I love our weekends we get to spend time with each other and the pets and catch up with friends via skype, facebook or in real life. Last night we had a lovely dinner with a friend of mine and her new beau. It was fun to catch up over good food. Today I am waiting tables at the German place and then its off to the gym and home for some quality hubby time. Oh hope over to the private blog to read this.
man i am such a slacker these days.
Isn't she a cutie. She is so tiny- to tiny for me to be honest I like big doggies that you can hug. But Misty is happy that she has a playmate. 
See after my mom and Misty were at our house for nearly 5 weeks Misty was really sad to be alone - not anymore. Senta keeps them both busy she was only 9 weeks when my mom got her.The weekend was fairly busy. I worked Friday night and Saturday night. But did get off early Saturday having a nasty Migraine. Sunday was time for the AP meeting. We were meeting with the self defense instructor that taught the girls to punch and kick (some of them took the chance to work out some frustration right there!) and then it was off to have our Birthday celebration.
Miss Jin baked us a fantastic cake
which was demolished in record time. 
I barely had a chance to save a piece for Grumpy. 
Wonder if they liked it?!Well my weekend was pretty good. I was off Friday night and after hitting the gym I went and got my mom a present for $2 (after all the rebates) She'll love it I am sure especially considering how it will be delivered. Saturday I took it easy after the gym until I had to head to the restaurant. There I got a nice surprise. R. had gotten laser surgery so our day time manager was in and she is good about sitting tables so I managed to make decent money despite it not being that busy. Today was nice since Grumpy and I were both off. He was beat and slept till noon so I had made a nice big breakfast for us. I even baked him the cake I was going to make for his birthday in June. Here is what the muds were doing while Grumpy and i were on cleaning and cooking duty.
Sassy cooling off 
Misty on the dining room table (yes it needs cleaning) 
Cleo relaxing on Mac's crate
... that time on weekends goes faster???? I didn't have to go into the restaurant so I figured I'd have sooooo much time. Bull here it is Sunday afternoon and I haven't done laundry, cleaned, homework ....
I even tried some Fried Bread made by the Dakota
Once I got home I got a mirgrane and didn't get anything else done. Today I set out to make the Maultaschen I will post the entire recipe over at BWC but here are the pictures
The filling is spinach, spices and ground beef/chicken. I ran it through the mixer to make it smooth (I love my magic bullet)
I don't have cutters so this had to do
When I was finished I noticed I had so much filling left. 
But I ran out of time so I consulted with Sassy my trusted helper 
and we decided that we should make them into meatballs with the left over ground chicken and beef. 
Here are the finished Maultaschen. You can serve them in the broth or cut them in stripes and fry them. 
So I got to run to meet the Au pairs at the beach. I will send the recipe to BWC later.I do have to say now that I am no longer working all weekend I do look forward to them. I am actually off alllll weekend. Well kinda. See one of the guys asked if I could work for him tonight and he'd take my Saturday shift. I do have stuff to do this weekend. Tomorrow its first of the the gym then I want to go check out this American Indian Festival after that I have to go visit one of my families who just got an au pair. Then I was going to make some of these -Maultaschen- 
So it is Monday morning and I am at work. I just can't get motivated enough to actually work so I figured I update my blog and tell you about the rest of my weekend.
Well actually there is unfortunately nothing really to tell. Saturday morning I spend doing homework for my University of Phoenix class. My current teacher insists on having assignments turned in on Saturdays which really sucks because you do not have the weekend to work on the.
I went to work at the restaurant, got the same lousy section as the night before and ended up not making any money to speak of. It annoys the crab out of me (the section thing) but I guess I understand it to. My bosses son is waiting tables with us till July so he hooks him up (unfortunately his son is not the greatest waiter and my boss ends up having to help him) with the best section and the most tables. And to make matters worse one of the waitresses is dating my bosses best friend so she also gets great sections with lots of tables. I mean I made good money for what I had, I just did not get many tables (17 people - everyone else had 25 and more). The funny part is my boss loves me so that's kinda confusing. He seated me at 6:30ish the last time so when my last table got their check at about 7:45pm I told him what sidework I would do and if there was anything else he wanted me to do. He is like"you can't leave now" and my response was "R. You have not seated me in an hour and a half". R said "well get your tables cleaned and I seat you again (mind you 2 of my tables had been clean and set up for over an hour) So my response was "I have a party to go to so I do not want anymore tables, I am leaving". That was it, I did my cleaning and was out of there and at home before 9pm.
I called my friend whose b-day it was and told her we'd be over soon. I went home finished my homework and my friend called again. She said everyone had left to go to the club. I told her not to worry about us but to go on and go with them we'd see her tomorrow. (knowing grumpy in a club with a bunch of drunk and obnoxiously girls not a good idea.) Anyhow we decided to go and see X-man III. I have to say I was rather disappointed and Grumpy - an avid comic book reader- kept saying that is not how the book goes.
Sunday I had to work at a local Amusement Park - BUSCH GARDENS. I work in the merchandise department in Germany but tend to be loaned out throughout the park. I have worked there for 5 years and do it just for the benefits, right now just once a week. So I worked in my store for like 30min before I was sent to work in Games for a bit, after getting back to my store I was sent out to help a merchandise store in England putting away a big shipment. It did not take me long (matter of reorganizing the shelves and using common sense) and their supervisor could not believe how fast I finished and how much room they still have.
After taking my break I went back to my store and I guess the only interesting thing happened. I was talking to some guests when I glanced over to the door and saw 2 cast members with a guest that appeared to be crying standing there and using our phone to call security. I head between sobs something about lost and figured she lost her/a kid. This is nothing unusual and we know how to handle it and everyone is found and reunited with their party relatively fast. Well this girl (18) started to get hysterical and screamed at the two cast members and then at the guard. (BTW she had not the right clothes for a park - way to much bling bling) So as she gets louder I get more of the story. She lost her friends, well she did not lose them she got mad at them and walked out of where they were. The guard keeps trying to get her to describe her friends which she refuses while she keeps screaming at him (not to stereotype but she displayed behavior that I would call "hood" behavior) that he did not care and did not understand and she did not want to stand there she needs to be out looking for her friends instead of not doing anything. So after 30 min they all left the store and I look at my supervisor who told me she had a run in with her earlier. There she wanted to leave the park immediately and was asking how to get out. We decided she was high on crack or something and had lost a few too many brain cells due to that.
Incidentally not much later I had a real lost kid case. A 13 year old boy lost his uncle, he was calm, collected and gave me all the info including his uncles cell (which they had left in the car). I called security who went to look with him at the last place he saw his uncle. He was the complete opposite to the girl above.
That was pretty much the end of my shift and while walking out I ran into the guard that took the boy. I asked if they found his uncle and he replied no he took the boy to the Wild Moose Lodge where all our lost kiddies wait for their parents/party.
After getting home and soaking in the tub, Grumpy and I left to see the birthday girl. We hung out for a while and then left to go grab a quick bite at TGI Fridays ( I love their mudslides and their mash potatoes - which I eat with Jack Daniels sauce). After that I went home and crashed - well not until after I checked out my daily blog reading list.
So what did you do? I am sure it was more exciting than my weekend.
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Damn blogger I lost more than half the post and had to redo it all. I think I forgot something because the earlier one was longer but I can't remember.
