Stupid Wednesday...Gone Happy

So today started off super weird. At 6am...(no joke...I know it's hard to believe) I woke up and I was curled up in a little ball (fetal position) and I go to stretch out my legs and this shooting pain goes stabbing through my stomach. It felt like a charlie horse in your calf...only it was my stomach, I couldn't move for about a minute and it was just weird. I was finally able to roll over and get out of bed and then it started to feel better. I just have to say...where the heck did that come from? I have no clue. So anyways...I fell back asleep only to wake up again @ 8am...(this is even unsual for me these days) So I was sitting there debating whether I could actually be productive with my day and maybe get my butt out of bed and go to the gym...I settled on semi-productive and decided to read my book instead (Captivating by John and Stasi Eldridge = it's good). So I read about a chapter of that but I started to get sleepy again so I drifted off for another nap until about 10 am or so when I decided I really needed to get up for bed and start getting ready for work. I usually don't work on Wednesday mornings so I was fairly nonchalant about the whole day, didn't really matter I guess. Well after freakin' 10 minutes of trying to salvage a somewhat presentable hair do for the day I was beginning to get frustrated. Then I got to work and 1/2 of my section was taken up by another server's big top (some 87 year old's b-day, i'd be more bitter, but she was so stinkin' cute when we all sang to her) anyways...on to my grumpiness. I ended up picking up a few tables in another section (some guests wanted to sit in booths) so that was somewhat helpful at least for the bordem factor. But they ended up being crappy tippers (all but one who actually gave me a 20% tip.) Some days those just seem few and far between. But others they are pretty common...I keep having to remind myself that it all balances out in the end. Anyways...so things start to pick up and I actually get a little busy...which was kinda nice...only then another server asked me to pick up one of her tables because she was trying to get herself "out of the weeds" and that's when it all went to crap. I turned a not so big deal...into one. It would have helped if my Manager hadn't been such a crack head about it...but I can't control that so I shouldn't have let it get to me like I did...but he really just bothers me...A LOT. So back to the start of the problem. Since I picked up a table for the other server I basically got triple sat. I was doing o.k...I had gotten all their drinks and orders and things were going pretty good...until I started to see the food getting trayed up for the 6 top I had...three of those guests had ordered Fish Tacos...well being the brainiac that I was...I acidentally rang in fish&chips (the buttons are right next to each other on the computer and since I was rushed...it was an easy mistake to make...I just wish I hadn't have done it...obviously) So I caught the mistake and told the expo the problem, and he was getting it all fixed. Well Steve...the MOD doesn't do well in stressful situations and apparently whenever our restraunt has more than like 20 people in it he gets stressed...it's pretty pathetic and I don't really think he was ready to be GM of a restaraunt he had never worked in before....but what the heck do I know...I'm just a server. So Steve walks up to the tray and was like what's going on with this...Expo told him the situation... and he grumpily states, "Whose table is this" I was standing right behind him...so I said, "It's my table, I made a mistake It's totally my fault, I'm sorry." His response was...Well did you talk to the table...Maybe they would eat the fish and chips and I could just give them a discount...[ first of all I'm like...it takes 5 mins to make those fish and chips...fish tacos so let's calm the freak down....second of all...I caught the mistake before they got their food...do you want me to go and ask them if they want something the didn't order for a discount? You've got to be kidding me.] So I go to the table and tell them that the food is running a little bit long and it should be out shortly, they had no problem with that...I got them some re-fills on drinks and they were happy. Steve sees me walk by and aks me what the table said. I said they are perfectly fine waiting for their fish tacos. ARGGGHHH....He did not handle that situation well. He sounded like he was getting ready to yell at first but then when I owned up to everything he didn't know what to do with himself. He's usually really nice to me because I work really hard and don't normally make too many mistakes...but it was just dumb. I don't think that he should be our G.M and he just needs more training. He's not a bad person...he just doesn't have a lot of tact...and you really do need that as a manager. He also lacks in the area of common sense...and that's important for managing as well.

So needless to say that just pissed me off and because of my already weird day I just let it get to me. (which is something I really need to work on...I always let little things get to me and I don't know why...I'm trying to work on it...but that's easier said than done...if you know what I mean.)

Anyways, the shift got better as I got a chance to get back in my groove and cool down a little bit. I also got to vent with a few people and that always seems to help. Blah...whatever. Anyways....the day pretty much sucked, I think I walked with a woppin' 35 bucks, so that sucks a little bit, but I guess I just have to look forward to the weekend and hope it's busy. It seems like Red Robin has been on the slow side the past few weeks, but hopefully that will be changing soon here with summer just around the corner.

Blah...anyways...After work I went to the post office to mail a package to Maranda because her b-day is on Saturday! Hopefully that will be fun for her to get! It's basically just a bunch of candy and fun stuff like that...some fun little trinkets that I found that remined me of her. Then I went and got lunch @ Noodles & Co...because I was on that side of town and it had been awhile. (Maggie and I used to go there a lot for lunch when we worked @ Lakewood Dental) Then I just came home and relaxed. I haven't been feeling too hot and I was pretty tired from my off-and-on sleep attempt this morning....So that was cool...and my mood started to lighten.

