To be determined

As I was thinking about writing another blog post, it occured to me that since getting this job with Safeway all the posts that come to mind- with exception of the football one- seem to revolve around work. And more often than not- its the stupidity of the person I work closely with. Well today is no exception to the rule. I thought of the perfect quote to go at the beginning of this post while I was at work today but as soon as I got on the computer out the window my brain went. (yes it took the quote with it) I have a couple more cake pictures to put up today as well as a story to go with them.
Ninja Lego cake anyone?

 And his loyal minions of course

So the story behind this cake. A lady called asking if we had any ninja lego cakes. I said well I dont believe I have heard of them so I would say no we dont. She asked if she could bring in a pic and see if it was something we could do. I said sure why not and she came in a few hours later to talk to me. Now if coworker D had been on the phone or talking to the customer she would have told them flat out no it wouldnt be possible. Now it is my opinion that if the customer wants something that isnt super difficult to make then we should go ahead and make it. The customer will think its the best thing ever and will tell her friends how wonderful we are and we will get more business because of an extra 10 mintues of work.
I got to work at 9am yesterday and started working on this cake that was due at 11. D had been there since 6 but the customer specifically asked if I could make it for her (go me :)) I got going on the cake and cupcakes and got everything done. As I was putting it in the fridge, D came over and said well it looks nice but thats why we cant do special orders that arent in the book. I had a rather perplexed look on my face since D has a rather annoying habit of speaking in the middle of the conversations she is holding in her head that I am not privy to. She went on to explain that it had taken me 2 hours to do this special cake that wasnt in the book. Well I stopped and looked at her and said "D, How is it possible that it took me 2 hours to make this when I wasnt even out of BED 2 hours ago?" This conversation took place at 10am- if you will recall I started work at 9am She stopped talking to me for a while which was rather nice for a change. Sadly all good things must come to an end and she talked my ears off today.

I was working on some cake orders today and I couldnt figure out where all of my icing tips were. We should have a full drawer of them all sorted out but at least 4 of the spots were totally empty. After D left I started going through our tranist where we store icing bags and stuff in and guess what I found. Yep 33 icing tips, 12 couplers and 19 coupler ends. Dont ask me how so many got in there but it may have something to do with the 3 bags of purple, 3 bags of green, 2 bags of blue, 2 bags of orange and 2 bags of pink icing.
Really, why would someone feel this need to make a new bag of icing every single time they need a color. D's theory is that "oh I want to use FRESH" Even if I tell her I just barely made it she will make more. Honestly I think she does it because she has some control issues. Oh well, to each their own?

Football Season- sigh

I have learned in the last few months that I have a boyfriend that likes Football. I suppose his growing up in Texas and playing football himself might have something to do with that. At the moment we are into the playoff games of 2013 (or is it still the 2012 season? I really have no concept of how they label seasons of sports) The current game is Green Bay Packers vs. Minnesota Vikings- Greenbay is winning by 19 points so far. Since learning of this football "enjoyment" lets call it, I have been learning many things about the game. I will take this time to list them out since the game is playing and talking isnt encouraged.

1. The Running Back runs with the ball- makes sense right? I guessed that one all on my own
2. The Quarter Back does not give out quarters like the name implies, instead he throws the ball. Seems like they should call him the Toss back or the Throw back but I suppose that doesnt sound as cool or something. Actually it should be the Toss Forward or Throw Forward since thats the direction the ball goes.
3. Apparently while watching a game one should not yell out "Run little man, Run!" This is apparently not proper football watching etiquette.
4. Also saying "aww, the little man fell down" is considered not ok language. This strikes me as interesting since there isnt a single offensive word in that statement and some of the language people use while watching a game is nothing but offensive. (Bf is not one of the foul mouth ones just to clarify)
5.Never try to talk to a male when the game is on. Period
6. It amazes me the people that are chosen to play football. Almost all of them have HORRIBLE balance and sense of direction. I mean they run back and forth on a field and constantly trip over and into one another creating large piles on the field then they have to line up and start it all over again.
7. A game consists of 4 quarters, each quarter is 15 minutes long. This equals a 1 hour game. WRONG! The current game has been going for 2.25 hours so far and there is still 16 minutes left on the clock. Figure 45 minutes per quarter so far that means the total game will be 3 hours long. Need I say more?
 8. If team A throws the ball and team B knocks the ball out of team A's hand while team A's hand is going forward it is called an incomplete pass and the play starts over, still team A's ball. If the ball is knocked out of team A's hand while it is not in motion and is then grabbed by team B, it is called a fumble and is then team B's ball. See I actually learned something not amusing. Not quite sure how I feel about that....

I think thats all I have learned from the current game. Not to bad, 8 things in 2.33 hours when Im not even really paying attention