Weekend Update with Tina Fay(Esch)
I'm sitting in front of my compter with a cup of coffee, homemade biscotti, notes, notebooks and textbooks. This should mean that I am studying but I dont want to so I'm going to give everyone a weekend update!!
Friday------
I was up at the crack of dawn with everyone else on St. Patty's day. But instead of drinking green beer, I was drinking black coffee. Well not black coffee a qaud tall vanilla hazelnut latte while I was working. I was there early as usual and my boss was there already checking to see if we needed anything before we went downtown to work. Which was a very good thing since we were out of many many things. He gives me some instructions on how to get these things, something about a drop at store 5 being delivered to store 2 which I had to go and get once things slowed down, then something about sending our prep cook to get other things... yada yada yada... at 5:45 am almost all of what he said went flying over my head. I cant digest instructions that early in the morning. Fast forward through part of the morning, my boss ends up dropping some stuff off at our back door and calls to say it's there. Ok, get the goodies and put them to good use. Fast forward some more... I take a look at our espresso bean situation and it's not good. I'm the only one in the store with a car and im the one who is alwats supposed to stay in the store. I make a call and grab some espresso from the 24-hr store and I get back just in the nick of time. Whew!! One disaster averted. The rest of the day goes rather smoothly.. a bit busier than I though being that everyone was at the bars, but busy is good. Paychecks come!!! Woo-hoo. I finally leave work and thought about catching up with those at bars, but I really didnt feel like fighting the crouds of drunk people and I dont like to drink if I have to drive home. So I head home and take a nap. Start on some papers that I have to do and flip back and forth to and from the game. I have a hard time watching an entire game... I get myself too worked up and I had work to do. We lost. Booo... Enjoy one beer and head to bed.
Saturday-------
Get to work in the morning. Boo... Today I have to work with the girl who asked "who are the Yankees?" This is her on a good day. Flighty you could say. This day she comes to work a weeeee bit hung over. I'm not in the mood to deal with this that early in the morning. After leaving every few minutes to visit the bathroom she finally calls Anne to see if she can come in for her. yes, thank God she can. As the morning goes on I am very quickly running out of milk and our delivery truck isnt here yet. Crap, crap, crap. Running out of milk is a very big deal in a coffee shop as you can imagine. I'm down to about 1/2 a gallon between skim and 2%, business is not slowing down and the truck as still not arrived. I call my boss to see if he can bring some to me and he says he's on his way. 2 minutes later. Delivery man walks through the back door. I almost start jumping up and down for joy. So call my boss again and tell him not to worry and start digging through to find the milk. I was down to 1/4 gallon of skim and no 2%. Just in the nic of time. Delivery man continues to unload goodies and soon our ENTIRE back room is filled with boxes. This order is about 4 times the size of our normal orders. Joy soon turns to fear and frustration as I realize that I have to put this entire thing away while trying to work the line and its still quite a busy afternoon. I think I'm going to cry. people keep on comming in to get their precious hamgover coffee fix while I am getting more and more frustrated by the pile of boxes just sitting in our back room and not being able to get back there to put them away. There was some coffee beans that we didnt getin out order so I call my boss to get some for me and does he stay and help me put this monstrosity away? no. He drops off the beans, says "have fun back there(meaning back room) and laughs. I play it off as a joke, laugh, but secretly want to crawl across to counter and put my little hands around his giraffe neck. grrrrr. The crowd dies down and I tell me barista that Im going outside and she laughs and says she knew that was comming. I go out and have a cigarette and come back a much more placid and happy person. I start picking away at the boxes. As it gets closer to the time I am supposed to leave, I realize that I'm not getting out of there anytime soon and call my sis to cancel going to GR that day. I'm actually happy about that because I really didnt want to help her move anyways. Finally leave work a little over an hour after I'm supposed to be out of there(negative effects of being a boss). I count my tips from the past few days and I reward myself for my hellish day with Sex and the City season 3. At night I relax with some vino and Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda.
Sunday------
I sleep in!!!!!!!!!!! Get up, make coffee and clean the apartment and it's so nice outside that I get to open up the windows and let the fresh air in. So I clean, relax, go shopping at Yankee Candle. (yeah!) Watch a couple more episodes of Sex and the City, then start to write my papers. I want biscotti. So I make some, yummy almond, cranberry and chocolate biscotti. It is just delightfull and I am pround of myself, nice a crisp, but not so hard you break a tooth with a nice a moist center. Yummo. So if anyone wants some come on over, I cant eat then all by myself. Well I probably could, but it wouldnt be very good for me. And now I am sitting at the compueter trying to get myself to study while waiting for Grey's Anatomy.