Then it turned to happy because Christina (Best Friend) called and her class had been cancelled that night and she finally had time to hang out during the week! super exciting...b/c it doesn't happen too often! So I called Bobby to see if he wouldn't mind if I took the night off of Small Group (I lead a Jr. High Bible study) because he missed a few earlier in the semester and told me he owed me...so he called back and said he had no problem! Which just plain made me happy!

So...Then I went to Christina's and we watched TLC for a little while (it had been awhile for me so it was kinda fun) and then went down town for dinner @ La Fondu and a movie...A lot Like love...with Ashton Kutcher in it. It was hillarious and very cute. All in all it was a great end to a bad beginning. Yeah for sun at the end of a cloudy day....ironic as it is that it was raining tonight...but whatever.

I think this is officially the longest post I've ever written...if not...it's definitely the longest in quite awhile...but I'm tired of typing and quite frankly it's getting late so I'm going to throw on some Friends (yay for seasons on DVD) and fall asleep. I have to work again tomorrow so hopefully...that will go just a tad more smooth than today's extravaganza! yippee....off to never never land.

Good Night

Thunder

So aparently the rain isn't going to be letting up for too long (it rained all afternoon/evening yesterday). There's been about 3 loud cracks of thunder in the last like 10 mins. Yay, fun....What I can say is....at least it's not snow! hehe Nothing too exciting going on today...I've got my training for CDT today at one and then I'm working at 4 pm. yippee for that. Hopefully people will face the weather and go out to eat...I'll keep my fingers crossed.

The only man in my life...haha 

Tired....so very tired....

Today was a long day. The restraunt was super slow this morning...so my day shift was close to useless as far as making money goes...tonight was interesting...started off a tad rocky...then it got better...but I'm just tired. Oh well. I have tomorrow off, and I'll work on my CDT training, prepare a message for Sunday, and then go out with Maggie and Jaclyn for dinner/drinks. Hopefully that will be fun! I'm off to never land!

It's Official!!!

So yesterday morning I had my informational meeting/ interview with an assistant manager @ Red Robin to become a CDT...and as of last night, it's official! I'm going through the program and I'm doing it!!! Yeah!!! I'm really excited! I've learned to enjoy the corniness that is Red Robin, and all it's little quirks! I'm really excited that I'm taking this next step up the ladder too! So all in all this weekend has been pretty top notch! I start training tomorrow around 1! Yip Skip. Hopefully it's all it's cracked up to be!

Today went well...

So my opening shift went really smoothly...the meeting to become a CDT is on Saturday morning! Yip Skip! I also picked up another shift tonight, so it's been a long day! Tomorrow, I work in the morning and then I get to hang out with Christina for awhile, and then we're going to Michelle D's Jr. Piano Recital then out to Chili's for our famous ritual of chips...salsa...queso....and multon lava cake! Yippee! Can't wait!

Exciting!!!

So today, I'm opening at Red Robin!!! I wasn't scheduled to open but I picked up a shift, and it's really exciting because it will hopefully show them that I'm capable of the responsibilities that go along with opening and having those "better" sections @ the Restruant. It seems really silly, and I'm sure it'll be like every other day there...but it's exciting! Plus it will confirm that they want me to be a CDT. Yippee! Anyways....that's all I have for this morning! I hope the shift goes well, should be great fun.

Hope

I wish there was a way to describe in words all that the word "hope" entails. For me it's not just a word, or an expression; it goes deeper than that. It's like peace in that you know that things will work out, but it's more than that...because there is suspense and excitement: the unknown. I don't really understand everything that the word means, but I know I both need and have it...and it's part of why I'm alive today.

These were some of dictonary.com's definitions...

1.To wish for something with expectation of its fulfillment.
2. Archaic. To have confidence; trust.
3.To look forward to with confidence or expectation:
4. To expect and desire.
5. A wish or desire accompanied by confident expectation of its fulfillment.
6. Something that is hoped for or desired: Success is our hope.
7. One that is a source of or reason for hope: the team's only hope for victory.
8. Often Hope Christianity. The theological virtue defined as the desire and search for a future good, difficult but not impossible to attain with God's help.
9. Archaic. Trust; confidence.

that's all...

Arent' we just too cute! 

So dumb...

So I had this huge long blog entry typed up about Katie and my's weekend of fun when she was here for easter....I went to publish it and all of the sudden the server was down or some mumbo jumbo like that....so I was like..I'm not typing all of that again...so you can read about our weekend on Katie's blog http://livefrombayloruniversity.blogspot.com She left out getting pedicures and me freaking her out with my choice of Hot Pink! Hehe. (to give her some slack she was bombarded with pink as a young child since her b-day is Valentine's day...so I guess she can hate it....)

So there you have it...that was our weekend!