Fred Phelps

There are probably many Christians who may or may not know this name. There are probably many in the gay community who despise this man. Fred Phelps is a pastor located in Topeka, Kansas who translates the Bible to his own manipulation. He has many sites known as "godhatesfags.com" and "godhatessweden.com". I recently watched a documentary about Fred Phelps. His church is known as "Westboro Baptist Church". The church is practically made up of his family members who are radically fundamental. They have rallies at the funerals of fallen soldiers who have died and gay people who have passed away. The Fred Phelps clan basically makes a mockery of Christianity and the teachings of Jesus Christ. The Westboro gang is basically spoon fed manipulation and mistranslation from their radical, fundamentalist pastor. It truly breaks my heart to see these people and what they stand for. Fred Phelps is filled with so much hatred and lacks much happiness in his life. If you were filled with the love of Jesus, you wouldn't hate others and have protests and picket signs. Jesus never talked about hating anyone when he was on the earth. Jesus was accepting of all people and wanted them to see the love that he had in his heart for everyone. Fred Phelps lacks compassion and joy in his heart. Fred Phelps is filled with bitter hatred for those he should have love for. 

I would recommend watching "Fall from grace". It is the name of the documentary. It will truly open your eyes.

Hey gang! It's that time again..

I know it has been a while since I last spoke in a blog format and I deeply apologize. I must say everything in my life has been going very well. I seem to be making decent grades even though I cannot for the life of me understand my biology lab professor. He is hard to understand because of his African accent. Other than that, school is good but I am oh so ready for it to end. I am excited about saving some money for some DJ speakers in order to hopefully book some paid DJ gigs. I am hoping to have some parties, formals, and possibly wedding receptions lined up in the coming months. I am considering the thought of a second job at another restraunt for better pay to help with my DJ fund and my car payments.

Now that my current status has been stated, I will continue with what happened at work tonight. For the most part, Friday night went well. We tend to have maybe one of two orders that do not come out perfect but aside from that we do really awesome. The scenario that occurred tonight infuriated me pretty bad. I was on the register taking orders while there was a line of people. Working at the register can be stressful because you are talking and dealing with the customer, making sure you are getting their order exactly the way they like it. Generally, customers like to talk very quick and I sometimes have to get them to repeat but most of the time they don't have to. Meanwhile, in the background you have people with their arms crossed with looks of "hurry up already" written all over their faces. I am also responsible for ringing up call in orders on the same register so I am responsible for writing paid on the order tickets. To top off all that had been going on, at the end of the mighty rush of business, a guy came up and told me that I needed to "try and keep up". At first I thought "what do I need to keep up with?". Would I need to keep up with call in orders or getting the orders quickly entered in so that people dont have to stand around? What the man didn't understand was when I have people who are not telling me very quickly what they want or want to carry on conversation while there is a long line of people, it doesn't help orders to be sent and made more quickly. Another point I want to bring up is the fact that much of the time customers don't understand that other people are ordering food and maybe their food is behind or in front of another order. If we have ten tickets up and your number is five then we have to make 4 or 5 tickets worth of food before we get to yours. People can be so self-centered that it drives me mad. Some of them are like "what about me? what about me?". I just want to tell them a few choice words and tell them to sit and wait quietly for their order to be prepared. Customers want to get pissed off at me for something that is out of my hands. I think if I ever left Santino's, it would be over a bad night worth of customers. People can make you feel so small and insignificant at times. I am tired of the arrogance and inconsiderate behavior of some that ruin it for the majority.

I have to go get myself in bed now. I have another long day at Santino's to look forward to. I'm probably looking at a fourteen hour day on about four hours of sleep. I'm looking forward to that! Take care and hope to speak with you guys soon enough!