Ravyn's Journal

[Ravynlee]

Gee, thanks dude... 0_0

Haha. No, It's all good, I'm sure it'll be fine. Not thinkin' about it.

Took my oldest to the vet today (my cat, haha) - Zed appears to have a disease in his urinary tract, not good. But he's okay for the moment for being a spritely 74yr old in human years. Aww. Have to take him back tomorrow for another checkup, but hopefully he'll be good. Hehe. Damned cold snap is making everyone's bodies freak out a little! *gasp!* **** cold though... well, considering this time last year I was twenty kilos heavier I had more insulation so I didn't feel it quite so bad then, feel it now though! *shivers*

But anyway, the veterinary nurse (Alison, I think her name was) and I had a moment earlier. She confessed she loves the place I work and now I know who she is - the same lady who orders the same takeaway every week with Crispers and double sweet mustard sauce! Haha! Funny that... now I'm gonna have to slip her a few more just to be nice... but that was funny. A real 'small world we live in' moment... well, not that small. We live in the same city so... *shrug* hehe.

Anyway...

Yeah. Have to work over easter. Split shifts all easter long. Basically 11am-11pm or so, so it's just as well I don't have real kids or so forth, else I'd be very unpopular I'm thinking. I worked over Xmas, New years, ****... I had to take time off for my 30th as it was... I am a slave to the corporate market! **** hospitality industry! People stop ordering out! Stay home just for one night, all over the planet, please! I want a few days off! No... no I don't, need the money. At least my shifts have picked up another day. I'm not back to 7 days yet, but 5 is better than the 4 I had last week. Oh well... work is work I guess.

Anyway, haven't written anything for the past few days. Wanna know a secret? I've actually been reading over my old-old material (early LP fics from like 4 years ago) and having a few laughs to myself. It's nice to reflect every now and then. Like catching up with old friends. I haven't given up on my current story, no way, but it feels like people have lost a little interest of something so I'm just laying low too, see if things get better or what not. Maybe we've all suddenly gotten busy at the same time...? Real life has a habit of doing that sometimes I guess. *shrugs*

****. Time flies. Should go again, do something a little more constructive before shift starts - in about 2 hours. *groan* I'm always watching the clock... and *** I wanna kick the living **** out of it on days like this. I'd rather stay in bed curled up with a good book and a hot cuppa or something...

Oh well. Cest La Vie!

*tackle hugs*

Take care, talk later,

-Rav

 

[Friðbjörn]

sorry, maybe that came off a bit...odd or unnice or something

I hope you know what I really meant

 

[Ravynlee]

sorry, maybe that came off a bit...odd or unnice or somethingI hope you know what I really meant

Of course I do! *hugs* Thanks, bud.

 

[twilightcrimson7]

Hey Rav.

Awww sorry to hear about Zed (such a cute name) I hope he gets along fine

Haha, it is a small world *goes insane thinking of the song* ahhh

Well good luck at your shift!

<3 twi

 

[stupidsoul1]

*licks your face* take care rav face, we don't want you sick.

i hope zed gets better soon toooo.

 

[Ravynlee]

My puddy-tat's feeling much better today. Has a urinary tract disease but it's manageable with medication, and he's currently on 3 courses for his arthritis, bladder and antibiotics! Geez! Poor guy, but he's okay now. A bit traumatised perhaps... hates the vet. Hated that thermometer even more...

Hmm.

Anyway, have been super busy at work lately. This coming weekend (easter) I have 3 - count them - 3 consecutive 12 hour shifts! Friday, Saturday and Sunday I'm working from about 11am - 11pm or thereabouts and I'm gonna be so screwed it's not gonna be funny. The only joy to that is that we gat time and a half, so the cash is the good bit. Considering on good nights I usually average 7 hr shifts - people think that's ordinary cause most working days are 8 anyway. Catch is in the hospitality indsutry we're entitled to it but we don't actually get breaks at all. We go from the time we sign on til the time the kitchen closes - period. No break for dinner, no rest breaks, that's 8 hrs on your feet screaming and getting screamed at and sharing a quarter of a room (if that) with three other people, 2 deep friers, 3 grill BBQs, 5 microwaves, 2 fridges, and 3 ovens!! *gawd!*

But it's a job. Last night we did 91 people, just with two of us in the kitchen - it was crazy! The night before we did 240 with 3 people (4 for the last half) I kid you not!

