Tales of the Salad Bar: Year Two

Well, the bar and the case are both twice as big as last year, but it's still the same old salad bar. Deb has been freaking out about us having enough prodeuct to sell over the holiday weekend and had so many people in to work on Friday that there wasn't room for them all to be in the room working at the same time. On this bright side, they got enough done that this weekend has been relatively easy. I just got back from closing, which I'll be doing a lot more often this summer, and I'll be going in early tomorrow to open the bar again. Oh well, holiday pay is worth it. Although, it's weird that I'm working all the days the rest of the family has off...

Tonight I worked with Amanda, which was nice. We can actually talk about things--with some of the other girls I'm somewhat at a loss for things to say. Donovan, one of the produce boys, seems a lot more cheerful this year. Last summer he seemed to always be in a bad mood, but so far every time he comes through our work room he'll say something that's either funny or downright weird. I think I like this Donovan better.


Driving home from work tonight I saw the coolest thing. A woman and her two sons were out riding horses down by the soccer fields on the south edge of town. The mom and the smaller boy were together on a big, beautiful bay, and the older boy was riding a pony alongside them. It was so cool to see.

I am currently reading the Da Vinci Code in the hopes that I can finish it before my family goes to see the movie. I got quite a bit of reading last night due to the fact that I couldn't sleep. And yes, it was the not sleeping that induced the reading, not the other way around.

I saw X-MEN III yesterday. It was amazing. And sad. It made me cry. The death, even of bad guys in battle, seems so much more real in a live-action movie than in a cartoon. It's hard to watch Wolverine sink his claws into someone. And I know some people don't like spoilers, but there was more death than there had to be. They took the Pheonix plot in a whole different direction than I expected. This all makes me want to watch the original cartoon seies again. Do you suppose they might put it out on DVD sometime? That would rock. I used to wish I was a mutant because it would be fun to have special powers. Especially the ability to fly. I'm glad they put Archangel in the movie for that.

My room is still not put back together, but it's getting closer. I think that will wait until I get a day off to focus on it, because whenever I tear things apart to put them away the mess just gets worse for the first couple of hours.

Anyway, I have an early morning tomorrow and I hope to get some more reading done before I sleep. Goodnight.

-Kim