Excessive

I did feel like writing at some point - at one point - that's actually why I came out here, to the livingroom. I sat down with the tv off, with the intention of simply listening to the morning stream and writing, but I got sidetracked. I got sidetracked by a bowl of popcorn, the movie The Town and my mind, thoughts moving faster than I can translate into words.

Work was as I had expected it to be, slow and open for chances to get ahead, if random people don't get in the way and stop work from being done. What I mean is, everyone has different ways of organization, mine - obviously - is the best, but since thirty different people at work think they're in charge, or at least... they think they've got the best strategy for success. Jeff made a list of stuff he thought could be done to get ahead for Saturday and Sunday, which you know, most of was fine, if we had more than just me in, but whatever, I won't hold it against him for being optimistic.

Here is how the day went, to put it in to perspective. The majority of the morning was spent doing two things: setting the cafe up for lunch, which involves heating the soups and quiche and all that amazing fun stuff, and getting a dinner buffet ready that was happening later in the day. All of this, putting the soups on, taking them off, doing the salads, all that stuff, took me to about Noon, at which point I got called over to cafe like five or six times to cook pasta, which lead to like 1pm. So from 1pm to 3pm, that's ... yes that's right kids, that's two hours. So, besides normal, slow day work, I only had two hours left over to do what anything to get ahead. Yes, in theory it seems like I should have time to do a lot of stuff, but I really don't. With typical everyday work, it just doesn't leave that much flexibility.

The list that was written was like.. enough work for four people, stuff like, All hor's deurves, 140 veg bundles, 200 potatoes, stuff all the chickens for the weddings, parm crisps, and the list went on and on. I managed to make some of the veg bundles but ran out of asparagus, so I was limited in what I could do there... I got about 30 done, so I've got a lot to do tomorrow. I also made the parm crisps, and also made a batch of butternut squash and pear soup and tomato sauce. On top of that stuff, I made 80 scallops wrapped in bacon and helped break down the pasta buffet. All of these things lead me up to the end of my shift.

I caught a bus home after sitting and waiting for a bit, I listened to the new Bon Iver album and then the latest Emery. I got off at Valumart to grab some dinner, not because I had no food at home, but because I had a craving for a nice sandwich, which is probably a stupid move - to spend money when I don't have to... I really need to get out of that habit, need to start being smarter with my money. I picked up some croissants, leaf lettuce and some pickles, oh and some strawberries and raspberries for dessert. Afterward, I threw on some In Flames, Sounds of a Playground Fading and Clayman, and got home eventually.

After dinner, which was a chicken breast on a croissant, while watching Fringe, I think I fell asleep on the couch... cause it's cooler in the livingroom, and it was surprsingly easy to fall asleep. I woke up eventually and helped Michelle make bruschetta. I decided to sit and play some games, I'm still in search of a game or two to start, and due to the heat lately, I've not been able to play any PC games at all, as my laptop just shuts down due to overheating within minutes of playing anything. So I've been playing a few console games and seeing if anything sticks, so tonight i started a game of La Pucelle: Tactics, the game NIS did before Disgaea, which I've played before but never played through (much like Phantom Brave up until recently). I kinda felt like playing an RPG (even though I've got two versions of Final Fantasy 4 on the go) so starting La Pucelle was an attempt to see if it would hook me instantly.

I can tell that I could get in to the game, and I've got into it in the past (just got distracted from it by Disgaea I think) but the main thing I noticed tonight that made me feel kind of iffy about wanting to commit to playing through it, and that was I found it very slow paced. Waiting for turns, waiting for animations, the pauses between actions or animations, it's all so long. It takes forever to do anything, and I found myself very bored. Not bored by the story or the tactics or anything, just bored because I wanted to do things faster and had to wait. This fact, the idea of lots of waiting around, leaves my mind to wander, and then I start thinking of other games I could be playing, which only leads me to feeling more and more distracted, so maybe it's just up to the mood I'm in at the time, but if I feel antsy, I don't think it's a good game to sit down and play.

The other game I put in afterward, was Persona 3, another RPG, and much like La Pucelle, a game I have put significant time into in the past. It's a japanese... very japanese game, from SMT series (shin megami tensei), and also stopped playing it due to being distracted (by World of Warcraft I'm sure). It's a pretty freakin awesome game, pretty deep and I know there is a potential for a lot of hours to played, and perhaps that's the most intimidating thing about it, is that the idea of starting a long game isn't exactly attractive to me at this point, just because I'm pretty interested in lowering my uncompleted rate on excessive games, but I mean, I shouldn't let that website decide what games I'm going to be playing... I think I'm going about it the right way... just keep trying games and eventually one will be so addictive that I'll go back to it and it'll just be the new game I'm playing. I will probably try to play both of those games again in the next few days, and see if the issues I was feeling stick around, or if one ends up interesting me more than the other.

After playing some games, I ran a bath and listened to the morning stream, eventually ending up back in the living room, where I had planned to write, and this all started.

Work tomorrow is probably gonna be lame, I'm in 10am to over dinner, and over dinner shifts suck on Saturdays because Sunday I have to open, so late night shifts on Saturday are kind of a dick move imo. It's a plated wedding tomorrow, with annoying salads (cucumber ring salads) and annoying dessert (mousse). My main goal is to get wedding crap out of the way as fast as possible and then get all of Sunday brunch ready because I'm pretty sure I don't have anyone in to help me get brunch out, and while I can do it... it's not exactly stress free. If I can get almost everything done the day before, then I can go a bit slower Sunday morning and not go insane. An added reason for having Sunday brunch done early, is that there is another wedding on Sunday, which means in order to have time to get the wedding ready, I'll need to have brunch shit done.

I guess I ended up writing more than I had thought. I think this is all I really have to talk about right now, so I guess I should just hit submit entry and be done. Here's hoping the next two days are good days, and here's hoping I feel good.

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