Sunday Do-dalls

So I had a marvelous time again on Sunday in church. The talks flowed very well into one another and the topics were well versed (the guy talking about prayer knew his stuff!). Ok...they were spiritually uplifting as well. Yes I realize that it is Thursday and that I'm a little tardy in my posting with these doodles. I also want YOU to realize how hard it is to type right now. I am trying to update my life so that I can feel organized for the fall semester next week. Who knew it would involve so much typing! I guess I wouldn't make a good secretary...nah, I could handle it I think :)...I'd complain more if I broke my index finger I think *knocks on wood*...So anyways...doodles...
This week I was contemplating about a class I will be taking in Winter. How do I know I'll be taking it? Because I want it bad enough that I will make sure that I get to take it ;) Anyways, enough veiled threats. I love snow. I can't stand not having it right now XD, jk. I also enjoy the sun, beach, warmth, etc. but snow holds a special place in my heart cause I have always dreamed of going to it all of my life...and never was able to (until last year :D) because I didn't take the time to plan trips and such. So now I have decided to get up the guts to take a skiing class when my friend(s) mention(s/ed) to me that they also offer snowboarding... Now...I want to take skiing because my dad says he is good enough to go professional (or was in his youth) and I believe him. BUT SNOWBOARDING LOOKS SO MUCH COOLER!!! But then again how would I know the difference?
See how cool my drawing looks! Well...my imagination is all I have for right now...but I'm still leaning towards skiing. Yes...I think skiing.

I also have big plans for my free time (which looks like I don't have much of it anyways, but its fun to have goals). I am going to draw this!
Except it will be in black and white and in charcoal :D I learned how to do it in my drawing class and I am so excited that I had to share it! :D

Well...that's about it :) Sorry I didn't draw any chimeras this week, I didn't ask anyone for two animals so I couldn't draw them combined into one...sad day...If you truly miss my chimeras then I'll put up some old ones. :D

Sickly Sweet

Today I had enough Maple Syrup on my leg alone that, if I had enough waffles to go with it, I would have been able to feed a small village. How did this happen you might ask? Well at work we served a large breakfast (which went marvelously) and for clean-up we had to ship all the dishes to the temp dishwasher. In two of our hot keepers (they keep the food...hot...) there were pans of uncovered (>.<) maple syrup and by the end of said trip were no longer in the pans but all over said hot keepers. *sigh* I am sad that I don't have any pictures. Perhaps I should start bringing my camera with me everywhere...actually I'd rather not get maple syrup on my camera...here, I'll describe what it looked like instead . You shall now imagine those modern art pictures where people just throw splatters of paint on the wall and call it art...that was my legs, shoes, and polo shirt. I could have been an exhibit in LACMA...I suppose it was better than taking a bottle of syrup and having it ooze everywhere...or better yet! I could jump into a mollases bucket! XD See...one of my bosses saw me in my sticky situation and he said "I've heard of jumping in a mollases bucket...but just covering yourself in syrup!?" hehe. Man...now I want to try it too :p...but the hot keeper I was cleaning might as well've not been cleaned because no matter what I did it still leaked maple syrup everywhere! Isn't that odd? I'm not too annoyed about getting sticky beyond all reasoning...but I'm upset that I didn't clean something up to par because I couldn't do so without dismantling the thing. >:(

Anyways...the moral of the story is wear an apron :D

Here's a random fact for you too that always makes me giggle :D
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words.

Excitations!

I got to listen to the beach boys this week! So when I am in my apartment I like to listen to my wonderful cds. For the Beach Boys I realized I hadn't listened to them forever! You know how if you listen to a cd enough you start to think that the songs on said cd HAVE to come one after the other or it just doesn't sound right? Yeah, well that's how I feel about my Beach Boys cd. And it's glorious. Anyways, so that's a good point.

I also got a new phone this week. I had decided earlier in the year that I wanted a new phone because it's been a year and a half since I got my first one :D and it's taken me about 3 months to finally buy it. I decided on the LG Shine (sorry to my poll that didn't really matter in the end it seems) because...well cause I still don't want to pay for my phone if I don't have to. I just bum off my dad for right now. :D But I decided to get texting too and it's been marvelous so far :D

The other wonderful things are rather simple...like seeing the sun rise, watching the Village, eating a heath bar, realizing the importance of friends, and picking up my drawings from my teacher. In the end I learned a lot from this week...and that makes me like it even though it was rather hard. :)

um...I hope you enjoyed the update about my week. %)

Vexations

*sigh* You know, I don't believe I've had this 'bad' of a week in awhile @_@ ok it wasn't bad it was just hard. But there have been many a good things as well I suppose. So this is going to be a long post :)

Firstly...I stole something :( the last time I felt this bad was when I ditched primary :( maybe there's something else I feel bad for, but I've suppressed those memories it would seem. Anyways, it has to be one of the stupidest things I have done in my life. I talked to my dad about it and he was like "If you need money for anything then just let me know and I'll send you some!" X( I guarantee you that was the LAST thing on my mind, if anything was, when I stole what I did...ok...now I'll tell you...future employers feel free to stop reading here...I stole a smoothie X( Isn't that the most anti-climatic thing you've ever read? Anyways I did, and it was horrible. See I had just learned how to use the shaved ice/smoothie machine in a restaurant I frequent and I really wanted to be...idk...cool? no...I just like making smoothies...I was just X( I can't even explain what I was thinking...you know what...see the comic on the side label. Basically I have a question mark for my thoughts cause even I don't know what I was thinking. I remember even staring at the ingredients before I made the thing and saying to myself "This is stealing"...AND I DID IT ANYWAYS...guh...I am an untard sometimes. But, lesson learned. I went in and payed for it on Monday. Penance paid so now I just have to stop beating myself up about it X(

