i'm not dead

[pennie_dreadful]

Looks like the economy is hitting this area, hard.  Lots of people have lost their jobs, and now only one of our restaurants is open (normally two are open year round, and there are two more that are only open during summer).  Which means that now we are obliged to start serving breakfast and Sunday Brunch, a prospect that certainly does not thrill me in the least.  I have become too accustomed to keeping late hours and getting up at around noon.  Start going on beach vacations, please! 

Diana Gabaldon:  Christ, woman, you write a lot!  Voyager is over a thousand pages long!  And I only thought Mercedes Lackey was hard on her characters; what you put poor Jamie and Claire through makes Misty look like a benevelant goddess by comparison. 

Oh my God, my mother's birthday is tomorrow.  And I only know that because the mouse pointer moved over the little clock in lower righthand corner, displaying the date.  (I should at least get points for knowing when her birthday is.)  Looks like I'm paying Amazon extra for overnight delivery....

Speaking of my mother--she called my work last night to see if I was there.  According to the bar tender, I am in the doghouse because I have not called her, or answered her calls, for a week, and she thought I had been murdered or kidnapped.  (Do mothers do this only to their daughters, or do they do it to their sons, too?  Must remember to ask my brother.)  I can't help that my phone is broken!  I have to buy a new one on Friday when I get paid.  Alright, I could have borrowed someone's phone and called her, but I forgot.  I'd have sent her an email, except I know she hardly ever checks it. 

Alright, alright, I know I am a bad daughter.  Off to Amazon.

Comments

[poiznivy.livejournal.com]

lol...Your NOT a bad daughter. Overnight shipping is really expensive. If you didnt love her, you wouldn't pay that outrageous price. Feel better yet?

[kat-nic.livejournal.com]

I guess I'm not so bad. I just have a lousy sense of time and I don't realize how long it's been since I talked to her. And I really had no idea how close it was to her birthday! But at least I was in time.

[aurillia.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're not dead too! But I know that when you're quiet it's cause you're busy :) This Jayne is just for you *mwah*

I didn't know you were reading the Gabaldon books! I have to pick up Voyager soon; I left it for ages because I read the first two back-to-back and felt like - god there isn't even a word for it but it left me shattered, I was so drained! And now you're saying book 3 is more of that! I just need to psyche myself up.

Well I would love to have a beach vacation but I have no money and no holiday time either! Adam's parents are always talking about renting a place in Florida for a month or so in winter (yeah they're those kind of people: have money), but that doesn't really help you much does it.

[kat-nic.livejournal.com]

Shattered is a good way to put it. About two-thirds through Voyager I just had to stop. It was too much drama! Since then I've finished book 4, Heir of Autumn, and it's more of the same. But I can't stop reading it! Gabaldon's written an offshoot series about John Grey (you remember him from Dragonfly in Amber?) and I think I'll see what those are about. Hopefully it's not as heavy as the Outlander books.

You would love to have a beach vacation--well so would I! I only went to the beach once this summer. Ugh! Everyone back home says how nice it must be to live down here, but it's a lot of hard work!

[impeccablesimon.livejournal.com]

I guess it's good that you are busy, but it must suck a lot too. There is little that can be done about the job, I assume. Although I'm sure your mother appreciates you and your thoughtfulness.

(And I haven't forgotten about you either. I was hoping you were still alive.) :P

[kat-nic.livejournal.com]

Nice to know you care. :P

[yurnewbff.livejournal.com]

No, she doesn't call John to make sure he's not dead or dying. (I know it's so not fair.)

*sigh* Jackie ran over her phone. (On accident!) Now she's got mine. I remain phoneless for the time being. Curses, I hate being poor!

Oh and before I post this comment, I must tell you something. (well typing would be literal, but anywho)

I thought like you, I think. I was thinking, "If I wasn't going to be a game developer, what would I be?"

The first thing that came into my mind was a chef. T-T

*sigh* I actually put thought in it. That is just scary.

Bye bye.

[kat-nic.livejournal.com]

What do you mean, scary? We've known for a long time that you were my clone. You may as well accept the inevitable. Perhaps by the time you graduate culinary school I will have my own business, and I could be your master employer.