Rain rain rain.
I got off a bit early because I sound like shit. I feel fine aside from a bit of sinus but I have no voice. I went from me to Margot Kidder to mute in a day. At first it was kind of cute now its just pointless to try. Oh well they sent me home early yesterday and again today but I have enjoyed a nap and getting to cook for the girls. Yesterday I made them roasted country pork ribs so they each got their own individual bone in pork roast. It was pretty good. Tonight the wife made chili and I got some natural casing hot dogs and some good hot polish to make chili dawgs. My work buddy was talking about them today so when the wife said she wanted chili I had to do it.
I am off tomorrow. I plan to do laundry and be here looking at boobs and bullshitting with whom ever is around. The way the weather is looking I may just spend it in bed. Peace SG.
I got off a bit early because I sound like shit. I feel fine aside from a bit of sinus but I have no voice. I went from me to Margot Kidder to mute in a day. At first it was kind of cute now its just pointless to try. Oh well they sent me home early yesterday and again today but I have enjoyed a nap and getting to cook for the girls. Yesterday I made them roasted country pork ribs so they each got their own individual bone in pork roast. It was pretty good. Tonight the wife made chili and I got some natural casing hot dogs and some good hot polish to make chili dawgs. My work buddy was talking about them today so when the wife said she wanted chili I had to do it.
I am off tomorrow. I plan to do laundry and be here looking at boobs and bullshitting with whom ever is around. The way the weather is looking I may just spend it in bed. Peace SG.
Tonight I am going to a school play at the ziz's' school. I had to open to get it off but well worth it. Plus it is a good day to bail early because the exec got written up again for being an irresponsible dipshit so the mood was a little heavy. Ziz is so excited. She has three lines and she has the down. I will be interested to see how she does with a crowd. She is not nearly as comfortable on stage as ms. Sun.
Sunday was a really great day. We did big late breakfast and then went out and tromped though the woods for a while. A ton if people had the same idea but we managed to hit in a lull. A lot of people left as we got there and a lot of people came in as we were leaving. We country cruised with the windows down and the music cranked because the girls insisted. We ate at the bombsy ice cream place for the first time this season. I bought a new grill grate and we broke it in.
That's about all I know today. Have fun SG.
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Sunday was a really great day. We did big late breakfast and then went out and tromped though the woods for a while. A ton if people had the same idea but we managed to hit in a lull. A lot of people left as we got there and a lot of people came in as we were leaving. We country cruised with the windows down and the music cranked because the girls insisted. We ate at the bombsy ice cream place for the first time this season. I bought a new grill grate and we broke it in.
That's about all I know today. Have fun SG.
I should write a new blog since I am actually at the computer. Keeping up on the phone is cool but I don't like typing a lot on it. So if my responses have been short lately that's why.
The kid free weekend was fun. We did go out friday night. We had dinner and drinks at Schooners. The wife wanted a french dip and they have one but the reason to go there is the wings. Ran into the food salesman and his wife and shot the shit with them. Saw three bands, some two piece that was kind of painful but the chick on the fiddle was slicker than shit. It also helped that she was a cute bouncy thick girl. The wife was not as forgiving as me. They ended up being friends with TreeThingBlue who showed up with his new old lady who is a vast improvement over the last on craziness wise but keeping him busy enough he hasn't come back to SG yet the bastard. I may re up him for christmas.
The girls are getting so big and being little ladies in all the best and worst ways. Some days the bitchery in my house knows no bounds. And then of course some days are like a fairy tale. Not Disney fairy tale mind you more of an old school fairy tale. But hey I miss them when they are gone.
It is voting day here in Illinois. If you do that kind of thing I hope it went well. I was one of six people voting when I went this afternoon. The wife went this morning and even though the polls had been open for almost three hours she and the ziz were number 43 to vote. Local elections are lame but they really are the closest contested races. If you want to see your vote count it where you get the most bang for your buck. I couldn't vote for school board because the names I recognized I didn't want and the ones I didn't know I didn't want to blindly vote on. I don't want to accidently vote for some jack ass.
That's all I got time for SG. Go give Perr_ some love she broke her ass doing a shoot. Well technically running from the law after the shoot but it suffices to say in pursuit of SG pics for our enjoyment. Injured in the line of duty does SG have a patch for that?
The kid free weekend was fun. We did go out friday night. We had dinner and drinks at Schooners. The wife wanted a french dip and they have one but the reason to go there is the wings. Ran into the food salesman and his wife and shot the shit with them. Saw three bands, some two piece that was kind of painful but the chick on the fiddle was slicker than shit. It also helped that she was a cute bouncy thick girl. The wife was not as forgiving as me. They ended up being friends with TreeThingBlue who showed up with his new old lady who is a vast improvement over the last on craziness wise but keeping him busy enough he hasn't come back to SG yet the bastard. I may re up him for christmas.
The girls are getting so big and being little ladies in all the best and worst ways. Some days the bitchery in my house knows no bounds. And then of course some days are like a fairy tale. Not Disney fairy tale mind you more of an old school fairy tale. But hey I miss them when they are gone.
It is voting day here in Illinois. If you do that kind of thing I hope it went well. I was one of six people voting when I went this afternoon. The wife went this morning and even though the polls had been open for almost three hours she and the ziz were number 43 to vote. Local elections are lame but they really are the closest contested races. If you want to see your vote count it where you get the most bang for your buck. I couldn't vote for school board because the names I recognized I didn't want and the ones I didn't know I didn't want to blindly vote on. I don't want to accidently vote for some jack ass.
That's all I got time for SG. Go give Perr_ some love she broke her ass doing a shoot. Well technically running from the law after the shoot but it suffices to say in pursuit of SG pics for our enjoyment. Injured in the line of duty does SG have a patch for that?
