Update

Still working... feeling better...

Since I got sick, I used all my savings to see the doctor and get chest X-Rays and medicine... but I'm feeling better.

I just have bills to pay, and hated that I needed to see a doctor.

Oooh update. Starting next week I will officially be a night waitress, which doubles how much money I'll make. This week I'll still be morning shift, (35-40 a day) but next week I'll work only nights. (80-130) so I'm excited.

Waitressing...

Well the work is harder than I thought it would be, and it pays less than I thought it would, but it was only my first day. Turns out I had monday off, which wasn't that awesome because it was a holiday and people who worked that day made great money.

Today was so frustrating that two girls quit and we got saddled with even more tables than we could handle and because people kept coming in and filling it up and I couldn't get to them right away, or get them what they wanted right away... I didn't get very good tips.

But tomorrow is another day and I can't wait to try again. I've made a lot of friends and although it's hard and today wasn't all that good (I barely made minimum wage) I'm sure tomorrow will be better.

I didn't know your feet could actually go numb from pain... weird what being a waitress can teach you.

Also, I broke dishes, lost the hot pads behind the stove, slipped on water, spilled HOT coffee on my chest, and managed to mess up at least three tables worth of orders....

So in the long run Today wasn't that great, but maybe tomorrow will be.

I have to get used to doing things even if it's hard, and who says evereyone loves their jobs? (besides the first day is always the worst.)

Hey Guys

Hehe... Long time no post.

So I'm working at Cracker Barrel and I've been in training for SEVERAL days.... no wonder they were voted best family restaurant for 20 years in a row...

I'm still going to be doing training M-F until the 7th when the store opens. Then I will be a real waitress...

So I have been memorizing there menu and there are things they don't tell you. The biscuits and gravy meal.... is an ALL YOU CAN EAT... they will refill it as many times as you want. But you have to ask.

Or like you can ask for more Jelly but unless you do, they won't give it to you.

There were others but I can't think of them now... I just drooled over the biscuits and gravy thing.

So I gave out this blog address one more time, and I can still count all the people who read it on my fingers.... Mom, Jess, HE-do, Joanie, DK, (maybe) Kat, now Dad, and Kelly

Hi Dad Hi Kelly....

Truthfully I don't post much because nothing is really going on in my life so far, but here are my plans....

Work at Cracker Barrel for a year.... (Hopefully like 6-7 months) then transfer to one in Colorado so I can be a Colorado resident, then come August.... return to school as CSU Fort Collins.

So that's the plan...

I was also idly thinking about a trip to PA to see my nephews and niece, sister, brother, and some friends....

A VIDEO BLOG

I forgot Kat also read this blog, so here's to family and friends!!!!

Make sure my nephews and niece see this ok people?

Just Thinking...

So I was watching this show called Tru Calling. it's all about this girl who when she sees a dead body it asks for her help and the day restarts so she can save their lives.

Anyway, there was this episode where the day would keep restarting over and over, because there was one person she was supposed to save that she didn't. There was a little girl who needed a heart badly, and turns out after saving a store owner, a boy, the father of the sick girl, and again the father, she realizes that the father was supposed to die and give his heart to the little girl.

It made me think. A lot. About what I would give to save someone I loved. Truthfully, I would die to save them too. But I think the truest test of love is doing something you hate, really hate, to ensure that they benefit from it. I'm scared of going in the navy. I never really stick to anything I say I'll do and I hate having to do the same thing over and over, and with my siblings both reaching five or six years to graduate college I could do what I want and mooch off my parents and stay in school... but maybe, despite how hard the navy will be, and despite how it contradicts everything I really am, maybe enduring through it, just so there isn't more debt on mom... so there isn't another couple thousand that I'll beg off dad, maybe no matter if I'm scared of it, or nervous, or whether it might be the worst thing for me... it's the right choice.

I know there are a lot of benefits for me, but there are more just mooching off my parents and doing whatever I want.

So maybe I have grown up, even just a little. Just enough to realize that maybe to help the people I love, I will do what I fear, what I know will be hard, and what I may or may not want to do.

Just thoughts....

Sara

PS I fixed it so people without a blogspot ID can leave comments... Love you mom.

ok so updates....

well there really isn't much to update. I'm still trying to work out and eat right. The last couple days I haven't really been doing it though. It's just that I finally got the fable 2 game and xbox 360 console with my paycheck, and yes, I did pay my bills.... I just have to remember to mail them. That's what I did with my days off, and I go back into the fray bright and early tomorrow morning.

I miss you guys, you too DK (a friend who reads this blog... the only non family reader.)

I hope all is going well, but from talking to everyone it seems like it's been a bad start to the month, whether it was 3 year old Zen watching a murder (possibly) or the trouble with mom's divorce and house buying stuff.... I think we all need to remember that we WILL get through this period. Time is a strange beast. One day can seem like a lifetime (if you work at a zoo) and one day can seem like a drop in the bucket. Remember, it probably seems like a drop to mom when the trains were the hieght of technology.

I love you Joan. Remember that.

Love you Heather, Mom, and J-J (don't be mad about fable you'll be here soon!)

OK....

Apparently I misunderstood the situation with mom and her co workers. Mom wants me to say that she is definately NOT betraying anyone.... though it sounded like it when she first told me.

The zoo is busy, and fun, but I'm going to be putting in ten hour days everyday for the next two weeks. (Spring break) Apparently people want to go to the zoo then.... but the last three days has been cold, (42 degrees), wet, nonstop rain, and people who don't understand that no, the carousel ride is not free. IT IS A DOLLAR! One, just one, Dollar. No, kids do not ride free if they are under the size requirement. THEY DO NOT RIDE AT ALL.

of course there have only been about ten riders in the last three days due to the rain, temperature, and the cost.

I hope I'm not getting sick from being outside everyday in the cold, but it does wear a person out.