Black And White

Black and white for two reasons. First, I have decided to change the background theme from black to white, by request (and I also made the blog a bit more broad, if anyone has any viewing issues, please let me know), and yesterday (sunday) has been a day of opposites for me. It started out like most others last week, working in housekeeping, getting my own floors to take care of. However, not everything turned out as planned. One of the girls on my floor, Lana, was supposed to clean 7 rooms on the 16th floor. She usually hangs out with another Russian girl (Kate, I suppose something along the lines of Ekaterina normally) and they add all their rooms together and do them together. Honestly, I think that can work faster than doing your rooms alone. After I had lunch, no rooms of Lana were touched still. After an hour long search, we decided to give the rooms untouched, to the ladies of the afternoon shift to clean them instead. Letting your team down.
As I went to check on all the untouched rooms, I found two of the rooms with their beds made, but nothing else was done there. Had the girls prepare those completely and went on. Found both Kate and Lana in one of the rooms but sent them down to the office as the manager was far from pleased with them already. As the manager fired them from work, I went to check a room that I checked earlier that morning, for no apparent reason. I'm glad I did though, as the bed was being slept in. That morning at 11 AM, the room was "Vacant/Ready". Security would look into the keys used to get into that room that day, and if it seems that the key used was one of the girls' ones, I guess we know where they've been all day long.

Straight after work we grabbed all the paperwork needed for the house, make copies, fax our stuff and such. Today we got another pack of forms to fill in for the contract. Not feeling like paperwork right now, so we'll do that when the other guys are back from work so we can help eachother out with the forms and get it all done at once. After that it should be as good as done. Hopefully!

Anyway, with the signing of the papers, yesterday didn't end yet. As we wanted to do our laundry in the room Yatha and Georgi are staying in, one of the water hoses snapped, complete soaking the carpet and everything on it, dripping down a few floors! We did what we could to get it done as soon as possible. Using towels to seak the carpets dry and then wrench them out in the bathroom, time after time. Used hot and cold air to work the carpet and try to get it as dry as possible. Yatha and Georgi have been relocated and we're not allowed to use the in house washing and drying anymore. So next time we'll walk up to one of the laundromats around.

Today, Bart and I were off. Slept until 11 something, did nothing pretty much the entire day. I spent some time chatting with people on MSN for the first time in ages, and I watched some series. Started watching The Orphanage (El Orfanata, Spanish horror movie, 2008) as I was pointed towards that by a movie critic in my inner friends circle. Decided to suspend that movie to write this blog and go watch both Gossip Girl and Prison Break on TV soon.

Also took a little run down the beach to get some groceries today. As there was a reasonably strong wind from the ocean, I got sand and salty air thrown my way, which made breathing not that easy, but it wasn't that far out. The weather here is pretty windy right now, and the ocean's a mess. Have seen nothing but 2 kitesurfers in the water today. I wanted to wrestle with the waves, but everyone told me not to, so yeah, I stayed inside safely.

Spent some time looking for new music today as well. Found that the new albums from All That Remains and Anberlin (LOVE THEM, and guess which shirt I was wearing today, coincidentally) had leaked on the internet, so I got my hands on them to preview them before they come out.
Also found that I Am Ghost placed a new song on their Myspace, and will be posting another preview song from their new October album on there tomorrow. Can't wait for that album!

As I expect to share some Anberlin with you later anyway, I decided to post a slideshow video for the new I Am Ghost single. Here's Bone Garden.