Weekend Update / mad and happy at once

Hello everyone.
Hello new followers. I'm so glad you found me and read my random posts these days. Love to hear from you.

Okay, I figured blogging is a great outlet for me to share what I love or don't. Not everything is perfect! And if you were wondering...new and fun deals are coming up soon so you can purchase something new or just tell your friends about it. You won't regret it. So stay tuned...I promise they will be coming your way. We are working hard these days, hence my lack of posts or motivation to write. But, I love writing so this should not hinder me, should it?!

Today I'm linking up with Leeann, Dana, and Sami for their Weekend Update.

My weekend started Friday afternoon. You all know I have a new job that I love and we sometimes get off earlier on Friday afternoons which is amazing. Also, if you live in the Los Angeles Area you know how hot it was so to get off earlier was perfect. My co-worker and I went hiking!! Can you believe this? In this heat? Yes, we did. We survived and had a lot of fun.

In the evening I went to a birthday party held at 3 Thirty 3 in Newport Beach.

Let me tell you I was disappointed; it may have great reviews but oh boy I am still mad. Atmosphere was great but that is about it. Drinks were not as good and I had to practically run after the waiter to get her to take our food or drink orders. Well, she never came so we had to go to the bar and order there which turned out to be a mistake too. But what were we supposed to do? Sit and wait for no one to come by? No way! I made reservations, and told them that half of the party will come in earlier and then the rest about an hour later which actually happened exactly that way. Though, well, the one that took my reservation should have known where to put us in the first place but apparently did it wrong and who gets blamed for it? Yes, me!! I talked to the manager and she sort of told me off which wasn't nice. I mean, when I call and tell you that we will be coming in for drinks and appetizer then you as the restaurant should know where to put our party. It is not my job to tell you where to put me unless I have a specific request. Worst of all then was that they brought the Birthday Cake out while the Birthday girl was in the bathroom, and I specifically pointed the Birthday Girl out to the manager. Who does that?????
SO much for lack of enthusiasm and effort. Our waiter was rushing us out the door...we did not even ask for the check but she was there within 20 seconds. Really? Who does that???

I know, you didn't want me to go off here but there are times you need to let people or you in that case know. If an establishment or just anyone for that matter doesn't know what is wrong, that place will never know. It is up to them to work on improvements. It just would not be fair if I swallowed my pride and said nothing.
After all we paid for it all, and it wasn't cheap!

One more thing: the bathroom sucked. No toilet paper, dirty and just gross. When I told the manager she tried to talk herself out of this situation blaming the Newport Taste thing on it. That is not an excuse for a dirty bathroom, let alone that event cannot be blamed for your establishment's bathroom to be disgusting. Sorry!! Hello? Never heard of health codes and hygiene?!
I spare you with the pictures.

On a much brighter note my best friend R. came down to Orange County from Ventura County. Remember last weekend when I went up there, now it was her time to come down here. She is still looking for THE perfect bridal dress. No real luck so far. She found one alright but it was over her budget...wedding dresses are no joke people. Sooooooooooooo expensive. She came down with her cousin, and me, my husband, my sister-in-law and Selma all went bridal dress shopping in and around Irvine. It was fun and exhausting at the same time. :(

Since I'm already on a customer service writing rush...the best customer service we received Saturday afternoon was by Blush Bridal Couture in Tustin. Let me tell you they were soooooo nice and soooo friendly. They let us take pictures (they did not let us pictures in Santa Barbara or Ventura County!! - is that normal???), brought us glasses of Pink Moscato (the BEST), had cookies for everyone and were just super nice! Here's a few pictures we took...eehmmm or Selma took for me because my battery on my phone died. I was using it too much to document my friend's bridal dresses.

A fun pen to write with...loved it!!!

That really was a great place!!! Highly recommend it.

So, that was it...my rather mixed weekend update.
Hope you liked it.

Marjan