The Syndicate

Elohcin wrote:I WANT A DISHWASHER!!!

How much are you paying?

But seriously, you have a cake bidness and no dishwasher? Omg

Elohcin wrote:I WANT A DISHWASHER!!!

Epi!!! Get this lovely woman a dishwasher ASAP. Otherwise, you'd better grab a dish cloth and get to washin' buddy.

I hate mean customers. I hate customers who can't decide what they want. I hate customers who call every 10 seconds to change their order then get mad because it didn't get to their house by the time that was quoted before said changes to their order were made. I hate that we as a culture have been trained to know that if you just yell loud enough and use enough curse words, you can get what you want for free. I think businesses have messed up a bit there. It's a system that rewards problems. I have no issue at all with wanting to make things you dislike right with you. I'm a pleaser, I'm Italian, and I take feeding people VERY seriously. You do not have to yell at me to get me to give you free food. All you have to do is stay calm and talk to me. Let me know how I can make it right and I'll do it.

I do however wish we could move as a business practice to, rather than reward people who yell the loudest. Reward people who are always steady and regular customers. Those are the guys I *really* want to take care of.

ok - I'm done ranting now.

Busy Friday was busy.

Hedgeowl wrote:

Elohcin wrote:I WANT A DISHWASHER!!!

How much are you paying?

But seriously, you have a cake bidness and no dishwasher? Omg

Yes, it is increasingly frustrating. I do dishes for about two hours each day. We don't eat out really...and most of our meals are from scratch, plus I have the dishes from cake stuff. We use a LOT of dishes.

I just burned the hell out of my hand. I use my pans in the oven sometimes and I grabbed the handle of this one while stirring.

Owwie.

ALL THE THINGS

Epignosis wrote:I just burned the hell out of my hand. I use my pans in the oven sometimes and I grabbed the handle of this one while stirring.

Owwie.

you know what would make things better?


A FUCKING DISHWASHER.

Mongoose wrote:ALL THE THINGS

Lizzy wrote:

Mongoose wrote:ALL THE THINGS

:O ture

bea wrote:

Epignosis wrote:I just burned the hell out of my hand. I use my pans in the oven sometimes and I grabbed the handle of this one while stirring.

Owwie.

you know what would make things better?


A FUCKING DISHWASHER.

bea wrote:

Epignosis wrote:I just burned the hell out of my hand. I use my pans in the oven sometimes and I grabbed the handle of this one while stirring.

Owwie.

you know what would make things better?


A FUCKING DISHWASHER.

I think they prefer to be called "Mexicans."

thellama73 wrote:

bea wrote:

Epignosis wrote:I just burned the hell out of my hand. I use my pans in the oven sometimes and I grabbed the handle of this one while stirring.

Owwie.

you know what would make things better?


A FUCKING DISHWASHER.

I think they prefer to be called "Mexicans."

Well I never! Just scandalized!

Y'all are hilarious. And Bea you are sweet to keep encouraging Epi to get me a DW. I only wish it were possible :/

Elohcin wrote:Y'all are hilarious. And Bea you are sweet to keep encouraging Epi to get me a DW. I only wish it were possible :/

Eloh, could you get an elephant to help you with them, like on The Flintstones?

Mongoose wrote:

Elohcin wrote:Y'all are hilarious. And Bea you are sweet to keep encouraging Epi to get me a DW. I only wish it were possible :/

Eloh, could you get an elephant to help you with them, like on The Flintstones?

Hey, easy with the fat jokes.

Epignosis wrote:

Mongoose wrote:

Elohcin wrote:Y'all are hilarious. And Bea you are sweet to keep encouraging Epi to get me a DW. I only wish it were possible :/

Eloh, could you get an elephant to help you with them, like on The Flintstones?

Hey, easy with the fat jokes.

You're a silly goose. You're not fat.

Elohcin wrote:Y'all are hilarious. And Bea you are sweet to keep encouraging Epi to get me a DW. I only wish it were possible :/

Being a newly wed wifey - I consider it my civic duty to give as many husbands as much shit as possible. Especially since I know their wives love them too much to go full force on them.

Ahhh....the estrogen network. You mess with one of us, you mess with all of us.









also - it made for some good jokes.

My sister-n-law is an alcoholic. My wife and I have the great joy of talking to her about it tomorrow. Joy.

timmer wrote:My sister-n-law is an alcoholic. My wife and I have the great joy of talking to her about it tomorrow. Joy.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry it's progressed so far as that you both feel you have to have "the talk." I hope she is open and receptive. But also - she probably won't be.

