I smell like coffee

Let me tell you friends, after five years of not working in a coffee shop, standing on my feet for eight hours a day serving coffee is somewhat hard on the feet. Yesterday I was almost crying by the end of my shift, my feet hurt so badly. I got home and immediately got into bed, where I proceeded to hack up a lung and get freaked out about possibly being sick, pass the fuck out, wake up after a FUCKED UP dream, fall asleep again in the freezing cold apartment (did I mention my heat broke?), wake up around 9am after 13 hours of sleep, go BACK TO SLEEP, then wake up at 12 to shower and go to work. It was alternately awesome and horrible. On the plus side, my feet hurt less today!

For the most part I'm really enjoying the coffee shop. There are a lot of regulars, and many of them are incredibly nice. An older Italian gentleman complimented me on my pronunciation of his name and asked if I spoke Italian! I've gotten right back into the swing of things regarding the espresso machine, and I've gotten several compliments on my drinks. And people tend to be understanding when we're mad busy. Of course, there are also douches. But that's life.

Christmas was awesome, got to hang with the fam, and gift exchanges went well. Everyone seemed to like the gifts that Palmer and I got them, so that's a relief. I got some nifty stuff! A new battery for my laptop, which was much needed. Some pretty clothes, a stainless colander, Glee soundtrack, and most awesome, a puffer coat! My poor winter coat was so shitty, and now I have a wonderful new one! It is this gorgeous deep blue/purple color, and has the highest collar, its so warm! I need to buy a hat and gloves to match, but I am so SO excited about it!

So yes, Christmas was awesome. I have three days off in a row starting tomorrow, and there are plans afoot! One plan is to move everything to my external hard drive and installing a different operating system. Windows has been causing all sorts of problems, and I can't upgrade to 7 because my laptop is too old. Another plan is to attend my first physical training session, where I hope to have my ass kicked and sweat alot. A third plan is sleep. Lots and lots of sleep.

That's all I can think of for now, but I'll try to post more regularly from now on. A resolution, if you will!

Pub quiz and random bits

Palmer and I, along with his brother Derby, Palmer's friend Cara, and her brother Patrick all went to pub quiz today. I really like pub quiz, even though we're not that great at it, because we get to spout our random knowledge and drink beer. Good times! But man, some people are such asses. Teams are supposed to be a maximum of 6 people, the winning team tonight totally had 9. Oh, they said they were two different teams, but they were all sitting at the same table and cheering when the team name was announced as in the lead. Its like, really? You need to cheat at pub quiz? Ugh, or the people who hang out in the bar NOT playing, and either yell out the answers or talk really loudly so we can't hear the questions. It gets a little frustrating.

Other than those kind of annoyances though, tonight was fun. We didn't win, but we did really well, and the group of us had a good variety of knowledge. Cara's brother Patrick had most of the sports answers, which was a relief cause none of the rest of us are good at that! And Derby and Cara ruled on the picture round, it was all different art movements and I only would have known 3.

So now we're back at Palmer's place because the heat is still out at mine. Though the repairmen are coming tomorrow, and it should be fixed by noon. And my landlord brought by a space heater so it is remaining habitable for Loki. I like my landlord, he's a good guy, but I do need to move out soon. Not working full time means the apartment is just too expensive for me. So I'm looking into getting a two bedroom apartment or a small house with my friend Elle and her boyfriend Matt. There are a couple of places that look good, but we'll have to check them out thoroughly. Wish us luck! Anyhow, tonight is the great computer restructuring, here's hoping our attempts to fix it work out.

Til tomorrow!