So then my next favorite thing of the week was my work schedule, which is really encompassed by three things. It was jam packed with irony. And I <3>
1)I worked mornings. Usually I have a morning class and therefore I don't work mornings really. Not that I planned it that way *shifty eyes* but I am a morning person! I got it from early morning seminary I believe...that and I can't sleep in past 10 >.<>
2)I worked in the Cannon Center and The CougarEat. O.o My theory is this. Catering hires its workers out to other places so that they realize how good they have it. A job is only as noble as the person who works it. But I was just...I felt so degraded working for the other dining services on campus. I did meanial tasks, which is all I could REALLY do being a temp for the week. I learned a lot about how to be a better supervisor though. People above me gave me a lot of material...Albeit I had fun working at Subway on Wed...but on Friday all I did was cut bread FOR THREE HOURS. *sigh* Someone has to do it...and it doesn't make you any less of a person. I have met a lot of interesting people this week, and I wish I'd been more talkative. But my mind was way numbed X(
3)I didn't get fed. *cries* In the end it came down to this?Wow...I had to pay for my food. It's not right! I never knew my week would be so bad just because I wasn't fed. I thought I'd be a better person than that. One superviser gave me a 4$ coupon one day...and I have to say that I will always have a special place in my heart for that person. Gold star to you Allan's wife...whose name I never learned...man I feel shallow. XD

Lastly, because I worked so much I didn't get to meet my roommates. I guess I should come to expect it :( So long as I work for catering I won't get to know my room mates. No...I refuse to believe that. :D One can do anything you put your mind to! Or so I like to say to give myself hope...

Stake doodles!

Let's see...random updates...I am moved into my apartment (though I didn't get to clean my old one...but I found out that because I worked instead of cleaned I earned enough money to pay for my manager to clean it for me ;)), I want to see 'The Village' in full because the last 2/3 of the movie was good, I need to unpack :D, and I just applied for my first credit card :D fun stuff huh~!?

So this Sunday I got to go to a Stake Sunday service and lo-and-behold I got to go with one of my friends from work :) It was marvelous. I got all dolled up too :D and I found out I have good make-up! Who knew? >.<>Cat+Lemur: you know...if this existed in real life it would just be a good evolution don't you think? Better hearing and better balance on a monkey that can fly through the air at high speeds! A side note...I've been seeing so many cats lately I even had a dream that my dad bought me one :( and I KNOW that'll always be a dream XD
So there was another person that Tammy and I knew would be in our Stake...but he didn't show! So this is what we figured he was doing *tisk tisk* ditching church. We also met another friend there at the meeting...she provided me with crayons :D
haha,I began to draw catering comics (surprise)! . This is a rendition of what happened a few days ago.
And this is the ending of the previous comic.
Fireman: "So...what exactly is a hot keeper? Does it catch fire often?"

But no worries! I still paid attention in church. We heard a lovely talk on how hymns help express our souls. Then Tammy and I got to share our favorite hymns :) I was tempted to request a song without words but refrained myself. It's called 'Supplication' and it's just a prelude found in the kids songbook...and I love it.

Captain Meeting

Alrighty...random updates. Both of my finals went fine I like to think. Now I just have to move soon and all will be right in the world :D


Well, this past Wednesday we had a captains meeting as we are prone to do every month-ish. But my superiors made a fatal mistake and gave me a piece of paper, ensuite, I started to doodle. But they were constructive doodles! I took notes :D So next meeting I'll be able to re-cap what we went over! So we talked of catering as a tree and it was...guh...nevermind...I can't lie. It was horrible. One of my pet peeves is people telling others what their pet peeves are...next comes people taking Church metaphors/allegory's and trying to apply other doctrines to them in a lesson. I can understand when you do that for yourself personally-personal revelation and how things adapt to each of us individually is a whole other story- but not in a meeting or anywhere else should you take an allegory that is meant to tell a unique story about the gospel and try and apply your own 'doctrine' to it. But I respected the lesson anyways and took notes and listened...
So at one point in the catering tree part we talked about what would cut down said tree...figuratively of course...and I just couldn't get Captain Planet out of my head after that! I remember one episode (the only one I remember) where he flew by after someone had cut down a tree and it sprouted a new tree (just like in my picture...except CP is flying...yes)! I remember at the time it was one of the most deep and beautiful things in the world to my young mind. I've always wanted to see it happen irl. I don't think it'll ever happen though :(
So it was suggested to us that we take a 30 min break every 6 hrs we work as this comic implies...but us captains noticed that if we work certain shifts...serve time will be right when your about to serve the food. So the next time I need to direct everyone as to what to do...I'll take a break XD jkjk
With every suggestion we seemed to make, we where then instructed to write said things on our captain evaluations...so by the end of the evening on any of my banquets...this is what I imagined would happen if I actually remembered to write everything...I'm getting better at it though!

So yes...whoot for notes and captain meetings. There was plenty of stuff I missed though cause I can only draw so fast...

"Mother I love you..."

Aaaaah....My dearest mother is leaving today after a three day vacation with me. I have to say my favorite part of the whole thing was when I first saw her, :) It was so nice. There is no emocon in existence than express such wonderful-ness. ;) I was sad that I had to work over the past three days I suppose. One might ask "why didn't you take time off!" Well...I suppose it's because I am a God fearing child...and when your mom says not to take work off then you do your best to do as she asks. I can only hope it'll help me live longer? That makes sense I suppose...the more I work the more I can invest in my health I suppose...Unless your like a coal worker or something like that. Catering is a dangerous business I suppose. ;)

Anyways...we mostly walked around and relived my mom's memories and such :D