Friday------
I was up at the crack of dawn with everyone else on St. Patty's day. But instead of drinking green beer, I was drinking black coffee. Well not black coffee a qaud tall vanilla hazelnut latte while I was working. I was there early as usual and my boss was there already checking to see if we needed anything before we went downtown to work. Which was a very good thing since we were out of many many things. He gives me some instructions on how to get these things, something about a drop at store 5 being delivered to store 2 which I had to go and get once things slowed down, then something about sending our prep cook to get other things... yada yada yada... at 5:45 am almost all of what he said went flying over my head. I cant digest instructions that early in the morning. Fast forward through part of the morning, my boss ends up dropping some stuff off at our back door and calls to say it's there. Ok, get the goodies and put them to good use. Fast forward some more... I take a look at our espresso bean situation and it's not good. I'm the only one in the store with a car and im the one who is alwats supposed to stay in the store. I make a call and grab some espresso from the 24-hr store and I get back just in the nick of time. Whew!! One disaster averted. The rest of the day goes rather smoothly.. a bit busier than I though being that everyone was at the bars, but busy is good. Paychecks come!!! Woo-hoo. I finally leave work and thought about catching up with those at bars, but I really didnt feel like fighting the crouds of drunk people and I dont like to drink if I have to drive home. So I head home and take a nap. Start on some papers that I have to do and flip back and forth to and from the game. I have a hard time watching an entire game... I get myself too worked up and I had work to do. We lost. Booo... Enjoy one beer and head to bed.
Saturday-------
Get to work in the morning. Boo... Today I have to work with the girl who asked "who are the Yankees?" This is her on a good day. Flighty you could say. This day she comes to work a weeeee bit hung over. I'm not in the mood to deal with this that early in the morning. After leaving every few minutes to visit the bathroom she finally calls Anne to see if she can come in for her. yes, thank God she can. As the morning goes on I am very quickly running out of milk and our delivery truck isnt here yet. Crap, crap, crap. Running out of milk is a very big deal in a coffee shop as you can imagine. I'm down to about 1/2 a gallon between skim and 2%, business is not slowing down and the truck as still not arrived. I call my boss to see if he can bring some to me and he says he's on his way. 2 minutes later. Delivery man walks through the back door. I almost start jumping up and down for joy. So call my boss again and tell him not to worry and start digging through to find the milk. I was down to 1/4 gallon of skim and no 2%. Just in the nic of time. Delivery man continues to unload goodies and soon our ENTIRE back room is filled with boxes. This order is about 4 times the size of our normal orders. Joy soon turns to fear and frustration as I realize that I have to put this entire thing away while trying to work the line and its still quite a busy afternoon. I think I'm going to cry. people keep on comming in to get their precious hamgover coffee fix while I am getting more and more frustrated by the pile of boxes just sitting in our back room and not being able to get back there to put them away. There was some coffee beans that we didnt getin out order so I call my boss to get some for me and does he stay and help me put this monstrosity away? no. He drops off the beans, says "have fun back there(meaning back room) and laughs. I play it off as a joke, laugh, but secretly want to crawl across to counter and put my little hands around his giraffe neck. grrrrr. The crowd dies down and I tell me barista that Im going outside and she laughs and says she knew that was comming. I go out and have a cigarette and come back a much more placid and happy person. I start picking away at the boxes. As it gets closer to the time I am supposed to leave, I realize that I'm not getting out of there anytime soon and call my sis to cancel going to GR that day. I'm actually happy about that because I really didnt want to help her move anyways. Finally leave work a little over an hour after I'm supposed to be out of there(negative effects of being a boss). I count my tips from the past few days and I reward myself for my hellish day with Sex and the City season 3. At night I relax with some vino and Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda.
Sunday------
I sleep in!!!!!!!!!!! Get up, make coffee and clean the apartment and it's so nice outside that I get to open up the windows and let the fresh air in. So I clean, relax, go shopping at Yankee Candle. (yeah!) Watch a couple more episodes of Sex and the City, then start to write my papers. I want biscotti. So I make some, yummy almond, cranberry and chocolate biscotti. It is just delightfull and I am pround of myself, nice a crisp, but not so hard you break a tooth with a nice a moist center. Yummo. So if anyone wants some come on over, I cant eat then all by myself. Well I probably could, but it wouldnt be very good for me. And now I am sitting at the compueter trying to get myself to study while waiting for Grey's Anatomy.