Quote of the day goes to the Ziz. "The wind has it's own racquet." Tonight"s game was particularly half assed because the wind was really taking the birds away. We still had fun. The wife is at her ladies eating thing tonight so we have been on our own. We went and got Ms. Sun signed up for orchestra next year. She is the only bass so far but I'm sure they will get at least another one before the year starts. I got conned into going to this meeting. It was advertised as an open house style thing but when we got there it was a series of presentations and you had to wait for the next one to start every twenty minutes. We spent a while standing around and then got a twenty minute lecture on why not to by crap instruments. I grew up with my dad I have heard the rant about how crap instruments ruin music for kids when they are trying to start. Blah blah blah, I agree and understand but blah get to the part where I sign papers.

Sunday the meeting planted and dedicated a tree to my dad. It was a crab apple tree which is a long standing funny story in my family. They picked a very nice, native to Illinois, "prairie fire" crab apple tree. It actually bloomed that morning and was very cool looking.
Why Crab Apple

So that went fine. The girls played outside all day yesterday because the wife bought them a six dollar inflatable pool. Best six bucks we have spent in a while.

I don't have much else to say. We are having a tornado watch so I should probably get going. Have fun SG.

Well I got off two hours later than I was supposed to but thanks to a rowdy afternooner on the wife's late lunch break I managed an amazing nap. I had intended to smoke a pork chunk the wife bought but I ended up sleeping for three hours. I will do it tomorrow because I am finally off. Now I am content to veg on TopGear. And of course purve.

Happy Mother's Day to all my mom friends. I did about 560 for brunch. It went well but wow what a weekend. We went to my mom's house when i got off and i cooked dinner. I got the wife a decent bottle of wine. She likes reislings so i got her a Spatlese the owners wife likes. She and my mom dug it. It was pretty sweet. Anyway I am off to bed because I have to open on my eighth day in a row for some reason. Blah. Happy Mother's Day SG.

Pretty gorgeous day out today and I yes I am getting to see a couple of hours of it. Today at work I did a banquet for 150 people that was the Convention and Visitors Board which is essentially a group for everyone else in town that operates a hotel or banquet facility. So basically feeding everyone else in town that does my job. The owner and the GM were super tweaked about it but I used to do it every year at the DubTree so I knew what it was and was a little excited that we stole it away from them. It went very well. Then I got to give raises to three of my best guys. I got to give my right hand man a big raise which was great. He hopped out of his chair when we told him. He is so deserving and I fight for him all the time but his mouth tends to shoot him in the foot. (and yes that is anatomically possible) It was nice that they finally came around because at his year review they stiffed him and he was pretty crushed. I also got to bump a couple of really good young guys that are hungry and bust ass. Then I got to leave while the sun was shining.

Now I am off to Chinese with my ladies. I should cook but it's pay day and it is calling to me. Well have fun SG and here's to the warm weather and random acts of nudity.

The girls and I have taken to playing a no net, no rules three direction badminton. There will be no second coming of the Williams sisters in my yard but it is an outdoor activity for them and me too I suppose. Ms Sun has a different set up for every serve; sidewalk runway model serve, dainty old lady serve, tobacco chewing baseball player serve etc. The Ziz can't hit shit but she has at least gotten her back hand serve down. It his fun to watch them zoom around even if they miss most of the time. It is equally amusing for them to watch me "run" I'll give me run it's more shuffling quickishly. It is only something I would do for my kids because we live on a pretty busy street and I know that I must look like a fantasia hippo spinning around in yard swinging wildly at some invisible bird. A smile is a powerful tool.

Work is retarded.

Have fun SG.

Crazy Fucking Day

Part 1. The girls all left early and I slept in.. At about 10:30 I hear someone knocking softly so I get up to see who it is. I open the front door and it's no one. Then the dog goes apeshit crazy in the backyard so I run to the backdoor because I figure someone is trying to get in my garage because the door is broken. I swing open the door to run outside and am chest to chest with the law. He was very surprised as was I and thank god I was not shot. He informed me that the people that check on the repo'd house next door had noticed my garage door was open and my lawnmower and dog were outside in the rain and that maybe I was dead and they should come to check on me. I assured him I was alive and that my door was broken and I had forgotten to put the lawnmower away. My dog has a house but that she only sleeps in it and she prefers to sit where she can see which is why she has a roof on her dog run and she doesn't have water outside because I am home and she refuses to drink outside. He chuckled and said that everything looked fine and left. I put my lawnmower away wedged my door shut and took the dog inside.

Part 2. The wife comes home for lunch. We laugh about my morning. She doesn't eat then leaves to run some errands so I go to lunch. Waiting in line I get a call from my right hand guy telling me the exec walked out today. Then I get a bunch of texts and a couple more phone call then finally the GM calls me. Yep he quit. She yelled at him for being 21/2 hours late and he walked out. So this will probably be my only day off this week. It is probably better for him to quit before he was fired and he already has another job I just talked to him. it has been a wild week at work.

I have had my fill of drama today and I am just going to do laundry and have a bowl. Maybe purve a bit of SG.

