Happy Mothers Day

Ok so I lied again! I almost always do that...post once and say I'll be back to post something more like pictures or a particular story and then I disappear for days! Not sure why that seems to happen but this time it is because I have just been a busy beaver. Even though the only envent at work this weekend was today for Mothers Day ( more on later in this post) my weekend was still long and busy. Had a dance Friday night it was a lot of fun and yet still the same lame thing as always. I guess I have fun because I make it fun for me try to keep my attitude in check and just do what I went there to do...DANCE! The DJ did a pretty good job, you could tell he was a club playing DJ in that he played sets of 6 or 7 songs. At our dances it tends to work better to do 3-4 song sets and to give the illusion of more variety. But he played good songs and I danced enough to have horrible hair by the time I left. You know sweaty and all over the place hair. Of course with the way I have to wear my hair for work (pulled back in pony tail with a base ball cap on) I long ago gave up on good hair days. LOL. If it wasn't ( should that be weren't?) for church and Thursdays I would probably forget how to do my hair. Then saturday night spent some time after work with some friends hanging out and watching PS I love you on pay- per-view. Awesome horrible movie. Saw a lot of movies this week. Went to see Made of Honor at the theatre ( hilarious movie I loved it enough to go see it twice with two different friends) rented from red box 27 dresses another good movie one I wanted to see when it was out but never got around to. Wow three chick flicks in one week! Need some action adventure in my life maybe Iron Man soon? or the new Indiana Jones flick? The Dark Knight is coming out soon too...hmm several action possibilities out there. Anyone wanna go with me?

Also had another session with my personal trainer/torturer that was fun! More fun than it felt the next day! I felt like I had been rode hard and put up wet for a couple of days there but man oh man! was it fun! Something about the resistance training I just can't do as well by myself as I can with a trainer. Cardio no problem but the resistance I guess I am just resistant to. I have such a terrible time with balance. I wobble all over the place. What was the toy...? webble? they wobble but they dont fall over! I fell nearly completely over but caught myself barely during our session. imade the comment that i need to work on balance and he said we are! oh. duh.

Work has been fun as always. there is something about my job that it is hard to describe and one would think I was a little nuts ( ok so maybe you all know that already...!) with how trying would sound but here goes! There is a true sense of team work of taking care of each other helping each other out while there is a hierarchy in the kitchen it is known but not flaunted. I mean Cayenne Pepper is definitly the boss, the CHEF and it is HIS kitchen but, at least from my point of view, he isn't unfair or weirdly demanding. He is consistant, he corrects when needed but praises when warrented as well. If you listen and correct the things he needs changed all is well if not..well any good manager has to take more action then and he does. Filet Mignon is an awesome guy to work with. He is willing to teach ( is teaching me things in Spanish! Things like I take out the trash or I clean the floor mostly those because that is what I ask for) concerned and just a good guy. I do miss t-bone and need to come up with nick names for the other three. But at any rate I have fun feel valued and really am enjoying work. Today being Mother's Day we had a special buffet that was supposed to see me as waffle girl but I had to put away my hat and cape and return to dish girl baseball cap and plastic apron as a replacement for dish girl couldn't be found. All weekend Cayenn Pepper has been teasing me that he knew something I didn't or had the golden ticket or golden surprise driving me batty! He was enjoying himself with this knowledge and tease. Today he finally let me know. he arranged for me to get a $50 gift card from Outback Steak House which in his little speech today he said was because I do my job well take out the trash clean the floors and all so the kitchen is clean so when the health department came last time we got 100% no violations! I appriciate the praise and the pat on the back but it really is a team effort. I could not do my job half as well with out the help they all give me. I mean there are days like today that I just can't even leave the dishwasher long enough to look at the trash much less take it out and they do it for me. Or when things just go nutso right at the moment I am doing the floors so they help out with catching a dish or two while I finsh up floors. Or when things have just been whacked out with party prep and such that they drag the mats and actually sweep and/or mop the chef side of the kitchen. By the same token I hope they know that if they need me to do something and I can I will. I know Cayenne Pepper does he puts me to all kinds of other tasks when I am dish free and they could use help. I have done things from peeling fungus and shaping patties ( crab and hamburger), to recently stuffing potato skins with yummy fillings. Any way I LOVE my job! Probably mostly because of the people I get to work with no not mostly entirely because of them. They are great people. Pictures next time.

I hope all the mom's out here had a great day!