Anyway... I'm so **** tired. I quit gym, I just can't get there anymore. In part I don't want to. I feel like my day is one constant rotation of work, washing, cleaning, sleep and it's just a blur really. I'm freaked about easter. Kinda feel bummed though... wish I could have spent a public holiday with someone else besides just myself (and other than being at work). I guess the money's the clincher.

*groan*

Anyway, wrote a little today - happy to be doing that again. I need to write everyday - it's my drug of choice. Even if I never post half the stuff I write the fact I write is cathartic. Been re-reading older stuff and feeling nostalgic. It's getting colder here and I love the cold but at the same time it's a burden. Who wants to go out at 10:30pm at night and walk home in the dark?? :snuffle: And like the rest of the city I have a cold now too. Bah! But oh well, love curling up in front of the heater watching movies and so forth. Watched 'The Village' for the first time yesterday. I'm like... 'what was the big deal here people?' Hmm. Waste of $10 that was. Oh well.

Well better go again. Get organised and all that. Just wanted to post and vent to my virtual self. *waves at screen* 0_o

Uh hu.

Thanks and take care, TTYL,

*tackle hugs*

-Rav

 

[stupidsoul1]

aww love muffin =(

i thought my long weekend was going to be a bummer but 3 consecutive shifts?

i was getting annoyed that whilst my friends will be happily asleep -drunk i will be at work

mcdonalds was the first and last thing i would see on saturday and sunday

with aprox 4 hours of sleep in a duration of nearly 48 hours i will feel rich, and like i wasted my life.

but atleast it is not 3 days...and not 12 hours. i am rostered for 10 hours on saturday but man i got a 5 am wake up to get there on sunday so they better not keep me back 0___o

well, good luck.

lets party when its over?

 

[Friðbjörn]

o.0

you should get breaks, I thought there was some kinda law against this...

and well I hope you'll at least have some fun during easter, although it doesn't sound good

I must say though, that I for myself loved The Village. I mean, the blind girl plucked a string with me, plus just the overall concept of the village itself. It's a weird movie, really weird, but I liked it.

 

[Sygy]

how the **** did your cat get a urinary track infection?

 

[twilightcrimson7]

Aww glad Zed is better

Wow, you sure have your work cut out for you! Good luck!!

Anyway, wrote a little today - happy to be doing that again. I need to write everyday - it's my drug of choice. Even if I never post half the stuff I write the fact I write is cathartic. Been re-reading older stuff and feeling nostalgic.

I know what you mean. Even if its pointless rants about some random event that happened, it makes you feel better to talk about it, and reflect. Lately I've had nothing to write about though....

And when I look at older posts/entries, its so weird how I've changed... and I get that sense of nostalgia too.

Well ta ta rav,

<3 Twi

 

[Ravynlee]

how the **** did your cat get a urinary track infection?

Felines don't get it like we humans do - his is caused primarily from eating too much hard foods/cat biscuits and not drinking enough water. Crystals form in the urethra and eventually block it so infections build up and the cat has a hard time peeing... answer the question?

Yeah Vi, there are laws against it, but in this industry if we walk out and take these breaks that we are legally entitled to people just don't get fed. The restaurant backs up, people storm out - end of job. It's hard but it's the job. I guess it would be like the guys from LP taking a break half way through a packed concert... imagine the uproar from the audience. Meh. Oh well, could be worse I guess, at least the money's ok. As for 'The Village' I guess it takes all kinds to make a planet, and each to their own. Personally 'The Sixth Sense' was his best of his movies I think. Love that movie... anyways, glad you liked it!

