Shell was axed pretty quickly because we didn't have much desire to live in New Orleans, especially so soon after Katrina.
That left BP and Exxon. Of course hindsight may have made our decision not look like the best, we still think it was the right one. But when it came down to choosing initially we had to weigh out the pros and cons.
And when we did they still balanced each other out. Except for one thing, BP had every other Friday off.
Seems kind of silly but when we weighed everything, those Fridays off tipped the scales.
We loved them so much. So much. And whenever Dan talked about the possibility of leaving BP, those Fridays always came up.
Interestingly enough, Dan's current job also employs the every-other-Friday off schedule.
Which makes today, what we like to call, Thriday. It feels like an extra long weekend every other week.
It means that when I wake up on Saturday I say to myself,
Saturday? Again? Yes!
And on this Thriday I visited Ava's school for her Christmas party. They got to wear their pajamas all day.
She cracked me up how she used her trail mix snack to decorate her cookie.
It was a painstaking process and by the time she finished and was ready to take a bite, the whistle blew for the kids to move to the next station.
I saved it for her.
When Dan left BP, they gave him another Ipod touch. Our first Ipod was also a BP Christmas gift from a few years ago. The old one is mine and he has the new one with a camera and video recording.
Let me tell you, we have been having a little too much fun with the video camera. We now have a treasure trove of little videos.
And when I went through them recently, I found that I had a collection of videos of Luke that were just awesome.
So now in honor of Thriday and my desire to share these little gems, here is one from The Luke Collection:
My boy is generous, that's for sure. He'd give you the candy right out of his mouth.
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