I order then Jim orders.  2 different orders.  One with tomatoes and bacon, one with mushrooms and onions.  We end up with 2 of my burgers.  It’s 9pm and we are the only ones there.  How hard can it be? Jim brings it up to the counter with the receipt.  They tell him that I have his burger.  He assures them that I have bacon, tomato and mayo as ordered.  They say they’ll fix it and we sit down.  It takes forever.  I guess they decided to make the whole thing over.  He would have been happy with them removing the tomato and bacon and adding the onions and mushrooms.  I finished my burger and she comes out with his.  It’s the same exact combination AGAIN.  I wanted to ask her in a wonderfully condescending tone, “what’s wrong with you?” but she was a sweet girl, apparently just a space cadet.  Jim calls her back and she apologizes and is ready to take the burger.  Jim says, can I just get the grilled mushrooms and onions and I’ll add it to my burger?  Wowsers.

I found a few photos I had taken the other day but forgot to post (I posted them on Facebook):

Above: At a Staples.  What’s with her hair?

Above: At a Chinese restaurant.  They left the assembly tags (the 2) on their tree and decorated around them.  Did they think it was supposed to stay on there?