Surprisingly Nard shows no animosity towards me. He probably secretly loathes me. Don't really care. Tonight will be my 9th night in row at the big 'P'. I have tomorrow night off but I have a feeling that I'll be working again on Wed. and Thurs. I asked for the weekend off because I want to go and visit Anna. Hopefully they will give it to me. I don't think they thought this whole thing through. They took 2-3 people (total of 6) off normal shifts to do the crispanis but didn't hire anyone to fill those places. Duh. And they are wondering why they have to put people on 6 days a week. I am very tired and irritated today. I didn't want to get out of bed but I had to get here by 7 because 'Ed' is being an asshole lately trying to flex his managerial muscle. He told me if I forgot to turn in my status report again that I would lose my work from home PERMANENTLY! ass. I do not understand the status report, if you don't know what we do or how to look up what we do then you don't deserve to be that position. He is the worst manager, if you looked up 'bad manager' his name would be there.
Friday night I worked until about 11 and then me and Darren went to his cousin's and played euchre. I drank some gin and o.j. and it just made me so tired. We didn't get home until almost 3. I slept til noon on Saturday and watched MSU blast Iowa. Then off to work I went. Me and Jackie went out to Ernie's that night, which it was a lot of older people, yes I know we are almost one of those 'older' people but I guess I just don't like it! So we went to Woody's where we met this nice fella from Kentucky who had been imprisoned for 5 years for beating up a cop and told us he was racist all within 2 hours of meeting him. He seemed like a nice guy but he tried to explain why he was racist and I was just like um maybe you should stop talking about it!! Yesterday was dumb, I woke up and pretty much went to work. I just wanted to go to sleep when I got home.
I read that someone couldn't make hash browns... :) I make really good ones, I take red skinned potatoes and cut them up in little pieces, then i stick them in the microwave until they are a little soft (cook faster), then put them in a pan with butter and fry them up, and I use Lawry's, they are really yummy. You should try it...

Work: my 2nd home

So yesterday we did the 'dry run' with the crispanis. They are not hard to make, all we have to do is roll out the dough, make sure it is the right size, top it and put it in the oven. Then make sure there are no bubbles. Mostly I've heard good things about them. One person said they don't really fill you up, maybe they should get the chicken one...Jessica and Jackie came in to get a free crispani and they enjoyed it. Even though they had to get rung up by Nard. He bugs the crap out of me because he is 17 and thinks he such hot shit. He is slow and has no emotion when talking just like 'hey what's up.' I'm like you can't say 'what's up' to customers!! A lot of people complain about him. When he works in the back of the house he brings in his own cd's, which consist of rap and more rap, songs that you don't hear on the radio because they probably couldn't play them. I think to myself, does your mom know you listen to this? His parents brought him in for the interview. I sound old but I'm just like ok, nice song. So yesterday we had a line of about 10 people, which is a pretty good size line, him and another girl were on registers. I see him walking away with a bunch of lids in his hands. I'm like where is he going? She was like um I guess to fill lids? I yelled out to him 'what are you doing? you need to ring people up!' He's like 'well I'm not sure if I have a drawer.' Note: He's been in his shift for at least 3 hours at this point. I'm like 'did you count it down?' 'um no'. 'Then you still have a drawer!!' Idiot. People like that drive me crazy!
So my weekend is going to suck, I work today at both jobs, then I also work fri, sat, sunday and monday nights. Yip.

