- 20:46 I said pants too much, and now it doesn't make sense.. #
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09 February 2010 @ 10:02 pm
07 February 2010 @ 10:01 pm
- 00:34 I'm so so so nervous about opening the bakery on one of our busiest daysssssss... #
- 10:56 Four hours of sleep was a bad ideada. #
- 14:20 Soup and sandwich after a long day at the bakery, then basking with Theo in the sunlight? Yessssssss. #
- 14:38 Yep. Pretty much sums it up. yfrog.com/3gu6orj #
06 February 2010 @ 10:46 am
So, I had a barista nightmare this morning. Here goes:
I was working the bar (dur) at the bakery, and it was about... 3 minutes to close. For some reason, my second had already closed down the espresso machine and done something weird to the grinder. Lo and behold, some overweight entitled mother comes in with her shlurpy son and orders espresso drinks. First, the mom says she wants a "medium number 17".
What?
So I stare at her a little before having to swing my head around and look at the board behind me. A number 17 is a - get this - "GREEN TEA CAFFE MOCHA". Thank god that doesn't actually exist, because ew. The son just wants a regular large mocha. So I have a little wtf moment before referring to my phone, which apparently had an app to tell me what that was (hahaaaaha I wish). Basically, it's a mocha, but with FLAVOR SHOTS of green tea. Ugh. My brain invents some terrible stuff.
Here's where it gets bad.
I head over to the grinder, lock in my portafilter, hit grind, pull it off.... and the puck is NOT tamped. At all. It's loosey goosey. For some reason, the grinder isn't tamping properly... so I had to do it manually. For some reason, my tamper is too small, and all it does is push the coffee grinds around! So I do the best I can, and throw it back on the group head to pull my shot. A medium takes three shots though... so I had to grind another. I go do that, and when I pull off the portafilter... there's a thin layer of silver stuff in the filter instead of coffee. So I tamp it (lol) and put it into the machine anyway. Then I go to pull my shots. JETS of what looks like coffee with extra cream come shooting out at me. And this woman is bitching the whole time. Finally, I have to call our coffee guy (this guy Simon who works with New Harvest, nice guy) who had no idea what to do. So I just made their drinks with coffee instead of espresso. They didn't pay me. D:
The ennnnnnd.
I was working the bar (dur) at the bakery, and it was about... 3 minutes to close. For some reason, my second had already closed down the espresso machine and done something weird to the grinder. Lo and behold, some overweight entitled mother comes in with her shlurpy son and orders espresso drinks. First, the mom says she wants a "medium number 17".
What?
So I stare at her a little before having to swing my head around and look at the board behind me. A number 17 is a - get this - "GREEN TEA CAFFE MOCHA". Thank god that doesn't actually exist, because ew. The son just wants a regular large mocha. So I have a little wtf moment before referring to my phone, which apparently had an app to tell me what that was (hahaaaaha I wish). Basically, it's a mocha, but with FLAVOR SHOTS of green tea. Ugh. My brain invents some terrible stuff.
Here's where it gets bad.
I head over to the grinder, lock in my portafilter, hit grind, pull it off.... and the puck is NOT tamped. At all. It's loosey goosey. For some reason, the grinder isn't tamping properly... so I had to do it manually. For some reason, my tamper is too small, and all it does is push the coffee grinds around! So I do the best I can, and throw it back on the group head to pull my shot. A medium takes three shots though... so I had to grind another. I go do that, and when I pull off the portafilter... there's a thin layer of silver stuff in the filter instead of coffee. So I tamp it (lol) and put it into the machine anyway. Then I go to pull my shots. JETS of what looks like coffee with extra cream come shooting out at me. And this woman is bitching the whole time. Finally, I have to call our coffee guy (this guy Simon who works with New Harvest, nice guy) who had no idea what to do. So I just made their drinks with coffee instead of espresso. They didn't pay me. D:
The ennnnnnd.
