i just spent a bit trying to figure out how to make a new post which i see as a sign that maybe i should do this more...?
its spring here in Scotland which makes me so homesick for America it is unreal. this is a yearly occurrence but i cant somehow think that my nearing birthday has something to do with it as well,i will never be a kid in Indiana again,or a teen,or a 20 something. and at this rate i will never experience a hot summer night.it does get nice here but not HOT the way it is when its midnight and its still miserable and you cant move or sleep and the only thing you can do is drink in the light of the porch light.even if it did get like that here i dont think they have porches and it would most likely be a national emergency.
it is really windy here almost all the time,it makes for a nice breeze which i would have welcomed back home but i guess absence makes the heart grow fonder. over the last 7 0dd years or so i have become so fond of America..
most of the time i feel so over saturated in British culture,and home feels so far away,even though this is my home now...i dont think people really "get it" here.my husband and i talk about this fact alot-i am not one of those Americans that WANTED to move here and become British..those really annoying people that PRETEND they are not American or Canadian or whatever...and seem angry or embarrassed of where they come from.like they have become so European they are more European than the Europeans..
anyhow,thats not me so on that note God bless America,keep rocking!!!
Saturday, 10 April 2010
Monday, 1 March 2010
the new year
it has been 2 months now since i became the manager(officially) of the bar i work in and just when i think nothing else will break SOMETHING else breaks!!! part of the "manager" job is being able to manage i guess,although i just thought of that.so its being able to manage on your own and also manage the other people! i think I'm pretty good at both of those,but its pretty hard,even easy management jobs can be really hard work.
my job is in general pretty easy,not only do i get to "manage" the bar but today apparently i shop for supplies in freezing cold weather, i make huge pots of soup,gigantic batches of salsa,create both bbq chicken and bbq tofu toastie fillings! i also write blurbs for websites and fix glass washing machines.when im not doing those fun filled activities i clean toilets and urinals! i also pour pints of Tennents lager,Guinness,Stella-boy the list goes on!! if I'm really lucky pints of orange cordial and lemonade,sometimes 4 in a row!!
lately ive been mastering re-setting boilers,completely re-programing tills(that's a cash register outside of America) during the 5 o clock friday rush,simple math,HD TV,food thermometers,neon lighting,laminating machines and CCTV amongst other things!
if i have any time left after all that i like to stare at brown liquid dripping out of light fixtures in ceilings,or re-count piles of money!!
i like to make sure i think of everyone elses holidays before my own and i make sure i am there to pick up the slack when they are gone.
sometimes i do really tedious things like pick blue tac off sporting event posters and signs that have been hanging up.
when i feel like Ive been slacking at work i like to go and get myself a raging hangover,i usually time this perfectly with being to work around 9 am,usually at this point i like to wonder which football,rugby,tennis or golf games are on that weekend & how much extra stock i need to order! all of this is the kind of thing that really keeps me on my toes!
tomorrow i look forward to my very first stock take and breaking the news to the stock taker that we cant get a stock report for the last 2 months due to our till breaking-people like me really thrive in situations like these.after i accomplish that task i plan on figuring out how to get at least 1 huge pots worth of soup,several bags of tortilla chips,a bucket of salsa and a huge box of frozen bread across town spending as little money as possible!
i plan on checking and updating several social networking sites for my bar,updating menus and writing more blurbs!
i would say i have a pretty jam packed week ahead of me!!
i have made it to the top!!
this is management!!!
my job is in general pretty easy,not only do i get to "manage" the bar but today apparently i shop for supplies in freezing cold weather, i make huge pots of soup,gigantic batches of salsa,create both bbq chicken and bbq tofu toastie fillings! i also write blurbs for websites and fix glass washing machines.when im not doing those fun filled activities i clean toilets and urinals! i also pour pints of Tennents lager,Guinness,Stella-boy the list goes on!! if I'm really lucky pints of orange cordial and lemonade,sometimes 4 in a row!!
