Where's the summer at?
And where did it go? I seems like yesterday, the party at Fartyget. Now it's almost august and the summer has disappeared it feels like. So, what have I achieved during the summer? What have I done? In june I only worked several times at the restaurant, which could be seen at my paycheck (it reads 3000 kr netto). To be honest, I don't remember much of what I did in june except that I celebrated midsummers eve and went to Sweden U21-Serbia U21 in Malmö with MJ. Other than that, I cannot remember....or well, I got a nice tan at least ;P
So, in july, the work at the restaurant at Varberg's fortress began. This is the third year in a row I'm working with the same boss; the totally useless S of a B! Work began on july the first and continued several days. When I got my first day off, it was sunday. The next day i was back at work again, with one significant difference: I was no longer just a dish-boy (or dishwasher as is the correct word, but I chose not to use it because of the potential risk of people then confusing me with a machine ;P), but in addition also a waiter. At the time I had no f-ing idea why the boss wanted me, the unfriendliest person on earth (I have a problem kissing ass and pretending to be nice, yes..), to be a waiter on his fancy restaurant! Later I got the answer to my question. Obviously ther's a shortage of staff all around the country in the restaurant business. It is obviously very hard to find personnel who want to stick around for a while, if you get what I mean. The chef-position is especially affected....obviously.
So I simply had to adapt as best I could to my new role as both a dish-boy and a waiter. These to things I had to do at the same time, which made a heavy work even heavier. To top it all I also had to be nice to people!? Get out of here, you twat! Well, that was my first reaction...and my second and third...hmm...I guess I've reacted that way ever since ;)
Now, almost a month later, with many hours of job completed, I sort of know what I'm doing (as a waiter). It actually isn't that difficult. To carry three plates is not a problem...unless they are hot, which my hand have been forced to witness several times. Everything at work have gone well and I even got some praise (believe it or not!) from my boss for a job well done. The second week of july I worked for a total time of 55 hours. That was rough. I got one day off. The next week I worked for over 40 hours. Keep in mind that this isn't a job where you get to rest or sit down a lot. Actually I don't think I ever sit down at work :P it is very though on the body, but I make a lot of money at least. I only have 95 kr/hour + OB, and that's not very much, you might think, but, and it's a big but, every night the personnel that worked that evening split the tip. The tip I get for a normal evening is almost always around 200 kr. On a weekend, it's often 300-400 kr/night. Have in mind that we are often 5-6 who split the tip. Last friday I got my biggest tip, so far, of the year: 505 kr for one night. That was more than half of what I earned in my regular salary that evening as I worked 9 hours.
Last summer I got a total of 6500 kr in tip-money. I reckon that it won't be as much this summer, mainly because of the fact that I did not work all of june as I did last year. Instead I will work all of august, but only for 3-4 days a week + a couple of weddings (= no tip). This brings me to the conclusion that I probably, concerning the tip, will land somwhere between 3500-5000 kr. That's not bad at all considering the fact that my London-voyage in october will cost me 7000. Yeah, right! The London trip! So, a few days ago i spoke with the travel organizer (or what the heck it's called). He said that everything was fixed concerning the trip. So, here's my trip to London, which I will undertake together with Anna (yes, I have made up my mind):
Note that me and Anna will plan the trip in advance (what we're going to visit and stuff like that) to avoid panic when we actually are in London. Thus I don't know much about the trip yet, but will give you the generic details..
10.15, friday, 30th october we will take a plane (Ryanair) from Göteborg/Säve to London/Stanstead. The flight will take approxemately one hour or a little more perhaps. Then we will take the train or tube (subway) in to London city, where our hotel is situated. Later that evening we talked about, since I have never been to Emirates Stadium, checking out the fastest tube-rout to the arena. This will prevent us from being stressed the next day.
