Wow. Interesting coupla days. So....
Last night, that old girlfriend of mine... remember the one I used to brag about how happy I was with her? And then she dumped me, and I dumped her back, and so on...
well last night she called me up while drunk. Her whole life is falling apart and she called me because her new (now ex)boyfriend wasn't there for her. So I did the nice guy thing and listened to her, and tried to give her support and all that... but she started telling me "I love you"... that kinda freaked me out. So I had to tell her that we weren't going to get back together just because her life is going rough lately. It doesn't work that way, and I'm not a rebound fallback safety net! I felt bad having to shoot her down, but hey, it had to be said. Still left it on good terms though, and I'm supposed to talk to her tomorrow.
Then this morning she called me and woke me up 3 hours early to apologize. I was like "let me sleep!" LOL I'm grumpy when people call me in the morning.
SO then I went to work.
I took that dreaded test, where I have to write the whole menu. I didn't cheat at all, and I OWNED it. The manager said it was one of the highest scores he'd ever seen. I think I got an edge by throwing in all the flavor text. It's one thing to say "mussels in lemon butter", it's a whole different thing to say "rope grown mussels from prince edward island, steamed and served with a lemon butter sauce".
Funny story time!
The same manager, let me tell you, he is a character!! He said he was once arrested on the roof of a circle K in his underwear holding a bottle of mad dog 20 20.
Sounds like a Ronny Dobbs moment to me. (bonus points to anyone who knows who ronny dobbs is without using google!)
Then he showed us how to open the bottles of wine properly, and of course sampled it after showing how to pour. Then he got a split(miniature one-glass bottle) of champagne and started telling us how to open it without injuring anyone.
Somebody told him, "you don't have to do that anymore, you just use a regular bottle opener!"
So he started peeling the wrappy thing off anyway and said "oh, look, I already broke the seal. Let's open it and drink up anyway!"
ROFLMAO
Then the regional manager walked in the front door and he was like "oh shit" and had to go hide it.
I swear I am not making this up!
So anyway... work was good. Lotsa money to be made there. Pretty easygoing management(apparently...), and a friendly staff. So far that is. You never know with "restaurant people". But I'm optimistic!
Well I'm off to go hang out with the girls... the same ones I was swimming naked with last time I saw them. LOL Shame there's no pool at their apartment.
EDIT: Fair warning... I might go grey for a week or two. DON'T WORRY! I'm still here and I'll be back. Just gotta get my shit together financially.
Last night, that old girlfriend of mine... remember the one I used to brag about how happy I was with her? And then she dumped me, and I dumped her back, and so on...
well last night she called me up while drunk. Her whole life is falling apart and she called me because her new (now ex)boyfriend wasn't there for her. So I did the nice guy thing and listened to her, and tried to give her support and all that... but she started telling me "I love you"... that kinda freaked me out. So I had to tell her that we weren't going to get back together just because her life is going rough lately. It doesn't work that way, and I'm not a rebound fallback safety net! I felt bad having to shoot her down, but hey, it had to be said. Still left it on good terms though, and I'm supposed to talk to her tomorrow.
Then this morning she called me and woke me up 3 hours early to apologize. I was like "let me sleep!" LOL I'm grumpy when people call me in the morning.
SO then I went to work.
I took that dreaded test, where I have to write the whole menu. I didn't cheat at all, and I OWNED it. The manager said it was one of the highest scores he'd ever seen. I think I got an edge by throwing in all the flavor text. It's one thing to say "mussels in lemon butter", it's a whole different thing to say "rope grown mussels from prince edward island, steamed and served with a lemon butter sauce".
Funny story time!
The same manager, let me tell you, he is a character!! He said he was once arrested on the roof of a circle K in his underwear holding a bottle of mad dog 20 20.
Sounds like a Ronny Dobbs moment to me. (bonus points to anyone who knows who ronny dobbs is without using google!)
Then he showed us how to open the bottles of wine properly, and of course sampled it after showing how to pour. Then he got a split(miniature one-glass bottle) of champagne and started telling us how to open it without injuring anyone.
Somebody told him, "you don't have to do that anymore, you just use a regular bottle opener!"
So he started peeling the wrappy thing off anyway and said "oh, look, I already broke the seal. Let's open it and drink up anyway!"
ROFLMAO
Then the regional manager walked in the front door and he was like "oh shit" and had to go hide it.
I swear I am not making this up!
So anyway... work was good. Lotsa money to be made there. Pretty easygoing management(apparently...), and a friendly staff. So far that is. You never know with "restaurant people". But I'm optimistic!
Well I'm off to go hang out with the girls... the same ones I was swimming naked with last time I saw them. LOL Shame there's no pool at their apartment.
EDIT: Fair warning... I might go grey for a week or two. DON'T WORRY! I'm still here and I'll be back. Just gotta get my shit together financially.
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Yay, you caught up on sleep, wish I could say the same. Well, ok, I did sleep last night. But I'm still tired, cuz I worked a double today.
No, me and my boyfriend didn't break up
But thanks for asking. Actually, we're great. He's really the only person I'm really close too nowadays, the one that keeps me level. My best friend moved to Pennsylvania last year (got married and had a kid, working on happily ever after... the bitch) and I haven't really gotten over it. I still miss her. She was my confidant, and now I miss having someone so close to talk to, non-boyfriend-esk. It's just different, sometimes I just need a friend, to talk to about the things I can't talk about with my boyfriend... like... him, or sex, or any of the number of things one needs a best friend for. We still talk, but it's not the same. She's too far away, and has a kid and husband and all that. I've dealt with clinical depression half of my life. I don't take drugs for it, I don't really believe in them, at least not for that. It's something I deal with on my own, I always have, just... sometimes it gets the better of me, I get lonely. Haven't you ever felt alone in a room full of people? My boyfriend is always there, and he makes me happy when I don't know how to be, but sometimes it's not enough. And, I will say, those days happen far fewer in the past two years then ever in my life. He's good for me. But, the lonely is still there, waiting around for a rainey day. There will always be days, every now and then, when I get sad or lonely. It's just one of those things that makes me feel real. One cannot find true happiness until they have felt true sadness, or something like that.
Anyways... I won't ramble too much
So, work is good? I'm glad you're going to like it there, and that the food is good
And, congrats on your meeting someone new. I'll be crossing my fingers for you.
Smile