When will it be over???

I am so ready for Tuesday night to get here! Right now, I dont hafta work until next Wednesday, but I need to be studying! It is raining so bad outside, it's horrible! I drove in this 20 minutes ago! I had a not so good day at work, it wasn't the worst, but it was close enough! I've never seen a customer so mad at us before! i had to wait on a birthday party w/ 14 adults, 2 toddlers, and a baby (but the baby doesn't count). One guy had requested a buffet style setting. He "negotiated" the "contract" with my boss earlier in the week. Ms. Lee was giving him ribs, wings, ziti pasta stuff, salad, and drinks for only $12.95/person...and it's basically all you can eat! Well, he thought that included tax and gratuity, but how could it??? That was about the dumbest thing i've ever heard of! Why would someone give you a price that already included that??? I mean, they had to pay for all the alcohol they got, but they got free soft drinks for pete's sake! The guy payed for all the food though, so his bill total was $216.46. And he almost walked out the door! My boss went to Italy last night and her daughter who used to be manager was supposed to be there, but she never showed up. Wesley was manager until then. The guy wouldnt even listen to Wesley! I was getting scared! Oh, well, needless to say, he tipped me 14% and with everybody's tips on liquor, my total tips for the night were 17%. They could have been higher if I would have added 20% to his like I almost did! I only worked that party and hostessed, so I gave them basically all of my attention, so it's not like I gave them average service! UGH! And for things like that, you're supposed to tip more! UGH! People frustrate me!

Okay, I'm about to go to bed...I dont know what to do about tomorrow w/ the Crusade cookout...it's pretty wet out right now! I had a final and a speech today that both basically sucked! My teacher is supposed to email me my grade from my speech, but she still hasn't. I'm really nervous about it! Oh well...we'll see how bad i did!

Gripe session

Everything is so frustrating today! I dont think anything has worked out right today!!! I got to work and i was scheduled to be out on the patio today, but it's raining and COLD! SO, instead of letting me go home or giving part of the smoking section, my boss puts me as hostess!!!! I've never hostessed before in my life! And I was gonna do it this Friday b/c she wont let me off and this is the only way i can get off early b/c i have a final at 3. So, I waitress 3 days a week and she freakin' has me hostess 2 of these days. Okay, this doesn't seem that bad to ya'll but I"m freakin' takin about a $3/hour pay cut by going down to hostess! OMG! It makes me so freakin' mad! UGH!

Okay, then I had to go by the UC to ask about using the UC lawn for out crusade cookout on Saturday! SO, heads up peoples! It's at 5:30pm, and we are meeting in the UC at 5 and then goign up there. Or you can meet us up there, so... Also, we are needing to collect a few bucks from people to help cover the food! It is kinda free, but we still need some financial help b/c this is coming out of our own funds! blah!

But I'm glad i went by there too, b/c I got a REALLY good massage! OMG! I loved it! I feel so relaxed...i wanna go to bed! but alas, i have class in an hour or so! SO....

Another thing that is not working out lately is my FREAKIN' COMPUTER! OMG! it makes me SO mad! It just randomly shuts itself off or something! I'm getting mad at it! It did it 3 times yesterday and already once this morning! Chris opened it up to see if the fans were still working. They are, but we cna't figure out what is exactly wrong w/ it. I'm ready for a laptop now...but my mom is not gonna let me get one yet b/c i need to help pay off my car if i have any extra money b/c they are buying my sister one at the end of the year. And that's a whole 'nother thing that i'm not gonna get into right now. I just sound like a whiney brat today, but it's not the best day in the world, so i dont care!

My D-group ROCKS

YAY! So Chuck E Cheese was way fun! My girls made me a cake! My favorite one too! It was a yellow cake w/ chocolate icing and it said, "Thank You Kim!" YAY! It was really good and moist! :) And I got my picture done w/ each of my girls at the sketch booth. Then we all piled in and got one together! It's really fun!