Saturday, 31th october we will go out early to imbibe (yes I looked the fucking word up! Happy!?) the atmosphere around the stadium before the match. I will also make a raid into the official Arsenal shop, The Armoury, outside the stadium. If I know myself, it will be hard to leave :P
The, before kick-off (we haven't got any further info yet), we will be served a three course dinner with free firewater (hehe) inside the stadium, as a part of our Club tickets (VIP, man! VIP! :D). Then, at 12.45 local time (13.45 here), the match between Arsenal FC and Tottenham Hotspur will commence. The stadium will explode when 60000 people try to outsing each other. Can't wait to sing along! Fuck off, Spurs! Cause we're Arseeeeeeeeeeenaaaal..bam bam bam bam..Arseeeeeeeeeeeenaaaaal FC! And we're by far the greatest, team the world have seen!!!! As i said: CAN'T WAIT!!! I promise, MJ, I will take a lot of pictures and videos and give them to you later on :)
Then we have, as the match finishes around 14.45, all day to do something else. That "something" hasn't been decided yet. The only thing we know is that we have plenty of time to wander around in autumn-London (Hyde park is nice) :D
Sunday we have all day to do whatever we wish. The trip back to Sweden is not until 18.00 on monday, 2 november. This means, because I managed to get these brilliant flight-times, that we have two whole days in London + one day from noon and one day until 18. You do the maths ;)
As I said though, we haven't decides what to visit yet. I know that Anna wants to see Madame Tussauds, and I have no problems going there again. We will also probably visit those places where it's free entry, such as British Museum and tate Modern, as two examples. Westminster and Trafalgar Square is also possible targets for our visit. Harrods is another place where I want to go. However, it will be fun :)
31 october is the date. Except to hear more of this subject until then ;)
But that's three months away, folks!
What am I going to do until then? Well, now it's tuesday and if nobody fro work phones me today, I won't work until tomorrow (wednesday) at 17. I probably will work the same times all of august. I hope that i can partake in the Nollning at least a few days as a spectator/tormentor of the zeroes. We will have to see. On the 15th of august, the premiership starts again......nuff said!
On 1 september school starts. My subject for this term is religion and I'm really looking forward to doing this. An intriguing subject :) then i hope I will be able to play some fotball with MJ (and perhaps Roy and Elias) before the winter comes. It may sound a little ... or well...very gay, but I have missed MJ during the summer. He is the only one who truly understands the fotbally half of me ;)
Kalmar for Allsvenskan!
Now I have written enough for a lifetime. It's time for me to hit the hay. I will update as soon as something exciting happens. So long suckers!
The song, which from now on, I will play before every Arsenal game: Roger Daltrey - Highbury Highs
Victoria Concordia Crescit - Victory Through Harmony
So, in july, the work at the restaurant at Varberg's fortress began. This is the third year in a row I'm working with the same boss; the totally useless S of a B! Work began on july the first and continued several days. When I got my first day off, it was sunday. The next day i was back at work again, with one significant difference: I was no longer just a dish-boy (or dishwasher as is the correct word, but I chose not to use it because of the potential risk of people then confusing me with a machine ;P), but in addition also a waiter. At the time I had no f-ing idea why the boss wanted me, the unfriendliest person on earth (I have a problem kissing ass and pretending to be nice, yes..), to be a waiter on his fancy restaurant! Later I got the answer to my question. Obviously ther's a shortage of staff all around the country in the restaurant business. It is obviously very hard to find personnel who want to stick around for a while, if you get what I mean. The chef-position is especially affected....obviously.
