Is it Sunday yet?

So we're both sick now. Drinking fluids and trying to get pity parties at work. Our fingers are crossed that we'll be better by Sunday so we can enjoy the haunted hay ride which we're going to no matter what! I'm tired of blogging about Biggest loser and Little Joey (no offense little joey). We've decided to treat ourselves and we're trying to plan a trip to Ptown for Halloween. We're very excited but still havn't booked anything because we have to see if our requests for work went through. Yesterday was my day off but I recieved a phone call around four o clock from Ian, my manager, asking me to come in since they didn't realize they were understaffed. They made the schedule with Wenderson on it and then fired him. How on Earth did they not realize they would have one less person every day he was supposed to work? I noticed right away and figured they had to have known but didn't care. So I ironed my shirt quick and rushed to work. Bye-bye day of rest. I can't wait to find out what I made. When I tell you you're gonna laugh. A hundred bucks means an awesome night and last night was not particulary awesome. Me and my silly ideas with this restaurant. My next day off is Sunday now. I'm hoping they feel overstaffed tonight with four backwaiters and one training back waiter and they send me home since I was supposed to be off last night. When Rach and I finally eat there next month this will all be worth it. If we order the nine course tasting, they'll totally send us a bunch of extra courses and give us special treatment. I hear all the time with tastings that its "the best food we've ever had". Man, I can't wait. -lj

A Bahston Shinah!

False Alarm! Joey is Okay! The morsels are gone. But turning our attention toward another mystery that I somehow forgot to tell you about... I woke up Monday morning to a very peculiar thing. Well, Iactually didn't wake up to it. We woke up normal and shared a pot of coffee while watching TV on the couch, as we do every morning. Nothing out of the ordinary so far. We decided to go for a run around the lake and I got up to change into my running clothes. As I pulled my sweatshirt over my head Rachel squinted at me and asked me what was wrong with my face. "What did you do? What is that?" I figured a fuzz was stuck to my face and I glided my hand across my cheeks, chin and forehead. Her squint remained. "You have a black eye". A black eye? My thoughts immediatly brought up the memory of the pepto bismol turned black tongue in Denver. Why must these weirdo things always happen to me? I didn't hit my eye or anything, did I? I walked into the bathroom to inspect this supposed "black eye". Surely it was a mistake. A smudge of dirt smeared in just the right spot to make it look like I was punched in the face. I looked into the mirror to find million dollar baby staring back at me. I don't sleep well so its common for me, especially without a tan, to have dark circles under my eyes, but this was different. I hadn't drank the night before, I didn't trip into anything, yet there it was. I had a bit of a shiner going on and I have no idea how it got there. WebMD to the rescue says maybe its sinuses. I finally realized there's a bit of a sore spot by my cheekbone, maybe I hit it in my sleep. Bottom line is I have a black eye and have no explanation for it. My coworker, Courtney, suggests that Little Joey is angry at me for trying to catch him and so he beats me while I sleep. Crazy enough, its the best explanation I can think of. -lj

Little Joey?

Alright people,we have an issue over here. While Rach and I were walking down the driveway today to head to the lake we noticed a dead mouse that had been ran over by a car. Now, it hasn't been confirmed that its Joey,but I'm sorry to say we fear the worst. We've set morsels in the usual spot for our little friend and will leave them there with high hopes while we're at work. Please send positive thoughts that the morsels are gone when we return. We'd sure miss our little friend. -lj

trick or treat

Trying to think of a good halloween costume can be so stressful. I told Rachel I wanted to be an American Eagle model and that I had to go shopping for a costume. She didn't quite go for it. Any ideas? -lj

tell me something funny

Rach and I are sitting in the living room watching "The Biggest Loser". One of the women on the show has just been given the privilage of choosing which contestant goes on which of two teams. There are currently 13 contestants. She must choose 6 people for the blue team and 6 people for the black team. The remaining person stays off a team for now and recieves immunity for the week. She is allowed to choose herself if she wishes. In one of those one on one confession/discussions with one of the contestants (i'm assuming its wrong to call them losers?) one of the guys say "Who wouldn't want immunity? Nothing is more important than immunity." Rachel then sits up and proceeds to yell angerly at the television. "Yes there is dude!" She seemed genuinly disappointed at the mans priorities. "It's called weightloss! Weightloss!" Not sure if this story is funny to read, but it sure was funny when it happened....................................................................................... another quick funny thing... I looked up side effects from ambien earlier. The list of rare but serious side effects was huge ranging from spasm of the esophugus to rectal hemmoraging. All sounding like serious serious stuff. The last rare side effect however...was yawning. Yawning. Had a good laugh over that too. -lj

all books end in tragedy

Ifinished my book today! I was reading East is East by my favorite fictional author, T.C Boyle. This is the fourth and a half book I've read of his (my last book was accidentally thrown out half way through) and yet each time I'm shocked when it ends tragically. You'd think I'd see it coming by now. Tuesdays with Morrie has been patiently awaiting my attention on the bookshelf and I'm excited for the things it will perhaps teach me. I'll try to keep you updated on how I'm finding the highly recommended piece. Finishing books always carries contradicting sensations. On one hand, you absolutely can't wait to find out how everything pans out in the end so you blast through the last twenty pages like Anna Nicole Smith in the reading of said spouses' last will and testament. On the other hand, once you turn that last page you have to mourn the loss of all those characters you've grown obssessed with since the first chapter. My favorite part of TC Boyle's writing his master over characterization and I always find myself pretty upset that his characters will no longer be apart of my life after I'm finished with the book. Poor Rachel is sick and I was lucky enough to get cut from work today so we could actually have a night off together. So far we've been sitting on the couch reading for an hour because I needed to blast through those last twenty pages. We went grocery shopping today. Have I told you that grocery shopping is one of our favorite things to do? Does that make us big girls? We have Sunday night off together and we hope she's feeling better so we can go on a haunted hay ride, which I'm totally psyched about. Whats more fun than pretending you're totally not scared infront of a pretty girl? The answer is pretending your totally not scared infront of a pretty girl when she's completely terrified. I hope she feels better. -lj

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So the good news is that I told my job I was leaving at the end of Novemeber and they were totally cool about it. The bad news is that because I felt bad that I couldn't work Christmas eve or News Years even I offered to work Thanksgiving. You have to work two of the three holidays and I obviously won't be here for two of them. I insisted Rachel fly to Buffalo for Turkey Day since I'll be at work. I hate missing holidays with my family. Imiss them enough on a daily basis let alone missing them on a day thats about being with your family. And I'm working Thanksgiving and the two days after that so its not even like a can spend a little time there. We will probably stop there for a night or two on our way to Florida though. We're so pumped about Florida and the road trip to get there. We're gonna really stretch this trip out since we know people all along the coast that we can stay with. For now we must work to enjoy Boston. I think I've told myself so many times by now I don't like it that I started to really believe it, but its not so bad. I've started going on walks along the Charles River and I think its probably my favorite thing to do here. Rach's parents have book they're trip and are coming to visit us in about two weeks which is ALWAYS a good time. The weather today is beauitiful so we're going to go running and get some errands done as well. Little Joey is still at large and I havn't done a morsel test in a while to see if he's still around. I think I'll do that today while we're out. Enjoy the day everyone! -lj