05 February 2010 @ 10:01 pm
- 16:12 @amymessere I have it, and you're more than welcome to borrow it! #
02 February 2010 @ 10:01 pm
- 23:01 @antieden sometimes when I pick theo up after he eats he burps ominously. Then once he sneezed... And then puked. Caaaats. #
- 19:55 Anyone looking to buy an iPod, I've got a nice one for a hundo. I NEED DA MONIES. #
- 20:25 @taitaisanchez @ceejerk She's a silver classic 80gig, bought a year ago - still 1yr warranty! #
01 February 2010 @ 10:01 pm
- 13:03 It must suck to have to sit behind Lady Gaga at awards shows... twitpic.com/10vukf #
30 January 2010 @ 10:00 pm
- 22:57 @wooftoof I wanna read it!! I still remember a little bit from the first go, haha. Good stuff. #
29 January 2010 @ 10:01 pm
- 19:46 There should be a customer service hotline for the DMV, so I can scream at someone. #
26 January 2010 @ 10:04 pm
- 00:46 There's something infinitely wonderful about sitting downstairs with a cup of tea, his music floating down to me as I read. I'm so lucky.. #
26 January 2010 @ 01:50 pm
Completed Day Two, week one, of the Couch to 5k challenge, thanks to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
thrives! When she mentioned having done it, it really peaked my curiosity... and then I saw an app for it on my phone. It plays your workout playlist, alerts you when you need to change pace, times your workout and your warmup/cooldowns and tells you when you're done. For someone who's really only every tried jogging once, hated it, wanted to die, and walked most the way anyway - and now is actually LOOKING FORWARD to doing this every other day... that's something. By the beginning of April, I should be running a ten minute mile :D
I think the hardest part about working out for people like me is starting. It's a willpower thing - i.e., I have little to none. Lately, that's something I've been trying to fix, and working out is part of that. Once I start something, I just have to push myself a little more every day. I'm pretty excited about this.
What else... Snippys are going pretty well... I still don't know if I'm going to have enough money for bills and stuff this week, though. Because of the job thing, there's a one week gap in my pay, and I'm definitely feeling it. The bakery pays me every week, but not until Feb. 5th - and that's when I get my last (palfrey) check from ye olde GammeStoppe, too... which will only be like... $75 or so. So I'm a little shakey about that. I just need time to get back on my feet, but shit doesn't like waiting. Essentially, yuck.
I'm gonna sell ye olde xboxe 360e tomorrow, so I should get a hundred or so for that, but as far as I know now that's what the Stoppe wants for their "time" investigating everything that happened. So, also yuck.
Plus, my prescription runs out soon. I have to find a way to carry over my insurance (I think I qualify for COBRA?) so that I can see my doctor... OH LIFE. YOU SO SILLY.
thrives! When she mentioned having done it, it really peaked my curiosity... and then I saw an app for it on my phone. It plays your workout playlist, alerts you when you need to change pace, times your workout and your warmup/cooldowns and tells you when you're done. For someone who's really only every tried jogging once, hated it, wanted to die, and walked most the way anyway - and now is actually LOOKING FORWARD to doing this every other day... that's something. By the beginning of April, I should be running a ten minute mile :DI think the hardest part about working out for people like me is starting. It's a willpower thing - i.e., I have little to none. Lately, that's something I've been trying to fix, and working out is part of that. Once I start something, I just have to push myself a little more every day. I'm pretty excited about this.
What else... Snippys are going pretty well... I still don't know if I'm going to have enough money for bills and stuff this week, though. Because of the job thing, there's a one week gap in my pay, and I'm definitely feeling it. The bakery pays me every week, but not until Feb. 5th - and that's when I get my last (palfrey) check from ye olde GammeStoppe, too... which will only be like... $75 or so. So I'm a little shakey about that. I just need time to get back on my feet, but shit doesn't like waiting. Essentially, yuck.
I'm gonna sell ye olde xboxe 360e tomorrow, so I should get a hundred or so for that, but as far as I know now that's what the Stoppe wants for their "time" investigating everything that happened. So, also yuck.
Plus, my prescription runs out soon. I have to find a way to carry over my insurance (I think I qualify for COBRA?) so that I can see my doctor... OH LIFE. YOU SO SILLY.
23 January 2010 @ 10:00 pm
- 01:55 Night time skin care is part of my post game ritual. #
23 January 2010 @ 09:30 pm
22 January 2010 @ 01:47 pm
ecstatic21 January 2010 @ 01:32 pm
HAHAHAHAHAHA.
BEST QUOTE EVER FROM THE WORST SHOW EVER:
"WELL I'D RATHER BE PREGNANT THAN BE FAT AND EAT SOUP EVERY NIGHT!!!!" FROM A FORTY YEAR OLD WOMAN.
AAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAHAHAHA.
Best.
BEST QUOTE EVER FROM THE WORST SHOW EVER:
"WELL I'D RATHER BE PREGNANT THAN BE FAT AND EAT SOUP EVERY NIGHT!!!!" FROM A FORTY YEAR OLD WOMAN.
AAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAHAHAHA.
Best.
20 January 2010 @ 07:41 pm
So, for reasons I can't talk about (confidentiality / security and all that... blah blah blah)... I am temporarily suspended from my job! I might even be fired. :D :D :D :D It sucks, but I made my bed and will lay on it, etc etc, not really upset about it. It is what it is.
Plus, I have an interview for a position at a BAKERY on Friday, and I'm like... shitting myself with excitement over it.
BAKERY BAKERY BAKERY.
It would be 12-8 Monday-Friday... WHICH IS AWESOME, like, perfect hours... at a BAKERY.
If I get it.
In the mean time, PLEASE BUY STUFF FROM ME. SERIOUSLY. THESE ARE SO CUTE.
BUY ME BUY ME BUY ME
And please please please pimp to your friends. I need to sell 20 cats to pay rent *_*
Plus, I have an interview for a position at a BAKERY on Friday, and I'm like... shitting myself with excitement over it.
BAKERY BAKERY BAKERY.
It would be 12-8 Monday-Friday... WHICH IS AWESOME, like, perfect hours... at a BAKERY.
If I get it.
In the mean time, PLEASE BUY STUFF FROM ME. SERIOUSLY. THESE ARE SO CUTE.
BUY ME BUY ME BUY ME
And please please please pimp to your friends. I need to sell 20 cats to pay rent *_*
12 January 2010 @ 02:51 pm
Uh... I didn't think I'd enjoy working out, but it turns out I totally do. Don't get me wrong - I'm not about to go run five miles (hahaaaa... I can do like... 3/4 and when wheeze and die), but I feel like I could get to that eventually. Talk to me in like... three months. :D
That being said, my resolutions are going okay... It's not always easy to find "me" time when I'm so involved with like 495780567 things PLUS am easily distracted. Mmmm hulu............
What else, what else... work is still the worst, trying to get my toy cats thing going, stillll working on my coat (tonight I swear!!), can't find half of my sketchbooks (whar I put them!?), annnnnd might get an iPhone.................?
UPDATES TO FOLLOW.
That being said, my resolutions are going okay... It's not always easy to find "me" time when I'm so involved with like 495780567 things PLUS am easily distracted. Mmmm hulu............
What else, what else... work is still the worst, trying to get my toy cats thing going, stillll working on my coat (tonight I swear!!), can't find half of my sketchbooks (whar I put them!?), annnnnd might get an iPhone.................?
UPDATES TO FOLLOW.
11 January 2010 @ 05:14 pm
10 January 2010 @ 10:00 pm
- 17:08 Happy Birthday Ceej - from three thousand miles away - Babyday haiku. #
06 January 2010 @ 11:11 pm
Okay guys, listen up, this is mucho importante and I need ALL of your input.
I've been in an art rut lately, and if I'm going to be serious about tattooing I need to break out of it. Basically, I've been drawing the same thing over and over for the past few months - skinny effeminate white boys - and I need to be drawing pretty much everything else. I just have no creative juice.
THIS IS WHERE YOU ALL COME IN.
I need alla yous to list a few things you'd like to see as a tattoo design. It can be anything, like, "a rose" or "a dwaggin" to like "Obama as the terminator" or "silhouetted sign language made out of tree branches in front of the moon". Literally, just throw stuff at me. I need to be giving myself homework.
annnnnnnnnnd GO.
I've been in an art rut lately, and if I'm going to be serious about tattooing I need to break out of it. Basically, I've been drawing the same thing over and over for the past few months - skinny effeminate white boys - and I need to be drawing pretty much everything else. I just have no creative juice.
THIS IS WHERE YOU ALL COME IN.
I need alla yous to list a few things you'd like to see as a tattoo design. It can be anything, like, "a rose" or "a dwaggin" to like "Obama as the terminator" or "silhouetted sign language made out of tree branches in front of the moon". Literally, just throw stuff at me. I need to be giving myself homework.
annnnnnnnnnd GO.