It's a beautiful morning... uh huh...

What happened to me????

I think it's cause I got married.

Marriage is full of compromise. I, (the wise one) figured I would get Dave to switch from being a night person to being a morning person. I LOVE mornings! I love waking up before dawn, while the whole world is sleeping. You get a good start on the day, it's easier to gather your thoughts and pray, and everything is peaceful. You can ease into the day and at the end of it, not know what hit you. Mornings are good for hot coffee and a good book. Waking up early makes me feel like I have the whole day ahead of me. I used to hate missing an ounce of daylight. I couldn't stand it. I wanted to pack as much as I could into one day.

NOW???

Now I get upset if someone calls before 10am. Don't they know we are sleeping??? And what is with people doing yardwork before 11am??? It's LOUD and it wakes us up. For that matter, why are people driving cars, honking horns and flying airplanes before 11????? :) I don't like to set my alarm if it is before 11am. I don't mind staying in bed a little longer and cuddling as opposed to jumping out of bed and starting the day. I also enjoy nights. They aren't as peaceful, but they are calm, at least in Tulsa. There are better shows on tv at night. (Full House reruns are ADDICTING!!!) Dave ended up changing me, :) but it was a good thing.

A lot of morning things I won't give up: I still love coffee, even if it is at 1pm and it's blazing hot out. I still eat breakfast food in the afternoon, cause I figure now, afternoon is my morning. I still enjoy sitting outside after I wake up, a habit I picked up from winters in Florida. My mom and Dad and I would go sit outiside in a beautiful 70 degree weather and just talk.and enjoy the morning. The pool was right there, the golf course beyond that, the birds flying about, and the squirrels running atop the pool screen. That's a morning to me

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Today was a great day. I worked all day, but I got off at 9pm and Dave and I went out with our friends, Jess, Adam, and Megan. We went to Jonny Carino's, and then we went to see Adam and Jess's new house. It's techinically not theirs yet, but it will be in a week. It's so perfect for them! It's got a HUGE backyard, and it's so cozy inside. They got a real good deal on it, and I'm so proud of them. It's a big step to buy a house!! but they have a growing family, (and jess has a growing belly!) We had a good time, it's fun to get together with friends and just hang out. :) SMILE!!!

Why me?

WOW. What a day.

It's 1:45am...

AM

In the morning.

En La Manana. (spanish version)

I am just getting home from work.

What is that?

You ask why?

Oh, I would LOVE to tell you why.

I closed tonight at work. I normally get home at 1230. But we had some church call and make a reservation for 10:45 tonight. They had some pastors conference or something. They've come in before, and our servers all refer to them as "those people who wear skirts and their kids behave real good" They are real nice and come in once or twice a month. If they don't come to late, all the servers want to take care of them because they are really nice and tip really well. But tonight, they weren't coming in till 10:45. We close at 11.

Hence the problem.

Cranky servers, even crankier cooks yelling at me in spanish, and me knowing that I won't get out of their till midnight.

Oh but I was wrong.

A couple of people walked in, and I could tell they were with the same group, so I sent them to the winery, but they came back, and told me they weren't with that party, and they were a seperate party of twenty. That makes 55 people walking into the restaurant at the same time.

YIKES!!!!

I ended up calling Dave and telling him to throw on a shirt of mine and come in and help me. He's such a good sport. He was at Mimi's within ten minutes of my call, shaved AND with his hair done up all cute. (that was for me :) He refilled drinks and ran food, and was a HUGE help. The servers were all grateful to.

So, they left at 12:30 and it took us an hour to clean up and for me to do my paperwork.

i set the alarm at 1:23. Good thing I never go to bed till three in the morning anyways.

Oh, and to make a long day even worse....

Dave ate all my ice cream...

Well, he did leave me one. But he let me think he ate them all at first. He knew better than to eat them all :)

But on to happier things. :)

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My mom started a blog. I guess that's how all blogs start. Someone inspires someone else and boom!!! There it is. I went on her blog today and I can't believe how good she is doing. And I only got 24 missed calls while she was in the process of making it! (love you mom) Herblog will be good cause I'll still be able to be filled in with what's going on with my family. My sister-in-law is prego (tulsa term for pregnant) So i always want to be up to date with what's going on with her.

Ah. Now its 2 in the morning. I have to be at work for eleven. Hasta luego!

