Turkey Day!

Ok ok so this is actually a picture from last Christmas but Im such a visual person that I couldn't do a post without a picture! This is lil Jakob who I probably haven't seen since this picture. Also the very relative that I drew in our little Christmas gift exchange drawing. He's a little taller now, if possible a little cuter, and somehow skinnier. But anyway....about Thanksgiving....I didn't have to work until 5pm which was very exciting for me. My mom and I went to Grandma's around 12:30pm to find her engrossed in a dog show! she made us watch it until they did the "Best in Show" HA! I told her she had to see that movie! So everyone came over and we ate at 3pm (with our family...certain members of it....2pm=3pm). Shortly after that I was off to work, expecting the place to be pretty dead since we don't serve turkey and the closest thing to it would be the sizzling chicken (according to Jakob chicken and turkey are the same). Well I walked in to find a controlled chaos. Apparently busy all afternoon and definatly stayed that way into the night. Who brings 16 people to Thanksgiving dinner at TGI Fridays!!! I mean I like the place but come on! Don't these people have anywhere else they could be. So I was told last week that if we were dead I could close early. Well I have selective hearing and what I got from that was "you can close early." So starting yesterday we told everyone who asked that we were closing at 9pm. At 9pm we were still on a wait. Luckily we took care of that by 9:15pm as no one else really came in and then magically the doors were locked. Then we get to my favorite part of the night. At 10pm there is a man in the lobby asking for a manager. He tells me that last week he asked a host what time we would be closing today and they told him 1am. I told him that on Thursdays we close at 11pm the weekends we close at 12am and today since it is a holiday and everyone wants to get home to their families, we closed a little bit early. I apologize to him for the misunderstanding of our closing time and he just says "Screw you!!!" and storms out to his family waiting outside. I just stood there for a while and when I went over what had just happened in my head...I had to laugh. It took us until 1230am to get the resturant closed down and cleaned up. I was excited to come home to a slice of warm apple pie and an episode of Dawson's Creek....excited until I walked into my room to see Hershey sleeping on my bed. She is sleeping on my bed because the bed next to mine has no blankets. See the blankets are in the dryer still because last night she decided to sleep in that bed while I was at work and she peed. Well guess whos blankets are in the washing machine as I type! yes you got it...she peed my bed now! grrrrrrrr. The pie was still good and its time for some Dawson!

Happy B-Day

It was Emily G's birthday today so we went to El Cholo. Gotta love the hat! (Compliments of El Cholo...for birthdays they put the hat on you, take a poloroid and put it in a card) Oh...and yes of course....my eyes are closed!

Camel

So it all began just 3 weeks ago. I came home from work to see a small brown package on my desk with the return address of Camel Cigarettes on it. I was a little taken back as I didnt remember smoking recently or purchasing Camel products. So I opened it and what do you know two light up shot glasses and some coupons for $1.75 off one pack! So I realized they must be just mailing this to random people trying to get them to buy their product. But wouldn't you know it...the following Monday...there was the same small brown box! So I opened it up to find 3 boxes of matches! I laughed and set them aside only to come home the following Monday to the small brown box! This time I must admit I was a little excited to see what I had gotten. A money clip! yes ladies and gentlemen....a money clip! HA HA HA . So yesterday was the 4th Monday since this all began and I found myself almost running to my room as I got home from work to grap the brown box. I couldn't open it fast enough! And what you may ask did I recieve this time....well ladies and gentlemen it is indeed a cigarette holder. So Ive got it all now. I will be the life of the party. Ive got the shot glasses...the matches...the always important money clip and of course you can't leave home without the metal money holder! I can't wait until next Monday!!!

Amberlee & the dogs

I haven't had a chance to blog in a while, or perhaps nothing interesting has happened =). Then I got this picture from Amberlee and thought I better think of something quick! I just love it!
Well I didnt really think of anything good to say about it. I do have news though, one of the asst. managers at work put in his 2 week notice!!! This might sound like a bad thing unless you have actually experienced Jay. A guy from Thailand or somewhere around there :o. His "experience" in resturants was equivilent to Panda Express although in the begining he bragged about working in saloons and resturants and this and that....blah blah. So he is an Asian man who wears XXL shirts when Med would do just fine. We have had more complaints on him in the past month then on our resturant when it opened. He thinks work was crazy in October (halloween haunt) we tried to explain that had he been around from June to August he would have a very different opionin of what crazy is. So he will be done just after Thanksgiving. Please pray we get another manager soon as I really don't want to start working more hours in a season that should be slower.