Category Archives: Epic FAIL!

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Today was a mixed bag of MANY strange things…

Today was one of those days where I think stabbing myself in the forehead with a fork *might* have been more pleasant!  I work up feeling well rested since I went to bed at a reasonable time so I was optimistic!  Perhaps too much so…  I was happy to have my dental appointment as well because I hadn\’t been to a proper dental appointment in over a decade which is bad, really bad!  Dentists cost a retarded amount of money which I don\’t have an unlike my tattoo artist, I can\’t leave dental work \”half done when I run out of money\” its pretty much all or nothing.

Anyway today at work was full of FAIL! My customers DROVE ME UP THE DAMN WALL! First off today was crispy chicken with orange & ginger sauce, a popular one. I usually make it with lemon & herb rice in case you were wondering because it goes along nicely with the citrus in the sauce. Anyhow, I don\’t have a commercial range at work. I have the same stove that most people have in their homes which doesn\’t generally give me any issues except for space. I have to admit, the one thing I DO miss about working in a more commercial setting is a 6-10 burner gas range. So I utilize the commercial convection oven downstairs in the bakery because I can use a larger baking sheet and the temperature is far more consistent then a regular range and the cooking time is also faster.
The only downfall to using ANYTHING in the bakery is that its not only in the basement its also 2 doors down (the bakery opened first and isn\’t connected to the tea room in anyway). So I have to carry this baking pan up the stairs, outside and to the tea room which isn\’t an issue in the spring but caused me some grave concern in the winter.   So I\’m walking in and this one customer who is ALWAYS a pain in the ass is standing at the counter blocking the entrance to the kitchen bitching to Krystal that her soup isn\’t hot enough. So I being ever so cautious said:\”behind you, careful this is hot.\” So hotly replies well my soup is cold and almost slammed her face into a hot pan of chicken which would have served the bitch right! I should have said move your fat ass outta my way but I didn\’t… That REALLY pissed me off!

Then once again we get another customer who can\’t pronounce quiche properly. I didn\’t serve them but Krystal mentioned that she got a request for a spinach guiche. Since I work there and the closest thing to the modification expert all the staff now know what a (NSFW LINK>) guiche piercing is.  Which is always good for a giggle!  Its almost impossible to keep a straight face when a customer asked for a guiche, especially a woman.  I have to bite my tongue from saying \”well I could give you one but you don\’t have the right anatomy for it, I\’m sorry\”  🙂  So let it be know that there is a VAST difference between this and what you really want which is this.

We had a tea party booked this afternoon.  Which does resemble said picture (that is in fact my work) except we now have the three tier tea trays that we use.  Which is always a thorn in EVERYONE\’S side because quite simply its a lot of work.  A million little things go into the preparation of this dainty tea (not to be confused with high tea mind you) because dammit there is a DIFFERENCE! anyway enough of my random ranting.  So this party was booked for 3:00pm but this snooty bitch.  I had to leave at 4pm because I had a LONG overdue dental appointment at 5pm which required me to get from one end of town to the other.  Of course she shows up late, she phoned and mentioned as much but said that she would be arriving at 3:15, she strolls in rather dramatically at 3:35pm and doesn\’t like the table she\’s sitting at.  Setting the table properly for afternoon tea is a hassle and its done BEFORE you arrive, Krystal started to re-locate her to placate her but then she changed her mind (WTF lady seriously?)

We have two ceiling fans going in the tea room because it can get quite stuffy in there.  She requested that one of them be turned off because she\’s an opera singer and it might harm her vocal chords.  Are you kidding me?  Yes I know that singers in general DO need to go to some great lengths to maintain the integrity of their vocal chords I can respect that.  Her voice is her lively hood just as my hands are very precious to me because they\’re what allow me to create.  However I WAS married to a musician at one point (specifically the lead singer) and the only damage that a fan would do to her vocal chords short of trying to swallow it while it was still rotating would be for it to hit her in the throat somehow.  She\’s nothing but a pompous spoiled bitch and I felt EXCEPTIONALLY bad for poor Krystal having to deal with the self proclaimed fuss bucket or whatever she called herself.  Of course the table wasn\’t adequate for Ms. Pain in the ass picky pants either so her and her friend re-located themselves.  Sadly I had to leave so I don\’t know what the rest of the final hour was like but I know that Krystal was not happy when I left and well who in the hell can blame her!

