Monthly Archives: January 2010

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Where there’s smoke…

Occasionally one would see fire!  I forgot to mention how I due to my own abject stupidity almost burnt my apartment down!  Thankfully it was nothing, no one was hurt and nothing was ruined either.  Melting plastic gives off a ton of acrid smoke.  Totally filled my apartment and the most disturbing thing of all?  My smoke detectors didn’t go off AT ALL…  SO yeah new batteries are on my to do list…

My schedule has change yet again…  At least this time, my schedule allows me to have a personal life.  I miss going out with my friends and all those good things that come with some form of social interaction!  So I’ve come to a turning point in my life, once again.  Seems to be happening more and more lately.  One thing is certain, I need to get out of this industry.  I only worked 5 hours today and maybe it was because I was tired.  Only had one day off since we got back to work after the holidays.  In any case its really starting to get under my skin so I’m calling the school as soon as I can manage and seeing what I can do about getting myself in there that much faster!   On the good side of things, the one person that I couldn’t stand has been terminated.  She obviously did it to herself, but I can’t help by have a sense of schadenfreude over the whole situation!  So it means I have to work a little more this week but whatever, more money in my bank account and there ain’t nothing wrong with that!

Still have to call videotron and cancel my cable, I rarely watch TV anymore so what’s the point?  Not only that I can download what I want and use windows 7 to watch it on my TV.  Just need to get the proper cables and those aren’t that hard to come by.  Oh technology, gotta love it!  Someone also “compromised” my Visa, so that was canceled and a new one is en route.  What a pain in the ass that is!  I also gotta call my student dentist and see if they haven’t kicked my ass out of the clinic yet, have to make an appointment with my GP to get my thyroid tested…  Gr so much to do and not enough time to do it!  I’m just so. damn. tired.  Oh yeah have to do laundry sometime soon too…  Going to be a long ass night at work, I actually don’t start until 4pm but were having a training session at 1pm so that were all on the same page at work so more time spent there.

I’m pretty sure I spend more time at work then I do anywhere else these days!  Needless to say I can’t wait until I get a day off again!  Mostly so I can sleep.  At least on Wed its not so bad…  Maybe I’ll get my laundry done then.  Maybe lol.  Should have gotten it done today but I really had zero motivation to get out of bed and actually get it done.  Next week won’t be so bad (I hope) but this week is going to be full of suck I’m thinking!

I’ll get there, someway somehow!

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6 drunk guys, an angry Chef and

a baseball bat…

I can only imagine the look on R’s face when he pulled up in front of the restaurant coming back from a delivery only to find it surrounded by police cruisers…  Needless to say Friday night/Saturday morning was FAR from boring.  We were busy, and by busy I mean not stop total chaos ALL night!  So we decided in the best interest of all of us to close early.  We were running out of food, the fryers had gotten so low on oil that even making an order of fries was complicated.  We had orders flying out the door and for some reason we had a whole lot of drunk people piling in as well.  Which killed me because you can plainly see that were busy and while most people were pretty cool about it, this one emo-tard was being a douche-bag so I made him wait longer for his food on purpose.  Mostly because I could!  Anyway that’s irrelevant to my “mishap” that occurred.

So R had to go on some deliveries because we were totally swamped and we opted to close at 3:30am instead of 4.  So I was asked to watch the computer, and what have you.  No problem!  That is until 6 drunk guys stumbled in the door at 3:35 am…  A large majority of them being black, except for that cute French white guy oh and one girl.  All of them at least half a foot taller if not more so then I and considerably larger then myself.  Yes the whole racial profiling thing has some relevance and I will get to that in a second.  They come up to the counter and after a minute of  hey how are you stuff, they got pretty pissed that I told them due to circumstances beyond our control we had to shift our closing time from 4am to 3:30.  So they were all dissapointed, which was what I expected except for this one guy who wouldn’t take no for an answer!  He was literally begging me to make him food.  Thankfully C had no more orders working at the time so I stood firm and said no.  I even turned down a walk-in pick up order because we both had enough and wanted to get the hell out of there!

Then this one asshole got exceptionally belligerent and well he just picked the wrong place/date/time to get up my ass!  There was no room left there for anyone else at that point!  All of his friends were like look man she’s closed let’s go and he just wouldn’t leave!  So then he slams his fist down on the counter and says your not listening to me.  So I in turn slammed my fist down on the counter and said no your not fucking listening to me!  So on comes the ultimate screaming match with some random dude…  His friends got smart and left and only that asshole and the one guy trying to contain him were still inside.  He just wouldn’t get the hint so I went out front to escort them out and possibly punch someone in the face.  All of his friends and a few random customers came in once again and it was getting crowded in there and no one was listening to me.  My co-worker well he was no help what so ever…  So since they wouldn’t leave I went back behind the counter to grab the baseball bat that we have in the kitchen for some random reason.  That’s when things got really ugly.

The whole front was total chaos, I was getting ready to start knocking heads off like some people do mailboxes.  So drunk guys buddy gets all up in my face talking shit, saying listen to me over and over again.  WTF there isn’t anything left to say other then get the fuck outta my restaurant!   My co-worker ended up calling the cops who to my amazement showed up in about 5 minutes and broke the party up.  Turns out because these two girls came in and seeing how it was late I let them stay in there because they were running away from some random dude; drunken ass thought I was refusing to serve him because he was black.  WTF!?!  Are you kidding me?  No I don’t give a damn what your race/gender/ etc. is if I’m CLOSED I am NOT serving ANYONE!   So needless to say the cops took care of them, made sure that those of us inside were OK and that was that.  No one at work is going to screw with me now lol.

