I even push my own due date back to Wednesdays, and it’s still late. Sorry gang. Happy Day-After-Humpday! Good news: one day of the workweek left for all of you with real jobs…uh, unlike myself.
Let’s see, since last Wednesday I’ve worked at the golf course five days. I feel like I never leave, and I’m finally getting the hang of how they operate. Thankfully all this is happening just in time for the end of summer. Better late than never, right?
Last Saturday I worked yet another Ozzfest at the glorious Alpine Valley Music Theater. Years past I’ve had to be in at 7 Am, but this year it was 8 AM. Believe you me, I was a happy girl. Not so happy that my stand didn’t have to be operational until 3 PM, however. Logic here? I’m not sure. There must have been some, but people just are not looking for $8 beer at 8 in the morning. Especially not when they can drink their less-than-$8-per-six-pack beer in the parking lot. The show went alright, though. I recognized maybe three songs anyone played all night…
Roma’s has been good. Last Sunday was slow, but my regular crowd was there, and they were a good time. This Saturday (as in the 29th, yes, two days from today) we’re hosting another comedian in the bar. $7 admission; show starts at 9:00. The lovely Kate and I will be there bartending, so we’d love for some of your friendly faces in the crowd. ; )
Volleyball last Thursday went well. We only lost one of the games (therefore winning the match), and it was a close back and forth battle. No shame there. Speaking of volleyball, I’ve gotta be getting there. Sorry again for the late update. Check for another one next Wednesday (fingers crossed), and hopefully it’ll have more links and whatnot.
Rebecca~
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
This Is What I Brought You, This You Can Keep
Another late update; my apologies. The last few days have been unbelievably busy. The beginning of the week started out nice and low key, though. Out to dinner a few times, got a dress for Kari’s wedding that Saturday, nothing too earth-shattering. (Except that I cleaned and reorganized my room Wednesday. This is the cleanest I’ve seen my room in years, no joke.)
Thursday I was called in early for the bev cart. Night owls like myself like to know when they will be expected to pull their strength-less bodies from their beds at an ungodly morning hour to go to work. Knowing is all I ask. Is that too much? Rhetorical question, because we’ve all heard me whine about this before. Luckily I was back again on Friday, making two financially underwhelming days in a row.
Not to let my workaholic self slack, I also worked a wedding Friday night after being on the cart all morning. It was a small group of 55, but the place was loud. After singing Karaoke Thursday night and yelling over the noise in the wedding Friday, I was well on my way to developing Sunday’s voiceless self.
Saturday morning I made my way to Neenah for grandma Kari’s wedding. It was so cute to see her and Dan together, all dolled up and finally tying the knot. Speaking of all dolled up, recall the dress I purchased earlier in the week? So I arrived at the Venessa’s house to get ready for the ceremony, and Kaplan walks out of the house already dressed. “What a cute dress!” I think to myself. Upon further inspection, even after spending 2 months apart we still have the exact same taste: we picked out the exact same dress. As if people didn’t confuse the two of us enough!
The ceremony was short, like 25 minutes. It was nice because it was 100˚+ outside, but coming from a Catholic family I wondered where the rest of the wedding went. The reception was really nice too. The room was gorgeous, and there was a cheesecake on every table. What more could a girl want?
Of course I had to be back for work again on Sunday. Last week Sunday lunch was super busy, so I came in early to help with the lunch crowd if need be. We saw all of 6 people. Oh, that must have been because they all showed up for dinnertime. I usually see in the ballpark of 20 people my entire Sunday, but this week I had more than 20 in the bar for a good few hours. I never realized how much the heat really convinces people to go or order out!
Monday I worked for Kate so she could prepare for a speech. Once again I was really busy from what I remember of her Mondays. I also thought about sitting down to write this last Monday, but I wrote a review for the comedy show Roma’s hosted on Saturday instead, and I was out of writing creativity. Anyone in the ET area who wants to come to the next one, let me know. It’s Saturday, July 29th at 9 PM.
I had to work bright and early at the golf course again on Tuesday morning. After 3 hours of sleep and sleep deprivation since the last time I worked, this felt like one of the longest shifts I’ve had. Nonetheless, I came home and attempted to write this update. And fell asleep. That’s right, I was sitting on my bed with my laptop, paused for a moment, and fell asleep. I think we’re good now. I hope.
Happy Humpday, readers!
Rebecca~
Thursday I was called in early for the bev cart. Night owls like myself like to know when they will be expected to pull their strength-less bodies from their beds at an ungodly morning hour to go to work. Knowing is all I ask. Is that too much? Rhetorical question, because we’ve all heard me whine about this before. Luckily I was back again on Friday, making two financially underwhelming days in a row.