Hey Twi - I can relate to that sense of nostalgia. Re-reading old material, whether its old stories, poems or random posts that seemed pointless at the time. They're like snapshots back in time - yeah, I sit here and read old posts and go 'wow, what the **** were you on that day, woman??' XD

But anyway...

Fiona - Love muffin! Haha, I haven't heard that one for a while, made me smile, I'll tell you that. I hope your weekend works out for you though, you're such a fun-lovin' gal I'd hate to see that quashed. Don't panic about me. As well as it being the Easter weekend (nothing more depressing than a non-gluten, non-wheat, non-dairy dieter over easter - no easter eggs!! *waaaaaa!*) it's also the AGMF or the Australian Gospel Music Festival here. I've never actually been to it but I liken it to a Woodstock for Christians with concerts and so forth all with a Jesus-spin. The park where this is all happening is like not even 100 metres from the carpark at the back of the restaurant where I work. All these big white tents and bright lights and so forth... haha - wild!

Well thats why we're having such longs shifts this weekend - trying to capture the market there. From 11am to 11pm or so Friday, saturday and sunday... and add some Christian bands to it. Weird to say the least. Man. Need to grab some carob eggs seeing as how I've been off the RedBull for like almost a month, almost as long as I've been off the chocolate too! ***... oops, can't curse like that, hehe... I mean gosh... *sigh* How dreary.

Anyways, thanks.

*tackle hugs*

Hope everyone's well and talk again later!

-Rav

 

[Vash_the_Stampede]

Heya buddy,

Just stoppin' by to say hey & see how you've been doing.

Talk to you later,

*hug*

 

[Ravynlee]

Heya buddy,Just stoppin' by to say hey & see how you've been doing.

Talk to you later,

*hug*

Josh!! *tackle hugs*

How are you doin'??? Hope you're well my friend.

Talk to you later. Take care,

-Rav

 

[twilightcrimson7]

I sit here and read old posts and go 'wow, what the **** were you on that day, woman??' XD

YEAH YEAH YEAH me too

I'm really psycho-happy right now, so I decided to be spammin' it up in hurrrrrr

*laughs at everthing she says*



muahaha

I love you

 

[stupidsoul1]

*gives rav some carob eggs*

i dont quite like carob chocolate, it tastes a bit odd.

haha i hope you enjoy the music.

 

[Sygy]

Felines don't get it like we humans do - his is caused primarily from eating too much hard foods/cat biscuits and not drinking enough water. Crystals form in the urethra and eventually block it so infections build up and the cat has a hard time peeing... answer the question?

eww your poor kitty

 

[woodyloveslinkin]

**** that was so scary, i called mel rach and nearly you mel...im going crazy...

 

[Ravynlee]

It's all good. No insult there. And how you going my dear? You've been rather quiet as of late (and I've been busier than usual) so I guess we just keep missing each other. Anyways, hope all's well with you. *hugs*

Yeah, I should be at work now. Today's the start of the three day 12 hr shift... but as it turned out (as to be expected and we all thought this would happen) it wasn't that busy so we did two hours then got sent home again for three. 2 and a half. Back at 4:30/5:00 as usual. From what I heard tomorrow and Sunday we're gonna be flat out and I'm not looking forward to that at all. There's a political backlash running rampant through that restaurant (don't trust waiters, they can't keep their mouths shut! Not true, just joking... hehehe... o_0 ) And anyway, it's a little 'tense' for want of a better word. Being casual I never know when I'm likely to be fired, but as it stands at the moment almost everyone else around me in the kitchen is ready to quit over this **** with the head chef. She gets paid $3 more than me and I'm doing her work, plus mine while she takes the credit. Good for me, except I resent the fact I'm carrying my superior, and those around me who know this are threatening to quit. They quit and I know I will have to support the entire **** kitchen and it's not my job. I can't go to my superior (her boss) because they are good friends - it was this friendship that landed her the job in the first place. ***... I know there's politics in everything but I never knew a restaurant was such a powder keg for it. Well, no I did, I just turned a blind eye to it in the early days cause I didn't think it effected me... does now. I'm walking a tight rope between everyone in the kitchen trying to keep things running smoothly with tempers flaring. 4 nights ago the head chef and a floor manager were having an arguement right in front of me over managerial disputes during business hours - it's got to stop but the one man who can and should do something about it won't. He'd rather be her friend than her boss. This blows. The only reason I'm still there is because of the money... $15.50 an hour aint so great but average 25-30 hours a week and it's twice what I get on the dole (unemployment). I'm not sure what to do... or whether the new bosses who are coming into this mess this week and I haven't even met yet will keep me on let alone honour the Chef apprenticeship that my previous boss had offered recently.

