swimmin' hole

whoooeee, 'twas a sultry ol' weekend. drug the kids to the pool, but we didn't stay long. no. 2 fell off the side and got a tad freaked out, it may take a couple more visits until he gets in the water at all. watched some movies this weekend; spring, summer, fall, winter and spring, winter passing, and i even saw the last half of deliverance. i've just never really been in the mood to see it, now i want to see it from start to finish. spring summer was weird too, hardly any dialogue at all, but didn't seem to need any either. winter passing was good, zooey deschanel is someone i like, but she's kinda seeming like kevin spacey to me lately, just the same character in every movie. kudos to will ferrell's performance though, good dramatic character with decent comedic lines, even though not intentionally so.

no. 1 got grounded from playing outside until next weekend, he took a board game outside and was playing with it in the sprinkler. he's really upset about it since he's found some new neighbor friends to play with. we're not really taking any other privileges from him though, so i'm not sure how well it's working.

it's cake week, i have 2 wedding cakes to make for the wedding on saturday. i can't wait to see the look on their faces. it's not everyday you get to make your own wedding cake for a bride who has no idea what the cake will end up looking like. i guess i should go over the list in my head, what i need and when i'm going to make it. i want this cake experience to be stress-free, even though they never really are. back to school tomorrow, i'm feeling spring fever upon me, and the desire to not go to class...no good!

student by day, foodie by night

having worked in restaurant for the past 10 years, i know a thing or two about dining out, and not only that, i probably eat out 300 out of the 365 nights of the year. i have had my fair share of bad servers, which i expect, even though having worked in the biz for years, i still can't stiff a server no matter how bad it is, but the crazy/nutty server is a whole other beast. it's almost worse for me to have a server who gives too much information and wants to chat you up, than one who just plain sucks, it freaks me out. we went out not too long ago and had this server who would point out to us all the things she was doing wrong. she set down the plate on the side of the table and knocked something off and she said something along the lines of, "oh, i shouldn't have set that plate there" but it was more in depth, and you could see she was mentally thiking, "stupid, i'm so stupid!" anyways, we had a server tonight who was slammed at the dinner hour. no big deal. we walked in at the same time as like 50 other people and there was really no wait, so pretty much, everyone got sat at the same time. i realize this and don't get very bothered by it at all. who cares if the manager is the one getting us drinks and taking our orders, that's kinda what they're there for. fianlly, the server shows up, asks what we were having to drink so that she could get our refills, than apologizes profusely for the wait. i assure her, no big deal. then, every time she comes by our table, she keeps telling us how we're this amazingly forgiving table. look, we didn't do anything special, we were seated, we didn't even wait that long, but then she starts bad-mouthing the other tables and saying how the were all angry, and whenever she walks by, she keeps saying all this flaky weird stuff to us. you know, i come from fine dining here, i'm from the school where servers shouldn't be seen much less heard. now, i don't want an inattentive server, but one who refills the water and drinks without my asking or noticing. if i feel like having friendly banter, one who will reciprocate, but not tell me their life story. is that too much to ask? i mean, i'm having a family dinner here. i don't need to know tht all the other diners in the restaurant are having hissy fits about the wait. it was exhausting. the meal was good, and i was up in arms about what tip to leave, so i just left my standard 20%. oh well. tomorrow i'll go to a different restaurant.

let's play master and servant...

i'm still mad i didn't get my $75 bucks back.

was at the job today, and there just happen to always be those "people" at jobs who you know from the get go that you're just not compatible. i mean, i would really not ever have known or hung out with or even been at the same restaurant as that person ever, were it not for the job. you know what else i hate? i hate it when people have no tact, i mean, where did some people learn their delivery skills? is there any particular reason you feel the need to point out the obvious to me and treat me as if i were a child? anyways, venting aside, today was good, didn't get my exam i was hoping for, but i did see a type b trauma, that was cool.

every day is a sundae

good day to hooky, i took a five hour mid-day "nap". who couldn't use one of them every so often? of course, i'm sure it might have had something to do with the fact that it's like 90 degrees in my house. always good to turn into a sloth when the weather sucks. i also had crazy dreams, perhaps due to the heat, about riding a skateboard to L-town with no. 2 in tow, and then he slipped into a sewer system, and i had to rescue him. the heat does strange things. it's good though, i'm supposed to be writing dreams down for class, and i can't ever remember them in the mornings, so now i at least have something.

i'm really trying to kick my coke (a cola) habit. i had to run up to the store and get one, something about the idea of a tall cool one...

day won

who knew the ease with which it would come...

went to no. 1's day at the races, it was a good show, but hot. completely different from when i was a child. the parachute was definitely the highlight. i've already decided which 'mates are best suited as friends for him, and which are definitely not invited over for dinner. i also decided i don't care much for his teacher, i think i might request a different one for no. 2 next year.

playing hooky today, bad....so bad.

i wish i could figure out how to not have every song from my itunes library downloaded automatically onto the pod. annoying. why can't the pod just have a delete function? why would that be so difficult?