i havent abandoned you. i am not going to be updating my lj anymore though. i DO have 2 other blogs convivial crafter and wilcox wizard wares. where i always post the same junk i post here. BOTH of them are fed to facebook if you care to follow them they can be found on networked blogs and will show up on your friends wall there when i make a post. if youd like me to send you an invite to follow them please let me know and ill do so.
i know i know. i really really tried to not let FB take my life over but it would seem that it can not be helped. i am, it would appear, a mindless sheep controlled by the man. ugh. hahaha
anyhow you can still find my inane ramblings over there and i hope you do. im staying on lj so that i can be a member of certain comms but other than that no updates so ive pretty much unfriended everyone. not because i am not friends with you but becuase we are already friends on FB. most of you also have your ljs on networked blogs so i follow you that way :0)
We just had a wonderful Christmas day at Frank and Cindys (chads folks). His sister and her family came over and we had brunch and opened presents. Chads families tradition is their breakfast casseroles. they make an egg and sausage casserole and this crazy delicious pineapple and ritz crackers casserole thing. i know it sounds like a disgusting combination but, take it from the pickiest eater in the world. its scrumptious.
we all got some really fantastic and thoughtful gifts but one fun thing that i got (i say i got cause its a family gift but the chad is NEVER gonna play with it so its mine! MINE! moowAAHAHA!) is a snowball maker. imagine salad tongs but instead of tongs on the end each side has 1/2 of a ball shaped scooper. you clamp it down on the snow and it pops out a snow ball! AWESOME! made even MORE awesome by the fact that is SNOWED last night. like really snowed! 8 inches! white christmas for us YAY!!!!! i went out immediately to test this contraption out and the snow was too dry to it to work properly. each 1/2 of the snowball was smooth and round but it wouldnt stick together in the middle cause the snow is too dry. my first attempt made this hilarious face in the snow from the scooping and the halves of the ball falling out right there!
hahaha. is it just me!? thats funny.
chad and i were trying to take a pic for the christmas card next year but i just cant be serious for long enough to get one done :0) hope you enjoy these and have been having a very merry christmas yourself.
christmas...why? i am honestly curious. what do you believe and why? is it just a day to cherish and spend with family? is it really the birth day of jesus? do you celebrate the winter solstice and if so how? tell me what you believe and why? tell me your absolutly favorite holiday tradition. i want to know. know my friends know my quiet readers better. thanks guys ((hugs)) and Happy Holidays!
i just made two other kinds of ornaments and learned about a third. unfortunatley i wont get to show them till after the holidays :0(. i was thinking about doing another ornament tute for one of them but since it will be after christmas there really wont be any point. i guess ill save it for next year. i love making ornaments. i can make so many different kinds i could almost write a book about it! hahaha. and we never ever have a tree. in the 11 years ive been with the chad weve had one tree. so all my ornaments are in a box. i wish those crazy metal tinsel trees werent so expensive. they look really fun. maybe ill figure out how to rig one up on the cheap for next year. hhmmmm that just got my brain working....ideas are forming about tinsel tree. oh no. this cant be good.
why mom? why wont she stop? yes. things occur to me and i must torture you with them.
1) asked chad if he needed a hand getting behind the tv to plug something in (he looked like he was struggling) he said "no. what i really need is longer eyes." aaaaahahahaha. cause he couldnt see behind the tv! i envisioned him with convienient snail eyes peering over the top of the tv while he plugged and unplugged things
2) had another snoozin' musin' yes thats what im calling those things that are totally random that pop into your head right before you fall asleep and its like a miracle if you remember them the next mornin even though you tell yourself you are "totally gonn look that up as SOON as you get up"
3) onto the snoozin' musin: that phrase "dont look a gift horse in the mouth"....doesnt it mean if someone is giving you a gift you should just shut up and take it and not ask a buncha questions? that doesnt make any sense. isnt that refering to the trojan horse? it seems like those folks woulda been a bit better off if they HAD looked in that horses mouth cause it was FULL OF PEOPLE!
i am a waitress. you all know that. i dont mind it but its not my favorite job either. im not terrible at it but im not great at it either. i am competent. i am friendly and given the opportunity i will float you out of the building cause i cam GOOD at refils. here is what is not ok. being a drunken biligerent ass hole to your waitress all night for stuff that is out of her control. not tipping and TRYING TO GET AWAY WITH OUT EVEN PAYING!!! AND>>>>THEN>>>>>STEALING ALL HER PENS!