If she lives with you - you can at least kick her out or keep her on terms of her recovery. Both of those options are painful for everyone. If there is anything I can do to help - even if it's just a shoulder to vent on. Timmer - just pm me.

I know how hard this is on any family. I've seen it happen to mine more than once.



for everything you are dealing with.

I'm 8 days out of recovery and I have 5 gnarly scars on my stomach. I'm also still relegated to a liquid diet for 9 more days so that's intense.

I'm sorry so many of us are going through such hard times. We need a group hug.

gf problems. Looks like things have a good chance of ending soon. sadz

BoatsBoatsBoats wrote:gf problems. Looks like things have a good chance of ending soon. sadz

Mongoose wrote:I'm 8 days out of recovery and I have 5 gnarly scars on my stomach. I'm also still relegated to a liquid diet for 9 more days so that's intense.

I'm sorry so many of us are going through such hard times. We need a group hug.

we do. Here's hoping I can steal one....

BoatsBoatsBoats wrote:gf problems. Looks like things have a good chance of ending soon. sadz

I'm so sorry you have to go through this.

It's done. Sadz ensue.

BoatsBoatsBoats wrote:It's done. Sadz ensue.

((

<3

I'm sorry, Cam. how are you today?

I've been worse, but it wasn't the break-up itself that was painful as it was the fact that I probably won't see her again and what she said at the break-up. She flat out told me she never loved me and it would make her feel uncomfortable whenever I said I did, she never felt like she knew who I was and she didn't think I knew who she was, and I never asked her if she liked me. It's got me re-thinking the entire thing and man, it burns.

Ouch, that is horrible.

It just hurts even more because I was oblivious to all of this (unintentionally). Everything seemed alright apart from her occasional depressive episode. Oh well, things will get better.

cam... I'm so sorry. I know this hurts so much...

I think I've been taking it well. Been kinda down and stuff but that's to be expected. Not much time to mope when I've got this 8-page research paper due Thursday. Woohoo

lol - fair enough - nothing like a research paper to take your mind off things....

The rise and fall of Fascist groups in the United States between World War 1 and World War 2 has definitely filled the void that my ex left in my heart

BoatsBoatsBoats wrote:The rise and fall of Fascist groups in the United States between World War 1 and World War 2 has definitely filled the void that my ex left in my heart

I really hate fascists. But not as much as communists.

thellama73 wrote:

BoatsBoatsBoats wrote:The rise and fall of Fascist groups in the United States between World War 1 and World War 2 has definitely filled the void that my ex left in my heart

I really hate fascists. But not as much as communists.

I find it pretty fascinating as a whole. Never met any fascists or communists, though, so I can't judge.

BoatsBoatsBoats wrote:

thellama73 wrote:

BoatsBoatsBoats wrote:The rise and fall of Fascist groups in the United States between World War 1 and World War 2 has definitely filled the void that my ex left in my heart

I really hate fascists. But not as much as communists.

I find it pretty fascinating as a whole. Never met any fascists or communists, though, so I can't judge.

"Well, I never met Hitler or Stalin, so I can't really judge them." - BoatsBoatsBoats

thellama73 wrote:

BoatsBoatsBoats wrote:

thellama73 wrote:

BoatsBoatsBoats wrote:The rise and fall of Fascist groups in the United States between World War 1 and World War 2 has definitely filled the void that my ex left in my heart

I really hate fascists. But not as much as communists.

I find it pretty fascinating as a whole. Never met any fascists or communists, though, so I can't judge.

"Well, I never met Hitler or Stalin, so I can't really judge them." - BoatsBoatsBoats

ture

ture, Hitler didn't seem like a bad chap.

A Person wrote:ture, Hitler didn't seem like a bad chap.

He had a sexy mustache, knew how to paint, and wasn't afraid to speak his mind!

... for everyone here. ^__^

Ooo good hug! I love hugs.

I had a training course I've been wanting to take for a while and we went to NC for the 1st of 4 weeks. It took me weeks of planning, packing, reading, and organizing to get ready. Not to mention the 2 past years I have been trying to find a location I could attend. Almost everything that could have gone wrong did driving down there and then we had no working heat in our cabin, so my husband and baby were so cold during the day with no heated space to go to, until the camp fixed all the heaters. Then the baby got the stomach flu, so we packed up came home early, and both my husband and I got the flu within an hour of getting home. We are all healthy again now and glad to be home, but g.d. it was a hard week and sometimes it's really hard being a parent.

