House Keeping

Parking lot woes

2012-06-07T15:00:00.000-07:00

The restaurant has a lame parking lot. It's lame because it's conastantly driven over with semi's and people who insist on dragging around boats and trailers all over it. So, it's not very stable. Dirt collects over time from the wind and one day my friend Monica and I decided to move that dirt.

Problem; the wheel barrow had a flat. Solution; do it anyway.

Problem; the second Monica put the last shovel full of dirt on top, it toppled over.

Good job, Mon. You made a mess.

The pie!

2012-06-04T14:00:00.000-07:00

Back in December I killed an innocent pumpkin pie. I swear it was not my fault. I had had a migraine the night before and had taken some pretty awesome pain killers that made me awesome the next morning... and during my shift. I ended up shoving a tray of salads in to a slot that it didn't fit in to... and I basically squished the pie against the wall.

Poor dear. We flattened it out, covered it in whipped cream, and served that sucker. ;)

Scary, scary thing.

2012-06-02T13:14:00.000-07:00

Recently the restaurant put in automatic towel dispensers. I'm still not used to them. One night I leaned over to change the liner in the trash and a towel shot out at me. I nearly hit my head on the sink it scared me so bad. I ran to my husband and told him what happened. He laughed for the rest of the evening. That's love, ladies and gentlemen. :P

Back!

2012-05-31T01:14:00.001-07:00

OH my gosh I'm coming BACK in to the blogging picture.

What's new? Well, Mark and I still clean the restaurant every night and I always end up finding the most ridiculous things. Um... recently I came across a used catheter. OH MY LAND I was royally grossed out.

Ew.

2011-04-24T15:00:00.000-07:00

There are some things I will not post a picture of when I talk about it. One of those things is fecies. EEEEEEEW.

A few nights ago I encountered a disgusting puddle of pee on the floor of the men's room. Also scattered around were a bunch of paper towels. The smell was awful. I ran from the room and breathed a sigh of relief. I donned my mask and gloves and went to work flooding the bathroom with disinfectant.

GROSS.

GROSS.

GROSS.

Ten Bucks

2011-04-22T15:00:00.000-07:00

Sometimes I go to work and make no money at all. I hate slow days.
One day I left work... and I found ten bucks in the bushes!!!!!!!!!!

There, I fixed it.

2011-04-19T23:33:00.000-07:00

The other day I served a table that had two little boys. One of the kids had a little cut on his knee that had opened up again. He was sitting in his chair being sad and holding a napkin on his cut. I smiled sweetly and asked if he wanted a band-aid. He shyly knodded.

Interestingly... I bought Marvel Comic Super Hero band-aids at the dollar store. We only had two left... Captain America! That kid was so excited. Turned out he needed three, though. I grabbed the other box of band-aids and let him choose his favorite color. He was so excited. He picked blue. His little brother felt left out, so I let him choose one too.

When I went to clean up their table after they left, I found a blue band-aid on the back of a chair. Hee hee. Children.

My husband

2011-04-08T12:00:00.000-07:00

I just gotta show off my cute husband. Here is he vacuuming the middle room at the restaurant. He does the vacuuming, I do the mopping. We're cool.

Popcorn

2011-04-05T12:01:00.000-07:00

One day I went to work feeling in the mood for popcorn. I bought a small box of the stuff to take with me and to share with everyone.

Too bad I wasn't used to the microwave... I burned a hole in the bag and burned half the popcorn. It smelled wonderful. :P I had to throw the whole bag in the sink 'cause it was smoking like crazy.

Cocktail Sadness

2011-04-02T11:55:00.000-07:00

*sigh* Turn my back for one moment and it takes a flying leap off the counter.

Mop-top

2011-03-21T15:00:00.000-07:00

Sooooo the mop that I use is separate from what the waiters/waitresses use in the kitchen. There are several reasons for this. The kitchen gets hella dirty from food and grease. Then the mop gets hella dirty and becomes un-cleanable. And... they are super rough on the mops and break them constantly.

