Update
I guess I should be happy that the weeks just fly by.. but holy geez!
Last weekend..
Friday: C and I attended a friend's coworkers party. It was fun as they had reserved the upstairs of Barca and had a private one-woman Burlesque show. Her outfits were really fancy and sparkly but the routine was just ok, nothing creative. They had the heat just blasting upstairs and due to another party that was also upstairs packed in.. we decided to head out on the street and look for a snack and more drinks.
I was excited when I saw the new Bimbos Bitchin Burrito location as I have not been there since they moved up the hill and I knew that would be a great treat snack. I was not at all impressed when I first walked in.. very sterile feeling compared to the old place but Love and Rockets.."No New Tale to Tell" was playing loudly so we were excited. We ordered a pitcher of beer and got some menus.. the surly waitress brought our pitcher, 'slammed it down' followed by the pint glasses, 'slammed them down'. Literally 'dropped down' the silverware from above our heads onto the table.. I was irritated as I get so sick n tired of 'hipster servers' that have to cop attitude for no reason other than you came in.. it does not make the place cool, it is just bad service.. not hip service I tried to stay upbeat as I was happy dammit! ;)
C finishes his first beer.. gets to the bottom of it.. then we see there were 'shards of freakin glass' in there. He turns a bit green as he pulls a shard off his lip, it DID NOT cut him.. but 'shit that was close'. I waved the waitress down and said "Wow, oh my god.. he has glass pieces in his pint." I wait for her reply. She says "It happens" and turned and grabbed another glass, I say an "I'm sorry would be nice.??." she runs away as if busy. Here I am in a good mood with some friends I never get to see, my food had just arrived so I eat the cold burrito(food is not good here anymore either by the way..) and I am pissed but drop it only cause C said "no worries" and wanted to drop it since he was luckily ok.. The nite was still fun after that popped to merc and that was that.
But I was haunted that night of a nightmare that could have been, me hauling chelsy to the emergency room to pull glass from his throat or stomache.. all due to the attitude of a 'surly capital hill waitress' who is causing a dangerous situation. By Monday after telling a few people this situation I agreed it is NOT acceptable and made sure to call the Manager there as I'm sure he would want to know, and hope he can preach to the staff to be a lil more careful slamming glasses as end result could be horrible!
Sat: Went to the Frye with urban_tarsier and James. We later popped over to the 'way too cute' cafe presse for snacks and drinks. By the way I finally gave in and got a yelp account so I'll be writing lil reviews there likely more often.
C wasn't feeling super hot so we stayed home the rest of the nite watchin netflix.
Sunday:
We woke up had a monster size b-fast and since we heard the snow was piling up again in the mountains we drove out over the pass to Teanaway River area in Wenachee Forest.
We went x-country skiing again.. We've been like once a weekend every weekend in Jan, yay! It was a fun time we went out a lil too far and then just made it back to the car in time for dusk. Of course as we were driving back on I-90 it started snowing like crazy and "traction tires" were recommended again. I wanted to hurry back before they requested "chain use" or worse yet closed the pass. No problems and we made it back however, since the last storm it has been closed for 2 days now..
We won't be heading this weekend as avalanche danger is high and Chelsy is on call and can't go anyway. Six feet of snow has fallen in the pass just this week!
I may however try the punk rock yoga tommorrow? hmmm.
I can't believe it's February!
Last weekend..
Friday: C and I attended a friend's coworkers party. It was fun as they had reserved the upstairs of Barca and had a private one-woman Burlesque show. Her outfits were really fancy and sparkly but the routine was just ok, nothing creative. They had the heat just blasting upstairs and due to another party that was also upstairs packed in.. we decided to head out on the street and look for a snack and more drinks.
I was excited when I saw the new Bimbos Bitchin Burrito location as I have not been there since they moved up the hill and I knew that would be a great treat snack. I was not at all impressed when I first walked in.. very sterile feeling compared to the old place but Love and Rockets.."No New Tale to Tell" was playing loudly so we were excited. We ordered a pitcher of beer and got some menus.. the surly waitress brought our pitcher, 'slammed it down' followed by the pint glasses, 'slammed them down'. Literally 'dropped down' the silverware from above our heads onto the table.. I was irritated as I get so sick n tired of 'hipster servers' that have to cop attitude for no reason other than you came in.. it does not make the place cool, it is just bad service.. not hip service I tried to stay upbeat as I was happy dammit! ;)
C finishes his first beer.. gets to the bottom of it.. then we see there were 'shards of freakin glass' in there. He turns a bit green as he pulls a shard off his lip, it DID NOT cut him.. but 'shit that was close'. I waved the waitress down and said "Wow, oh my god.. he has glass pieces in his pint." I wait for her reply. She says "It happens" and turned and grabbed another glass, I say an "I'm sorry would be nice.??." she runs away as if busy. Here I am in a good mood with some friends I never get to see, my food had just arrived so I eat the cold burrito(food is not good here anymore either by the way..) and I am pissed but drop it only cause C said "no worries" and wanted to drop it since he was luckily ok.. The nite was still fun after that popped to merc and that was that.
But I was haunted that night of a nightmare that could have been, me hauling chelsy to the emergency room to pull glass from his throat or stomache.. all due to the attitude of a 'surly capital hill waitress' who is causing a dangerous situation. By Monday after telling a few people this situation I agreed it is NOT acceptable and made sure to call the Manager there as I'm sure he would want to know, and hope he can preach to the staff to be a lil more careful slamming glasses as end result could be horrible!
Sat: Went to the Frye with urban_tarsier and James. We later popped over to the 'way too cute' cafe presse for snacks and drinks. By the way I finally gave in and got a yelp account so I'll be writing lil reviews there likely more often.
C wasn't feeling super hot so we stayed home the rest of the nite watchin netflix.
Sunday:
We woke up had a monster size b-fast and since we heard the snow was piling up again in the mountains we drove out over the pass to Teanaway River area in Wenachee Forest.
We went x-country skiing again.. We've been like once a weekend every weekend in Jan, yay! It was a fun time we went out a lil too far and then just made it back to the car in time for dusk. Of course as we were driving back on I-90 it started snowing like crazy and "traction tires" were recommended again. I wanted to hurry back before they requested "chain use" or worse yet closed the pass. No problems and we made it back however, since the last storm it has been closed for 2 days now..
We won't be heading this weekend as avalanche danger is high and Chelsy is on call and can't go anyway. Six feet of snow has fallen in the pass just this week!
I may however try the punk rock yoga tommorrow? hmmm.
I can't believe it's February!