I normally don't do two posts in one day, but I am seriously freaking out!!!
I think I just accidentally agreed to go out on a date tonight.
I'm talking to my coworker, Charles, about going to see The Hunger Games last night.
He seemed a little upset that I had seen it last night and then went on to mention how he didn't have anyone to go and see it with him.
I don't even remember what I said or how I said it, but it was something along the lines of
Oh, I'd see it again.
Next thing I know he's looking up movie times and ordering us tickets for tonight.
I felt sorry he didn't have anyone to go with and I wasn't thinking what it really meant when I said I'd go.
I'm probably just over exaggerating and he doesn't think it's a date. Just two coworkers who have never done anything outside of work before (unless you count that one time we went to a patient's fundraiser with my dad) going to a movie together...that he paid for.
I don't date. I don't know these things!!!
Mona says I unknowingly flirt all the time. I am just being my normal nice polite friendly self, but Mona says it's flirting.
And the worst thing is having to tell Mona and Becky about this. Becky and another girl at work have been trying to get me to go out with Charles for the past year.
There were friends made, line skippers taken out, and grown men brought to tears.
The Police were called to escorted a purple haired women out of the building for smoking and drinking in the theater. When she was first confronted by management she was dropping the F & C words left and right and once the police showed up she left with anger in her face and tears in her eyes.
It was an all around great night!!
I highly suggest you go see it tonight, because Saturday is a worldwide holiday.
Tomorrow is the day we have all been waiting for for the past 50 years!!
You: But Luna, you are only 25...? You haven't even been alive for 50 years, so how can you have been waiting for tomorrow for that long?
Me: Wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey.
If you haven't guessed yet, tomorrow is...
THE DAY OF THE DOCTOR!! The 50th anniversary of Doctor Who! I am so excited!! I am totally geeking out! If you're not a Whovian you might think me a mad woman with a blog. Readers, there's something you'd better understand about me cause it's important, and one day your life may depend on it:
I'm thinking about making a cake as well, but in all honesty the cookies are pushingmy skills and effort.
If I made a cake it would probably turn out like this! (see cake picture on right)
Cake or no cake it will still be a brilliant!
Sigh.
I wish it was already tomorrow...
...but as we wait I will leave you with some of
my favorite Doctor Who quotes
to show you just why I love this crazy 50 year old show.
“When you’re a kid, they tell you it’s all… Grow up, get a job, get married, get a house, have a kid, and that’s it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It’s so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.”
“This is one corner… of one country, in one continent, on one planet that’s a corner of a galaxy that’s a corner of a universe that is forever growing and shrinking and creating and destroying and never remaining the same for a single millisecond. And there is so much, so much to see.”
“Never ignore coincidence. Unless, of course, you’re busy. In which case, always ignore coincidence.”
“There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.”
“The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don’t always spoil the good things and make them unimportant.”
“Biting's excellent. It's like kissing - only there is a winner.”
Well you know what I did immediately after writing said super saving money and pinching pennies plan?
I went out and bought three tickets to see Catching Fire for tonight!!
This money saving thing is not going to be easy...
BUT IN MY DEFENSE we did say we were going to this movie last week. Actually we said we were going after the last movie. And if you want to get technical I made a mental promise to see all the movies after I finished reading the books. .
So, really I have really been planning on going to this movie for the past two years.
Therefor this spending of money does NOT count.
Nor does the popcorn.
I'm just saying...I have pre-planned to eat popcorn at this movie too!
Don't judge me!!!
Moving on.
I am absolutely in LOVE with going to all the "late night" movie premieres!
It's a love hate relationship with the no longer having midnight movie releases because it just doesn't seem as cool to say "Oh, I'm going to see the premiere at 8:00 or 11:10", but on the other hand it is lovely idea when I think about waking up at 6:00 AM after seeing a 2.5 hour movie at midnight on a Thursday night (those Friday work mornings are rough)
I still love going.
I could quiet honestly care less what movie it is, from Star Wars to Twilight (yes, I went to see all the Twilight movies at midnight) it's all about the PEOPLE!
Normally I'm not a big crowd, lots of people type person, but standing in line for hours with these people is a horse of a completely different color!
Oh the crazy movie obsessed fans that come out in the night!
I just love them.
Star Wars people are the super nerdy, bring your lightsabers and R2-D2s along with you, type of fans.
The Twillight fans are the screaming/crying team Edward/Jacob tweens and middle age mothers type. It's a fine line between annoying and hilarious. At the last movie there was literally a girl full out sobbing behind me in the theater. I know I shouldn't get so much joy out of a teen girls sobs, but I do. I think I had a smile on my face the whole time.
Harry Potter fans are my personal favorite. All dressed up like Hogwarts students, broom races in the parking lots, trivia and spell casting games! AND let me tell you, the broom races are no joke. A fight broke out one year over them and the cops had to be called!
The movie theaters even get into the festivities with trivia, games, and prices. I there were even silent auctions taking place during a few of the Twilight movies.
I have to say I was a little disappointed in the Hunger Games crowd last year, not as many people dressed up as I would have liked.