The hat

If anyone wants a good laugh just come and look at me at Panera when I have to make crispanis and they will see the hat that I have to wear. It gave Beckie and Jackie a good laugh. It has a mesh top so that I guess my head can breathe?? If anyone wants to know what a crispani is, it's a Italian style pizza made the Panera way. There are 6 kinds: Tomato basil, pepperoni, chicken and rosemary, 3-cheese, Apple and sausage, and wild mushroom. My favorite are the chicken and the wild mushroom one. Only 2 of them have tomato sauce on them. We start to sell them on Friday.
So ya I'm scheduled for like like 9 days in a row there. Apparently they don't care if I fall asleep making a crispani and fall in to the oven and burn! Hopefully my work situation will change within a month or two. Now I have a guy sitting next to me at my full time job that whenever I say one sentence he rolls his chair over to my desk like we are about to have an hour conversation. I'm like no I'm done, roll back. He's not hard of hearing either. So I have to try avoiding saying anything. My biggest pet peeve when I come in in the morning at 7am is if people talk to me. I grunt 'hi', don't be trying to have a conversation with me. It doesn't go well. So now he not only rolls over to my desk but he tries to talk to me when I come in! The nerve!
It's only 9:20, I feel like I've been here all day. This is going to be a fun one.

P.S. why do I have to be such a worry wart? I remember when I was like 5 or 6 and I used to get so nauseous because I worried so much, I am starting to get that feeling again. I hate it.

Crickets and Mr. Potato Head

I went to the bank yesterday that I always go to, they know I work at Panera and I've even brought them bagels. I'm in my Khaki pant and blue shirt because I was on my way there and Jonathon ( a teller) was at his desk and goes 'hey I need some crickets'. I was thinking um we don't have crickets at Panera. Then he realized from the look I gave him that I probably didn't work at Petco. 'Oops', he said. 'Wrong store.' Yep.

My Mr. Potato Head (from some fast food place) has fallen over and Mrs. Potato Head is still on her feet. Like always...

Non Romantic Life Partners

I too am very pleased and happy for Jackie going back to MSU. I think that it will challenge her and interest her and get her excited about learning new things besides having to create presentations for her crazy manager and getting them written on them with red ink. Of course the other side of me is like wow our lives are going to change a lot. It has been 'Sarah and Jackie' for 5 years now? 3 vehicles for me... We've done a lot of crazy things, sliding around in my Blazer on a snowy cold night in The Springs, limo rides with guys we barely knew, bar runs and frat parties that will never be forgotten (her golden shower by Travis - hahaha-it was not on purpose for anyone that doesn't know the story), seeing Norma at the Marriott in Pontiac because we met some cute car dealers from out west and we just had to go swimming in the pool at 2 in the morning, going to the bar just the 2 of us because no one else wanted to go and we would get home and be like 'damn that was fun!', our resolution that only she and I know and that we have stuck to since we lived in the Springs. I remember when we lived there and she had it in her head that she really wanted to move out of the state and I just got so upset, I would cry about it all the time, maybe I was selfish then because now I will cry about us 'separating' but I feel better about it than I did back then. Because I know that it is a great thing that she is doing. Sometimes you get so used to a person that you don't ever imagine that it will be different and when a change is going to happen where we won't see each other every day or talk every day it will be weird. I know it sounds like she is moving out of the country and I know she will be like an hour away but it feels like a big change for me, a good one but I still want to just say these things because a part of our lives will be changed and I want her to know that I have loved living with her and even though she hasn't agreed with everything I have done she has always supported me and I always felt I could tell her things. No petty little fights, I think in the whole time we have lived together we got annoyed with each one major time and it was squashed pretty fast, I don't even remember what it was about. The other annoyances were things that didn't really make a difference. She still bought a house with me even though she lived with her boyfriend and I think that is pretty damn cool. Owning a house has been a lesson in itself all the little stupid things you have to do, mow the lawn, take the garbage out on time, clean and unplug the drains and hope that nothing major breaks down because we don't have a lot of $$ to play with. She has always been my DD which I appreciate so much! We have been pulled over twice where one time she really got away with one. She normally doesn't drink that much but we had been to a Tiki happy hour, it was me, her, Dave and Jamie and we were like 1/2 mile from The Springs and she was going like 15 over. I don't think she passed the breathalizer but the cop said that if we walked home that he wouldn't arrest her. What?! We took that offer and 'walked' with it. All in our little bar outfits at 2:30 in the morning, luckily it was a nice warm night. I remember how pissed she was storming ahead of everyone with that angry face that scared so many people at GM Card :) I think she was more relieved that she didn't get in trouble. The other time was on a cold snowy night and she had not drank at all. She was driving my car and he was like have you been drinking? "no but she has (pointing to me)'. He still made her to do the sobriety tests but she passed and we were on our way. Phew. We would always drive to the east side to go to the bars, ironic that is where we ended up living. Lipsticks, Woody's, and Emerald were our choice places with Phil, Rob and Jeff. All huge bouncer men, Phil of course is dead body guy. Lipsticks was the place of the strongest Long Islands ever! But our favorite place was always Tiki. We met many people there and have had a lot of fun nights there. It's not as fun now but I loved that place.
And Jackie, she is a great gal :) fun, cute and smart, I'm glad that we went to the Alibi that night so that I actually got to see that she wasn't the scary person I thought she was! And a great friend and 'sister' because she is a part of my family. If she isn't there with me they are like 'where's Jackie?' So I am going to stop now because this could probably be the longes post ever, Cheers to Jackie, don't let anyone get you down about this opportunity! Love you and thank you for being my friend!!!