Well, today, I had my alarm set for 8:45am, b/c i had a group leader meeting at 9 at Hardee's in Five Points. BUT, my sister called me at 8:15! I was kinda mad at first, but I was happy to actually get to talk to my sister. Ever since she's gotten a new boyfriend, she hasn't had much time for me. It makes me sad a lot of times, but I am much busier than her. So i was glad she called me early this morning. AND congrats to my sister for getting 2nd place in the State HOSA competition. She's going to Nationals soon in Nashville. I wanna go! I need to know when it is though! FUN!

I actually worked on my speech today. I now have an outline and part of it written. I need to study w/ Adam for our MIS final on Monday. But my speech is right before that, so it's gonna be hard! I need to finish my speech today. I have about an hour now before i go to work, so i might can get mostly finished and then finish it up tonight after work, if i dont do anything. I was planning on finishing it last night, but I went to see The Interpretor w/ some friends and didn't get back up to my apartment until 1:30ish. Me and Tami talked a long time after the movie. She's really cool. We've become really good friends. Her and Tabitha both are really cool. We have another softball game at 6pm on Tuesday at the Sportsplex if anybody wants to come be our fans...
Okay, speech time...bye!

Blah

Ugh, sometimes i get in these weird moods. I can't really explain it...it's different each time. Right now, I feel like a failure. Not a horrible failure. I just feel, eh. I need to find my "thing." I dont know. I also get tired of a lot of people too. I dont wanna talk about it on here, but I just wish some people would relax and not worry about my life so much. I do like talking to people though, dont get me wrong. I could talk about anything, but when somebody starts basically telling me how to live my life or when people give you those "looks," it just makes not want to be in there anymore. I felt that a few times today. Sometimes, I just wish I could get away from it all. I wish I was out of college, married, my own career or w/ kids (adopted of course). Or I wish I was back home in 1st grade without a care in the world. I want to go home and spend time w/ my family. But everytime i do, it seems like they have better things to do and we dont do anything.

Well, I'm going to bed. I have a gazillion things to do tomorrow and the next couple of weeks. I can't wait for the summer when i might actually have a break! YAY Chuck E. Cheese on Thursday w/ my d-group! SO EXCITED!

Don't Cry over spilt milk

So today was kinda weird all around! I got up, ate cereal while checking my email...spilled cereal on my keyboard...is that bad? Oops! Then I went to work ON TIME! It was perfect! Then nobody was there to help me do opening sidework, not even the bartender! Then Ms. Lee comes in 10 minutes after I'd been there and tells me that I hafta be bartender today! I had to do bar opening sidework and server opening sidework b/c NOBODY was there yet! OMG! It was horrible. The phone was ringing off the hook and people were actually coming up when we opened for a change! And 2 of the servers weren't even there until 30 minutes after we'd opened!

So, morning bartender usually only just serves people that are smoking b/c we dont really have a smoking section during the day. So, I was serving the bar and a regular section in the dining room! Oh, it was chaos! I didn't do THAT good tip wise, but luckily, my hourly wage is doubled since I was doing bar stuff! :)

Well, I hafta go study/work on speech/do econ homework/get ready for softball game now. I hate the last few weeks before school is out! UGH!

I'm in the Money

Well, last Saturday I had that party of 120 people, right? It started out w/ 1 team and parents out on the patio. It was about 30-35 people. I was doing it by myself at first b/c nobody was there to help me yet. So I got everybody's drink orders by myself, even though Trudy and Chris helped pour them. Then I started to take food orders which was becoming a disaster since kids were everywhere!! Finally Joel came out to help me! Thank goodness! Then it was complete and utter chaos from there! Tabitha and Claire finally showed up when the other team started coming in. Then after the first party left, me and Joel took them too. Then after the second party left, we cleared everything away and set up for the 4th and last party. The last 2 parties were way calmer than the first two.