lately ive been mastering re-setting boilers,completely re-programing tills(that's a cash register outside of America) during the 5 o clock friday rush,simple math,HD TV,food thermometers,neon lighting,laminating machines and CCTV amongst other things!
if i have any time left after all that i like to stare at brown liquid dripping out of light fixtures in ceilings,or re-count piles of money!!
i like to make sure i think of everyone elses holidays before my own and i make sure i am there to pick up the slack when they are gone.
sometimes i do really tedious things like pick blue tac off sporting event posters and signs that have been hanging up.
when i feel like Ive been slacking at work i like to go and get myself a raging hangover,i usually time this perfectly with being to work around 9 am,usually at this point i like to wonder which football,rugby,tennis or golf games are on that weekend & how much extra stock i need to order! all of this is the kind of thing that really keeps me on my toes!
tomorrow i look forward to my very first stock take and breaking the news to the stock taker that we cant get a stock report for the last 2 months due to our till breaking-people like me really thrive in situations like these.after i accomplish that task i plan on figuring out how to get at least 1 huge pots worth of soup,several bags of tortilla chips,a bucket of salsa and a huge box of frozen bread across town spending as little money as possible!
i plan on checking and updating several social networking sites for my bar,updating menus and writing more blurbs!
i would say i have a pretty jam packed week ahead of me!!
i have made it to the top!!
this is management!!!
Thursday, 21 January 2010
i am an elevator fixing expert!!!
yesterday i got a chord to an intercom system stuck down the lift shaft at work,getting the lift stuck and preventing the lift door from opening! it started out as a pretty genius idea for communicating with whoever is downstairs and it quickly escalated to a very high stress nightmare! not only was there a group of men drinking at the bar directly in front of the lift-watching my every move-but there where customers to be served and toasties to be made!!
after the conclusion that the lift doors could not be opened by sheer force,or even the FORCE the depression kicked in! knowing i would have to call a maintenance man in the first 10 days as manager was just too much!! how much would that cost? my world was crashing down,how many other things had gone wrong since i "took over"?the CCTV broke and we got a £70 call out charge for them to tell me the monitor was broken,the Internet is down AGAIN,the retractable awning wont extend out.....the beer cooler isn't cooling? the draught soda wasn't bubbly?!!!
why me i thought? I'm not cut out for this!!! i will surely end up a prescription drug addict from this job!!!
but i held tight and mustered up the confidence that i could figure something out and with a little tip from one of the guys that's been there about as long as the lift its self(and a screwdriver) i took apart the control panel on both the top and bottom floor doors of the lift!
i tried several different things and poked screwdrivers into a few different shaped holes to try and release something...finally i found a kind of spring like thing that totally released the door!!! i then was in the lift!! i quickly identified the problem,the inner doors had opened preventing the lift from moving further! with the help of an extra long handled feather duster and a huge torch(flash light) i was able to get the chord out,keep the intercom in the lift and close the doors, then sending the lift back up!!!
it was solved,the suspense was over!!!! i did it!!!! i had beaten my job,yet again!! maybe i could do it after all!!!??
i took this opportunity to rescue 6 kitchen knives and one cutting board,countless tea spoons,a mini disk recorder,a newspaper and a bag of shrimp scampi fried snacks from the bottom of the lift shaft!!!!
it was on to the next crisis for me!! in my head there was applause and champagne bursts,confetti and balloons!!! in reality there was my husband looking proud and knowing all along that i could do it,which is way better than all those other things!!
in short,i won again!
after the conclusion that the lift doors could not be opened by sheer force,or even the FORCE the depression kicked in! knowing i would have to call a maintenance man in the first 10 days as manager was just too much!! how much would that cost? my world was crashing down,how many other things had gone wrong since i "took over"?the CCTV broke and we got a £70 call out charge for them to tell me the monitor was broken,the Internet is down AGAIN,the retractable awning wont extend out.....the beer cooler isn't cooling? the draught soda wasn't bubbly?!!!