Not to let my workaholic self slack, I also worked a wedding Friday night after being on the cart all morning. It was a small group of 55, but the place was loud. After singing Karaoke Thursday night and yelling over the noise in the wedding Friday, I was well on my way to developing Sunday’s voiceless self.
Saturday morning I made my way to Neenah for grandma Kari’s wedding. It was so cute to see her and Dan together, all dolled up and finally tying the knot. Speaking of all dolled up, recall the dress I purchased earlier in the week? So I arrived at the Venessa’s house to get ready for the ceremony, and Kaplan walks out of the house already dressed. “What a cute dress!” I think to myself. Upon further inspection, even after spending 2 months apart we still have the exact same taste: we picked out the exact same dress. As if people didn’t confuse the two of us enough!
The ceremony was short, like 25 minutes. It was nice because it was 100˚+ outside, but coming from a Catholic family I wondered where the rest of the wedding went. The reception was really nice too. The room was gorgeous, and there was a cheesecake on every table. What more could a girl want?
Of course I had to be back for work again on Sunday. Last week Sunday lunch was super busy, so I came in early to help with the lunch crowd if need be. We saw all of 6 people. Oh, that must have been because they all showed up for dinnertime. I usually see in the ballpark of 20 people my entire Sunday, but this week I had more than 20 in the bar for a good few hours. I never realized how much the heat really convinces people to go or order out!
Monday I worked for Kate so she could prepare for a speech. Once again I was really busy from what I remember of her Mondays. I also thought about sitting down to write this last Monday, but I wrote a review for the comedy show Roma’s hosted on Saturday instead, and I was out of writing creativity. Anyone in the ET area who wants to come to the next one, let me know. It’s Saturday, July 29th at 9 PM.
I had to work bright and early at the golf course again on Tuesday morning. After 3 hours of sleep and sleep deprivation since the last time I worked, this felt like one of the longest shifts I’ve had. Nonetheless, I came home and attempted to write this update. And fell asleep. That’s right, I was sitting on my bed with my laptop, paused for a moment, and fell asleep. I think we’re good now. I hope.
Happy Humpday, readers!
Rebecca~
Monday, July 10, 2006
Did I Shave My Legs For This?
Once again it’s Monday, but it’s currently 2:30 AM, technically still my Monday, so I feel better about that. I do, however, have a mosquito bite in the arch of my foot; I feel worse about that. All in all I think it averages out. Any grievances can be addressed to my complaint department.
All in all I’ve had a pretty interesting week. Let’s just lay out the ground rules, though, and refrain from mentioning the B-name. Haven’t talked to him since Monday. We’re through. Wednesday I had an awesome time visiting Steph and Mike and Kent and Alex in Ripon. We had cheap Chinese food and watched TV and just hung out. It was amazingly fun in its own relaxing sort of way.
Volleyball went alright this Thursday. Despite my own inconsistent performance, we won the first two games and just narrowly lost the third.
Friday was my second and last of the Axe Body Spray promotions at area Wal-Marts (not really on the pic). This one was worse than the last. For some reason I ran out of scent cards (you know, the pieces of cardboard you spray stuff on that people can take with them) two hours before the promo was supposed to end. For whatever reason, it was much more difficult to get the West Bend customers to let you spray the Axe right on them than it was in Lake Geneva. Read: The last two hours were a huge waste of time.
Saturday night and tonight I closed at Roma’s. Knowing people rocks. That’s all I have to say to summarize the two evenings. Besides creepy thin man, I really don’t have any good stories, and that one isn’t really a good story, just creepy and weird.
Best wishes to Grandma Kari with the last minute plans and her wedding this weekend. Congrats to Sammi on five months with child. Happy Birthday to Ms. Katie on Thursday, and best of luck in California.
Hopefully I’ll have some good wedding stories for next week’s update.
All in all I’ve had a pretty interesting week. Let’s just lay out the ground rules, though, and refrain from mentioning the B-name. Haven’t talked to him since Monday. We’re through. Wednesday I had an awesome time visiting Steph and Mike and Kent and Alex in Ripon. We had cheap Chinese food and watched TV and just hung out. It was amazingly fun in its own relaxing sort of way.
Volleyball went alright this Thursday. Despite my own inconsistent performance, we won the first two games and just narrowly lost the third.
Friday was my second and last of the Axe Body Spray promotions at area Wal-Marts (not really on the pic). This one was worse than the last. For some reason I ran out of scent cards (you know, the pieces of cardboard you spray stuff on that people can take with them) two hours before the promo was supposed to end. For whatever reason, it was much more difficult to get the West Bend customers to let you spray the Axe right on them than it was in Lake Geneva. Read: The last two hours were a huge waste of time.