So I simply had to adapt as best I could to my new role as both a dish-boy and a waiter. These to things I had to do at the same time, which made a heavy work even heavier. To top it all I also had to be nice to people!? Get out of here, you twat! Well, that was my first reaction...and my second and third...hmm...I guess I've reacted that way ever since ;)
Now, almost a month later, with many hours of job completed, I sort of know what I'm doing (as a waiter). It actually isn't that difficult. To carry three plates is not a problem...unless they are hot, which my hand have been forced to witness several times. Everything at work have gone well and I even got some praise (believe it or not!) from my boss for a job well done. The second week of july I worked for a total time of 55 hours. That was rough. I got one day off. The next week I worked for over 40 hours. Keep in mind that this isn't a job where you get to rest or sit down a lot. Actually I don't think I ever sit down at work :P it is very though on the body, but I make a lot of money at least. I only have 95 kr/hour + OB, and that's not very much, you might think, but, and it's a big but, every night the personnel that worked that evening split the tip. The tip I get for a normal evening is almost always around 200 kr. On a weekend, it's often 300-400 kr/night. Have in mind that we are often 5-6 who split the tip. Last friday I got my biggest tip, so far, of the year: 505 kr for one night. That was more than half of what I earned in my regular salary that evening as I worked 9 hours.
Last summer I got a total of 6500 kr in tip-money. I reckon that it won't be as much this summer, mainly because of the fact that I did not work all of june as I did last year. Instead I will work all of august, but only for 3-4 days a week + a couple of weddings (= no tip). This brings me to the conclusion that I probably, concerning the tip, will land somwhere between 3500-5000 kr. That's not bad at all considering the fact that my London-voyage in october will cost me 7000. Yeah, right! The London trip! So, a few days ago i spoke with the travel organizer (or what the heck it's called). He said that everything was fixed concerning the trip. So, here's my trip to London, which I will undertake together with Anna (yes, I have made up my mind):
Note that me and Anna will plan the trip in advance (what we're going to visit and stuff like that) to avoid panic when we actually are in London. Thus I don't know much about the trip yet, but will give you the generic details..
10.15, friday, 30th october we will take a plane (Ryanair) from Göteborg/Säve to London/Stanstead. The flight will take approxemately one hour or a little more perhaps. Then we will take the train or tube (subway) in to London city, where our hotel is situated. Later that evening we talked about, since I have never been to Emirates Stadium, checking out the fastest tube-rout to the arena. This will prevent us from being stressed the next day.
Saturday, 31th october we will go out early to imbibe (yes I looked the fucking word up! Happy!?) the atmosphere around the stadium before the match. I will also make a raid into the official Arsenal shop, The Armoury, outside the stadium. If I know myself, it will be hard to leave :P
The, before kick-off (we haven't got any further info yet), we will be served a three course dinner with free firewater (hehe) inside the stadium, as a part of our Club tickets (VIP, man! VIP! :D). Then, at 12.45 local time (13.45 here), the match between Arsenal FC and Tottenham Hotspur will commence. The stadium will explode when 60000 people try to outsing each other. Can't wait to sing along! Fuck off, Spurs! Cause we're Arseeeeeeeeeeenaaaal..bam bam bam bam..Arseeeeeeeeeeeenaaaaal FC! And we're by far the greatest, team the world have seen!!!! As i said: CAN'T WAIT!!! I promise, MJ, I will take a lot of pictures and videos and give them to you later on :)
Then we have, as the match finishes around 14.45, all day to do something else. That "something" hasn't been decided yet. The only thing we know is that we have plenty of time to wander around in autumn-London (Hyde park is nice) :D
Sunday we have all day to do whatever we wish. The trip back to Sweden is not until 18.00 on monday, 2 november. This means, because I managed to get these brilliant flight-times, that we have two whole days in London + one day from noon and one day until 18. You do the maths ;)
As I said though, we haven't decides what to visit yet. I know that Anna wants to see Madame Tussauds, and I have no problems going there again. We will also probably visit those places where it's free entry, such as British Museum and tate Modern, as two examples. Westminster and Trafalgar Square is also possible targets for our visit. Harrods is another place where I want to go. However, it will be fun :)
31 october is the date. Except to hear more of this subject until then ;)
But that's three months away, folks!
