Sake

To celebrate getting a job and having alot of ones in my wallet I went to Fred Meyer to buy a few bottles of sake, wine, and beer. This is what I bought....

From left to right....
a 6 pack of Bridgeport "Blue Heron Pale Ale"(a good local brew)
a bottle of
Momokawa "Pearl" Junmai Ginjo Nigori Genshu Sake... (a less filtered sake which is cloudy)
Hakutsuru Draft Sake.... which i just drank.. it very good and smooth
Hakutsuru generic Sake... the same type that i bought 2 nights ago(not as smooth as the draft)
Goats do Roam red wine.... this is an African wine... I have had it before... I highly recommend it

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I am happy ot have a job and I have been using some of my tips to try new types of sake. Now that I have money, I can't wait to go to sushi again!

I am not a big fan of hard alcohol..... i love wine and beer is good.... but sake is a completely unexplored world for me. After having the Hakutsuru Draft Sake tonight I am excited to try for types of sake and find what is affordable and good tasting. the draft sake was the smoothest i have ever drank. I had some really good Nigori(unfiltered) sake and I would like to find more unfiltered sake. It was a very interesting taste.... almost carbonated..... it had a bite and a chalky texture... it was delicious. Thanks to lily for the white elephant gift!

Well I am working the lunch and dinner rushes tomorrow... and am a bit stressed but I hear a little stress is good in life... as long as it does not get out of hand. I was on the grill the whole time today throughout the lunch rush... it was hectic but I made it through. I still have more then enough room to improve.

A good reason to live with a cat is that they will let you know when someone is behind you.

And they seem to be interested in your undergarments.
At least someone cares....
Well this is going to be another night of little sleep... but I only have to work the lunch rush tomorrow so it will be ok. I seem to be on a "I finally got a job" high and my body is pumping out energy galore... except for the mornings... and work. Today was busy and stressful and hot... really hot working the grill. My arms are soon to be hairless.

Moving right along

Well life is good once again. For about the last 2 months I have had financial worries which had been putting a serious damper on my enjoyment of life. Not to say that money equals to happiness but it is nice to be able to have a bit of spending cash. Tonight i bought some good loose English Breakfast and Earl Grey tea, 2 bars of good Dragoda chocolate, and a bottle of Hakutsuru Jumani Sake. It was the 2nd best sake I have had. I know it is not good sake but for me it was drinkable unlike many sakes I have had. This is is besides the point... it was nice to be able to have the money to buy those things... as small as they are. Not having the worry of fininces is great! i am such a terrible worrier. I think i get it from my mom... she worries alot..... and my dad he does too! So I don't have much choice in the matte... i was born a worrier and as hard as i try i worry. Well enough of this spending...... time to pinch pennies again to pay off my debts. It is also very nice to have a job again taking up my time and giving me something to really try to do well at. i have bben working open(10:30 am) to 4 or open to 5:30 which means from about 2-5 I am in the restaurant all alone and have to do everything when a cusomer comes in. It is not that i hate serving or anything... i am just very inexperienced and uncomfortable. i am learning alot through that discomfort though. Well i got to go to bed... it is 1:15 in the morning..... Lori you were right about the coffee.... it kept me up.... so either i have to get used to caffeine or not drink coffee after 6 or 7. Maybe only tea for me at night.

So it looks like i got the job at the Hawaiian cafe as a cook! I am excited to have an income now. it is amazing how much a job can make someone feel better about them self.... at least after not having one for 3 months. I wear the Hola Mateo shirt only on special occasions Steph. It's special..... but i should start wearing it regularly. I just looked it was tucked away.

Well I have to go to work in about 15 minutes and then either today or tomorrow i imagine i will talk to the owners and see if they like me. I think I have done quite well. I have decided to accept the job if offered to me. I have enjoyed the last service much more then the first... so I m feeling better about the situation there and my possible co-workers. Felix i hope you get some sleep. Try exercising after work so you can sleep!

A Sleepless Night

This week I started doing a one week trial at a Hawaiian Cafe working as a cook. Last night i was weighing the pros and cons of the job there and other things which cost me a nights sleep resulting in getting up a 2 pm. I like having a job again, unemployment is no fun. So I need a job but do I take this one or go for something that I might like more? I guess the problem that I see with this job is that I can see myself getting really comfortable in it in about a month and be unhappy with it for that reason. A big part of me feels guilty for even thinking about not taking the job if offered to me. I am thinking like it is a luxury but it is far from that at the moment. I think I need to take any work that comes my way because well it is simple.... I need money! Do I want to find myself unhappy with my job in a month or 2? Another thing is that it is a fairly simple job so in the long run it will not make me happy. I was going for a dish washing job at other places so how are those any better? Well I have 2 more days of work before they decide whether or not to offer me the job.... I will do my best bad see what happens. Hopefully tonight I will be able to sleep.