Today at work can be summed up with the phrase "wow,that escalated quickly". It started off really decent everyone doing their jobs and smiling in then once the nimrod chefs came in things just started to go to shit. One of my best day guys has been having issues with attitude but just with the nimrods. Unfortunately they are still technically his bosses and so he can't win. Today he had a great attitude all day and even stayed late to help out when one of the new guys had a family emergency. The nimrods were given carte blanch to write him up by the gm the other day when they bitched to her about him. So today they both sniped and picked at him all day and after working twelve hours. And doing 3/4 ths of the prep the nimrodette came back and took anither shot at him so he rearranged his station a bit and went in the cooler to blow up a bit. The nimrods wrote hin up so he put in his notice so they in turn walked him. You don't write up the guy that stayed late doing your job because he showed frustration after a long day you say I know you are frustrated and I appreciate your effort just call it a day and come back fresh tomorrow. Tomorrow is a huge day that I now have to do a guy short and I now have to come in early and stay late because their moms didn't teach them how to treat people.

The cherry on top of this whole rediculous fiasco is that today the owner made an offer to a guy that if he accepts he will be the new boss of the kitchen and they will both be demoted and not in a position to write up anyone. If only he could have hired him today I could have save my good guy but I am not allowed to say anything about it until it happens because no one know about it but the owner, the gm, and me. I hope it happens it will make my life so much easier.

All work bullshit aside it is finally nice out. The girls have been playing outside and we finally got to open up the house and get some new air in. Last night the owner gifted me some filet to take home to the girls because we had over cut last week. They were great but the girls were just excited that that were wrapped in bacon and had no appreciation for the fact that hey were eating a $25 steak for free. I am so ready for my Friday off though now I am not so sure it's going to happen. Saturday is ms sun's second orchestra concert. I get to leave and come back so I can see it. I have heard marked improvement in her playing so hopefully this one will be słightly less painful than the last one. Here's hoping. Have fun SG.

I almost forgot to say this last funny/ painful thing. So tonight like half an hour before I was leaving work I was making a big batch of pico in a hurry and I gave myself a jalapeño facial. That is not nearly as sexy as it sounds. I felt it happen as I was slamming peppers through the dicer but I'd didn't hurt right away. Three minutes later with the help on time and a little sweat my left eye was on fire. It oretty much swelled shut and just feared like a waterfall and of course you can't just was it off. I flushed it with water which made it worse so I dumped a carton of milk on it which didn't help but definitely made it funnier and more sexy facial looking. Finally I used a little dish soap and a lot more water and I could see again.

Another gloomy day in Illinois. The sun did shine for the last half hour of the day and the girls and I took advantage with a game of no net badminton in the yard. Alas I don't believe there will be any racquet sport champions among us but it was fun while it lasted. It ended as all badminton games when the last birdie got stuck on the roof. I will have to buy another pack soon. That last birdie was mostly dead before it hit the shingles anyway.

I woke up today to instruments being practiced and waffles cooking. Pretty good start to a day off. I needed this to be a chill ass day because Saturday was so crazy and this week is super hectic. Ms sun and I ran out this afternoon while the wife and the ziz went to see Angelina ballerina on stage with the babysitter and her hellion daughter. We went to SAMs to cost out food and paper goods for my buddy's wedding that I am doing in September. I am getting pretty good at guessing how much things are going to cost. I was within a couple hundred dollars and I'm sure we will use that up too in random things in the end. After that we went to sonic and got strawberry lime aids and chili cheese tots.

I will spare the work drama this time around. My job is very secure but the other salaried kitchen people's jobs are not and they just keep shooting themselves in the feet. May could be an interesting month.

There is a cat that has taken a liking to our yard. The dog doesn't scare it and it likes the Ziz. Whom ever owns it needs to take it back because I cannot own a freaking cat. My family would disown me and I would never breathe right again.

That's enough of that I suppose. I should put the girls to bed and start trying to lure the wife in that direction too. Though I may have to kill her phone to get get to look me in the eye. The phone addiction was cute when it was taking the place of her hair abuse but now that she can do both it just pisses me off. She can't even watch tv anymore. Anytime I laugh at something she has to rewind it to see what was said because she was face booking or some equally mindless bullshit on the phone. My wife has turned into a mindless tech zombie. Can you just kill the phone or do you still have to destroy the brain like a regular zombie? Only one way to find out I suppose. Ha ha.

Have fun SG.

This crazy ass weather has taken out the wife with a migraine so I am watching robot fighting by myself. I opened so I got off at four and picked up the girls early. We had chili cheese tater tots and tiny burgers for dinner. The girls had planned on having Ms. Sun's best friend and her sister, who is The Ziz's age over to play. That usually doesn't happen on days when I am home so that was kind of odd. Me and a heard of girls. They pretty much took care of themselves but once again I was reminded that my next house should have two bathrooms. I also got to meet the Dad. I had only met the Mom once at a birthday party. The wife has met them both lots so I was prepared. He seemed like a nice enough guy. He has dropped the n bomb around the wife a couple times and I got the story of how they have a giant Rotty that "hates colored people". Ah the mid-west gotta love it. Their kids are sweet and our girls know that we do not share her dad's world view. He told me he doesn't even like his girls to go outside. That explains why they look like elves I suppose. They are both see through pale and tiny. They are identical in age to the girls but my girls look like amazons next to them. I think when I dreamed of having kids I assumed they would just be friends with my friends kids. In reality your kids make their own friends and you have no idea who their parents are going to be.

I am off tomorrow. It is supposed to be nasty all day. Best case scenario the Wife cries headache and takes the day off and we spend the day in bed. It would be better if the headache went away obviously but not til like nine because she never fakes sick for work. Never, its disgusting.

I guess I don't have any good pics tonight. I am off to purve. See ya SG.