Annoying cougher

So in general there is an annoying guy that sits over the cubicle, it reminds me of me, Jessica, Ryan and Steve R at GM Card when our stories were fabulous, funny and awesome. We talked about our partying nights and dead body guy and everything in between. It would have been interesting to be over the other side of that cubicle. He coughs, a lot, and talks to this other guy over there that always sounds like he wants to say 'back away from my cube'. Today his thing is that he doesn't think that it is going to be busy down here around Superbowl. Um what? He said that he thinks it will be like when the All-Star game was here. First of all that was baseball, not as popular and 70,000 painted, beer drinking men (and women) tailgating and partying for football. Even with the Lions crappy season people still came out every Sunday and partied for it. Now take the most watched professional sport and have the championship here, I think it is going to be a little crazy. We are getting emails about how there is going to be tons of security and volunteers and GM World, Jefferson and the conference centers are going to be shut down and used just for the media, just the media is 3,000 people. So I think he is insane saying that nothing is going to be going on down here. Anyways, I just wanted to write about that.

Happy New Year

Well I've had the past week off of my full time job and I slept a lot. I still felt tired so I thought jeez how do I do it when I am working both again! It's been a good last couple of weeks. I've gone to a Michigan State basketball game, saw all my family, had game night at my parents with chili and cosmopolitans (mmmmm), watched football, worked at panera and of course New Years. We ended up having a party at the house which you all know. The night before me, Jackie, Beckie and her sister Sarah went out to the bar to Johnnie G's, we had never been there and I liked it. About an hour after we got there Jackie was like hey that's Kyle. So I went to say hi and then Jason was there and all of a sudden Marcus, Darren, Torren, and Malcomb all came in. So it ended up being a big group. Luckily we went to Denny's after so that I could eat and not be hung over on Saturday. Saturday I went to GFS for fried goodness. Mushrooms, cheese sticks and wings. Then I made mac and cheese and cleaned the house. TNOF went to Emerald and I couldn't help but feel a little sad. I couldn't go because our other friends were coming...My Panera friends came and that was fun but they had to leave too and then Stace and Ryan didn't end up making it. It was still fun. Then at 1:30 Jackie text me that they needed a ride because the cabs weren't answering. I was like ummm I think everyone has drank here! Darren immediately went to go get in the car and I was like don't let him go by himself!! So Marcus went and they all crammed in to the equinox. Then I made them fried goodness and went to bed at 4:30. Yesterday I was hung over and I wasn't even that drunk, but I think I was really tired from getting ready and staying up so late. We went to Coney came back and I slept for almost 4 hours. I did nothing except mop the floor. Today the christmas tree came down and all the pine needles are gone. It is a lot less cluttered. I don't work tonight at Panera so I'll be watching football. Yay!

Happy 2006!