Recently they broke the last mop and had to start using mine. I asked my boss to order a new mop. She was alright with it, but it wasn't gonna come for a week and a half. Great. The bathrooms have white tile. For the last week they've been a dull grey, no matter what I did to them.

Today, the shiny new mop came. It felt like Christmas!

Nobody touch my mop!

Anniversary

2011-03-19T16:00:00.000-07:00

March 20th is my one year anniversary. Mark and I got married in the Manti, Utah temple in 2010. Best day of my life! It's been a great year. :)

Before and after.

2011-03-17T15:00:00.000-07:00

Tables get dirty. That is a fact of life. You can sanitize them all you want, but there will always be that layer of clean dirt that doesn't do any harm except turn the table a funny color.

So, every so often, we clean the tables with degreaser.

Looks clean, right? This is before I cleaned it.

Here's what the rag looked like. Notice the white on the left side. That part didn't touch the table. The right side did... hee hee.

Pizza, pizza.

2011-03-14T20:21:00.000-07:00

Little pizza, found on the floor while vacuuming the restaurant. Awwwww.

Skid marks!

2011-03-09T18:38:00.000-08:00

Went in to the men's bathroom to clean one night and found this in front of the urinal. Can someone please explain?

Clean up on aisle... kitchen.

2011-03-06T18:36:00.001-08:00

Apparently when a lot of stoneware plates fall on to tile, it sounds like an avalanche. For real.

Mop Top

2011-02-15T16:00:00.000-08:00

The mop I've used for the last few months got a little ragged. I'm happy to say, I managed to get a new mop head!

Of course I had to play with it before securing it to the pole. Hee hee.

Sometimes Scary

2011-02-12T17:00:00.000-08:00

My husband has some friends who rent out the apartments that are under the restaurant. They're awesome guys, and a lot of fun. When we started cleaning the restaurant back in November, they weren't aware. Well, one of them at least. See, he's a truck driver, and not always in town.

One night we were doing our rounds. I heard a noise down the stairs and went to investigate. It was one of Mark's friend, and he'd been drinking. It's not a bad thing, really. He's a lot of fun. But, if you scare him, he'll come. And he did. With his gun.

Yeah that was scary, but the other guy got to him, too. No worries. It was all good. Just part of life cleaning the restaurant. :]

TP Suga'

2011-02-10T22:38:00.000-08:00

Sorry for lack of updates. The computer was out of commission for a bit. Bleh. But, it has returned!

We went to clean the restaurant. I always seem to find some awesome surprises. This time, I found sweetner on the MEN'S bathroom toiletpaper dispenser.

Week Review

2011-01-25T23:56:00.000-08:00

Well, things are winding down after that car fiasco. We got ourselves a beautiful 2004 Toyota Camry. Sadly, we had to sell our Dodge Stratus. When we went to get our stuff out of it... we found out how dirty that car was. I didn't realize how bad it had gotten. ha ha. So many reciepts, empty soda bottles, and wrappers. So fun. The car dudes said we could leave it messy. I still felt bad...

The night after we got the new car, we went to clean the restaurant and found a little pair of shorts. Ha ha! Some little boy went pantsless! I laughed for ten minutes. It was good to relieve stress. :)

A few days later I got the coolest tip ever at work.

It's a ten dollar bill shaped like a heart with a quarter in it! AHHHH so cool. I felt special.

Saaaad times.

2011-01-19T17:09:00.000-08:00

I feel lame for not posting that much lately. Not a lot has been happening...

Stephanie is having me not come 'cause they're having some difficulties. And, the restaurant hasn't been busy, so no silly stories. LAME! Ha ha.

