"Everyone deserves the chance to fly"

29 August 2005

i'm back!

it's been a month since i last posted and i just wanted to let everyone know that i've caught up on my blog reading and am up to date on all your lives, so i figured i'd catch you up on mine.

i was in Oregon opening up a new PF Changs at bridgeport village in Tigard. it was a lot of fun... i've perfected my jello shot recipes and even came up with a new one... the double decker duo shot (one flavour on top of another!) it was a big hit! :)

for everyone who doesn't know tigard, it's just 15 mins away from downtown portland. but out hotel was in lake oswego... which was beautiful! :) the job itself was what it is, but the social life was amazing...

my friend lindsi whom i met when i opened the san jose restaurant, was there again this time doing her runner training thang, so it was GREAT to see her again as she is normally based out of the salt lake city store. jill was one of the managers in the tigard restaurant and i had known her from the rancho cucamonga opening, and mitch was the bar trainer and she was MY server trainer when i first got hired with the company in burbank! :) it was really cool to actually work WITH mitch this time around as opposed to being trained BY her... especially so because it was her last opening... she left the company to pursue her online travel buisness. so it was bittersweet.

to summerize the whole trip:

my roomie rory and i got more noise complaints cuz of our room in the 2 weeks that we were there than the hotel had had in the past 6 months! and cat, our boss, had to sit down and basically tell us that the hotel threated to evict us if we got one more noise complaint... which meant we'd have to be sent home! so we quietened down in a HURRY!

one of the trainers tom is moving to burbank in january, so he's gonna be my reallife roomie for a little while until he finds a place of his own!

in the 2 weeks we were there, we drank so much alcohol that we completely covered the top of our fridge with the empty bottles... and the rest of the empty bottles spilled out onto the counter top! and i mean ALL THE BOTTLES... beer, pinot grigio, plum wine, loganberry wine, black cherry vodka, strawberry vodka, polar ice vodka, malibu rum, malibu mango rum, malibu pineapple rum, merlot, zinfandel, apple pucker, pineapple coconut rum, spiced rum, seagrams 7, baileys, crown royal, jagermeister, peach schnapps, kiwi strwberry rum (cabana boy brand, if you are interested!) among others...

i only took one roll of film pics, but i can't wait to develop them, cuz i got some good incriminating evidence :)

i fell in love with the bar trainer chad while i was there, as did everyone... we were all infatuated... one of those totally hot specimen of men types... he gives great backrubs! :)

i was involved in a threesome with my good friend lindsi and our friend nick... it was totally hot! :)

we partied at some bars that were all on a street named "cootch" in downtown portland :)

we did karaoke and i sang "smooth" by santana and rob thomas and "cheeseburger in paradise" by jimmy buffet which i was very surprized that NO ONE KNEW! :) who doesn't know cheeseburger in paradise!!!!!! :)

i met an 18 year old who has a baby and has to pay 400$ a month in child support... it made me feel happy that i am gay and responsible.

i discovered my new fave drink from starbucks... the "chantico" it's just a little guy! :)

i learned that the way i eat a banana is considered to be disturbing to most people as opposed to the fallic stylings of most banana eaters which is considered normal! (for info, i eat a banana like corn on the cob) but people dont thing eating corn on the cob is wierd which made me realize that people REALLY just don't like things that are different. sad really.

i realized that i really do love and i mean truly MOVED by queen, ABBA and michael jackson (80's version), and that i should just accept this and move on with my life!

drinking an entire bottle of logan berry wine really will get you drunk no matter how often you swear up and down that it won't! ;)

PF Changs puts crack cocaine in their food, cuz no matter how often we ate it (which was twice a day... EVERYDAY!) we always could go for some more! and we found new ways to tweak the dishes to enjoy them even more (ie... lemon pepper shrimp, no shrimp, sub chicken)! that was just ONE easy modification we made... you should have seen the others! :)

i'm sure i forgot some things, but i have a $100 gift card to go spend at best buy, so i gotta run... but i'm glad to be home and can't wait for someone to buy me a cruise... i think i deserve one! :)

love, matt