heres the short hand version of the tale: a group of 10 people is waiting to eat dinner. the host tells them the wait is an hour. they agree to wait. they clearly have been drinking all day and then continue to drink at the bar while they wait. whatever, i cocktail waitressed for 2 years i can deal with drunk folks.....but aparently not MEAN drunk folks. they finialy get to sit...they are PISSED they had to wait 45 minutes.
i apologize for the inconvenience and thank them for waiting. they order drinks and appetizers. i get them. when i return with the drinks i tell the people that ordered beer "i am soooo sorry for the wait. the bar is really backed up. as you can see it is a madhouse in here tonight for some reason. everyone wants CPK! *big ass kissing grin here* can i get you a water while you are waiting?" then the yelling began.
apparently im so stupid and slow and incompetent and its my fault there is nothing on the menu that they like and "why do you just have fuckin' spaRgetti?!" i apologized that they thought there was nothing on the menu that they thought they would like and would they please tell me what it is they were wanting and ill try to modify something on the menu to fit their needs. so i get that all worked out for them.
i DO have other tables but i am doing my best to let them know the status of their food. "im sorry this is taking so long. the kitchen is backed up as well. your pizzas are in the oven and it shoudl be just another 10 minutes or so" yadda yadda yadda. i get a table full of evil glares and one guy shouts out. "fuck this we should order from pizza hut and have them deliver it here and turn your food away when it comes." whatever. im done with them. their food comes i spilt their damn check up a million ways from sunday i get their cards amongst a slew of personal insults. i run them all.
i tell them thank you for comming again i apologize that they thought everything was so slow (they were out in under an hour from the time they sat down id like to say. that is average for our restraunt and it was effing nutters in there tonight) but that i hoped wed see them again real soon.
i finish my other tables. i go back to clear their table and grab my pens....they stole them...there were 70 pennies thrown all over the table....sprinkled on the plates of left over food....in their drinks....they had taken all their credit card reciepts...left nothing signed except for one ticket that they had written "fuck you" on. i have been told a million times that if people dont pay (like they dine and dash) the server has to pay it. their tab was close to 170 bucks. i burst into tears right there at the table and ran to the back. yell at me the whole time for stuff thats not my fault, dont tip me, steal my pens, dont pay for your food AND cuss me out!? that is not ok.
turns out their reciepts dont need to be signed. just ran.. so at least i didnt have to pay for their food but i did have to tip out busser and bar with money that i didnt make. one manager asked what i was gonna do. i said if i ever see them in the plaza again i was gonna KEY THEIR CAR!!!!! which i wouldnt do....probably. another server was like "i can understand that felling. if you cave to it be sure to take off your name tag and CPK pin before you do it." AAAAAHAHAHAHA good thinkin there.
the whole problem comes from doing things the "CPK way" if ida been at my old job and these shenanigans started to occour with a table i was totally allowed to tell them, straight from the jump, that if they were going to be rude and insulting they could just leave and make room for another ten top that would act like decent human beings. it took every fiber of my being to not be like *picks up pizza knife and wields it in a threatening fashion* "lookey here ass hole no, we aint got no fuckin spaRgetti. you had a whole hour while you were waiting to look at the menu and you coulda figured that out instead of drowning you fat bald head in anther 7 pints of beer. its gonna take as long as it takes to get your food and drinks cause i have zero controll over that process and you can see the restraunt is packed to the gills so shut your pie hole and wait. and while im at it ive added a 20% gratuity onto your bill for having such a large party ill stand here while you sign those tickets. dont have a nice evening and i hope you trip on a curb on the way out." *stabs pizza knife into the top of the table and slaps on prens most winning smile here* GAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH! what a night.
yep its a two-fer. i wanna start by saying i should be sharing this on music monday but i just cant wait. so im tagging it music monday any ways.....so there!
The Chad and i LOVE us some Flight of the Conchords. the video i really wanted to share with you is the second one but i felt like you really couldnt appreciate its brilliance until you saw the origional. so these are dedicated to all my friends. i heart you :0D
