I’ve been working on my theme for the last few days. I’ve always wanted to widen the post and sidebar areas, unfortunately I’m not skilled at CSS so I kept putting it off, now it’s down. I’m very pleased.

Yesterday my Husband handled a request from Merle Haggard to install a Data line at his home, A T1 I think. Maybe he’ll read this and leave more info. Our daughter Rickie wasn’t very impressed but I think it’s cool.

The “recent Spat” of Waffle House armed robberies has been brought to an end, Thank GOD. I was getting a little irritated with the local police for hiding and waiting for someone to rob us. They would park all around our location in unmarked cars just waiting, never asking us if we wanted to be their bait. I’ve only been working for Waffle House for 5 weeks and I’ve received 3 different calls from management alerting me to a robbery that had just occurred. They would let us know to lock the door if anything looks suspicious (yes Waffle House has locks on the doors). I hope these guys they’ve arrested get the help they need and learn how bad they can fuck some up mentally by pointing a gun at them. part of me wants them to rot then the other part is saying they’re probably very young and had a hard life give them a break.

My husband and I recently came to a shocking, unexpected conclusion.
What we discovered is we’re Broke, that we need money and I needed to get a 2nd job. This of course would be difficult since my career as a stay at home mom of 3 takes up almost all of my time and energy.
The longer I thought about it the more excited I got. I might actually get the chance to converse with another adult! maybe even tell a dirty joke and drink a vodka tonic after work. Oh the possibilities.

The criteria for my 2nd job where simple.

1. Nights and Weekends where the
   only available working times.
2. we agreed we would do everything we could not
   to burden Grandparents with baby sitting. This primarily pertained to my In-laws.
   since they we’re already babysitting my sister in-laws 4 children every waking moment of the day, but that’s a whole other story.

I found the perfect job! A Waffle House Sales Person!

Yippee!, Yippee!, Yippee!



Are you buying my excitement? Of course your not.

I began my official training on 8/17/05.
After a few weeks of training and apprenticeship work I finally felt as if I would be able to serve more than one customer at a time and not completely irritate the cooks with my repeating of the same mistakes over and over. I just knew I ‘d be cruising up and down the WH aisles delighting my customers and separating them from their hard earned Washington’s in no time. 1 month later and I’m still very much a N00b! being a Noob at anything always sucks.

I’ve found that I really enjoy being a waitress. I work with a great group of people and have even made a new friend


Fluxxdog aka Mike(My Dragon*Con 2005 Buddy)

Who would of guessed this shy, bashful, weird girl was actually a people person…..DAMN I never would have figured ME a people person.
Recently I came across a blog titled ‘Scattered, Smothered and Covered‘. If you couldn’t guess it’s a blog dedicated to the Waffle House.
The author of said blog worked for three months as a cook. He described it as “The hardest work you’ll ever do for the money.” He was dead on. The work can be exhausting and the pay dismal. On 3rd shift we work from 9pm to 7am and get paid only $2.60hr plus tips. We Serve our customers, bus tables, Wash ALL the dishes and silverware and do all the cleaning in the restaurant except the windows.

There are a lot of jokes out there about 3rd shift at the Waffle House. I know because my husband has been telling them since I started (you can stop now honey, I’ve had enough). Personally I think we have some hot mommas working at my location. I should have pictures of the 3rd shift by next weekend. Hopefully this will end the stereotype held by so many that it takes 4 waitresses on the 3rd shift to make up one full set of teeth.

Here are a few links you may find interesting:

• How to approach a Cute Waitress
• Tips on Tipping
• Tips on how to be a good waitress

  My next post I’ll go into the problem of armed robbery at waffle House and prevalent it really is.