Sleep?

I have been slacking lately on keeping this blog updated with new content due to my lack of extra time during the day. Between work and a new baby, I haven't had much time for any extracurricular activities. I get to play video games occasionally while the baby sleeps, but he somehow always wakes up as soon as I turn on the Xbox. That's okay, I like having guy time with my boy.

We took a road trip a few weeks ago to St. Mary's, Ohio to visit some family and it was nice to be able to relax after being go, go, go for the first three weeks of Charlie's life. I can't believe that he is going to be five weeks old on Sunday. I have to say, having a child is the best thing in the world, but they drain every ounce of energy that you have. Trying to keep up with their schedule is brutal.

I have been fortunate that Jamie is able to stay home with him and I can try to sleep through the night. I still hear him when he cries at night and it brings me out of my coma like sleep. I guess that it is just instinct.

No matter how much sleep I am not receiving, it is all worth it.

The curse of the drive-thru

Why is it that every time you go through a fast food drive-thru, something gets screwed up? How hard is it to leave off the tomatoes or understand the value of "one" order? I guess that the head sets that employees wear are frying their brains.

Having worked in fast food I understand that during busy hours you may get sidetracked, but I was the only customer at the restaurant. The headset never distracted me and If I did not understand what the customer was saying I would ask them to please repeat. Now you pull up and someone says in a squeaky voice, "would you like to try a combo meal today?" you give your order and there is a long silent pause. Then the voice comes back, "please pull forward." Uhhh...are you going to repeat the order back to me? Probably not because they forgot half of what you just ordered. They will just wait for you to get to the window and say, "did you say that you wanted ranch?" Uh, no. "BREADSTICKS!"

I don't know how many times I have pulled up to a drive through to peer through the window and see the hard working employee standing there with four other employees on their phones. When I worked in fast food, my typical crew was only five people so this leads me to believe that no one is working on anything or it takes all of their combined brain cells to make a salad.

I don't get it!?! The times are changing I suppose. No one cares about quality or customer service anymore. We are all just another number in the line and companies really do not care who they hire to work for them and represent them as long as they will work for minimum wage.

Maybe if the corporations would pay a little more attention to who is working for them and how much they are paying out in mistaken orders, they might realize it would be less expensive to hire quality employees and train them better. Until then, just pick the tomatoe off yourself.

Grocery Getter

Last night was Charlie's first trip to the grocery store. He did pretty well until we hit the freezer aisle. He did not like having frozen food piled on him in the cart. I'm just kidding people. We put a blanket over him first. Okay, back to seriousness.

Our normal 45 minute run turned into a 90 minute adventure. I'm thinking baby sitter next time. Any takers? It took 15 minutes to get Charlie dressed, 10 minutes to load up in the car, luckily it's only a two minute drive, 5 minutes to unload the car and situate the grocery cart, 45 minutes to shop, 4 minutes to change a terrible diaper and 6 minutes to check out. I don't know if that equals 90, but you get the idea.

It was fun going to the store with our little family. I was able to stock up on gluten free food and beverages so that I could officially start the diet again. This week will be fruit, salad and rice. I might eat a baked potato or two.

I am going to try to focus on my gfreeforme vlog on YouTube so that I can spread the word about being gluten free. I only have one vlog so far and it is a simple introduction. If you have any request for the vlog or the blog, please let me know.