But all in all, i did really good money wise all day. I quit taking tables at the end of the parties and just helped clean up and do closing Saturday sidework and I got the money thing situated for all of us b/c that was a wreck in itself! I was supposed to get off at 8, but needless to say, I left there at 10:20...ugh! and i was tired! I was in bed by 11! It felt good to wake up the next morning well rested. :)

Church was yesterday...that was good. Then I came back up to my apartment and had more leftovers. Then CCC intramural softball game was at 4 (we won! there's a 3-way tie for 1st place i hear! and i think we're up there!)!!! went to sonic and played telephone and duck-duck-goose w/ Micah's little brother Isaac. He is so CUTE! I love little kids! (just not at restaurants when i'm their waitress) Then we had the college group thing at church. I was so excited about it. We got free food and we were gonna play a game and we ended up playing Battle of the Sexes. I hate that game! it's just so dumb. I knew one question nobody else knew and it was about pool. "how many balls are on the table at the beginning of a game of 8-ball?" Answer: 16, including the cue ball. eh, i was so bored after I went home after that. Me and amanda played Boggle b/c everybody else was either doing homework, not around, or just didn't wanna do anything. I wanted to play video games, but Kelly was watching tv in the living room so we really couldn't. i can't wait to get a 2 bedroom apt! Okay, shower time.

Went Walmartin'

Well, last night I went to the mall, Old Navy, and Walmart w/ Amanda. I bought a shirt at Sear's. I traded a skirt for a pair of capri's at Old Navy (very cute). Then we went to Walmart and I bought A LOT! We put a PINK ironing board, a cast iron skillet, a shower curtain, and a couple of other things on layaway! Then I bought a pair of cleats, Spanglish/Mr. Deeds in a pack together, a PINK shower curtain, milk, cereal (the one w/ the lightsaber spoon), and like 4 other items...totalling over $60!!! OMG! I was SO shocked when it rung up!!!!! But oh, well, I guess that's what i get for not going to walmart for 3 weeks!

In other news, I hafta work today...big surprise there! But today there will 120 people walking through our doors! We're serving 4 soccer teams from Memphis, TN. FUN! We're gonna split the tip 3 ways, so i just hope everybody is gonna pull their own weight today!!!!

School Sucks

Basically, I'm not happy with school right now. After Monday, I have been wanting to quit everything about school except for free time. I just want to go back home to my room (no longer mine...it's a sewing room/storage room). I wanna go play with my cousins that are 2 and 5. I wanna read for fun. I dont wanna study, I dont wanna work at WEG anymore, I dont wanna do Finance stuff.

I also got a bit upset at Softball tonight b/c I'm not a part of their church. UGH! I just dont even wanna go into right now!!! But I did have fun at volleyball. And I sat out more than I ever have! But I talked to a lot of people that I havent talked to in a long time or that I get to that much. It was good.

Okay, right now, I know it's 1:24 in the AM, but I dont wanna go to bed! I just wanna stay up forever. I feel like i'm whining in this post, but hey, it's MINE! hehe... Okay, I do us all a favor and go to bed now! night!

Morning

What up g's? Sometimes, I really like the morning time...and I especially liked it today b/c I actually went to bed before my bedtime and i got almost 9 hours of sleep! How awesome is that?
And I took some good drugs (prescription, of course) that is supposed to clear up your sinuses and actually make you really sleepy! it worked! i woke up this morning w/ clear breathing! YES!

Well, I hafta work today...till 3:30. I hope laura knows to come in at that time! I will hafta let her know b/c i have class at 3:55 and i think she's supposed to come in at 4...oops! d-group is tonight and I am skipping girls SOS b/c i have a doubleheader softball game at 7 and 8 at the sportsplex..hint, hint...

okay that's it for my first entry! bye!

Jennifer and Lindsey...my friends I met in Orlando. Jennifer is from Texas and Lindsey is from New York. Of course, that's me on the right! :)