Employee Meeting

Wow, I didn't realize I hadn't blogged since last Wednesday.. oh well. Nothing interesting happened Thursday or Friday I guess.

Last night I was laying in bed at midnight, watching tv, and I begged Michael to come hug me. He laid on me, then he fell asleep! I secretly won! Cause then he kept sleeping, and its hard for me to get him to go to bed at the same time as me. Michael slept 14 hours! I got up today at 11. I took a shower and went to my staff meeting.

The staff meeting was kinda boring, but overall pretty entertaining. It was 2 and half hours, as always. First we were all together, then we split up by different positions. The Hosts were there the longest, as always. I didn't really hear too much new stuff. We are now rolling our silverware (in the linens) in a different way, and I hate it. The employee (the newest one) who would have benefitted by the meeting the most forgot about it. Then she said it wasn't a big deal, and everyone was over reacting. But its a huge deal at Outback.

After the meeting ended, I rushed over to the President (of TTU)'s field, to see my friend from Outback, Joo, play rugby. It was pretty cool. It took me a LONG time to find a parking place, cause the football team was playing a game too. I went up to watch Joo, who is quite asian, and I didn't see him anywhere on the field. Then I heard him laugh, the poor guy hurt his elbow like 5 minutes before and was out of the game. He like over extended his elbow. But I did chat with him, and he looked really happy that I came. He said that he invited all the Outbackers, and only one other employee ever came, when a ton said they'd come by. So, even though I didn't get to see Joo play, he was happy I came, I was too. I did see another coworker play though. And I told Joo that he made employee of the month, cause he was at his game and missed the employee meeting.

Then I came back to the apartment, and Michael made me some cheese dip. I was only home for like 30 minutes before I left for work. Work was actually pretty good. Mostly because when you arrive at work, you're supposed to stand at the door for an hour, and I didn't. I stood for like 30 minutes, then I sat people like the rest of the night. It was awesome, yay!

Then when I was about to walk out of Outback, my manager asked me if I'd run to McDonalds for him. Its the manager I like better, so I was fine with it. I got his McDonalds, and I got my 2 orders of undercooked cheese fries (for Mike and I) and went over to Walmart to get the fixings for the Chicago Hot Dogs I'm going to make tomorrow. I'M EXCITED! I asked everyone at work if they'd ever had a Chicago Hot Dog.. then soon as I asked Brandon (the host who's been there for like a month before me) and soon as I asked, I remembered he lived there. Then we chatted about how great they are.

Now I'm watching some tv, I'll prolly shower, and go to bed after the movie is over.

Michael's Granny's Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

Granny's Chocolate Chip Cookies
Bake at 350 for 7-10 minutes


2 ¼ cups - all purpose flour
¾ cup - brown sugar
¾ cup - sugar (or splenda)
1 tsp - baking soda
1 tsp - salt

2 sticks - margarine (or sweet butter)
2 - eggs
1 tsp - real vanilla

1 bag - chocolate chips (or chips of your choice)

Chicago Hot Dog

Chicago Style Hot Dog

"An all-beef hot dog on a steamed poppy seed bun piled high with mustard, bright green sweet pickle relish, chopped onion, tomato wedges, a dill pickle spear, sport peppers, and a dash of celery salt. Don't even think about ketchup!"

INGREDIENTS:

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5 all-beef hot dog 5 poppyseed hot dog bun 1/4 cup and 1 tablespoon yellow mustard 1/4 cup and 1 tablespoon sweet green pickle relish

1/4 cup and 1 tablespoon chopped onion 20 tomato wedges 5 dill pickle spear 10 sport peppers 5 dashes celery salt

DIRECTIONS:

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1.	Bring a pot of water to a boil. Reduce heat to low, place hot dog in water, and cook 5 minutes or until done. Remove hot dog and set aside. Carefully place a steamer basket into the pot and steam the hot dog bun 2 minutes or until warm.

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2.

Place hot dog in the steamed bun. Pile on the toppings in this order: yellow mustard, sweet green pickle relish, onion, tomato wedges, pickle spear, sport peppers, and celery salt. The tomatoes should be nestled between the hot dog and the top of the bun. Place the pickle between the hot dog and the bottom of the bun. Don't even think about ketchup!

I'm gonna be a nurse!

Today... I woke up, went to class, napped, went to class, then went to pick up my car. I was at Midas for like 45 minutes cause he was having trouble with my check, like he had to call the main office to accept it, and I didn't want to have to split the payment on mine and Michael's credit cards.. So, I waited. I made Michael miss class! He missed this same class on Monday cause I had the car for work. Michael is a sweety though.