So I leave to go to my dental appointment thinking that I was getting a minor tooth repair on a chipped tooth that happened a few months ago.  She takes x-rays, there\’s infected nerve damage and a cavity or something.  I need a fucking root canal which she DOESN\’T do so she has to bring in a specialist which will cost me $500.00 which my insurance only pays 50% of.  So I told this to her, because I can ill afford it and my insurance plan ONLY covers $500.00 for the ENTIRE YEAR regardless of what service your in need of.  Jesus Christ! So she says what do you want me to do?  I asked for a temporary filling so I could at least eat without  getting food stuck in my tooth all the time.  So turns out that I most likely have periodontal (aka gum) disease which is causing one of my FRONT teeth to loosen which is REALLY bad.  So I have to get some major cleaning done and she\’s like well you should see your dentist (meaning her) more regularly blah blah blah trying to lay on this quilt trip.  I said flat out to her face:\” No offense but private practice  dentists are rich for a reason, because YOUR EXPENSIVE!\”  She just glared at me for that comment but I told her flat out, it comes down to money.  I have bills to pay, I don\’t make a ton of cash and that\’s that!  Can\’t get blood from a stone now can you!  So I asked how much this treatment was, she just said it was expensive (how nice) and didn\’t actually give me a proper answer to my question soooo I\’m going to apply to be a patient at McGill university\’s dental training program which boasts that its usually 50% LESS then seeing a private dentist.  Because its a training hospital for graduates.  So yeah it\’ll take longer but it\’ll still be done properly and under the watchful eye of a licensed dentist and should it all go to hell well it\’s in a hospital so I\’m not worried lol.  It\’ll be well worth the $40.00 to try and get a second opinion in any case!  They also take insurance hooray!

So the temporary filling is in and throbbing, SO MUCH FOR THE NERVES BEING DEAD DR. REGINA!  If my damn nerves were dead, I wouldn\’t be feeling this irritating pulse now would I?  At least the Novocaine is starting to wear off, I was getting a little tired of not being able to talk properly and drooling on myself.

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TGIF! Or is it?…

So today was rather lackluster at work, it was fairly quiet all day which was a nice change but lead to some epic screwing around at work 🙂  Then I went and got the letter to my landlord printed off since I am sans printer, faxed in my lease renewal since the regie told me to do so, went to the bank, then I hit paydirt at the post office!

I went in because for one thing I need to send off that later via registered mail to provide proof of receipt, and I needed to send off the last of my contracts to 3 more of my staff members.  No  biggie!  So the mail man was there picking up the last of the mail for that night and kindly waited for me to finish off the paperwork for the registered letter so that it could all go out in tonight\’s mail as opposed to Saturday which was SO nice!  Its such a small thing but it was a nice thing for him to do which I appreciated a lot!  I just hope that she got the postage correct since 2 of them are due to go overseas and I would hate for them to be sent back for lack of postage.  Just a hassle that I don\’t really need!

So I promised Daniel that I would give him a call when I got home from work, something I had been avoiding because he\’s 6 hours ahead of me in Denmark and I don\’t like calling people too late because I feel that its rude but he assured me that it was OK.  I tried using a phone card which was an epic fail on my part because this is the first time I had ever called someone overseas.  So then I tried direct dial which was also a HUGE fail because I wasn\’t 100% certain just exactly how this routing number/country code works but I finally figured it out after about oh 10 minutes.  Not ALL my fault, because Daniel said his country code was 0045 when really I only needed to dial the 45 after the 011.   Videotron\’s rates for overseas calling are based on 3 things: The location, landlines or cell phone.  Which I didn\’t even bother to check until I got OFF the phone.  IF Daniel had a landline which in case your wondering he doesn\’t it wouldn\’t have cost me nearly as much as this phone call is going to cost me!  If it was a regular landline its 10 cents a minute which isn\’t un-reasonable to say the least!  However if you calling a cellphone in Denmark its 41 freaking cents!

That\’s what I get for being Ms. Chatty Pants I guess…  Its not going to show up on this bill, but it\’ll be there on the next one.  I generally attempt to stay ahead on these things so hopefully the damage won\’t FEEL as bad when that bill actually arrives.  Ah well, lesson learned!  Since it was a \”business\” call I could in theory write it off, but next time i\’m just buying a phone card or getting a better long distance plan for my phone!  Actually I think that my crew should just install skype because then its free, even better!

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Could I FAIL any harder at life?