The kids are gone for the weekend. I didn't realize this was happening til this morning but who tells me anything. So I got off early because I had a crazy busy morning and the wife has declared that we are going out. Not to a movie either, for drinking and perhaps a bad band. I have to open so I can't get too crazy but I love to watch her get rowdy. Tomorrow I get off early too so we may roll down to Champagne for some BBQ and Bluegrass. That may require a hotel. We'll see. So no time to purve. Have fun SG.
I am just chock full of sloth today. I can't seem to stay awake. I am going to pick the girls up from school just to have them around so I can get something done. Those words usually don't belong in that order.
Last night I did manage to turn a bunch of leftovers into a pretty bombsy shepherds pie.
Last night I did manage to turn a bunch of leftovers into a pretty bombsy shepherds pie.
I feel like I'm blogging a lot for me lately. Kind of an odd time right now for me. The in-laws are gone. I think that was part of my problem. I don't sleep well when they are around because I can't do the two things that make me sleep. I have also been opening more which is disruptive sleep wise. Tonight I am off early enough to do dinner and a movie with the girls. I love my fucking wife man. Today was just a shit morning at work and she popped by with the girls after their hair cuts and it kind of snapped me out of my dark place. Ziz got bangs Grrrrr. They are really cute even if they are bangs. She was nervous to show me. I didn't realize she had been wanting them and a week or so ago she asked me what I thought of bangs and I told her they were for lazy people that didn't want to brush their hair behind their ear. That was probably her looking for permission and I didn't realize it. I love long hair and they know it but ultimately it is their head. They both look adorable for Easter.
So I went to work expecting to do battle with the exec over yesterday's bitch fit he threw at my day guys. That never materialized. However, I did blow up on some people this morning. I had to much alone time opening to build up my blood pressure and feisty-ness. The breakfast chick and my best banquet/prep guy got into it over something stupid and were chest to chest screaming and swearing at each other. I heard it getting more heated and came around the corner in my best big booming dad voice and shut them the fuck up and sent them in opposite directions like they were my kids. The look of shock on their faces was priceless. The scurried away heads down and asses clenched. They came back around later and were cool. I haven't really had to do that at this job before and I think it opened their eyes a bit. The GM is always giving me shit about not yelling at people and being so hard to piss off, it's almost a shame she missed it.
Oh, and I tried the new Turkish place yesterday. It was ok not amazing but I did get it take out so I will give them another chance dining in. The wife liked it enough to go from "Turkish delight" to "afternoon delight".
have fun SG.
So I went to work expecting to do battle with the exec over yesterday's bitch fit he threw at my day guys. That never materialized. However, I did blow up on some people this morning. I had to much alone time opening to build up my blood pressure and feisty-ness. The breakfast chick and my best banquet/prep guy got into it over something stupid and were chest to chest screaming and swearing at each other. I heard it getting more heated and came around the corner in my best big booming dad voice and shut them the fuck up and sent them in opposite directions like they were my kids. The look of shock on their faces was priceless. The scurried away heads down and asses clenched. They came back around later and were cool. I haven't really had to do that at this job before and I think it opened their eyes a bit. The GM is always giving me shit about not yelling at people and being so hard to piss off, it's almost a shame she missed it.
Oh, and I tried the new Turkish place yesterday. It was ok not amazing but I did get it take out so I will give them another chance dining in. The wife liked it enough to go from "Turkish delight" to "afternoon delight".
have fun SG.
Oh please let the bountiful beauty of SG keep my mind from ruining my "day off" with fetid thoughts of work. 
Well, the in laws have descended and the children are all a twitter. Even the dog is extra hyper and she is usually just a lump. I am so glad the wife took her trip it was well worth the temporary brokeness. She came back in very good head space. That will all be torn asunder by a week with her mom but at least she started off on the good foot. She needed to get out of town and drive for a while. She also needed to see some of her good friends and have real unguarded conversations with other adults. And who couldn't use a little time holding a baby that you get to give back when you tire of it or into stinks ?
Work is nuts. I didn't get to hire the guy I wanted because in our drunken Spanglish conversation I understood him to say he wanted to work mornings and he wants to work nights. So instead of a Guatemalan prep machine they want to hire some lady that has only worked as cake decorator. Could we stand to up our dessert game yes but what we need is a good prep cook that doesn't mind doing dishes. The gm is making me interview her before they hire her. She wants it to be a hard interview what ever that means. The people the other chefs like to hire are Joliet juco culinary grads with no experience because that's what they are. I just hire people that have had multiple jobs and have good attitudes. That is why everyone I have hired is still there and most of their hires quit in the first week. I am ready for the owner to get back from vacation.
Tax man cometh tomorrow supposedly which is good because we need to go to the store. Her parents don't ever eat out so we do a lot of cooking when they're around. This is all the blogging I can stand to do on my phone. Have fun SG
Work is nuts. I didn't get to hire the guy I wanted because in our drunken Spanglish conversation I understood him to say he wanted to work mornings and he wants to work nights. So instead of a Guatemalan prep machine they want to hire some lady that has only worked as cake decorator. Could we stand to up our dessert game yes but what we need is a good prep cook that doesn't mind doing dishes. The gm is making me interview her before they hire her. She wants it to be a hard interview what ever that means. The people the other chefs like to hire are Joliet juco culinary grads with no experience because that's what they are. I just hire people that have had multiple jobs and have good attitudes. That is why everyone I have hired is still there and most of their hires quit in the first week. I am ready for the owner to get back from vacation.
Tax man cometh tomorrow supposedly which is good because we need to go to the store. Her parents don't ever eat out so we do a lot of cooking when they're around. This is all the blogging I can stand to do on my phone. Have fun SG
