Well, I have officially been 23 for 6 days. I don't feel any different but I do want to cringe when people ask me how old I am. =( Unfortunately, I spent my entire birthday super sick thanks to a cold that I somehow caught last week in Myrtle Beach. It started with a cough and turned into a full blown cold the day that we (I) had to drive home. Yes, I say I even though my bf was with me because I drove the entire way there and almost the entire way back. He drove maybe 1.5 hours there at the end because I was afraid that I would fall asleep after 12 hours of driving. I went through 1.5 boxes of kleenex on the way home too. That was not a fun drive! But I came home and slept until 5 on my Birthday. We went to my fav restaurant for dinner though so that was nice. Except for when I knocked my Cherry Coke all over the table. Oops. Needless to say, I did not do very much celebrating for my 23rd.
I spent Sunday sleeping and Monday being sick and finally went back to work on Tuesday. I think it would have been a good day if I had not been sick. My team won the merch contest that we had a couple of months ago so we got to go to a baseball game for free. I don't like baseball and I felt awful but it was nice to do something. If I would have come home that day, I already know that I would have been passed out by 6:15.
I was excited to learn that our restaurant was bought by Hooters of America. There was a guy there last night that was checking out the restaurant so that they can make repairs. I think it was the perfect day for him to be there because there was a huge storm and the roof was leaking everywhere. We had a lovely waterfall in the dish room and I actually had to move a couple of guys from my table to another girl's table because they were getting rained on...inside. So, yey to a possible new roof!
We were busy off and on last night and I think that everyone made okay money. At the end of the night, I left a dollar for each of the cooks in the tip box. I noticed that only one other person left anything at all and it looked like about $2 so I reminded the girls to remember to give the cooks at least a couple of dollars. One of the girls got all mad and was like "this is my money, I'm not giving it to them. They get paid enough." I was not happy. I'm a cook at my other job and I know how nice it is when you have some sort of tip at the end of the night. I'm always happy at the end of the night if our customers were nice and appreciative and they tip us. Even if I only have a couple of dollars, it's nice to know that we are appreciated too. I always leave the cooks what I can unless it's like a really bad day (think $20 for an entire shift bad). If each of the girls left just $2, the cooks would have a good tip that would make them happy and they would feel appreciated. I always feel so bad when they pull the tip box down and there is like nothing in there. And I always have to smile when they open it and everyone tipped them and they are so happy. What can I say? I love when people are happy! That's why I think it's so important to tip a little. I wish all of the other girls thought so too.
When I got home last night, I was not happy to find that my electric was off after the bad storm. It had already been off for over 6 hours when I got home. So, I grabbed the bf and we headed to Waffle House for some middle of the night breakfast. Delicious! Sadly, the electric was still off when we got home. We went to sleep and when we woke up...the electric was still off. In fact, it didn't come on until just before 2 p.m. today. Crazy! So, our day didn't really start until then. But when our day did start, I was happy! We celebrated my birthday! We started off by picking up my immunization records from my High School (they must keep those things forever!) to give to the school nurse so she can fill out my forms for the nursing program. Then, we headed to Olive Garden to use my gift card. It was delicious!! Chicken Parmesan. Yum! Then, it was off to the mall to buy clothes for my Birthday present. I got a dress and a super cute shirt and we have to go back next week to get my other two or three cute shirts. Then we headed to my bf's mom's house for dinner and strawberry cake. It was a good day. And tomorrow will be too...we're going to see the Dark Knight Rises at 10 a.m.! I wanted to go to the midnight showing but it costs less to go in the morning. So, matinee it is!
In other news, I am officially CPR certified as of yesterday. The class wasn't awkward like I expected. It wasn't bad at all actually. I do wish it didn't cost $41 though. Ugh. I got injected with the second part of my TB test also. Once again, I am having an allergic reaction but this one is worse. It is burning and itching so much! They have to read it tomorrow. Hopefully they can tell this is an allergic reaction and not think that I have TB. It is a giant hive on my arm. Not like the pics online of a positive test but a hive like I get from everything that touches me! I went to the financial aid office while I was at school too for no reason. I wanted to know if there was any other aid that I could get since they didn't give me a scholarship this time and the only thing the lady said was "we recommend fastweb". If you haven't used that website, you won't know how not helpful it is! I've applied for so many scholarships. There are just so many people that use the website, it's like applying to win the lottery. Thanks for nothing financial aid department.
BTW, my car is not dead. Goldie is fine. The tranny might go out at any time just like with any car but the jerking is gone. It was three random things that needed to be fixed. Something about two coils, an EGV valve or something like that, and I think the other thing was the starter or something. I dunno but it's fixed. Yey! Time for bed and almost time for the Dark Knight Rises!! =)