OMG seriously, UGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!  My picky pain in the ass environmentally friendly kitty likes one kind of litter and one kind only which under normal circumstances is fine.  Except when every damn supermarket in town DOESN\’T HAVE IT IN STOCK!  I usually have ample amounts on hand, but somehow I got sidetracked and didn\’t get her any last week when I should have (when I seen it even though she didn\’t need it).

I usually grab it on the way to work since provigo/loblaws/maxi are the only chains that I am aware of that carry PC (presidents choice products)  however the one I go to is small and doesn\’t have that much selection.  So I wasn\’t too shocked when I discovered 2 days in a row that they were sold out.  No biggie, there\’s another provigo not too far from work in the opposite direction and a loblaws not too far from that provigo either.  Maxi is was out of the question because there isn\’t any in my immediate/relative area.  I think that there must be a back order or something with the manufacture because this is ridiculous!

So before I left work I conferred with Donna about what the best direction was to go since she knows this end of city far better then I do.  However I am beyond geographically challenged and get lost far to easily sometimes!  Anyone who knows me could likely attest to this ha ha.  Anyway long story short I went the WRONG way (surprise, surprise) and ended up in Cote St. Luc when I was *supposed* to be in NDG still.  Thankfully it was a nice day out and walking for oh almost an hour and half didn\’t bug me.  Besides I needed the exercise.

So I hopped on the 104 to Sherbrooke & Cavendish to check out the provigo I should have been at around 6 (this was pushing close to 8pm at this point).  Of course they\’re sold out too, good lord!  So I thought well Loblaws is about 10-15 min away on foot so why not, and of course they too are sold out of this damn litter!  This is what I get for trying to be more environmentally friendly :p  Granted I too prefer this brand of cat litter because its all natural, smells really nice, no dust, bio-degradable and flushable!  I know the flushable aspect bothers some people but really how different is it from what *WE* as humans flush down the toilet?  Nothing…  Not a damn thing.

So until I can score some of this litter from somewhere, and I swear as soon as Provigo gets it back in stock i\’m buying it ALL!  I have the clay stuff too in case of emergency such as this, but she hates it to the point that she chucks it out of her box!  So after working 8 hours, walking for about 3 to try and find this cat litter which I never did locate I\’m not impressed!  I did however score a great deal on bacon, strawberries, my favorite cereal, yogurt, bagels, steak  and these butter pecan cookies that I ADORE and haven\’t seen in forever!  So all was not totally lost at least for me, Heddy on the other hand… She\’ll just have to deal!

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A multitude of epic FAILS!

Dear God, today has got to be by and large the MOST heinous day I\’ve had in a while! First off I find out my IAM page was TOS\’d for something I didn\’t do. That however doesn\’t surprise me as Rachel is a power hungry twat…

Then I discover that someone shouldn\’t be trusted anymore which REALLY sucks!

Then I *almost* forget that today was good Friday and the bus schedule had changed, that however wasn\’t an issue. Then I go to work, the place is a tad bit messy and I have an abundance of orders to contend with first thing in the AM. Nothing I love more then making a ton of quiche for other people first thing in the morning blah!

*On a side note, I hate when people pronounce it wrong! Its QUICHE not kish or my personal favorite: a Guiche which in case you didn\’t know is a male genital piercing and makes me laugh every single time I hear someone call it that!*

Then I discover we have a tea party today, which had gotten forgotten about. So Donna asked me if I would mind running to Couche tard to grab some bread so we can make the sandwiches and grab some snacks for her and myself. So off I go, get what I need and of course upon my horror discover that I totally forgot to bring money with me! So that was a little embarassing to say the least! Thankfully its not far and I know the guys that work there to, but still!

Today was crazy busy! It was a constand non stop stream of people today who wanted tea and scones. Which is a utter pain in the ass, tons of dishes and a lot of work and most of us hardly think its worth it. Lunch however went over really well (creamy dilled salmon with lemon rice) which was nice seeing as how my day had gone to shit in so many ways throughout the say.

So i\’m leaving work, forgot my dinner AND my pay ugrh! Thankfully Donna lives down the street and is willing to drop it off for me, bless her!

So anyway I get to the metro, almost home… Then I look up and the escalators are broken 😛 Now don\’t get me wrong I\’m not *THAT* lazy BUT… My knee was killing me, its been a long week and I was tired and St. Henri metro has a whole Lotta stairs! So thank God for Catholics because we score a long weekend which means not work for me on Monday but I still get paid, YAY!