Well, my day is almost done. All in all, it wasn't a bad day. Even the woman that bitched about her cake being wrong didn't faze me much. I think it bothered Brad though...LOL. He was the one that took the woman's order....wrong...LOL. To tell the truth, I kinda wanted to kick his ass myself. I was glad he was right there seeing what I had to deal with because of him. Maybe now he'll take a little more care with his cake orders.
Would you care to know what happened? Ok, I'll tell you anyway...LOL. I had a cake order for a cut-out cake in the shape of the number 10. The order said make black, blue, red and white. The only other details were that the woman wanted the inscription written with a star tip that is usually used for orders. I thought it rather strange, so I did the cake and thought I'd wait until they picked it up to verify that's what she actually wanted before writing on it. Well, she came to pick up the cake and hour later than the order said. I had almost finished cleaning up. The first thing that was wrong with it was that there were no balloons on it. Brad didn't write anything about balloons. I got out the colors again and started making icing bags for balloons. I also asked her about the writing. At this point, she started to act like she knew more than I do about decorating. I'm thinking "why am I the one doing this cake then?". You don't know how bad I wanted to tell her to do her own damn cake next time. I was pleasant though and maintained my cool. It's a whole lot easier to do that when it's someone else's mistake and not mine...LOL. When she started talking about how she didn't know how come her cake wasn't done right and how hard was it to make a cake how she wanted it, that's when I told her that there wasn't anything on the order that said anything about the balloons or the other stuff she didn't like about it. She proceeded to tell me that she "told that guy what she wanted specifically" and I cut her off by holding up her order and telling her that none of that was on the order that I had. She didn't say anything else but mumbled a few things and waited until I got done fixing her order. To tell the truth, I really thought she would go up there and complain, but no one came back and said anything.
That was pretty much the highlight of my day. It was rather amusing to see Brad get so flustered. I joked around with him a little about wanting to kick his ass. I told him he had to take out my trash for making that mistake. Truth be told, I would have asked him to take it out for me anyway...LOL.
I haven't really done much of anything this evening. I've been lazy. I know, surprising isn't it? I did get to talk to Deb for quite a while. It was a great conversation. I hadn't talked to her in a while. I'm such a bad friend. I got the country style beef ribs in the crockpot too. I'm going to cook them overnight and then slather them with BBQ sauce and throw them on the grill for a bit tomorrow. I'll invite Mom over for dinner. That will give me the motivation to clean...LOL. Mom can bring Ruby and I'll get to play with her a bit. She's such a sweet dog. I can't wait to babysit her when Mom goes to Branson next month.
And that's about all I did this evening. I had a good conversation online with Ronn. Told him to give Timothy a big sloppy kiss for me...LOL. I'm not thinking that's gonna happen.
Sitting here listening to my System of a Down compilation disk. I love it. They are the most awesome band ever. I wish they would get back together. I love Serj by himself, but I have to say that I like it better when they all work together. I would so do Serj though. I think he's so hot! One of the guys in my writing group, Travis, reminds me of him. He's pretty hot too. He's nice as well. I find him very interesting. He's no Serj though...LOL.
We had a really good writers meeting yesterday. We had two new ladies. One was very outgoing and knowledgeable and the other one was pretty quiet. I feel bad that I didn't get the chance to stay until the meeting was over so I could go over and talk to the quiet one. I hope she comes back. There seem to be a lot of people that join and either never go to a meeing or go to one and then never come back. We really are a fun bunch of people.
I've had an epiphany! I was thinking the other day about how getting my work critiqued might bother me a little but I don't let it get me down or take it personal. I was comparing it a little with my job. I found quite a lot of similarities in them both and I think that some of the things I've learned to deal with in my job are things that help me deal with criticism in writing. Anyhow, I've thought about exploring that a little more and maybe writing something about it. I have no idea how long a piece it's going to be or where it will lead, but I do know I would like to post it on the group site. Maybe someone else would get a little help from it. Who knows?
Well, I think it's time for me to head to bed. I'm beat. I know, I haven't done anything...LOL. I'm still beat though. It's been a rough week. I'm ready for my days off.
Ciao!
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