I am holding out hope that the crazy fan base has grown a little since last year and I will see a few more boots and braids. What I really want to see is someone on fire! That would be cool! (I'm talking fake fire, not real fire. Real fire would just be ridiculous. I'm allergic to smoke)
I guess it's understandable that no one really wants to be a part of the Hunger Games. Fighting for you life and killing other children for sport doesn't sound like my cup of tea either. Well at least not as fun as going to Hogwarts.
(Side Note: to all the sobbing teenage Twilight fans out there, I may laugh in the face of your tears, but I would stand in line with you any day. You drew me in with your gumption and dedication and love. I am team Twilight.)
In light of recent events, Mona and I decided we needed to have a business meeting.
The way this business meeting came about, is the same way most business meeting happen...
I went home on my lunch break and I found Mona sitting in our living room with her bags practically packed telling me she's running away RIGHT NOW!
Me: Can we wait until I get done with work to run away?
Mona: Well, I was going to run away without you, but I was to lazy and now you're here.
So, I got out of work early, we canceled our evening plans, cashed in our coin jar ($83 dollars!), downloaded a playlist, and hit the open road.
We rocked out to Nero/Skrillex 'Promises' and set out on our path for Milwaukee.
We ended up in the Historic 3rd Ward District. Super cute area of Milwaukee we have never been before. It has lots of cute little shops and restaurants!
Our "business meeting" was held at the wonderful Cafe Benelux. I loved the look and atmosphere of this place. The food was unique and good!
We had the pork belly satay, sesame cilantro slaw, peanut sauce, for an appraiser and then we split the sprocket, which is a burger on a baking pretzel bun with bacon, cheddar, duck fat fried egg, garlic aioli, and tomato jam. We also had the traditional frites and the sweet potato frites along with the roasted garlic and red pepper aioli dipping sauces.
Wonderful!
I wish we had places like this were I'm from. It was very inspirational setting for our meeting.
We talked about where we are and where we want to be when it comes to opening our own coffee shop. And getting out from under The Man or in our case The Man-dy.
The ways things have been going with our coffee boss, Mandy, right now, is highly motivating. It's forcing us to kick start our own shop into high gear.
One of the tricks I learned in business school is to set a definitive and measurable goal. Using numbers and deadlines.
So, our goal is to save $60,000 and open our coffee shop by the end of 2015.
We are going to have to save 2,500 to 3,000 every month for the next two years to reach our ambitious goal. It's going to be a lot of hard work and cheep meals, but we can do it!
We both have two regular jobs. We both get tips. We both dogsit.
I am going to start donating plasma again and try to sell some of my artwork.
Mona is going to find more paying gigs for her music and she is going to try and win jingle contests (she already has a few in mind).
Once our lease is up we are going to move to a cheaper apartment.
We are going to completely get rid of our TV bill by cutting even basic cable and cutting down our electric bill by making sure to shut off lights.
And we are going to eat as many meals at my parents as we can without them realizing what we are doing.
We are going to save every possible penny.
After dinner, with our stomachs full and our goals set, we took off for the Miramar Theatre on Oakland Ave to hit up their Tuesday open mic night.
There were quite an assortment of musicians and poets.
One skinny, nerdy looking white kid unexpectedly wrote rap lyrics.
Another rapper (obviously rap is popular in Milwaukee) reminded us of how Tom Haverford from Parks and Recreation and how he would act if he tried to rap.
One musical looper was having technically difficulties so he tried to do a comedy routine. Not good.
And a poet was talking about vaginas and whores fairly explicitly and then apologized several times afterwards for if he offend anyone.
You could say the experience was interesting.
Mona was by far the best person to preform and I don't say that due to bias because she is my sister or the fact that I helped write the music.
At first she was a little thrown because she had never played on an actual stage with lots of bright lights and all before.
Afterwards she said she didn't know how to act because she couldn't see the crowd and get people's reactions, so she felt like a fool.
I, of course, agreed with her 100%.
No, she did an awesome job and even gained a few new fans!
By this time it was after 10, and being the party animals and expert runner away-ers that we are, we headed home and went to bed.
Like I said, Mona went to talk to our coffee boss, Mandy, to try and clear things up.
According to her it was a misunderstanding and she didn't mean to come off that way. She was talking about future employees.
Even if, it was still crappy.
It didn't make me any less mad about the meeting. I'm still upset and Mandy has lost ALL of my respect.
Mona told her that I was pissed and would be harder to make up with (Mona was right) and that she needed to at least message me and apologize.
Hours later I get a picture message with her smiling with a set of keys "We got the keys to the building!"
This was her apology?
Mona was at work, so I messaged her right away.
Luna: That picture was in no way an apology
Mona:errrr. No.
Luna:It almost made it worse.
Mona: errr. yaeaah. So I take it you didn't respond? lolol.
