well i have been working since 7 this morning. i have been realizing the past few days that it seems like i might have ocd based on my habits at work.
i like to wash dishes only when they are grouped by kind. i can't just put them in the sink and grab what may, i have to separate them out. you may think that's not to bad but we don't just have mugs and plates. we have 6 kinds of plates - floral design red (biggest), plain white, colored (red and yellow, i can wash the different colors as one group, but in the drying rack they have to be reds then yellows), white floral design, little white floral, and small plain white. - and 3 sizes of bowls - floral red (salad), white floral (bowl of soup), and plain white (cup of soup).
i can wash the mugs all together (in their own group, not intermixed with plates or what have you. but i do have to organize them on the shelf, no one else does at all but i do. it goes the two state mugs (alaska and hawaii), 3 off white mugs, grey mug, white curvy mug, white straight mug, kim's blue mug, charlie's buffalo bill mug, 5 green mugs, one dark green mug, (those were all the small sizes, now for the larges) 4 striped white mugs, 2 maroon mugs, 2 orange mugs, 4 tall skinny white mugs, 2 not quite as tall (but should be) white mugs.
they all have to be in order. when i come in i will organize them, they will stay that way until i am gone and then will get messed up by the next day, i can tell how busy it was by how messed up they are. if it wasn't bust most are in the right spot still.
i straighten chairs after people are done sitting in them, sometimes to fast. i have to hold myself back to at least let them out the doors before i fix their chairs. i don't think they like it when i straighten them when they are still standing there putting their coats on.
everything has to be super clean. sometimes when it has been super busy and things aren't as clean as i want i think ahh i need to clean this up before the owners come in. then the owners come in and say "wow its so clean, good job thomas."
mopping. normally when i sweep and mop its when i am there by myself, i was never told how to mop i just told them i knew how. one time my boss was there when i did mop they asked if i always mop like that. i said "yeah, why?" apparently most people never really move all the stuff and mop under it.
speaking of mopping. before i mop i always have to take out the trash and do the dishes. if you don't do the dishes first they drip on the floor when they dry. and if you don't take the trash out first. you leave wet foot prints on the floor when you come in, different than the dry foot prints you leave if you walk on the floor when its still wet and your shoes are dry. (oh by the way you can't do that either)
paper towels. i am pretty sure i use the most paper towels ever. we went through a box in a week and a half. a box is 30 rolls. thats alot.
and those are just some of the things. but its time to be done now. gotta go.
and those lists were done from memory, without looing at all.
Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Alex Edwards!
well this weekend alex and toni got married. so amazing. it was the first of my real close friends to get married. i have had friends get married before but not like alex. i had the honor of being one of alex's groomsmen. the first wedding i have been it. that was really fun. everything (and everyone) was really beautiful. the whole weekend was really fun. the funnest weekend i have had in a long time.
anyway one of my favorite stories from this weekend.
in the little "how i know these people standing next to me" thing for the program alex wrote "thomas has the talent of coaxing any woman into making him cookies" so friday night at the groom's dinner the maid of honor (maggie) and two bridesmaids (alisha and abby) (all of whom i had only met once before 2 years ago) all told me that there was no way i was going to convince them to make me cookies. well by the end of the night i had one agreeing to give me a quiz on a story she told and for every question i got i would get a cookie. a good start.
saturday we had the quiz and i got fifty questions right. and convinced the other bridesmaid to make me a dozen. then came the wedding and the dance and all that jazz so most of the afternoon there was no tie to "coax" that night the parents had a sweet after party and i decided to use the straight forward approach to get maggie to make me some cookies. i told her "ok last night all three of you said you wouldn't make me cookies, the other two already are, it would make a way better story if i got all three of you to make me cookies." she said "but for me its a way better story if all three of us said we wouldn't make you cookies and the other to cracked and i didn't. i a going to stay strong i am never going to make you any cookies." at this point steve (he played guitar for the wedding) got up to get some of the left over oreo dessert stuff. i did some convincing/coaxing and right when steve sits back down maggie cracks and says "oh i could make you a giant heart shaped cookie in the sweet new heart shaped pan i got" steve is awestruck "what happened, i left two seconds ago and you were so strong, you were never giving in. i come back from getting oreo stuff and you are making him a giant heart shaped cookie. how does this work?!"
amazing in a little over 24 hours a complete 360 of three girls from never making me cookies to making me cookies. lots of them. the final tally was 1 giant heart shaped cookie from maggie, one (or did i get it up to two dozen) from alisha, and 60 from abby. there was also talk of brownies, cakes, and pot roast (all of this on top of cookies).
good times.
anyway one of my favorite stories from this weekend.
in the little "how i know these people standing next to me" thing for the program alex wrote "thomas has the talent of coaxing any woman into making him cookies" so friday night at the groom's dinner the maid of honor (maggie) and two bridesmaids (alisha and abby) (all of whom i had only met once before 2 years ago) all told me that there was no way i was going to convince them to make me cookies. well by the end of the night i had one agreeing to give me a quiz on a story she told and for every question i got i would get a cookie. a good start.
saturday we had the quiz and i got fifty questions right. and convinced the other bridesmaid to make me a dozen. then came the wedding and the dance and all that jazz so most of the afternoon there was no tie to "coax" that night the parents had a sweet after party and i decided to use the straight forward approach to get maggie to make me some cookies. i told her "ok last night all three of you said you wouldn't make me cookies, the other two already are, it would make a way better story if i got all three of you to make me cookies." she said "but for me its a way better story if all three of us said we wouldn't make you cookies and the other to cracked and i didn't. i a going to stay strong i am never going to make you any cookies." at this point steve (he played guitar for the wedding) got up to get some of the left over oreo dessert stuff. i did some convincing/coaxing and right when steve sits back down maggie cracks and says "oh i could make you a giant heart shaped cookie in the sweet new heart shaped pan i got" steve is awestruck "what happened, i left two seconds ago and you were so strong, you were never giving in. i come back from getting oreo stuff and you are making him a giant heart shaped cookie. how does this work?!"
amazing in a little over 24 hours a complete 360 of three girls from never making me cookies to making me cookies. lots of them. the final tally was 1 giant heart shaped cookie from maggie, one (or did i get it up to two dozen) from alisha, and 60 from abby. there was also talk of brownies, cakes, and pot roast (all of this on top of cookies).
good times.
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