Also, break ups are the worst and so sorry. Keep busy and meet new people and listen to great angsty music. I still remember the music and tears after break ups.

i hate le meme arrows but i think that's the best way to run down my Friday night

>lingering feelings for ex
>text her saying that i'd be open for trying again
>decide to go to beach friday to see how we feel about each other
>bring her slurpee from Taco Bell
>spills in passenger seat before i pick her up
>head to beach
>hardly talking until "why are we doing this?"
>2+ hour discussion on why this could never work
>head to car to drive her home at 7PM
>car makes weird noises
>steering is fucked and front is leaking dark fluid
>call insurance
>tow will arrive within 90 minutes
>talk to ex a bit more to clear the air
>she gets picked up
>really need to pee
>8:20, phone dies
>fuck this, i'm going home
>proceed to drive in unfamiliar town at night until i find my way home

Fuck that

Sounds like a sucky day

The worst part is that I went in expecting things to go really well and every single thing failed.

BoatsBoatsBoats wrote:The worst part is that I went in expecting things to go really well and every single thing failed.

Took some awesome self portraits, lo and behold, they were underdeveloped and didn't appear on the film! Also my phone broke. Not my week at all.

I can't post this sort of thing on facebook. Too many of my bosses and co-workers have found me there. So I'm dropping this here. Because I need to get it out and IDK where else to put it.

Chirstmas just turned into another fucking day that sucks.

And I hate that.

And I don't even really hate that for *me* or for BDH, though his day was so bad, that he sent me 3 "I love you so much" texts while we were working (meaning he was trying to focus on the good) Or that his last text was "I know we don't get to spend Christmas together or any other day really, but I love you." And it made me tear up while I was trying to ballance the money and fake my inventory counts because I was too busy all night to actually count things.

My cranky STILL isn't about us.

It's about what our culture has turned into.

I wasn't making pizzas for people who don't celebrae Chirstmas. I wasn't the Chinese resteraunt. I wasn't soley selling pizzas to people who weren't with loved ones this season. If THAT was what I was doing, I could have taken pride in my work. I could have felt like I was offering a service. I was providing for people who would have gone without if it weren't for me. It would have given actual meaning to the fact that I had to ignore my family today.

That is not what I did today. Our company made SO much money today because we were the only pizza place open. We made that money from families, they poured in thankful for the long waits - kids - parents- grandarents- ordering SO MANY at a time. We made their Christmas dinner. And I have to ask - what happened??

I mean - my very strict upbringing says "one eats ham at christmas and easter and turkey at thanksgiving and that's the way life works." my brain says "people celebrate holidays differently and don't be judgmental about how people break bread - but is breaking bread the same when it's someone goes and orders 15 pizzas?

It seems to me, that the holidays are about doing things for your friends and familiy and part of that is food realated. Is our modern culture really so used to instant gratification that pizza christmas dinner is preffered to a home cooked meal? I mourn that so many people loose the joy - the ture and real joy of making food for people they love.

I think of myself as the "parent's" age and I'm shocked by the people I think of as the "grandparets" who were ok with this. It hurts me because I know there are traditions along so many cultural lines being lost. We've got tamalies waiting for us at BDH's bff's house. His mom makes them every year and gives them to him. Some of them are specificly labled as bdh and mine.

I almost hit my hubby because he had pizzelles without me.

Whatever faith you have - the holidays are about family - and tradtion. You loose your culture and you loose your heratiage when the holidays become about feeding your family fast food chain pizza.

That is why my Christmas spirit is broken this year.

Because I saw 4500 of traditon and heratatage take a back seat to convience tonight.

I'd love to make a more pominate post about that, but I don't know how to do that w/o outing where I work or flagging my bosses who look at the numbers (and also conviently didn't work today)

i had frozen pizza for christmas dinner butt i'm having liver cassarole today.

Bea <3

Driving to and from my parents house yesterday (my brother Jesse got out of hospital on Christmas Eve, and was well enough to want to see people, so we had a last minute "potluck what was in our freezers" kinda meal, but we had it together~ our big "family Christmas" won't be till January. My other brother & I were gonna have "whatever" for Christmas) about half the restaurants were open.

When I was a kid in NY, I recall NOTHING restaurant wise being open for Thanksgiving, but lots of people got take out, and some ate in restaurants (my husbands family had dinner out on Christmas, it was part of his Moms Christmas gift) on Christmas. Not just the Jewish folks. So maybe it is a cultural thing based on location?

But yeah, our society has become about money (and people would not eat take out pizza if the pizza place was not open, and it is open to make money), that's the long and short of it. I am pretty nauseated by stores opening on Thanksgiving still. That is a *national* holiday, not a religious one like Christmas. We've lost our way, and this is just one more symptom, like homeless veterans and starving children.