What am I going to do until then? Well, now it's tuesday and if nobody fro work phones me today, I won't work until tomorrow (wednesday) at 17. I probably will work the same times all of august. I hope that i can partake in the Nollning at least a few days as a spectator/tormentor of the zeroes. We will have to see. On the 15th of august, the premiership starts again......nuff said!
On 1 september school starts. My subject for this term is religion and I'm really looking forward to doing this. An intriguing subject :) then i hope I will be able to play some fotball with MJ (and perhaps Roy and Elias) before the winter comes. It may sound a little ... or well...very gay, but I have missed MJ during the summer. He is the only one who truly understands the fotbally half of me ;)
Kalmar for Allsvenskan!
Now I have written enough for a lifetime. It's time for me to hit the hay. I will update as soon as something exciting happens. So long suckers!
The song, which from now on, I will play before every Arsenal game: Roger Daltrey - Highbury Highs
Victoria Concordia Crescit - Victory Through Harmony
Off to London!
Yepp, now it's done. The ordering of tickets to Arsenal-Tottenham the 31st of october that is. The North London Derby. One of the biggest rivalry-filled games in the world. Myself, (MJ, Roy or Anna) plus 60000 other human beings will be at the Emirates Stadium at 12.45 local time (13.45 Swedish time) on the 31st of october to watch Arsenal humiliate those white bastards called Spurs (don't use swear-words, my mother just told me!) Last time I saw Arsenal live was at Highbury, on the 31st of october, 2004. I have no idea how the date could be the same, but it is :)
That time the match ended 2-2 after a late equalizer from Robin van Persie. I have never been to Arsenals "new" (opened 2006) arena, Emirates Stadium. Now I will get the chance. I'm as excited as a pedophile in a kinder garden :P can't wait to get it on! :D
I have noting more to say really. All I've done lately is work, work and work. I make money, but it's boring as hell and furthermore, I get these fucking pimples in my face. It, obviously, can't handle the filthy air in the dishwashingroom too good. Well well, they will disappear when I quit working so Mr. Vain (me) simply has to endure :)
Now: off to be...ehh....the TV :P
Song of the summer: Cidinho & Doca - Rap das Armas
Song of the day: Geo da Silva - I'll do you like a truck
That time the match ended 2-2 after a late equalizer from Robin van Persie. I have never been to Arsenals "new" (opened 2006) arena, Emirates Stadium. Now I will get the chance. I'm as excited as a pedophile in a kinder garden :P can't wait to get it on! :D
I have noting more to say really. All I've done lately is work, work and work. I make money, but it's boring as hell and furthermore, I get these fucking pimples in my face. It, obviously, can't handle the filthy air in the dishwashingroom too good. Well well, they will disappear when I quit working so Mr. Vain (me) simply has to endure :)
Now: off to be...ehh....the TV :P
Song of the summer: Cidinho & Doca - Rap das Armas
Song of the day: Geo da Silva - I'll do you like a truck
A day off
Last week I reached the total worked time of 54 hours (in five days). I thought that it would be very nice with a couple of days of resting. I was wrong as usual. I got sunday off, noting more. At 12 yesterday I was at work again along with my favorite waitress, Carro and the biggest biatch in the world; the "nollåtta" Mikaela. I really have no words left to describe her bitchyness (or whetever it is called), so I will say it as they do in the Carlsberg-commercial: "Mikaela, probably the biggest bitch in the world".
This is also the problem with blogging in the summer; there's not very much to write about. At work, I usually do the same things all week. I come in, do the dishes, do some other stuff, do the dishes, sweat, do the dishes, get all greasy, do the dishes.... well, you get the point. The only thing different about my job the last couple of weeks, besides the fact that my shifts are 12 hours long every day, is that I have been working as a dishboy and a waiter. I'm not very good at it though. It is not in my nature to be nice to people without a reason to be so. You who know me certainly know what I'm talking about :P I'll manage, however (even though it isn't really my task to do so), but certain guest I really just want to punch in the face and hadoken them good! As I said: I'll manage..