So yesterday I was only supposed to work from 8-11pm because the other guy I was working with I ended up working for him Friday night but I somehow got sucked into working from 8pm-4am UGH… Anyway G asked me if I knew the guys name so that he could call him and apologize for Friday night.  If ANYONE should be apologized to, its ME.  So what if that one guy orders a lot, I make ALL the damn food that comes outta that place more often then not!  Yeah I get that we need the business (what place doesn’t?) and all that shit but honestly the personal safety of your staff should come first!  If my own personal safety is threatened in ANY way I will do whatever it takes to protect myself!  Its not as if I was having a bad night and felt the need to get in touch with my inner bad ass.  That really pissed me off!  I spoke to my immediate boss about that and one of the owners.  While I respect their point of view, I don’t agree with it at all!

Although in spite of all the bullshit, some good things do happen!  The biggest issue I had at work has officially been eliminated 😀 Hooray!  Also good things come in cute packages…  So had Michael not did what he did then I wouldn’t be enjoying that…  So not only did I get a bitching tattoo, I just might get something awesome outta the deal.  I’m down with that! 😉  Thanks!

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And so…

I had something conjured up in my mind to actually post here but now I’m having a some-timers moment. 😉  Cleavage burn is almost all cleared up, I just about damn near died when Brad asked me what that was lol.  I love him, I’m so happy he found me again.  He’s just so damn sweet, too bad I don’t live in Ontario anymore…  Umm maybe that’s a good thing?  In any case he’s coming to visit me in the spring.  I’d love to go to Ontario to see him again like right now but c’est la vie.  He was just such an awesome friend in so many ways.

You know what IS a good thing? No more PMS,  OMFG  I hate hormones!  I do however love my friends who would be willing to fight for me til the bitter end.  Pending of course they don’t take it too far…  Needles to say, you piss me off there’s going to be at least another 100 angry people following…  Pissing me off while I have PMS is pretty much equal to a death wish.

Big changes on the work horizon!  We changed our menu added some awesome new things, and took away some stuff that just didn’t make the cut.  Other things will be happening but I can’t/won’t post it on here.  Doing yet another brownie trial for work, the ones we have now just aren’t that good.  So I’m going to do my best to kick it up a few notches and make some killer brownies!  The first trial I did really did little for me, they were too dense and the flavor, well that left something to be desired.  Which surprised me since I used pretty high quality chocolate.  So trying it out again, but a different recipe this time around.  Also D and I have come to the conclusion that there is no such thing as inappropriate conversation or work place harassment if your in a kitchen ( a professional one).  Last week I had the most epic fit of rage ever when 2 douche bags came in a 5 minutes to fucking closing and I was PISSED, I also made no effort to hide it.  Yeah I got in shit for that one.  Oops my bad!

Did I mention how awesome my Sunday night turned out to be? Well it was 😉  Love when things just work out like that!

Random observation: there’s a lot of bad tattoos in porn.  I mean really bad.  I of course notice these things lol.

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a whole lot of WTF and reunions!

Well this weekend has been the up-most roller coaster ride straight out of hell!  Work, well what can I say work is work.  Although I have to give kudos to the new guy!  He’s my new bitch 😉  Seriously, he really is.  He’s doing a pretty great job though I have to admit!  Lots of positive changes around work which is good.  Maybe in the end we’ll all be happier!  I’ve been itching to “Steph-a-fy-” that kitchen since I started working there and I finally got the backing, go ahead and support that I need from all the bosses and owners so that’s pretty freaking awesome!

Then the other night I came home, checked my facebook and lo and behold there’s a friend request from a very dear friend of mine that sadly feel out of my life for a number of reasons.  I knew he was on FB but didn’t muster up the nerve to actually put forth the effort to “be-friend” him again.  That was the better part of 2 years ago and well he found me after 2 years of searching.  He spelled my last name wrong, which more often then not most people do.  So I guess we have been reunited once again which is nice actually!  I really missed him!  We were really close friends, and he was my rock when my life was horribly out of control in my early 20’s.  I knew I could count on him and he on me.  He was the person when you felt like you had almost no one that you could count on, let alone trust but he was always there.  I cherished that friendship and I can’t/won’t go as far to say that we can “pick up the pieces” seeing as how we live in different provinces but still nice to re-connect just the same 🙂

So while I was having a nostalgic moment  I thought I would scope out my ex just to see if B was friends with G and turns out they weren’t but then I discovered another old friend from my old life of long ago (by that I mean the 15-22yrs).   So we then played catch up and he’s doing really well too which is fabulous!  I too wondered what on earth happened to him and how he was doing.  I have to say that out of the things I don’t remember from that time period one thing I fondly recall is his going away party.  Which was the most epic toga party EVER!

Then while looking for something in my other not too often used e-mail address I got an e-mail from Jeremie whom I pretty much assumed that I wouldn’t have anything to do with him because I apparently gave him the wrong impression about something inadvertently & unintentionally before and at least he was man enough to tell me as opposed to some people who just figure that they can ignore me and that’s that…  But I’m saving that for last…  Anyway he e-mailed me 5 days ago and I still had his number in my old cell phone so I figured since my other plans totally fell through,  why not give him a call.  So we ended up hanging out from about 9-ish til midnight so that was OK I guess.  Granted I had my head up my ass the whole time he was here…  Mostly because I was pissed at Micheal.  But whatever, at least my night wasn’t a total loss.  Granted it could have been better… meh, whatever.0  I just really hate when people waste my time like that!

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