why me i thought? I'm not cut out for this!!! i will surely end up a prescription drug addict from this job!!!
but i held tight and mustered up the confidence that i could figure something out and with a little tip from one of the guys that's been there about as long as the lift its self(and a screwdriver) i took apart the control panel on both the top and bottom floor doors of the lift!
i tried several different things and poked screwdrivers into a few different shaped holes to try and release something...finally i found a kind of spring like thing that totally released the door!!! i then was in the lift!! i quickly identified the problem,the inner doors had opened preventing the lift from moving further! with the help of an extra long handled feather duster and a huge torch(flash light) i was able to get the chord out,keep the intercom in the lift and close the doors, then sending the lift back up!!!
it was solved,the suspense was over!!!! i did it!!!! i had beaten my job,yet again!! maybe i could do it after all!!!??
i took this opportunity to rescue 6 kitchen knives and one cutting board,countless tea spoons,a mini disk recorder,a newspaper and a bag of shrimp scampi fried snacks from the bottom of the lift shaft!!!!
it was on to the next crisis for me!! in my head there was applause and champagne bursts,confetti and balloons!!! in reality there was my husband looking proud and knowing all along that i could do it,which is way better than all those other things!!
in short,i won again!
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
going out...
this is my very first post on my very first blog ever!!
today it seems sunny outside but i don't have any reason to go out there now.
i was going to go to the post office but not anymore! I'm glad too since the closest post office here isn't very good,its in a little supermarket and all that it consists of is an aisle type thing,some bad stained carpet and a few very angry people! it smells bad and is generally unpleasant what with the security guard that follows you around!
in fact any time i have been to the post office in edinburgh it has been trying for me.
call me american but last time i checked postal workers are here to help!!
last time i went i thought i had everything i needed,scissors,the addresses,stuff i needed to send-i was planning on purchasing the envelopes there,i got to the end of the block and realized i had forgotten my sharpie so i had to return home,i was tempted to just stay there!!
be advised that you need to bring everything with you,they don't have supplies like tape and pens for you to use,at least not free of charge!
considering the amount of foreign people in the UK one might think that the postal workers would be a bit patient and willing to explain how things work but as a first timer at one of the post offices in leith i found out the hard way!i felt i had to defend myself and explain what a post office is like where i come from,what they have to offer! here if your stuff does not fit in the shabby boxes they have for sale you are shit out of luck,no packing tape on hand to help you out!!if it gets there in one piece consider yourself lucky!
so I'm glad i dont have to go to the post office today,instead I'm staying in with today's shipment of husband straight home from canada!
its a good day,its an even better day than i thought it was!
today it seems sunny outside but i don't have any reason to go out there now.
i was going to go to the post office but not anymore! I'm glad too since the closest post office here isn't very good,its in a little supermarket and all that it consists of is an aisle type thing,some bad stained carpet and a few very angry people! it smells bad and is generally unpleasant what with the security guard that follows you around!
in fact any time i have been to the post office in edinburgh it has been trying for me.
call me american but last time i checked postal workers are here to help!!
last time i went i thought i had everything i needed,scissors,the addresses,stuff i needed to send-i was planning on purchasing the envelopes there,i got to the end of the block and realized i had forgotten my sharpie so i had to return home,i was tempted to just stay there!!
be advised that you need to bring everything with you,they don't have supplies like tape and pens for you to use,at least not free of charge!
considering the amount of foreign people in the UK one might think that the postal workers would be a bit patient and willing to explain how things work but as a first timer at one of the post offices in leith i found out the hard way!i felt i had to defend myself and explain what a post office is like where i come from,what they have to offer! here if your stuff does not fit in the shabby boxes they have for sale you are shit out of luck,no packing tape on hand to help you out!!if it gets there in one piece consider yourself lucky!
so I'm glad i dont have to go to the post office today,instead I'm staying in with today's shipment of husband straight home from canada!
its a good day,its an even better day than i thought it was!
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