Otherwise I haven't done anything out of the ordinary. Today I have my foirst whole day off in about a year (it feels like that anyway). I've played football with my flabby little brother and worked on my tan in the garden. You know, before I began working these annoyingly long shifts, my face was smooth as a baby's ass. After last week, having literally worked in grease all week, I received, for my contribution, several pimples. Now they're gone again, but that proves what a disgusting environment I work in. It must be rainforest climate in there :P
On sunday I hope that the weather is good so we can go to the beach in Halmstad or something like that. If I'm not working monday, there's a big chance (risk? :P) of me going to the monday club. Should be fun..
Well, we'll see..
As a final thought of the day, something about Arsenal. Silly season is all over us now it feels like. Arsenal hasn't, as usual, made any big signings. Thomas Vaermaelen (def) (hmm..spelling check, please! :P) is the only signing so far. However, there are strong rumours that Adebayor is on his way to Man City. In my opinion, we don't need him anymore. He has not got the right attitude to play for Gunners. One who do have the right attitude is Kolo Touré, who said: "playing for Arsenal is like playing for my own family". King Kolo!
I have also been looking for tickets to Arsenal-Tottenham this autumn. I doesn't seem to be any problems aquiring them so now the only thing I'll have to do is convince MJ to join me (the cheap bastard! ;D). Last time I saw Arsenal ive was at Highbury in 2004 against Southhampton, a match that ended 2-2..
Bye for now!
This is also the problem with blogging in the summer; there's not very much to write about. At work, I usually do the same things all week. I come in, do the dishes, do some other stuff, do the dishes, sweat, do the dishes, get all greasy, do the dishes.... well, you get the point. The only thing different about my job the last couple of weeks, besides the fact that my shifts are 12 hours long every day, is that I have been working as a dishboy and a waiter. I'm not very good at it though. It is not in my nature to be nice to people without a reason to be so. You who know me certainly know what I'm talking about :P I'll manage, however (even though it isn't really my task to do so), but certain guest I really just want to punch in the face and hadoken them good! As I said: I'll manage..
Otherwise I haven't done anything out of the ordinary. Today I have my foirst whole day off in about a year (it feels like that anyway). I've played football with my flabby little brother and worked on my tan in the garden. You know, before I began working these annoyingly long shifts, my face was smooth as a baby's ass. After last week, having literally worked in grease all week, I received, for my contribution, several pimples. Now they're gone again, but that proves what a disgusting environment I work in. It must be rainforest climate in there :P
On sunday I hope that the weather is good so we can go to the beach in Halmstad or something like that. If I'm not working monday, there's a big chance (risk? :P) of me going to the monday club. Should be fun..
Well, we'll see..
As a final thought of the day, something about Arsenal. Silly season is all over us now it feels like. Arsenal hasn't, as usual, made any big signings. Thomas Vaermaelen (def) (hmm..spelling check, please! :P) is the only signing so far. However, there are strong rumours that Adebayor is on his way to Man City. In my opinion, we don't need him anymore. He has not got the right attitude to play for Gunners. One who do have the right attitude is Kolo Touré, who said: "playing for Arsenal is like playing for my own family". King Kolo!
I have also been looking for tickets to Arsenal-Tottenham this autumn. I doesn't seem to be any problems aquiring them so now the only thing I'll have to do is convince MJ to join me (the cheap bastard! ;D). Last time I saw Arsenal ive was at Highbury in 2004 against Southhampton, a match that ended 2-2..
Bye for now!
No time
I'm sorry that the updating here hasn't been good at all, but I simple haven't had no time to write anything extensive. It's just: wake up, eat, go to work, work for about 12 hours, go home and take a shower, eat, go to sleep, and then repeat the procedure over and over again. I've been working as both a waiter and with the dishes so I've been busy to say at least. As soon as I get a day off, I will write here. Until then..
