Random Ramblings Are Random

Monday I learned that my spendy friend is jealous of the fact that I have been given permission to book a free night at either of the company's accommodations whenever I want. Meaning the hotel or the B&B, my choice so long as I don't bump a paying guest to do it. I asked about a free room last week only because I felt that it was adequate compensation for giving up one of my days off the week before. If you don't ask, you don't get. And I figured that the worst that could happen is that I get told no. Instead I was told I could stay for an entire week if I wanted to! So, when I was touching base with my boss on Monday she extended the offer to me again, letting me know that I could do it whenever I wanted because she knows that I don't book on a busy night. And she knows that being able to just shut the world out, even if only for a night, does me the world of good. Or at least staves off complete burn-out for a little while longer. I'm thinking that closer

Day three of working in the cafe. My feet hurt and my back hates me. But it could be worse! It's amazing how quickly things came back to me in terms of cooking. Such as various kinds of eggs...I like mine over-easy, but not everybody does, so I was worried that I wouldn't be able to recall the timings for the different eggs. I didn't need to worry about a damn thing...it was like riding a bike. Friday the cafe was busy, but I managed to do pretty good. The tips were definitely nice - between cash and credit I made more in a single day that the former café supervisor did in an entire month. And when I do the payroll tomorrow morning I know that my credit card tips will be more for two days than the former missus received in the pay period. Saturday wasn't as busy as Friday was and I had help too, not that I really needed it too much, but it was nice to get a chance to sit for a little bit. And I was able to do some training with the lady who was with me. I was rather dis

So, it looks like I won't be getting this weekend off after all is said and done. Why? The woman who had been running our café up and quit yesterday. From what I understand it was quite the spectacle too. Too bad I missed it. Anyhow, from what I understand, the café manager had been upset that she was expected to be there for 7:30am on the days that she worked to get the café set up for the day. By herself. Despite it not being busy enough to require two people on at that time of day. Besides, that was the usual start time when I first started there in the café over two years ago. It's not like she wasn't informed that she'd be working on her own. She had threatened to quit over it a couple of weeks ago too but it was supposedly smoothed over. Obviously not. So, yesterday, instead of asking for help when things started getting busy, she didn't ask until she was already in over her head and in a complete meltdown. It was bad enough that she yelled at the spa manager

Yet again the friend of mine who has issues when it comes to saving money had found herself somewhat in the hole. She is trying to get all the hours that she can at my work so she can pay down bills that were racked up in part by her needing to buy shit she really doesn't need but found some excuse for buying anyway. Let's see...she decided to take a private writing class with the same person who is running the group class that I just started. And then promptly started finding reasons to not attend it. So then she decided to join the class that I'm now in...and then didn't show up to the first class because she was working and then telling my coworker who does the scheduling to schedule her for class days anyway. Why? Because she needs the money. The first two sets of classes I took with her, and she basically stopped doing the assignments both time before the halfway mark and stopped attending. Throwing her money away and depriving the folks who were supposed to be rea

Slowly but surely my apartment is coming together. I just moved my computer desk into my bedroom and recovered the work surface from the plain black vinyl I'd installed on there over a year ago. The work surface is now covered in black 'marble' vinyl instead, installed in a single cohesive sheet rather than the multiple cuts I ended up doing with the other vinyl. Duck Tape products are much more user friendly and allowed me to make adjustments before I fully smoothed the vinyl down. I also found the itty bitty Command hook thingies I'd bought ages ago for cord maintenance, and now my keyboard and mouse have their cords nicely secured and out of the way, but with enough slack on the cable for me to move my keyboard tray in and out to its full extension. I love the look of less cords when I can manage it. For now, my old desk is in my old bedroom until I can get in there and do more work to get the room set up for my craft/storage area. That will be the room that takes me