***.

Needed to vent, sorry.

Thing is in just over an hour I have to go back there - and it's like school to me. You don't want to be there but you go because you know you have to, you've got to keep your eye on the prize (in school that would be graduation, for me it's the paycheck) and try and get through the personal, political and assorted **** that goes along with it. Man, why can't it be just like it is the movies?? You go to work, do your job, get paid, come home - period.

As much as I don't want to quit hopsitality just isn't for me. I'm not sure what is. I fell into it, I'm pretty good at it, and everyone apparently loves me at the restaurant. They miss me when I go away... but I don't know what to do. I'm getting to old to keep going from job to job on starting wage - I've got a shot to get a qualification out of this (if I stick at it for another 3 or so years and maybe pack up and move to Brisbane to do so!) but my heart isn't in it. My heart isn't in anything. Maybe I should sell it on eBay...?

Meh. Bad comedic timing.

Oh well, came home and watched Saw 2 all the way through now. Cool. Was watching 'Crouching Tiger, hidden Dragon' in bed last night, then I got distracted by some more adult-oriented programming, now I'm watching Entertainment Tonight. Well, I was. It's over now too. Meh. I hate waiting. Split shifts are the worst, you don't want to really start anything cause you know once you get into it then you've gotta go again. And yeah, this weird dude from Russia sent me an email earlier and it freaked me out. I'm starting to remember why I avoided those personal chatrooms for so many years... *slaps forehead*

I wish you guys could hear this. The city's just buzzing with this Christian concert thing. The drummer before was going off... man, I'm a slave to the tom and the bass, so I was like standing in awe in teh restaurant car park just listening, no feeling it. Mindblowing. But yeah, the lyrics ruined it for me... so I went back inside. Even here back home (a good 20 mins walk from work) I can still hear them going off. Three days of Christians rocking our city. I'm praying though. Praying Rob and LP get their sweet ***** down under and show these guys how to really rock a crowd, lame-*****. Oh well, everyone's gotta start somewhere I guess... Thing is when you play music bad people hear it, and when you get good you have to make people listen so they'll sign you up and make you another big act. 0_o

Oh well, better go get ready and do this all over again. Work I mean. Tomorrow I doubt I'll get this chance to sit around and watch a movie or two. Time and a half penalties though... nothing to sneeze at.

*insert cashed up icon here*

Thanks. *tackle hugs* Talk to ya later... probably.

-Rav

 

[Friðbjörn]

I know it's a very late reply, but I kinda didn't know what to say to this before...

that boss friendship thing really sucks...wow

and the guy from Russia...well it's even creepy to read about on a forum like this lol

and besides I wanted to ask news of Rav-world!

oh and you kept askin at a point about my so called story, well I made the third start to it tonight I believe and I think it's a winner, so perhaps it'll soon be out in the open...you never know

 

[stupidsoul1]

*hugs* oh rav =(

I worked hard to save up for my new bass, now i have to pay to get my mums school camera fixed...

so our lives both suck and blow.

haha ebay does own, but that joke was in bad time.

I hope everything sorts its self out with you soon.