Saturday night and tonight I closed at Roma’s. Knowing people rocks. That’s all I have to say to summarize the two evenings. Besides creepy thin man, I really don’t have any good stories, and that one isn’t really a good story, just creepy and weird.
Best wishes to Grandma Kari with the last minute plans and her wedding this weekend. Congrats to Sammi on five months with child. Happy Birthday to Ms. Katie on Thursday, and best of luck in California.
Hopefully I’ll have some good wedding stories for next week’s update.
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
"I Don't Want To Stand Here And Say I'm Sorry. I Just Want To Drink Beer And Play Atari. You Can Tell Your Mom How I Make My Money. I Don't Care."
Happy 4th of July! Well, at least it was when I typed this... The internet is on the fritz.
It’s been a busy week. I worked somewhere or another every day except last Tuesday. Monday night Brian tried to catch a line drive during rec league softball with his ankle. He wouldn’t let me take him to the hospital to get it checked out until Tuesday, though. Luckily it wasn’t broken, but understandably it was still pretty painful. Tuesday I spent the day taking care of him, so that was pretty much like work anyway. Good work, though.
Thursday I got a special visit from Steph all the way from Ripon. It was gorgeous out, and we got to spend the day on the lake relaxing. LOVELY! Today was great too. AMAZING weather. If you weren’t outside today, you should have been.
Friday was interesting. I did another promotion for Axe, this time for the Body Spray. I’m pretty sure I said, “have you experienced the Axe Effect?” about a thousand times. And don’t get me wrong, I’ve done enough work for Axe that I’ve learned to love the smell, but it was so poorly ventilated that I was gettin pretty light-headed. I can’t wait to do it all again this Friday.
Saturday and Sunday Dave Matthews graced Alpine Valley. The crowd was surprisingly better the first night than the second. After the show on Sunday some fans got into my beer cooler and thought it would be funny to chuck 7 kegs down the lawn (6 empty, 1 full). As far as I’ve heard no one was hurt, just some fences.
Last night we got to watch the Summerfest fireworks at Veteran’s Park from the sweet spot Elise’s family staked out. After the show we headed over to Katie’s apartment and got to meet Elise’s new boyfriend, Matt. He survived all of our interrogation and initiation. Props to him!
I still haven’t worked at Geneva National since before I left for Florida. I couldn’t explain that if I wanted to. It’s frustrating, though. Roma’s was busy last week, but I won’t be there until Saturday night this week. I missed the last 3 sand volleyball games, though: the 1st 2 for Florida, then last week because of last-minute work. If anyone is interested in coming this Thursday, let me know.
It’s been a busy week. I worked somewhere or another every day except last Tuesday. Monday night Brian tried to catch a line drive during rec league softball with his ankle. He wouldn’t let me take him to the hospital to get it checked out until Tuesday, though. Luckily it wasn’t broken, but understandably it was still pretty painful. Tuesday I spent the day taking care of him, so that was pretty much like work anyway. Good work, though.
Thursday I got a special visit from Steph all the way from Ripon. It was gorgeous out, and we got to spend the day on the lake relaxing. LOVELY! Today was great too. AMAZING weather. If you weren’t outside today, you should have been.
Friday was interesting. I did another promotion for Axe, this time for the Body Spray. I’m pretty sure I said, “have you experienced the Axe Effect?” about a thousand times. And don’t get me wrong, I’ve done enough work for Axe that I’ve learned to love the smell, but it was so poorly ventilated that I was gettin pretty light-headed. I can’t wait to do it all again this Friday.
Saturday and Sunday Dave Matthews graced Alpine Valley. The crowd was surprisingly better the first night than the second. After the show on Sunday some fans got into my beer cooler and thought it would be funny to chuck 7 kegs down the lawn (6 empty, 1 full). As far as I’ve heard no one was hurt, just some fences.
Last night we got to watch the Summerfest fireworks at Veteran’s Park from the sweet spot Elise’s family staked out. After the show we headed over to Katie’s apartment and got to meet Elise’s new boyfriend, Matt. He survived all of our interrogation and initiation. Props to him!
I still haven’t worked at Geneva National since before I left for Florida. I couldn’t explain that if I wanted to. It’s frustrating, though. Roma’s was busy last week, but I won’t be there until Saturday night this week. I missed the last 3 sand volleyball games, though: the 1st 2 for Florida, then last week because of last-minute work. If anyone is interested in coming this Thursday, let me know.
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