Wednesday, October 18, 2006

   OMG! Has it really been THAT long since I've last been here?!
*groans and shakes head* I'm so bad.. I never meant to stay away so long, really I didn't! I haven't been depressed or anything like that. I just.. forgot... and being lazy has it's part to play too I suppose... ^_^; Oops.. Sorry guys! I'll try to update more often! So now to what's been up with me lately.

Well, I finally got myself a job! Yay!! *dances* I work at Cold Stone Creamery and I make and decorate the cakes. ^_^ If you don't know what Cold Stone is look it up, and if you do look it up anyway and look at the cakes and feel my greatness. lol Anyway, I've been working there since.. um sometime in June and.. I HATE IT!! That place is a slave shop in disquise!!! O_O HELP!!!! The bosses could order you to walk off a cliff and die with a smile on their faces!! *deep breath* ... Ok, so it's not THAT bad, but it sure isn't the happy-go-lucky good time you might think it is if you come by. I would rather not go into details at this time, but I know they're sure working me to death. The owner, Gus, of the store I work at opened another store which is actually much closer to my house. Now, they have me go over there and start making cakes, like I'm some kind of machine, to fill the new 90 cake holding freezer they have. Did I mention he also wanted me to make extra? Now when this store finally opens they decide to keep me at the other store, despite it being a two bus ride for me to get there while the new one is a 15 minute walk. And never mind that the new store is in fact teh one I had acutally auditioned for, yes audition (check their website). On top of all that they started working me on both stores! Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday at the downtown store and Thursday at the Grosse Point store(the new one). Odd as it was I didn't think it would be too bad. How wrong I was.. First off you need to know that these are ice cream cakes and making them isn't like making regular cakes. There's the building step, and the topping step which is when we frost and decorate them after they're hard enough which takes about 6 or 7 hours, for teh round pans anyway.. Building cakes has got to be one of the most boring, annoying, and at times frustrating things to do, but it's got to be done anyway. So tell me why nearly every time I go to the Grosse Point store I end up having to build those God Damn Cakes?! Yes decorating is easy and fun, but it's not right that I hardly get to do it because there aren't any built cakes in the freezer!! >_< And it's not just at the Grosse Point store either! Downtown there is another cake person, believe it or not. She works the afternoon shift. Oh, another thing I forgot to mention, they have me coming in at 6 AM!! They don't open till 11! Ugh.. So anyway, she always tops tops tops! Does she refill the pans? Hell no! And when she does it's mostly with teh least popular cakes that we have too many of anyway! Why? Cause the ice cream those require is always softer and is easier to scoop. *grumble grumble* I hate the hard ass ice cream of the popular cakes too, but I still build them. And build and build and build.. *sighs* Do you know I've scooped that hard ice cream and build those damn cakes so damn much all the time that it's affected my whole right arm? It hurts when I move it around, I think I have carpal tunnel, and my fingers sometimes lock up on me when I wake up and try to flex them. I know what you're thinking, but telling my bosses has produced no help and I'd gladly quit but I have no other job. So in the meantime I'm job searching, being a bit lazier in my job (why should I bust my ass and suffer when no one else is?), and sleeping like a rock all the time.

And THAT ladies and gentlemen, is why I haven't been around so much. *bow* Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to grab something to eat before hitting the record button on my VCR and going to sleep. Grosse Point awaits me tomorrow.. At least I come in at 10 there.. I'll try to visit everyone's sites tomorrow.. If I get off in time to get to the library that is.. Otherwise I'll see you guys Saturday.. (Did I mention tehy want me to work Saturdays now too? *scoff* Madness!)
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