Luna:If I responded right now I would tell her I wouldn’t be able to help at all this weekend
Mona:
This is what you would be like Lololol
Then you would be like
Then I would be like
Bee do bee do bee do
Luna:This is what I want to send Mandy:
Mandy. I don’t think I’m going to make it downtown this weekend. I think I need time to cool off. I don’t get upset easily and I am furious over what happened in the meeting yesterday. After not talking to you in over two weeks you basically told us that we need to get our slobby, lazy, selves to work and that if we didn’t you, Juan, and your sister would have free rein to scream at us whenever you want. You have created a hostile work environment, one that I would never want to work in. But mainly the things that were said about my sister in this meeting, directly and indirectly, were horrible and inexcusable. She was so hurt and upset by the way you have treated her over the last few weeks and what was said about her yesterday that she was in TEARS!! That is not something I forgive easily. I know that Mona said it wasn't meant that way, but you made my sister cry. I’m going to need a minute before I forgive you for that.
Mona:
you going to do it?
Luna: I think so, but I’m going to think on it for a bit. What do you think?
Mona: You don’t think that stuff is better to say in person?
Luna: Not my style
Mona: lol
Once I wrote out my letter to Mandy to narrow down my angry feelings, I stopped and thought about what would happen if I sent the letter...
I would feel vindicated and justified in the moment. I would get my word in and give her a piece of my mind. But it would also cause more drama, I hate drama. It would be harder for me to go back and face her. Things would be more awkward and there would be more hurt feelings all around. Is this a job that needs to be kept or can I just cut ties off with her? Would it be beneficial for my future career of owning my own coffee shop? Probably not. People are hard to deal with especially in a work environment. I won't always be able to cut ties with everyone I meet who makes me mad. Plus, do I really want to sink to this level? Using my words to cut and hurt. Or do I want to try to mend things even if I never get the apology that I want. Do I want to hold onto my anger? Will sending this letter cause more harm or good?
And by someone I mean my coffee boss, Mandy, and her little side kick Janet!
We have not heard a word from Mandy in over two weeks, since we packed everything up and moved it into storage to wait a few days until we could open in our new downtown location.
That was at the end of last month and we have heard nothing from her since.
I was ready to start looking for a new job again. Dazed and confused, but okay with whatever.
Then we get a text late yesterday saying that there is a meeting at 6:30 to hammer things out for opening downtown.
Thanks a lot for your planning skills, Mandy
I was pissed that she expected us to drop anything we had going on to come to her little powwow, but I got over it and moved my schedule around to go accommodate her so that we could to this meeting with our little group so we would know what the hell is going on.
Guys. When I talk about our group of people who are moving downtown. It's Mandy and her Partner, Juan, Mandy's sister, a girl named Tiffany, Mona and I, and then there isJanet who worked as a waitress in the no longer existing Mexican restaurant and has never made a cup of coffee in her life!
Sorry, I digress.
So this super small group of 3 employees (I'm not including Janet) have been working our tales off to be open 16 hours a day on top of us all having other full time jobs.
Last time we got together she was telling us what a wonderfully great team we were.
We get to this ill prepared meeting and she blindsides us.
Telling us exactly how it is going to be and that if we don't start doing exactly what is expected of us at exactly the right time we will be chewed out. Her, Juan, and her sister will be there to make sure we keep in line.
She's basically telling us that we are lazy, slobs, who don't know how to do their jobs.
She literally said "WE WILL YELL AND NO LONGER SUGAR COAT THINGS"
I don't think I have ever been more insulted in my life.
I am extremely hard and good worker.
Not to brag, but to give you insight into the situation, I have three jobs and am getting my bachelors in business management.
My bosses, at a major medical facility, come to me with their problems and have me training other employees. I have never been written up. I am never late. I don't have patients complain about me. I have patients who come back just to say hi to me after they are done with their appointments. My old bosses trust me enough that, even after I quit working for them, they ask me to stay in their homes and watch their dogs while they are gone for weeks at a time. I have even had other team leaders in our health system come to me and ask me if I would like me to work for them.
And Mona has been working her butt off this lady. She has basically been doing the job of a manager while getting paid minimum wage.
We have all been going above and beyond for this woman.
And did I mention we volunteered our time to help her with this move?
I was honestly ready to walk away at that point. And I would have been fine without loosing a wink of sleep over it, until Janet opened her big fat ugly stupid mouth.
She started ripping on Mona!
LET ME TELL YOU RIGHT NOW...
YOU. DO. NOT.
MESS.
WITH.
MY.
LITTLE SISTER
.
She was saying stupid things about being ticked off about having to clean up after her all the time, and that she shouldn't be aloud to wear her stupid scarfs anymore, and how she has to redue all of the coffee lists she wrote out for her because she didn't do it exactly to her liking.
GUYS THIS LADY HAS NEVER EVEN TRIED TO MAKE A CUP OF COFFEE!
She is the drunk waitress who doesn't even work in the same area as Mona. AND Mona has to clean chips and salsa off the floor every morning when she comes in the morning from the mess that Janet leaves the night before!
*deep breath* deep breath*
Mona is going to meet with Mandy today to try and clear things up.
She is a better person than I right now. I just want to get out of this before I seriously injure someone.
