18 March 2010

Angle ----> Mae

I really feel you on the time change! I can't fall asleep and I CAN'T wake up!! Coffee is my ultimate ally during such sleep deprived times.




Mae asks:
  1. You asked me what sounds are my favourite? Well, what are your favourite smells? Why?
  2. Do you ever find that colors can transport you to specific memories? If so, name some examples.
  3. On that note, what's your favorite color? Do you find that it gives you different energy when you wear it/them?
  4. What is the worst job you ever had?
  5. Name a time when you were most mortified, and how you dealt with it.


Angle says:
  • I love the smell of coffee brewing while I'm just waking up in the morning. It's such a huge incentive to get my lazy bum out of bed!! Which makes me realise I should be making coffee at home and setting the timer to wake me up with wonderful COFFEE!! The smell after it rains always me pretty happy, once the sun is out and everything looks cleaner... a little fresher... and that smell is so envigorating for me!
  • Colors connected to moments. You know visual stuff doesn't trigger me the same way a smell does. But if I think really hard on it I can come up with maybe a moment or two. The color peach (pinkish organge) always reminds me of this really terrible sweater I loved in High School. It was a simple vintage v-neck sweater that was a little too tight on me. In my photo album I have a couple of pictures where I'm wearing it back to these baggy patched up hippy jeans I borrowed from my best friend at the time. She was so beautiful that everything she wore looked amazing. I used to borrow her clothes in the hopes that I would suddenly be a stunning as her. When I look at those pictures now it's a good reminder that you shouldn't buy things that look good on other people. There's a pretty good chance that what works on their body won't work on yours!

  • I've mentioned before on my other blog my feelings on color. Mostly I'm afraid of them!! I'm never feeling quite myself if I'm wearing too much of it. I try to infuse the few colors I do like where I can. In terms of actual color I'm willing to wear: teal, (pops) of red, (small hints of) neon yellow or pink, and A LOT of orange. My boyfriend says I like orange because it's a neutral color... in his eyes it almost doesn't count. Now. If you want to know what "colors" I feel my best in I would say any combination of: grey, ivory, beige, camel, black, navy. In the eyes of color lovers EVERYWHERE what I listed are NOT colors. But for me I feel the most put together and the most myself when wearing said non-colors.




  • Worst job. I consider almost every job I had up until my current position to be their own form of terrible. I could go on and on about all the "interesting" situations I've been in. BUT by far the worst job I ever had was working as a waitress in Sacramento during my college years. Why? The whole job was set up to fail. It was a restaruant inside a hotel. Brand new with no formal plan on how to staff or serve their customers. I was DESPERATE for a job at the time. I mean really hard up. At the time there was simple no work ANYWHERE. I even applied to Burger King and then promptly cried when they hired me on the spot (I didn't take the job, rather said I had to think about it and then ran from the building). Short of working a deep frier I was willing to do almost anything. Two of my friends even suggested stripping when I became beyond desperate. I didn't do that either. When the waitress job became available I went in told a white lie that I had years of waitressing experience. Which is partially true. I had worked food service in the past (Deli, Coffee Shop, Banquet Server) so I figured it couldn't be that hard. Truth be told the job was pretty easy in theory. Had they hired at least ONE OTHER waitress I would have been 100X happier. But they didn't. So, I was the only  morning waitress all by myself plus the cook back in the kitchen. Trouble entered the picture when they looked at my resume and say my coffee shop experience. Next thing I knew they invested in a fancy expresso machine for ME ALONE to operate. I would be working my tables and the like when next thing I knew I had an order for 10 specialty coffee drinks from the executives upstairs. Pulling shots, steaming coffee, keeping coffee orders straight on top of my tables and being the cashier became an issue. Bad enough right? THEN they decided "wouldn't it be great if we offered room service?" - sure. But did they hire another server to help me manage the restaraunt? Nope. Then I found myself taking orders, serving, busing tables (no bus boys), pulling coffee, ringing people up, and NOW taking room service orders and finally DELIVERING the room service. ALL BY MYSELF!! It was a disaster. My tips which already weren't good became non-exisitent as the customers became impatient and angry. Can't blame them really. The service was probably pretty terrible. The final straw came when we hired a new cook that couldn't cook. Her food was terrible not to mention slow to come out. All of this combined and one day my body just gave up. While trying to serve a girls soft ball team I felt myself getting weird cold sweats. Next thing I knew my face started to feel like a mask of pain. The sensation was almost like I could take off the mask and the pain would be gone. A relative had to come pick me up and take me to the emergency room where I was told that my face had broken out into hives but they could find no reason for it. I was given antibiotics and told to rest for a couple of days before returning to work. At that point I just quit my job and decided that I needed to move back home to my Mother's house where I wouldn't have to work full time to make ends meet while going to school. I have never again worked food service to this day.

  • I battle issues of insecurity and shame quite a bit so in that way I feel mortified rather easily. MOST mortified is a hard one to pin down. I would have to say getting caught in a lie is probably the worst feeling for me. I try not to lie if possible but hey, nobody is perfect! Once my roommates girlfriend (she sorta moved in with him/us) was having some of her friends over for a girls night. I was invited I'm guessing because I lived there. I didn't know her friends that well but they seemed nice enough. After many blender made mix-drinks there was a heated conversation over a CD (I'm pretty sure it was a CD... gets a little fuzzy here). Apparently one girl was accusing the other of borrowing said CD and never returning it. My roommates girlfriend was the accuser. On the side she told me all about how it really was her CD but that her friend is always stealing from her. Soo... I thought, "I can do something about this for her! I can right this wrong!" - so while everyone was in the kitchen I took the CD in question and put in in my roommates gf's purse. I had totally forgotten about it until about 2 hours later the friend started freaking out and yelling about how someone stole the CD from her. I felt my tummy go splat and got the shakes. I had to come clean to what I did in front of an entire group of girls I didn't really know. Not my best moment even though my intentions were good.


Phew... those were some hard ones!! Your turn to answer!


2 comments:

  1. Coffee:

    If it were worth it for me to ship it, I would send you my coffee maker. It's a small 4 cupper with a timer. You put the coffee in at night with water in the tank and then delay brew for a specific time and then it'll brew. I even bought it a "permanent" coffee filter you can wash in the dishwasher instead of throwing away filters. But it's kind of big to ship and it wouldn't be that green. Or would it? I don't drink coffee anymore, because of my lupus, been 99.8% coffee free since July last year. I only drink tea.

    Crazy.

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  2. oooh! sounds fancy!!! I don't know if shipping it would be a good idea or not! But it's a really sweet thought!!! Being coffee free appeals to me about once every couple of years. The last time I tried I got terrible migraines. When I talked to my Dr she actually suggested that because of my struggle with depression and my naturally low energy level that she didn't recommend I quit. How often does a DR tell you to drink MORE coffee?!?!

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Feel like adding some crumpets to our super secret tea party?