Working interview

Today i got my first interview! yay!... or maybe not.
So there is this place on Alberta St. called Lolo's... it is a tapas bar (can be mistaken for a topless bar when said).
Well there is a dishwasher position available there. So i put in my resume and have been bugging them for the last 3 days. today i went in and talked to Rick the chef and I was in the kitchen and he said "Come in and work for tonight and i will have the other 2 guys work tomorrow and the next night and whoever works the hardest gets the job." so i said "ok, I can work tonight." So i rode home as fast as i could to change and get back... but on the way my stomach dropped as i remembered that I have a ticket for a show at the Doug Fir of the band "Nomo" http://www.myspace.com/nomomusic at 9 pm. So i thought, "damn... well I remember at my last job that the working interviews lasted for about 3 hous so maybe i can go in work for 3 and leave in time to get to the show. So I got home and called him up and said "So I remembered that I something going on at 9 so i could work until 8 if that would be cool?" and he said "What do you have going on?' I said "Well my brother bought tickets for a show tonight." so he said "Well what is more important a concert or work?" I said "I don't know how to answer that." What a bull-shit question! Totally loaded. If i say 'concert' then i seem like a ass-hole who has terrible work ethic and if i say 'work' then I shaft my brother Dan who bought these tickets about 3 weeks ago. I know it was my mistake to not remember because of excitement of working. So he said "Well I will have these other 2 guys come in and if they don't work out then i will give you a call." "Ok thx, bye" i said. Going away with a feeling of "wtf just happened". I am sorry dude but this concert comes first because of scedualling. Riding my bike back from the place to get changed i was wondering about him.. something about him i did not like from day 1 of talking to me.... but i tend to be judgemental so i kept supressing the feeling and thinking that i should not judge. Well i am somewhat disappointed and part relieved. It think he was a bit pissed that he was not going to have a dishwasher for tonights service. I hope to find a kitchen with a little more excitement like the Tin Shen for instance. That place is always packed and the people working there ae nice and friendly... not just bored and stressed. The search continues.

Well I went out tonight with my and it was a very pleasant evening. I got to see my uncle and aunt that i have not seen in 2 years with my 3 cousins. So i guess I can't complain about never going out. Thanks gramps for dinner! We went to Stanich's where my gramps was shot in a robbery many years ago. He obviously survived the shooting. I love my fam and am so glad that so many are in Oregon. That is all.... b-time. I guess i can't complain about not going out anymore.

Finding a life

This sucks! Playing wow for 10 hours a day to trying to get a job for 8 hours a day is a huge difference. I find myself sitting in parks alot trying to stay cool and writing what i am thinking in hopes of figuring out my lack of drive to find a job. I pass the time looking at people with lives. They are all doing something, playing baseball, running, walking their dog, and playing with their children. When you focus on entertaining yourself at home you become very good at it and you lose a real life. I have always packed my brain with so much media, that i am not so sure that I have ever had a real life. I guess this is me trying to learn how to live. It is not an easy task.
I guess the thing that bothers me is that i know i am a good worker but i don't seen to be able to sell myself well when in a job finding situation. I wonder where my low self-esteem comes from.
Something else that stems from the years of wideo games is the lack of real relationships. I would say i spend 85% on average of my time alone. Oviously alot of that is because of being jobless at the moment. It's not like i don't like being around people. Hell I love it, and if given the chance i would sepend 5 out of 7 night with friends. In the times my life tht i could i would spend al my time hanging out with people and spend the least amount of time home.
I can't wait to get a job. For the time it uses, the people, and the money. I can't wait ot have money again. I imagine that some people want money for that new car or house or remolding but me, i can't wait to buy new shoes to replace the 2.5 year old ones that i am wearing at the moment, and the clothes from high-school with holes in the butt region, and have enough left over to go out every once and a while and a occasional bottle of wine to continue my search for the prefect bottle of inexpensive but decent wine. I try to be content with my stuff and i try to enjoy life and the simple things in it...... but here i am wanting more then i have.... something to work on.