It was 573 dollars to fix my car. He even showed me the broken shoes, or something. He told me the root of my problem is often caused by people not using their parking brakes. However.. I don't see how that it my problem. I use my parking brake more than anyone else I know.

Then I went to work, it was okay, nothing too special. But I don't think anything bad happened. I did get cut at like 8:00. After work, I went to Walmart. Cause I got my schedule and I'm working on Halloween. At our Outback you can dress up on Halloween if you're working. I looked at the costumes, but they had nothing worth my money. So I went and got Michael the soda he wanted. On my way towards the register, I walked by the scrubs. I then decided I wanted to be a nurse! So, I bought some scrubs. I got an orange scrub shirt, it has eeyore on it, and he's wearing a witch, and other halloween costumes. I got black pants to go with it. I'm super excited now. I just have to find where to get a stethascope (or somehow spelled like that?).

I also bought some more linen scented candles at Walmart. Now I'm just relaxing at home with Michael. I'll go to class tomorrow, maybe see a play, then relax some more. God, I love the 2 days I get off a week. Oh yeah, my schedule next week mostly sucks. Like on the friday,saturday, and sundays shifts, I'm like the 3rd or 4th person to come in each day. So.. I wont' get to go home until like an hour before close! Thats normally the shift they give to the crappy employees.. Maybe my manager heard I said no to an employee who said her hip hurt? Idk.. but I have to say. I'd rather have those not as good shifts and have my guarnteed 2 days off! Jeez!

Now I need to move my laundry to the dryer!

Yesterday and Today

Yesterday... was... Monday. I skipped my first class cause I stayed up until 5AM! However, I did go to my human anatomy lab, cause theres always a quiz. Then I came back and slept for 2 more hours. So I got a total of 4 hours.. Then I went to work and rushed off to work. I was a little late so I had to kinda rush around a little. Work was pretty boring. Not that much happened. I think something kinda exciting happened yesterday, but I can't remember now.. It rained?

Today was alot more stressful. First off, it stresses me out when people ask me to take their shifts at work.

I went to sleep last night at like 10 or 11, and I woke up at 7am and dropped my car off at Midas, to have the brakes looked at. I then went back to sleep until my 1:30 class. Which I only went to cause I thought we were going to work on our project, and present it on thursday. All we did was watch some terrible tv show about some play production. And there was like a 3 inch cockroach on the floor next to me, I tried to act cool and prop my feet up. Then I wished I hadn't even gone to the class, cause I kept getting text messages and the Midas guy called me.

Michael talked to the Midas guy, he said something along the lines of I had extensive brake damage, and I was only braking with my rear brakes. It'll be like 600 bucks to fix. I should have had my brakes checked annually, but I didn't really know it was something I was supposed to have checked yearly. Oh well.. I won't get my car until tomorrow.

During class one of my coworkers texted me. She wanted me to take her shift today cause her hip hurt, and she'd take mine tomorrow. I told her I couldn't cause my car was in the shop, and she said she'd drive me. Then I just said no. I don't care. I have asked this girl twice before to take a shift for me, (and I never ask!) and she said, "maybe, i'll tell you tomorrow" and never answered. I'm not going to take a shift for her. She works in the take-away most the time, so its not like she will ever make it up to me. And everyone knows she calls in MORE than any other employee. Of course, I feel bad like I always do. But I just don't care anymore. I've seriously become cold to my coworkers. I'm not gonna pick up shifts for anyone who has never picked up one for me. And if I ask them and they say no, I will never pick one of up for them. This week I picked up on saturday, and lost my saturday shift, and I switched on sunday, and had to work an extra 3 hours. I'm sorry, I can't stand it anymore, I'm tired of it. And I've gotten less and less understanding lately. I actually don't care if I'm a bitch anymore at work. It doesn't fucking matter. None of the other hostess will come stand with me at the door anyhow. I can be SOO fucking friendly, and take tons of shifts, and it won't make you their work buddy. I have now come to realize I will always be stuck alone while the rest of them chat, I've also realized if I go to the door they're going to leave the door.. so now I just hang out at the podium when they're at the door. I'm done with this crap. Its not like I'm gonna get fired for any of it. I'll just be disliked by the newer hosts. I'm still nice to the hosts that i've been hosting with for a while, and the hosts that have taken shifts for me. (Mostly just beth and the male host that got hired a couple weeks before me, and Alli, the girl that used to be summer only).

So, I enjoyed my evening off. Michael and I napped. Then Michael made his DELICIOUS easy nacho dip. Then we laid together and watched Bones and House. I enjoyed my evening off. I needed it. After the stress of my car, I wanted my damn night off.

