The Sunset with Jake (and some shocking news)

i am pregnant..

oh i am kidding. the more serious and scary news here is this. let me start off by saying some other things related to this news ok.

a few weeks ago, while i was checking my reservation with filthy gorgeous, one of the waitresses i was familiar with asked if i wanted to work for filthy gorgeous. and i said sure, but i didn’t want to leave my present company because i still love them, and also this is the busiest time in the food and beverage industry, therefore the max number of shifts, including school and all that, was a pathetic once a week.

Their last shift before the christmas holidays was the friday afternoon before christmas eve, because there was not enough bookings to suffice an opening, or so i was told. at any rate, i never could work for them, and though i was considering switching to work for them… it is the holiday season now.

the last few days, they were meant to be closed, however, i saw an old man fiddling with their door locks and such, and i thought nothing of it. Filthy Gorgeous has always been renovating and such, so it wasn’t anything out of place to see someone puting new things in there, or even moving furniture around.

what did finally caught my attention today, and it wasn’t even obvious to me till jake pointed it out to me, was on the chalkboard that they had, which they often put in their hiring needs, specials for the week and so on on it.

this chalkboard… which now says “coming soon! all bar nun…” in multi colour chalk.

and i almost passed out.

my favourite restaurant, gone?!?! no word, no messages, no “sorry we have to go” posters. hell, they were still hiring cooks as of last week. WHERE DID THEY GO!?!? even the girl at all bar nun couldn’t tell us anything. “i got here one morning, and they were gone.” was all she could say to me.

i got upset, i got furious, favourite foods denied! i ran a check on the internet, because the company was registered after the yellow pages were made for this year. i did everything i could, but all the things on google turn up more things to question about:

they were nominated for, and won some awards and reviews. so why did they leave?

then i found my answer, in the most unlikely of places: IGA. the supermarket.

“oh, yes i know what happened to them. they owed too much debts, rent and other stuff, and decided to one day leave without telling anyone. the police were all over the place on saturday morning, trying to find them.”

oh. my. god.

that is so shocking. i mean, they were doing so well, full house every weekend, they had great food, loyal customers, awards, nominations and reviews. so how could they have possibly raked up so much debt that they had to run away?

and how could they want to hire people when they knew they had to run away? one of the waiters i spoke to on tuesday had only just started working 2 weeks ago. one of the girls i knew was going to come back here to work next year, after her holiday trip…. how could they? and imagine this, had i given up my present work place for them, i would have been so fucked.

what i am also concerned about though, are the waiters/waitresses working there. would the police indict them as well? were they paid for their last week there? considering this is the holiday season, this is so fucked up to do to anyone…

i feel so sorry for the waiters and such. they don’t deserve all these

as for jake and i, we had a picnic by the lake yesterday, prior to knowing all these. i wanted to bring him to filthy gorgeous before he leaves, so he can taste their great duck again. looks like we will never get around to it. but i did cook for him cajun lemon basa… some eggs and stuff

it’s not a very big deal, or even a great meal in a huge culinary sense, but it was dinner, and it also meant we broke in the bento and we both loved what we had for dinner, so it was awesome. what was great was the huge amount of scenary that we had right by the lake side.

more shots from the lake side visit can be found here… not that’s not all of it, but they are pretty much similar through out the entire picts i am sure you guys don’t wana be flooded with all the same shots all over…

yes, i know, we are crazy, and we prefer to take pictures with less human subjects inside.

well. work tonight. i will fill you guys in later about how it went, if there’s anything interesting that is.