Simply Ellie

I have yet another obsession as of late.. Helen Mirren. I’ve always been drawn to older actors and actresses, but I have to say she’s up there with my Alan Rickman obsession. I’m slowly but surely DVR’ing all of her movies that are coming on tv in the near future. I watched Love Ranch the other night and while the movie sucked, Helen still shined. I also got a kick out of seeing the Bunny Ranch from the Cathouse series.

I also have some movies set to record of my other love, Mr. Rickman. I swear, all that man would have to do is talk to me for a minute and I’d be his, lol. Well, maybe only in my mind but that’s why it’s my fantasy and not yours! It’s strange how they’re both British too.. maybe I was across the pond in another life, lol.

I finally got around to making something for the ‘Goodies’ section.. an Eric and Sookie wallpaper. I hope y’all enjoy it!

In other news, I’m doing better. Well, other than being broke most of the time, lol. No one seems to need cakes right now, so I’ve been sitting at home playing Sims 3 a lot. I also have my new season of True Blood to keep me occupied and I’ve been reading more. I signed Jonathan up for school, too. My baby is getting older!

DJ and I have our anniversary coming up on Monday and we took a trip to the Darlington Dragway last night for Mustang Week. It was soooo awesome! I love going to the drag strip, but I hardly get to go because we never have a babysitter. Anyway, went out about 5:30pm and stayed until 9:30pm and it was sooo freaking hot! There was a bad wreck around 9pm and we went ahead and left because they couldn’t get a rollback to clear the track.

Okay, it’s time to go think about supper. I think I may fry some chicken strips and maybe some corn and mac and cheese. Eh, that’s a lot of yellow-ish things on a plate, lol! Maybe I’ll do green beans instead.

I’m bummed. Seriously, this week has been really trying. My husband and I are fussing every other day about random nonsense and I’m at a loss as to what the cause is. In turn, it affects me by making me feel down.

On the bright side, the boys are currently at vacation bible school! Yay for Mommy getting two hours child free! Jonathan also went to the doctor this morning and had to get four shots to get him ready for school. He aced his hearing and sight tests too! He can see better than I can, and I have glasses! Brandon is still battling me with the potty training. I am so ready to be done, but it looks like the light bulb hasn’t fully clicked still. I’m also not as on top of things as I should be.

Hm, I’m bored online and this is what I’m using to ignore my husband. I guess it’s lame, but I feel like I can’t let him win the battle when he’s the one that’s wrong. Oh well, I’m going to go outside and sit on the porch.

I love to eat that processed, junky, greasy food from McDonald’s. It’s just a quick place to eat and I LOVE their iced tea. My kids love it, and have fifty million Happy Meal toys that I throw away by the bag full. It’s not healthy, and I know that, but all moms at some point want an easy way out.

Anyway, today I went and ordered two teas and two side salads. This is what I got:

Yeah, NASTY! So, I emailed the manager this with the pictures above:

Hi,
I frequent the Bennettsville McDonald’s a lot.. really more than I should. I thought I should bring to someone’s attention how the quality is lacking lately. I don’t know if it’s because of the summer traffic or what, but I’ve had two bad experiences the last week. One day, my husband and I ordered a 50 piece chicken nuggets, and was pulled up. After waiting outside for 15 mins. he went in only to be told, ‘Oh, we forgot about you.’ Seriously? Then today I ordered two side salads. One was completely gross, the other one I picked the brown-edged lettuce out of, but the one had BLACK spots on the lettuce. I’ve included pictures to prove my point. If I had noticed it while I was there I would have took it inside, but by the time I got home there was no point in wasting more gas for a $1 salad. I hope this email helps better the service and food quality at my local McDonald’s.

- Eleanor Ivey

Let’s see what comes of this.. I doubt it will help any, but since I’m posting on here as well as my Facebook the word will spread a bit.