BUT I have a good reason. Let me give you a little update!
We (meaning my boss and we the management team) are opening a Black Bear Diner in Natomas (W. El Camino and 80) the week of the 28th of this month! Black Bear Diner, in case you haven't heard of it, originated in Mt. Shasta/Redding area of NorCal and is a cute family oriented, good ol' fashioned family cookin' type restaurant. The theme, obviously, revolves around black bears, and I hope to take pics once we open of the cute decor and share them for those of you who can't come in person.
So, naturally, opening a restaurant is a lot of work. Especially for a relatively small team of people, of which I am one. It is safe to say I had no idea how much actually goes into opening a business like this and I had no idea what I was signing up for! While I am not unhappy or regretting "signing up" so to speak, I am thoroughly exhausted. An average of 6 days a week and 55 hours a week - and a lot of mayhem and chaos. We've had to postpone our opening a couple times (which is normal), but we are 98% sure of opening the 28th to the public! My title is officially "Administration" which means I do everything. I am the go-to, go-between, logistics manager, marketing manager, make-sure-everyone-does-what-they-should-be-doing person, paperwork chief, run-to-Walmart person, call-everyone-on-this-list person, "we haven't ordered that yet??!!" manager, and "let me move that to the top of the bosses priority list" lady. (and SO much more)
SO, when I get home at night (sometimes 10:30pm) I hurry to relax (dumb) and do my severely neglected housework. Oh, and sleep. And thus, my blogging suffers.
BUT there will come a time when the restaurant is open and thriving (Lord willing) and I will be back to 40 hours a week and free-ish evenings. And maybe a massage and a pedicure, hehe :)
I am definitely not used to working this much, and I have not been this tired since college. I can't believe I was more than this exhausted for FOUR years!! No wonder I had mono senior year.
Oh, and I almost forgot to mention that my excellent husband has been hired as a line cook for the Black Bear Diner! He has already started pre-training at the BBD in Sonoma, and he is rocking the house. *Beaming* He quit Chipotle (they were very sad to lose him) and the Diner will provide him with more money and more opportunities. It's also more along the lines of what he really wants to be doing, working in a real kitchen. And we kind of get to work at the same place. Don't worry all you skeptical people, I won't be his boss in any way. =P
Has anybody ever been to a Black Bear before? I hope that any of you local people will come visit after we are open! We also have banquet facilities available, because I KNOW all of you have business meetings you need to schedule with us, haha.
Other than work, I have snuck in a little bit of fun with celebrating some birthdays and such, yay! Here are a few of my pictures from the summer (the rest are on Facebook):
adorable nephew Kaden and Pop at Ikea
Mom, Dad, sister Cathryn, and me at Music Circus - 42nd Street
us'ns around Labor Day at Kaden and Pop's bday party
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