Pillow's blog

Gotta have faith

So I just woke up and had fred durst sing to me before I'd even brushed my teeth! I love festivals. I'm working this one. I've never worked a festival before, and its so different to what I am used to and expected that at first I didn't really like it. I'm getting used to it now though. I'm working 9pm to 9am every night. Luckily the campsite I'm marshalling is right next to main stage, so I could clearly hear arcade fire last night, and will hear blink and guns and roses. I'm not spending as much time as I'd like with my friends, but I've made new ones so its not all bad. Ill do a more detailed post when I get back :)
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My boss is veinf bad.
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In the cool cool evening

I'm at work at the cafe right now. I'm on my break, sat out back. This is my nice peaceful view. If only I could get paid to sit out here all day, rather than go back inside to all the screams of those damn kids!
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You don't weep

I'd like to introduce you guys to someone very important to me. She came back into my life about a week after I moved in, and I honestly don't know what I'd do without her. She's amazing. She'd helping keep me in shape, and she's helped me out financially so much. 

This, is Muriel.

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I know. She is beautiful.

I now cycle 10km a day when I'm working (saving £3.40 every time), and I've been on a couple of long trips just for fun. I also can quite easily cycle to Sophie's flat, not that it's worth mentioning apparently >:(

The bag on her back holds more than you'd think too, so she's great to go shopping with, cause then I don't have to carry all the bags :D

I <3 Muriel

And now I sit here, all alone

There's been a lot of crappiness the last few weeks.

The most notable is Fran's Dad. 

I think Fran is the most dependent person I know. The sun shines out of her parents, and she's always said her biggest fear is something happening to her parents. 

Well about 2 weeks ago her dad retired. About four days later he had a massive stroke and is still in hospital. It breaks my heart hearing about it, cause I know how much it must be affecting Fran, and her whole family. He was a pretty healthy guy too, I definitely didn't see this coming. Her parent's were away when it happened, so they are hoping to get moved to a hospital closer to home this weekend. 

My housemate Becky is going through a tough time right now too, her nan is probably about to die. She's been ill for a long time, so it's kind of expected, but that kind of thing is never easy. I haven't seen much of her the last couple of weeks cause she's been staying with her parents.

My mum is gonna be in Holland till at least halfway through September now. Don't really know much about what's going on over there, cause my aunt is rubbish at keeping in touch, but then so am I. I think it's okay though.

Let the bodies hit the floor

So its been a crazy few weeks. I've over done it working too many shifts, and I've been in bed for the last three days, and I got sent home early today. Whoops?

Hopefully I'll feel better soon as the double shifts start again tomorrow (no I haven't learnt anything).

Only a few more weeks of this then I'll be missing the hours.

I'm losing even more faith in humanity day by day at the cafe. School holidays means even more kids coming in, and parents just disgust me. I've had to tell numerous parents to stop changing their babies nappies at the table, when people are eating at the next table!! Some parents had their kid piss all over the floor, laughed about it, then asked me for another drink for them when I'd finished mopping it up! (If I'd pissed all over the floor when I was little, I've had had a smack bottom, my parents would have offered to clean it up and we'd have left immediately and I'd have been told off on the way home. And that's the way it should be!)

Then there's just been more of the usual annoyances. 

People ordering food to a tiny table, and squishing around it so I can't even get near it, and not moving or taking the plates off me when I get there. 

Kids rummaging through the tip basket and taking money from it.

People completely finishing their food, then claiming they didn't like it and demanding a refund.

People assuming they don't need a table number when ordering food and it's busy, so when they pay and disappear off, we will magically know where to take their meals to 15 mins later.

People ordering drinks, and in the time it takes to pour the coffee and take it over, they've already plopped out their boobs to feed their baby. Seriously, just wait for us to give you the drink first. No one wants to see that. Or get one of those blanket things you put over yourself so no one has to feel awkward.

Fucking prams everywhere.

Urrrgh

The clubnights have been generally okay though, which is good. We had a couple of gigs. Regina Specktor and PiL. Wasn't massively impressed with either of them.

I am massively impressed with the autumn/winter gig list so far though! We're getting Skunk Anansie and Motorhead again, Bowling for Soup, A, MGMT, Mark Ronson, Manic street preachers, Avenged Sevenfold and stone sour, Less than Jake, and James.

I'm not huge fans of all the bands we get in, but these are some that I'm excited to see and/or actually a fan of :D

Hey baby, do that dance

So I'm at my mum's now.

Her internet is rubbish so I don't know if I'll even get to post this, but fingers crossed.

