Called To Serve...

...lunch that is. I had just finished my own lunch when I got a phone call from work. Like a idiot I answered it instead of pretending that I wasn't home. It was a case of someone not downloading the update of Sat, Take out orders. (We do them a day ahead of time, at least the veggie trays etc. the hot foods are done the day of). Well there were 4 meat and cheese trays and some veggie trays and fruit trays that we hadn't done, so I was asked to come in and help the new supervisor do them. I wasn't even dressed yet, in spite of it being after 12:00 noon. Any way I managed to get there about 12:45. It took a little over 2 hours to get them done, that was with 2 people doing them. If I would have done them it would have taken about 4 hours to do them. As it was, Alan was able to fold all the meat and place it on the trays in the time it took me just to weigh the cheese for the meat and cheese trays. We have to weigh out the cheese slices, then take out the individual papers that are between each slice of cheese, and then slice the stack of cheese diagonally so that we have two stacks of triangle shaped cheese slices. There are 3 different cheese varieties on each tray. We then have too arrange the cheese slices on the trays between the stacks of cold cuts. Since this was right in the middle of the day it kind of ruined the rest of the day for me. I didn't get to bed until 5:30 a. m. this morning and the dog woke me up at 9:00 to take her potty. I spent most of the rest of the afternoon and evening sleeping and eating a fish TV dinner. Why, you might ask, did I not get to bed until 5:30 a. m. This is a good question. The answer is I have no idea but it is not uncommon for me to not go to bed until 3 or 4 in the morning. I do sleep sometimes in the chair in front of the telly, but not always, Sometimes I am simply not sleepy. In fact I am more often NOT sleepy at that time of the day than at any other time. When I get up in the the morning I most assuredly sleepy. What do I do?

SNARF

After cooking all day,making dinner for several hundred EFI (Especially for Youth) conference goers, It disappeared in 30 min! This was for 700 participants. There are actually 1000 of the rambunctious youths in the group, but only 700 came to dinner. After tomorrow, we will have only 9 more weeks of the little darlings! Todays dinner was actually the easiest, because it is roast beef, mashed potatoes, gravy and green beans. It is the only day of the three where we do not have to use the fryers to cook the main entree. When we use the fryers, we are cooking as they come for an hour and a half. It is too hot to do that.

Dredded Gumboo

Well. I have been sick with an awful intestinal something. I stayed home today. I lost 8# from noon yesterday until noon today! I definitely have less water in my system. I went to the Dr. today and my blood pressure was 110/70 definitely not high blood pressure, but probably a little dehydrated. I guess I will survive, I had a fever of 101%