Now seems to be the perfect time to put in a work rant or else I might end up keeping the "pissed off attitude" in and smoke more than a pack a day in the long run.

Since my last post, I became the main closing manager at the Burger King I work at. Now I close front instead of kitchen and now I'm starting to miss closing kitchen. There are different reasons why I wouldn't mind closing kitchen again. One of them is to prove to my closers now that you only need a pre-closer on Wednesdays and possibly Fridays with our store!!! I think I gained this mentality because I started out working for an ex-military GM. For those who actually read this, you can comment on if it's wrong to hold my closers to the same standard of when I used to close kitchen.

I know this because I experienced it and still kept the store looking nice and the other closer did not complain about how things were left for him. The nice thing is that we have a new person in the store that fits more of my mentality and I would rather work with on a closing shift. I actually ended up closing with him Sunday and finished up his training but I ended up showing him what I did and how certain things looked better than how my closers get it now. I was really happy that he listened and said the stuff I did in kitchen made sense. It was a really nice change instead of hearing the complaints of not having a pre-closer or how much work has to be done.

It's the little things like that that make me miss the crew that trained me and in turn, I watched out for them or did the same thing I did for them that they did for me. If my store still had "my boys" there, things would be totally different but it would be a good thing for me.

Since my last post, I've turned 25. My birthday was a lot better this year than last. I closed the night before it (even though me and the manager were there at midnight). Mike had flowers sent to work for me . He also got me the Edge t-shirt I wanted. We ended up loading up on ice cream and sharing it with the people we work with. They were so buzzed from the sugar (it was an ice cream cake) that everything was getting done early.

Mike and I are back at the Old Man's. Sean (Sparky) is living with us now. The living situation over here is better than it has been with Sean here considering what the last people that were over here were like. The house is being kept clean and nothing has came up missing. The only thing that Mike doesn't like is that with all 3 of our work schedules, I'm able to talk to Sean more than him at times. That should be changing soon since Mike and I actually have a Friday night off together this week. The last time we had that was when he was on vacation back in March. No wonder all 3 of us were happy to get a new GM at work.

My mind's drawing a blank now. I guess that's what happens when you close the night before and have to be back at work at 10 AM .

I'm going to be Pamela Ann (Larson) Estep. That's kind of scary but not at the same time. The funny thing is that Mike's getting remarried before his ex-wife is (and she left him). I already have my dress picked out and my bridesmaids' dress picked out.

  *This is just the type of dress, not the colors*

I'm not going to be posting a picture of my dress yet since Mike is subscribed to this blog. Everybody knows that it's bad luck to see the bride's dress before the wedding . Beeper hates me because she doesn't like the dress that I picked out that much but I think it makes her look good. Now she can do the same when she has the ceremony wedding :-p.

It's pretty bad that the only reason I'm doing this is that part of my dad's family are interested in going to a ceremony. Mike and I came up with a place where we can have the wedding and the reception at the same place. That's the nice part since we're doing it all on a Friday night. My photographer and videographer are also free (gotta love friends and family).

The funny thing is that my future mother-in-law, sister-in-law, and I are more interested for Mike to tell the guy he asked to be his groomsman (Josh) that he'd be walking down the aisle and dancing with my future sister-in-law (Christina...the one in the brown dress). Josh has had this thing for Christina for quite some time. We'll see how everything goes with that.

Another interesting thing is that Christina and Mike are going to try and convince my future mother-in-law to wear a "mother's" dress since most of family is dressing up. She also didn't wear one for Mike's first wedding so I think Mike would enjoy seeing his mom dressed up. We'll see how that goes too.

I think the scarier thing is that this wedding will be coming together around Christmas time...then everything will sink in.