So, I've been sick since Friday. I'm feeling a bit better but I'm all congested and phlegmy and my throat feels a little funny. My mother and my sister also aren't feeling well. Being sick for Christmas sucks ( Read more... )

So, I've calmed down, mostly in part to my getting off just after 8 last night and because I don't have to be back to work until Wednesday morning.

But oh did we get our asses kicked yesterday morning.  Apparently a squirrel got into some electrical box or something across town and took out power in the process of frying itself around 11:45am.  The ( Read more... )

I haven't had a drop of alcohol in 7 1/2 months and last night at work I was pushed the furthest I have been since I gave up drinking. I went into the grocery store and I scanned the bottles of wine. I finally picked out a bottle of white zinfandel after much debating. I was about to head for the check-out when I passed a display of sparkling apple ( Read more... )

AOL futzed out on me this morning while I was trying to answer a discussion board question online (for my history class), dying in such a way that I had to uninstall then re-install. It put me in a mood. I also had to finish up some Lit homework and cram in some last minute studying. Plus, I had some issues doing the schedule for work next week ( Read more... )

So, yesterday was our restaurant's Xmas party and the awarding of FoH and BoH Employees of the Year checks. Just as nearly everyone I work with had been predicting for the past month, I was named FoH Employee of the Year. I cried. I made other people cry. And I'm still in a partial state of shock from it all; I've been crying on anf off since ( Read more... )

So, they're now saying that we may only get 2 - 5 inches of snow today! Me, I'm hoping for no more than 2 - 3 inches accumulation. It just started to stick over here so.... *crosses fingers and contemplates the whole praying thing ( Read more... )

So, I haven't been updating as much as I'd like to. I've been tired, I haven't felt well, I've been working, my mom's been sick, my sister's been sick, and I've started hanging out some with a few coworkers outside of work ( Read more... )

We've been short-staffed the last few weeks but things are looking up. The girl that was hired last week is doing all right; her roommate was hired yesterday and starts training this morning (has open availability like the other girl). And we hired a girl with nighttime availability (after 5/5:50pm) all week that I'll train next week (it would be ( Read more... )

I work with crackheads -- literally and figuratively. I love my job (as frustrating as it can be sometimes) and I enjoy working with the people that I do (as frustrating as some of them can be sometimes) but really? Was there ever a group of more common sense lacking people? Especially the H/Hs that work under me. Seating people, running the ( Read more... )

Monday marked the 1 year anniversary of when I began working my current job (started with orientation). Today it's been one year since I first stepped into the restaurant and helped out with PUNCH (physically unbelieveable number of cleaning hours). In ten days it'll be a year since we opened. Damn ( Read more... )