Also... my husband and I recently endured something so difficult, it made me cry. Our car stalled on me yesterday when I was going to visit my dad at his work. It stalled on a busy street in Orem, which was soooo scary. Yeah, I cried. Smoke was billowing out from under my hood. Some people immediately pulled over to help me. I was so grateful. I was embarassed for crying, but what can you do. Ha ha. This one guy towed me to a safer place. It was nice. My dad came and rode with me to the car place when my insurance peeps sent a tow truck. Lovely.

Blown gasket.... no more Dodge Stratus. Sad. The worst part? We're flat broke right now. Suck. It's $1700 to fix, which is $200 more than what I paid for the entire car. We're selling it to the fixit guy and going with a new car.

Life.

Worse things could have happened. I'm grateful for my trials.

MEDIC!

2011-01-12T14:43:00.000-08:00

I had an adventure while cleaning the restaurant last night.

The restrooms have air fresheners that get changed every couple of months. I guess they got changed yesterday, because when I walked in to the women's restroom I almost passed out. The smell was awful! It was so strong, I could feel it in my lungs. It was almost like Vick's Vapo Rub, but with a hint of poo. Yuck.

I propped the door open with the wet floor sign so I could breathe.

When that wasn't enough, I used a mask. I felt sexy.

Sadly, as I was cleaning, I slipped and hit my hand on the door. For some reason, I hit it just right to make my thumb bleed. It was owwie. :(

It's okay, though. My husband kissed it better and I got a Wolverine band-aid. :D

After we finished cleaning, we went home and had soup and corn muffins with hot chocolate. Yay! <3

The end!

Sticky nastyness.

2011-01-04T18:48:00.001-08:00

I went to work at the restaurant yesterday. You know, like I do almost every day. Something always seems to be breaking. This time it was the soda machine.

The Dr. Pepper pump went caput. What you see to your left is the syrup for the machine, extremely sticky and thick and bleck.

Guess who had to clean it up? MEEEE! :D

How to end the year.

2010-12-30T23:14:00.001-08:00

It's another normal day (okay, night). My husband and I were going over to the restaurant to do the cleaning at 11pm. The restaurant closes at 9pm... yet all of the lights were still on. We also noticed there was a limo in the parking lot. Confused, I called my boss.

Apparently there were customers who were there, she said. She also told me it was okay to go over there to clean. So we packed up and went.

A nice woman and an older gentleman were the only ones left. They were just leaving, actually. They were very polite, saying that the woman's son had thrown up in the restroom. My boss was very gracious, and told them to have a good evening. The woman said, "It was great to see you again." before she left.

"Who was that?" I asked the minute the door closed.

My boss smiled. "That was Larry King's wife."

I paused for a moment. "Okay, wait... Larry King? THE Larry King?"

She nodded.

I laughed. "Well okay then!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_King_(singer)

So yeah, my husband and I cleaned the restaurant, both thinking about how incredibly random it was to have Shawn King there. Apparently she and her family have eaten there before. Bahahaha! I was flabbergasted.

Yeah, if that wasn't enough shock, the men's room was so awesomely gross. Mrs. King had managed to clean up most of the nastyness, but there was still plenty of aftershock. The kid had managed to get his barf on the floor, the walls, the toilet, the toilet paper dispenser, the stall door, and even in the next stall over. It was pink... and sticky. Ha ha! My first reaction was, "Gah!". My husband said, "I gotta see this" and ran over to see. His second reaction was, "I need a drink." "Me too!" I said. I got some Dr. Pepper, and he got some rootbeer. We toasted our weird life, and drank deeply.

It was awesome.

2010-12-28T15:00:00.000-08:00

Name- A-1 Steak Sauce

Time of death- 8:25pm

Date of death- December 6th, 2010

Cause of death- Falling off cliff

PRIME SUSPECT- Heinz 57

SUSPECTED ACCOMPLICE- Worchestershire Sauce

I admit. I did it. :) Busy rush at work. I had five of these bad boys in my arms. One slipped. I tried to catch it with my foot. Fat lot of good that did. Ha ha.