"What the 'L'?"

Funny story about my name tag from work!

So... the letters on my name tag should all be capital letters. The bottom of my "L" has been ripped off due to my brutal work situation (ha ha ha!). Anyways, this cute 90 year old man came through my line. This was the conversation:

Cute Man: Now is your name Sheiby or Shelby?

Me: Its Shelby. The bottom of my L has been ripped off from all the lifting that I do.

Cute Man: Oh, I just wanted to make sure. You know, I could ask you what the 'L' happened!

Me: HA HA HA that's a good one! I never would have thought of that! How clever.

Cute Man: Well, you know when your as old as I am you have a lot of time to think about things like that!

HA HA! I thought that was soooo cute! It made my day when it happened, and so I wanted to share it with all of you hoping that it would make your day too!

So... last night was Taco Tuesday at Del Taco again. I think Taco Tuesday is going to become a tradition. Cody and I went with some of our friends from work, Chris, Kenzie and Brandon. There was NO choking this week, thank goodness! And, Cody only ordered 6 tacos this week instead of 15. While Chris was in line getting his food and while Cody and I were waiting for Kenz, Cody saw my camera in my purse and decided to take some pictures. They turned out to be so much fun! I kinda wish that we would have gotten some of Kenz and Chris and Brandon too, but maybe next week.

Next week I'll get some fun ones with Kenz and Chris and everyone else who goes. Who knew that Del Taco would be the place to hang out on Tuesdays? Even if you don't go to get food, you might as well go for the crazy fun and the non-stop laughter!

Del Taco

So... I went over to my boyfriends house last night. It was so much fun! We played two games, Curses and Apples to Apples... my boyfriend and I had a competition on his Playstation 3 for a snowmobiling game, which I kept winning him at. Then he decided he wanted to switch the game to NBA Allstar... which I lost. It was 103 to 42. I did pretty good... once I figured out how to shoot and block and all that stuff. Then... we went to Del Taco. We met our friend, Chris, there after he got off of work at 9:30.

It was taco tuesday... Cody and Chris decided they wanted to have a taco eating contest to see who could eat the most tacos. (Taco Tuesday is where they have 3 cruchy tacos for $0.99...) Chris got 9 crunchy tacos, Cody got 15. While we were eating, Chris said something to Cody and Cody started laughing his head off. He had taco and water in his mouth... (He had just taken a swig of water.)

He started choking. He stood up and was coughing and then all of a sudden he was wheezing. I started pounding on his back and after a few seconds, I decided that pounding wasn't going to do anything. I started to get behind him to do the heimlich and he coughed up all of the stuff that was in his throat. THANK HEAVENS! He went into the bathroom and was there for a sec. Chris followed him to make sure he was ok.

The whole time I was preparing for the heimlich I was thinking, "I'm not big enough to do this on him... I'm gonna have to show Chris. I'm not big enough..." (Cody is 6' 1"... I'm 5' 6".) Thankfully he was able to cough up the stuff in his throat so that I didn't waste any time trying to get my arms around him and to try to heave him up off the floor for him to breathe again... Chris and I told him HE IS NOT ALLOWED TO EAT, DRINK, AND LAUGH AT THE SAME TIME. Chris told me that Cody has done that to him numerous times...

I am grateful that I have the knowledge that I can do the heimlich, or any other emergency procedure, on someone if needed. But I am also grateful that I didn't have to perform it on my boyfriend last night. Its scary... when you are in an actual situation like that. Especially when its someone that you know so well. If you aren't trained in performing the heimlich manuver, I would get some training. Its come in handy so many times for me when I have almost had to use it or have used it.