Excessive

Today was a long day, I worked for twelve hours today, from 7am to 7pm, and even though I technically signed out at 5pm, I continued to work until 7pm when I got a ride with Julie. You see, it takes an hour and a half to get home on a bus; If things don't match up, it can take two hours to get home, and Julie offered me a ride home since she lives so close, but the catch would be I'd have to stay at work for a couple hours. I wasn't just going to sit around and be bored, so I just said I'd do light work while I waited, just to keep busy cause I didn't mind helping out.

Anyway, I should start from the top first, instead of starting near the end. I woke up at 6:15am or so, and made my breakfast of two pieces of rye toast and a coffee. Julie eventually came and picked me up and she drove me to work... she was supposed to come in at 8am, but due to the fact that I started only one hour earlier and she wanted time to get ahead, she decided to come in early and give me a ride, which is awesome cause it saves me $15.

I cleaned out the meat/soup/sauce fridge at the end of my shift.

Once at work, the entire day is this kind of... blur... that all kinda blends together into one huge, long event, but I can break it down into a series of steps. First, I had to put out a hot continental for the hotel guests, which is scrambled eggs, hashbrowns, sausage, bacon, fruit salad, yogurt, bread, bagels... etc... and that always takes about 30 to 40 minutes, since the meat takes quite awhile to cook in the ovens because when I first turn them on it takes awhile to get up to tempurature.

After that continental, which doesn't end until 10, and I need to keep the food full and hot, with the help of Rob, who checks the food and asks for what he needs and even helps me make it sometimes. But once the food is full and things have calmed down a tiny bit, which starts at like 8:01am, I start to get all of brunch ready, which this week was pretty easy and relaxed, because the day before I, and Mark, got a shitload of stuff ready for it, which really lowered the amount of work I had to do. Julie was helping by putting a soup on and warming jus and stuff, and I got the hot food taken care of and finished up the cold food, and Kyle's best friend Brice came over and helped bring some of the food over. It was a lot of work, but I got brunch out on time and it was set up well, Mark and Matt pretty much took care of the majority of the replenishing, only having to call over to me for eggs benedict, buffet veg and a few random things from time to time.

As soon as brunch was out, we had a lunch buffet (seperate from anything so far) that we had to put out for some douche who graduated and thought they'd have a little party buffet on father's day at the same time brunch was happening. This involves six bowls of different salads, buns and butter, soup, three (I think) entrees, a cheese tray, fruit trays, cakes... I'm sure there was more. It's not something you can just half pay attention to.

During the prep for that buffet, Kyle made a cake mirror, which is what we do when we have a bunch of cakes that are missing pieces but are still good cake. We put them on a mirror, and put them in a nice design to display them, and anyway, Kyle made a cake mirror and immediately got trolled by Julie, who veto'd the cake mirror. It was pretty funny, especially because Kyle took it well and found the humor in it, and we joked around about it. Anyway, I took a picture of Kyle's mirror, and then got a new mirror and moved the pieces of cake over and created my version of a cake mirror to show him ideas on how to set up the flow and design. I took a picture of mine, and here, for comparison purposes, and for making Kyle LOL, are the two pictures:

Kyle's Cake Mirror Picture

Jordan's Cake Mirror Picture

Anyway, that was good for a bit of laughter in the afternoon. After the lunch buffet went out, Julie went and put in an order for Monday, and Kyle and I started working on the father's day BBQ prep that was still to be done, which involved making this super fatty but awesome potato salad, which was a special potato, chive, bacon salad... We just made it up as we went along; It was mostly Julie who made up the ingredients, she made a sauce for it, instead of mixing mayo into it, we made this more tangy, ranch style sauce, and we added in fresh chopped chives, small bacon pieces, the sauce, and then the special ingredient... a bunch of bacon fat that I had saved from the tons of bacon I cooked for breakfast and brunch.

There was a marinated tomato salad, which was just tomatoes, sliced red onion, oregano vinegrette, dried basil and some fresh rosemary. Along with the potato and tomato salads, there was coleslaw, mixed greens, caesar salad... The rest of the food was very BBQ-ish, bbq'd new york steaks, salmon, chicken breasts, mashed potatoes, corn on the cob, sauteed mushrooms, steak and potato soup... lots of stuff, oh yeah, and an ice crema bar which was a pain in the ass.

It's is rumoured cavemen drew this upon their walls many years ago, some sort of story perhaps, telling of their gods? Their beliefs? Their ways? No one knows.

The BBQ went out, and around the time it went out, or well... an hour after, I officially signed out, and spent the next two hours helping out with replenishing and stuff, but mosty focused on cleaning out one of the fridges that was just an unorganized mess. I took everything out and went through it, combined what I could and really organized the fridge.

After the BBQ was over, Julie and I just quickly wrote a produce list of things she needed to order for the next, and then we got in the car and she drove me home.

Once home, I had a snack (doritos and a coke) and talked to my Mom for quite a bit about various things, touched on some "why are we the way we are" kind of talk and it was nice. Since I had snacked so much at work (I kept eating potato salad and coleslaw as I worked, and had a mini-pizza for lunch... and maybe snuck a dad's rootbeer), I didn't eat any dinner once I was home, but I wasn't too hungry, so it didn't really matter. After talking to my Mom, I watched the season four premier of The Shield. Afterward, I just messed around on the computer for a bit, listening to some In Flames (Jester Race) and eventually running a bath.

After my bath, I edited the images I used in this post, sat down and turned Conan on and attempted to start writing... which took me quite awhile. I sat here for a long time before I could really write anything... it kind of felt like writers block really, because I knew I had stuff to say, but I just couldn't get it to come out. I'm just about done now though, so I think I may just hit submit in a second... oh I guess I should say what's up tomorrow.

Tomorrow is Michelle's birthday (happy birthday). I'm going to be doing laundry (probably... maybe Tuesday), and will probably go to the grocery store for stuff. Typical day off really... hopefully I feel good and enjoy my time off.

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