Greetings! I'm a homeschooling Mom of six (click their names above) and business owner of two: Brand Rascals and UNIREV. I was born in Leominster MA and married my high school sweetheart in '92. We lived in Utah for a short while after we married and in Indiana for four years before we settled into Texas in March 2005. Like the bumper sticker says: "I wasn't born in Texas but I got here as fast as I could!" My blog serves mostly to keep the family back east up to date on the kids. . .
Jen
Time to Make the Donuts!
Dunkin
I grew up with no less than five Dunkin Donuts in a ten mile radius. Before I left MA in 2000 there was easily double that in the same radius.
There was one Dunkin in Fort Wayne IN. It was located across town from where we lived and we frequented it every Christmas Eve to get some donuts for Santa.
After all these years of sad donut drought, look what I find not two miles from my door! I cannot wait until opening day. Its a good thing that most times I drive by it I will be on my way to the gym! That ought to deter me . . . sometimes anyway.
I'm sorry folks. You can keep your Krispy Kreme and your Winchell's and the rest of the third rate imitations. NOTHING comes close to Dunkin's Donuts, crullers, Munchkins and muffins.
Jen
Lines, Lines, Everywhere There's Lines
Let me preface my iPhone (mis)adventure with Monday's happenings. Sunday night, I had booked flights for Joseph to fly up north for the second half of summer to visit family and friends so I thought it would be a good time to get him a state picture ID. The DPS opens at 7:30 so we got there at 7:00 only to find that there were already about 80 people camped out waiting for the doors to open. Unreal! Well, his trip is fast approaching already so we couldn't put this off. We bit the bullet and took our place at the end of line. After waiting a half hour outside and an hour inside we walked out with his temporary paper ID in hand. Success! Now we wait to see if he gets his permanent picture ID in the mail before his trip!
Ok, so onto today . . .
I've been wanting an iPhone ever since they came out a year ago. We all camped out around the computer last month to watch Steve Jobs' announcement about the release of the new iPhone 3G. Well, the anticipation led us up to this morning's 8AM release. Michael and I left the house with Bernadette at 7AM and headed up to the Apple Store in Southlake. We were giddy as we made the 25 minute drive and took guesses as to how many people would be waiting in line ahead of us. I guessed about 25. Michael went with 100. As we drove up it looked like I was the winner--there were about 25 people lined up outside the door. I'm thinking this is sweet. I'll be on my way home in an hour with my trusty new iPhone. We go to take our places in line and I ask the first guy in line how long he's been there. "Since 8." is his reply. "8 o'clock last night?" "No, 8 o'clock yesterday morning." Wow! We get to the end of the line . . . Oh, wait, that's not the end of the line--it turns that way around the building. . . and then around that building . . . and then that building. Lets just say both our guesses were both way off.
Back in the van! We're on our way to the at&t store back over by our house. What an idiot--I could've saved the gas and went there first. Anyway, half hour later we're back at the at&t store and "Holy Smokes! Look at that line!" It was much shorter than the one at the Apple store but still about 150 people long. Ok, back home for breakfast. We'll come back once this crowd dies down.
Its 9:45. Mom, Michael and Bernie visit the at&t store take two: The line is just as long. We drive up to another store . . . another line.
Ok, it's 1PM now. Time to try again. I'll stick to just the close-by at&t stores again and skip the drive to the Apple store. This time its just Mom. OOOh, no line now! Sweet! I book it in the store quickly before the old couple who parked at the same time as me get in. And . . . no line = no more iPhones!
So, I paid for my iPhone and my leather iPhone holster but only walked out with the empty holster. There is an iPhone somewhere with my name on it, though, and I should have it in my hand in 7 - 10 days.
I guess one more week won't kill me!
Jen