Now.. I now something else exciting like happened today.. but man.. My memory is really bad.. I know I had a dream.. I can only sightly remember it. It was like.. there was a huge lake that was covered with glass, and every couple feet there would be an opening, and a railing around it. And Rudy and Meadow would jump in and try to catch the HUGE catfish. Meadow got an award or something.. Rudy was just having fun, lol.

Oh well.. I'm going to remember the other stuff I wanted to say after I post this.. maybe then I'll add a comment or something, lol!!

Michael's Car

Well, because I was uncomfortable with my car's brakes. I drove Michael's car.

I woke up at like 1, and got ready to work. Then Michael came in like 15 minutes before I left, and I was surprised, I didn't expect him home until tonight. I gave him love, but I couldn't hang out. I had to get to work.

When I got to work, after a weird, leaned back car drive, cause I couldn't figure out how to make his seat not be reclined, lol. I turned off the car and couldn't get the key to come out. I tried and tried, i pushed and pulled, and twisted, and even turned the car on and off again. Then I called Michael.. turns out there's a BUTTON next to the ignition to take the key out.

Oh well.. then I came in and worked. It was an okay day. My manager (the awesome cook) made tacos and cookies!

Then we got kind of busy. And we didn't have a busy for like an hour. In the middle of that busser-less hour, I had a group of 6 people. I took them to a booth, (by the way they called ahead to say they would be coming, call ahead customers come before walk in customers) I took them to a booth, then they said, oh, they'd rather have a table with chairs. I said thats fine. I glanced around the restaurant, and saw a dirty table. I said, "It'll only be like 5 minutes for us to clean a table off for you. If you want to wait on the benches by the hostess stand I'll get you when the table is ready." But there was no one to bus it, so even tho I was a hostess, and dressed like one, I got a bucket and bussed it. I dropped it off in the kitchen and came back up to the hostess stand. I then realized there were 4 people sitting at the table, and I was like, "Oh.. God.. no!" I even said to the other hostess, and I'm sure I said it in a mad and mean tone, "You did not sit that table.." I think I said it like 3 times.. And she was like, "Yeah.. they said 'Can I sit there' and pointed at the table." I quickly started to stress and panic. I told these customers 5 minutes. We only have 5 tables inside (that can fix 6 people). 2 tables were pushed together and there were 20 people there eating appetizers. The other 3 tables were eating salads or appetizers. I tried to offer my call ahead customers the patio, but they weren't interested. I apologized and told them I was sorry that this mistake happened, and everything. They were rather understanding. I'd say like half of them were okay with waiting a bit longer, and half were annoyed. I told my key (manager of the day for front of the house) about the situataion. He did yell at us for a few minutes about not communicating. I know I should have gone up there and told her that I was going to sit the table, but I don't think it would have helped. Its not like there was one person running the board. Every host, and even one of the servers had been sitting tables. I think the problem would have NEVER occured if we still had a buser, like we were supposed to. The servers are giving away parts of their tips to pay for the bussers to bus their damned tables! I know I didn't communicate, but I don't think it was all my fault.

Anyhow, my manager got one of the tables to scoot over, and we made room to put one of our extra tables there with some chairs. I hope the people still enjoyed their meal. I felt bad that I did this. However, if I didn't go bus the table for them, they would have waited longer than me making this mistake.

Then... I finally got to leave at like 7:30ish. I walked outside, and there was a host, who had the day off. I chatted with her for a minute about my day, and how the weekend went, cause she was out of town. I took her saturday shift. I then said, "I'll see you later, I'm gonna drive my boyfriend's car, for the second time" I walked out to the car, used the key and unlocked the car. I sat down then BOOM! The alarm went off! Headlights were flashing on the pation (blinding this poor party that I sat there earlier today), and lots of beeping. I couldn't figure out how to turn it off. I didn't have a keyless entry, and I tried to start the car, and it wouldn't. The guy who was sitting with my fellow host, came over and tried to help me. Then I called Michael.. and he said you have to open and close the trunk.. wtf? He said its because its messed up. But I can't imagine there isn't another way to shut off the alarm. Oh yeah, the guy who helped me couldn't get the keys out, and I was like, "there's a damned button."

I then drove home, and Michael had cleaned the apartment cause his Mom came over. They went to spankies, and Michael told me I could have his left-overs. I ate the cheesey bread, but I'm wayy to stuffed to eat the stir-fry. I had tacos earlier, and Special K for breakfast.

Now I'm a little tired, and I think I should study for my human anatomy quiz tomorrow.