Worked last night, and I was really tired by the time I got there, which is never a good thing. I worked at the cafe 9.30am till 5pm, then didn't start work till 11.30pm. I hate it when that happens, because by 11 I'm ready for bed, but I actually have to leave the house and go to work instead. I do it every Saturday though, so I don't know why it was so hard this time, but yeah. It just was.

 

So I was in a bit of a bad mood from being tired when I got there, and it only got worse when I got down to my bar and saw who I was working with. Now that sounds harsh. Everyone is really nice at work, but sometimes you can get a really shit deal with the bars.

There are seven bars, but we dont always have them all open. Last night we only had four open. Each bar has to have at least one supervisor on it, and then a few bar staff. I was on bar 4 which is the biggest one we had open yesterday, and the supervisor we got was Scott. I don't really get on with Scott anymore, because he is the cloakroom supervisor, and one time I worked with him he let some guy give me shit for 10 minutes, refused to get security to help me and was generally a prick and I ended up having to report him about it to my manager (who sided with me btw).

It's also annoying that he is put as a bar supervisor, when he doesn't actually know how to work the bar, because he is the cloakroom guy, but that's a whole new complaint. So while that's annoying enough, I was the only member of bar staff that wasn't new. Lame. It's really annoying working on a bar that size with people that don't really know what they're doing. I got frustrated a lot, and stood on and bumped into and gah! I know it's mean because I've been doing it loads longer than them, but it's fucking annoying when people don't know how to be on a bar without clogging it.

 

Luckily it was a pretty quiet night compared to how it normally is, and it was really busy last week, so we were actually overstaffed for once. I took full advantage of this and kept finding reasons to leave the bar and get ice or pick up cups.

 

My flatmate Becky was in, and she came and found me to dance with me when a bowling for soup song came on (I want to marry bowling for soup) but I was still a little grumpy heh. The music was pretty awesome though and I had a good singalong to a few songs.

 

My friend Matt cheered me up when I got swapped onto his bar for a bit, cause we were messing around for a bit, I tried to pick him up on my shoulders while he was trying to pull a pint haha, professional? Me? Always.

I'd lent his ex one of my hoodies, and she'd left it at his before she moved out, so I had asked him to look for it. He told me he'd brought it in, but when he first left he'd forgotten it, so he went back and then was late and had to get a taxi into work. I said he hadn't needed to, but he said he did because it was for me :)  He can be such a sweet boy when he tries :)

 

Eventually I got bored and at about half 2 I went up to see Luke and persuaded him it was quiet enough to send me home and he did! haha I'm cheeky. On my way out I bumped into Tom, who was a regular customer I had a crush on, but I hadn't seen for ages. He was excited to see me and gave me a hug and told me he'd been in Australia and that's why he hadn't been in. It was nice to see him and cheered me up some more :)

 

Had to get up again this morning, worked till 5, and managed to get a train I didn't know was running at 5.15 to get here. Pretty good going. Work today was ok, I was a little grumpy at first cause I was tired, but everyone knows I'm always grumpy on Sundays, so I just hid in the kitchen and did pot wash.

 

Gonna try and finish reading Digging to America now, borrowed it off my mum ages ago and keep forgetting to finish it. I don't really want to take it back with me now, so hopefully I'll have it done by tomorrow night. I want to take Sophie's World back with me instead :)

World so cold

I've totally got out of the habit of updating :(

Sorry guys. 

My aunt got in touch with some specialist doctor in Belgium and managed to get my mum an appointment with him early August. She has to stay till the end of August, then I guess she'll come back when she's up to it. She will stay in Holland with her sister when she doesn't need to be in Belgium. So after work tomorrow I am going to stay with her, then I wont see her until probably mid September. It's really odd as I have seen so much of her the last six months. I'm pretty glad though. I can have some me-time without feeling guilty.

Gotta go to work now. 

Hopefully I will do a proper update soon.

You can't break that which isn't yours

I have been neglecting you guys! Sorry!

Just letting you know I am still about, but I'm super tired so I'll try do a proper post either tomorrow or Friday.

I don't know if Sophie has managed to get in touch with any of you, but I said I would explain her absence for you anyway.

So she's having issues with sky. She's moved in with her boyfriend now, and as he is a boy they had to get sky tv, so they got the phone and internet too, as it all came in a deal together. There was a huge hassle with ordering stuff, and she's had a phoneline a little while now, and TV for longer, but still no internet!

This has made it awkward to try set up vox on her blackberry, cause I had to set mine up on my laptop before I could get it to work properly, and Sophie got her phone after she moved out so didn't get a chance to fiddle with it then.

She can read your posts on her phone, just not comment or make her own posts.

She says hello though :)