My Favorite Day of the Week

I love Thursdays. Thursdays mean no work, and lots of quality time with my hubby. We spent the whole day together, which was great, because sometimes we don't actually get to spend quality time. Quality time is important when you are a newlywed!!!! We've been married two months today. (I'm not keeping track that closely, I just happened to realize it was the tenth, and everytime I see that day I think about June 10th)
We went out to eat at Mimi's today. We just got six or seven new menu items, and you better believe they were catching Dave's eye. So we had to go try the new items. He got the peach pancakes. Yummy! Peaches cooked in brown sugar, Dave loved them. Then we went to the mall and just walked around. We got some great deals, I found a pair of Khakis for 8 dollars at New York and Company. (Actually Dave found them for me) Then we found Dave two shirts. He needed them, cause today he wore a long sleeved shirt because he didn't have a short sleeved shirt to wear. IT WAS ONE HUNDRED AND FIVE DEGREES OUT!!! I'm not letting my man dress like that. So now he has some new shirts to wear when its hot out.
Then we went to the movies. We saw the new movie world trade center. It was really sad and Dave and I cried a lot. It definately made you thankful for what you had. It's funny cause i've only been married two months, but it's getting harder to remember a time without Dave in my life. I've known him four years, and it's hard to think about losing him. I can't imagine what the people in NY were going through at that time.
After the movie we went out to eat again. When Kevin left Mimi's he gave all the managers a card with scratch off tickets in them. I won 20 dollars! So we figured we had some extra cash to spend.
It was just great being able to spend the day with my hubby and not have to worry about work, or anything else for that matter.

Tickle Monster

My husbands ticklish. (hee hee hee)

Those of you who know my husband might think I'm crazy and swear up and down that he doesn't have a ticklish bone in his body.

But I found one!

When he's sitting down and I go to give him a hug (I can't reach his neck if he's standing) While I'm hugging him I nuzzle my little cute nose on his neck, and maybe throw in a few quick kisses.

He can't stand it!!!! He starts laughing hysterically and is begging me to quit.

It's great.

For all those times when he tortured me with tickling games and wouldn't stop until I couldn't breath... well now's payback time!

I've always been ticklish. I mean, if you look at me the wrong way I will start laughing. I don't think there is a part on me where I"m not ticklish. When I was a little girl (and still today) all my dad has to do is raise his hands up like he's gonna tickle me and I start laughing. He doesn't even have to touch me! Well Mr Smarty pants Dave figured out the same thing and he uses it to his advantage.

For the longest time while I was dating Dave I thought it was so unfair that I didn't have a weapon of defense. I would try to tickle him under his arms and on his belly and he wouldn't laugh. He would just stare at me and smile that goofy little grin of his. GRRR!!! It made me so mad!!! Then he'd go crazy tickling me and I was at his mercy. I would tell him I wasn't ticklish anymore and nothing he would do was going to make me laugh. And sometimes it would work. I think the longest I lasted without laughing was about thirty seconds.

We had a tickle fight today. And I think, for the first time, I won!!!

VICTORY IS MINE!!!!!

Work, Work, Work

Ok, SORRY!! Sheesh, ya get a little busy and people are harping on you to write blogs. (glad I have fans :)

So school is starting again. Used to, this would mean lots of stress, new schedules, books, lots of money, and new faces.

Now that I'm all graduated, it means something totally different. (but pretty much the same)

It means that we are probably going to be down 10,000 dollars in sales.
It means no more kiddies running around during the day, and most of the kiddies coming during the night shift.
It means our rush will change from 730-830 to 630 to 730 (kiddies have to go to bed earlier)
It means more of the servers will be giving me schedules that I can't possible work with but will be forced to try. Servers who were working 6 shifts will go down to three. Servers who were days will now be nights, which means I have to find more day servers.
It means more principals and PTA moms coming in for muffin donations, which means we have to make sure we make more muffin mix.

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Sigh. The life of a restaurant manager.

Prince Charming

You...are...so....beautiful....to me...

can't you see....eeeee...eeee

You're everything I hoped for...rrr...rr

You're everything to me....eee...eee

Can't you see....eeee...eeee

This is how my prince charming woke me up this morning.

It's great being married. :)

Working out

I had the best day today!!

It was pretty bad, and pretty gloomy, until Dave said he would go work out with Megan and I.

First of all, Dave doesn't work out, and I do. But I HATE going alone to work out. It's just not fun. Someone has to be there suffering with you. I mean, it's hot outside. Your back hurts, your knees ache, you're sweating profusely, but you won't even notice if you have a good workout partner.

So Dave could see that my day was pretty blah, and he offered to go workout with us. That and I hadn't seen him for a couple of days because of our work schedule conflicting. But he wasn't about to run with us. So we loaded up the bike and went to Riverwalk to meet Megan.

It was SOOO FUN!! Dave went on his own little adventures and just caught up with Megan and I when he wanted to. Then for a while he rode side by side by us while we walked. I think he was shocked at how much girls can jabber on and on about nothing and everything at the same time. Hopefully he'll still want to come with us next time.

(he snuck up on us right when I was saying how much I appreciate Dave for working so hard, so i'm sure he'll want to hear more of that :)