Lots of Exciting Stuff

Sorry that I have not blogged in a while. Not much has happened so I thought I'd wait a good couple of days so I could gather enough useful events to blog. Plus it made you anticipate for this post and really want it. So now you'll pay extra attention to my blog instead of just glancing over it. You think I don't know about your glazing over technique..but alas I do.

So the other day I was at work, not a big suprise..i spend about 95% of my time at work. Anyways, I have come to have a very love hate relationship with my job. You see I am a people pleaser. I like to make people happy. It makes me happy. Well I've come to realize that my people pleaser skills get the better of me in the restaurant bizz. Throughout my 6 hour shift I periodically have unhappy people come up to me and complain about various things: "Why don't you have dollar slots in your casino?" "Why can't we sit in the front of the buffet?" "We need a booth..no nevermind we want a table!" "My husband has to sit up front so he can watch the people walk by." These comments get very annoying but I put a nice fake smile on and give these complainers whatever they want. I also get other complaints from my greedy co-workers known as THE SERVERS. "Why aren't you seating me more?" "Why isn't there a gratuity on this reciept?" "Your seating me too much I can't clean my tables fast enough!" These people's complaints i deal with a little differently. I tend to either flip out or pretend like i didn't even hear the complaint and then I walk away. Now you don't have to tell me that this isn't very nice and it even goes against my people pleaser attribute, however I tend to get a lot of pent up anger from the guests, so when a coworker complains to me I flip out. I'm not allowed to tell a server to stop complaining, but you better believe I'll tell a coworker so stop. So 2 nights ago I was at work and I wasn't having a very good day becuase of course everyone was complaining about something. The most common complaint I was getting from both guests and servers was about gratuity. You see, at the buffet we charge an 18% gratuity if you have more than 7 people in your party. This is actually a very cheap gratuity. Every restaurant in Las Vegas charges a gratuity in the same circumstances, however most places charge 20%, so we're really giving you a good deal. Well, guests like to refuse to pay it and then servers like to yell at you for making them do all this work for no tip. Its a vicious cycle. So being very against all the yelling I asked the manager to please explain our policy to the guests so they would pay it. Things were going very well. Then we had a party of 11 come in. They payed the gratuity and sat down to wait for us to push a few tables together. After sitting for about 2 minutes they realized they were charged $30 in gratuity and decided they wanted a refund. In order to do this they had to split up into a group of 5 and a group of 6. By taking their gratuity off they give us the right to seat them in seperate tables instead of pushing them together. I made a comment referring to this and one of the ladies in the group heard me. She ran up to where I was standing got right in my face and started screaming at me. (NOTE: my manager was standing shoulder to shoulder with me when this happened) She started calling me EVIL. I explained to her our policy but she comtinued to yell. My manager stood next to me and watched my face turn red while this woman ridiculed me and said nothing. She then got her friends and I had 3 people now yelling at me. She then pulled out "Your an EVIL B*TCH!" My heart sank. My manager finally (sorta) stepped in and called security. Let's just say I ended up crying in the back. NICE RIGHT! So that is the hate part of my love hate relationship with my job. The love part is I get paid $10 an hour to deal with everyone's crap. Let's just say its not worth it. So I'm now in the market for a new job. If you hear about anything please please please let me know.

So in other knews it is now December. MY FAVORITE MONTH!. This year is exceptionally special. Of course I have Christmas to look forward to. But 2 days following the best holiday ever is my birthday. But not just any birthday my friends..MY 18TH BIRTHDAY! Yes that's right. Finally I will be 18. I can now buy hermit crabs, cigarettes, go to the bowling alley after 6, and have sex with anyone. JUST KIDDING! But I am excited. Then 3 days after that magic Lindsey comes home. Linds has been gone for 6 months now. It has actually gone by a lot faster than I thought it would! So that's exciting stuff.

Also in the December slot: I have taken on the priviledge of decorating my house for Christmas. Usually all we do is throw up a tree, but because I'm in chagre this year we're going to go all out! I can't wait! The only problem is I have to wait a couple of days before I can start becuase I have to go buy decorations and for the moment I am poor. I originally planned on getting all my decorating done on Monday and I'm very sad I have to wait becuase December is slowly slipping away. But we keep everything up till February anyways so I figure 4 extra days won't kill us.

I'm also going to finish my Christmas shopping this Friday. I had gotten a head start on it 2 weeks ago but didn't get as much as I wanted. But for sure on Friday I'll be done.

By the way, in case you didn't catch all my upcoming plans for Friday, I have that day off work. YAY! One of the other hostesses wanted more hours and I wanted less hours and more time away from the complaints. So she took my Friday shift! YAY. So I have today tomorrow and Friday off. Tonight I'm going to go see Bizzle (Shelby), tomorrow I'm gonna hang out with her again. We're gonna wait at her sisters house for a sofa apparently. Fun stuff. And then Friday I don't have plans other than my Christmas stuff.

Speaking of Christmas. Lately I've been talking to a new guy. Hey maybe I'll finally get out of my boy slump. Who really knows tho. Anyways, we talk a lot oabout movies and music. So there's a song called "Christmas Shoes." If you have not heard it I strongly suggest you go look it up. Anyways we were talking about what an amazing song it is and he mentioned it was also a movie. I have been extremely deprived, but hopefully we can get together and watch it. If its half as good as the song I'll probly cry, A LOT!

K this is the last thing I'm going to blog about and it kind of distrubing, but I feel I must. So all girls know that one of the very horrible things about female life is unwanted body hair and getting rid of it. One of my most despised is my bikini line. It's horrible. So for a long time I've been trying to figure out a more long term removal than just shaving. So I decided I would try waxing. Not only that..but do-it-yourself-waxing. HMM...you'd think I would be smarter about this but hence the blog I was not. Now you might be asking yourself "Why on earth is she even concerned about this in WINTER?" Well I figured I would do it in the winter just for a test run. That way if it turns out horribly I wouldn't have to hide. So I heated my wax and applied. Luckily the only smart thing I did in this process was ONLY APPLY THE WAX THE ONE SIDE. Let me just tell you I have never experienced pain like I did today. Not only that, but I didn't get all the wax off so now everything is sticking to me. OUCH! Here's my word of advice. DON"T EVER WAX ANYTHING BUT YOUR EYEBROWS. I honestly think that even if I had had this done professionally I still would be in a world of pain. Sorry if that horribly disgusted you, but i felt the need to share so you would not make the same mistake.

Ok, hopefully this blog makes up for my lack of blogging the past couple of days.