12-23-22 Dish-pit Diary
I stopped at Canadian Tire before work to pick up a present for Emmy (a super cute Flamingo case of Polly Pocket) and then got Jake to sign a note to her and email it to me so I could print it for her. In exchange, he is going to take a very nice bottle of wine from me to the friends he will now spend Christmas with. I got a great deal done at the office, popped out to buy Nikki and I lunch as I needed to eat before covering the 4:30-9:30 shift at Arby’s. Sickness is making the rounds again. There were only a couple of us actually working today, it was more a festive gathering of folks making Christmas presents on the laser cutter. I am glad I got mine done early. I am still waiting for one parcel with two people’s gifts, my neighbour’s and Gene’s. I got a notice this morning that it was out for delivery but it did not arrive. I tracked it tonight and says it won’t be here until the 29th or 30th. Booo
The other sadness in the day was knowing Jake wouldn’t be arriving tonight and I was reminded of it once again when my phone notified me of his arrival time.
The snow peeps decided to celebrate Tibb’s Eve and invited a bunch of friends over. The cat is already Lit! I wasn’t sure what I would come home to and sure enough they didn’t disappoint.
Great bits of the day were my advent, and finding a gift on my doorstep from the lovely Diana. Jake will be sad to miss out on her banana bread. She is extremely good at gifts and for the second time found the perfect card. I shall enjoy the project.
My mind wanders while I am doing dishes at the restaurant. I inwardly curse when I find containers still thick with sauces, spoons and servers coated in butter, pans with fries, etc still on them in the soap water. It takes only a few seconds to wipe them out or scrape them off but instead I end up with gross water that has to be changed to do a proper job. Don’t even get me started about leaving the date labels on the containers, lol. I know it’s not a big deal but the dish washer is the one seen as too slow when all these things weigh down the task. I think I will make sure my phone is charged and listen to music instead of the inside of my own brain as the one who washes gets to play their music I found out last night! I enjoyed tonight as I got to take a 14 year old under my wing and get him fine tuned on a few things. I wonder if I can now take the ‘in training’ off my name tag, lol. It really is lovely to get to say Merry Christmas to all the customers out the drive thru window as you hand them their food.
triumphgal 