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everywhere! everywhere

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as far as the eye can see

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today has ALSO been very busy with lots of groups back to back, yet somehow everything has felt so smooth and coordinated and going so well... i am fully convinced sunday was just Cursed

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somehow learnt two days ago that spain is still a kingdom as well???? how did i not know this. i know netherlands is a kingdom but not spain?????

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having a ship name is the first step for the ship to take off... i believe in it

hello i have a proposal for aurorawebcomic toxic yuri

[alinua and shrike are from @comicaurora]

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the purple path

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[got up earlier to cook dinner and do laundry because ive got three days of late shifts ahead and didn't have my day off yesterday] did you know that when you get up earlier you have more time to do things. fucked up

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WHAT A DAY. GOD. at least it distracted me from my Woes and pays extra for being weekend hours

- spanish chef was an asshole again but at least he wasn't there for the majority of my shift

- So Many Groups... i could barely sit down to eat for ten minutes and had to call for backup to help me out with the closing routines

- there was a shouting match between our chef and a tour guide. over potatoes. i was starting to worry it was going to end in a fist fight

- ANOTHER tour guide who was displeased with us not being as prepared for her UNANNOUNCED GROUP (by some miracle we had enough sandwiches for everyone!!!). explained to her that if she wants to make sure we've got lunch for the whole bus, call us ahead :))) "but i've been here many times before and it's never been a problem!" consider yourself one of the lucky 10.000 today!!!! communication helps us all get what we want!!!

- the one thing that made me go scream into a sweater: norway has very silly alcohol laws and we only have a license to serve alcohol but not let people sit outside with it, because we don't have the appropriate porch construction or whatever. so whenever someone wants beer on a day thats sit outside-able, i try to make it as clear as possible that They Have To Sit Inside, Is That Okay? "yes yes, we sit inside :)"

THEN THEY WENT. FUCKING OUTSIDE

so when some more people from that group came to buy more beer and i tell them, you have to sit inside, NOT outside, and they point to the outside, going "yes, we sit inside". HOW IN THE WORLD IS THAT INSIDE. THAT'S NOT INSIDE. in the end i just let them sit there because i was at the end of my rope and thankfully we didn't get fined. i hope they enjoyed those beers that cost me my sanity

- customer who asked me "salmon, is that [foreign word]?" as if i would know. i mimicked a fish with my hands to explain it's a fish. i think it helped.

- genuinely a nice moment: one of my souvenir shop colleagues who is this super sweet finnish lady i absolutely adore, always having her lunch at the bistro to the point where she has been dubbed Our Most Loyal Customer - it's a fun little practical joke where we treat her extra well and service-y and make a whole production out of it. she came by in the evening when the chef was plenty busy and i was fraying at the edges, asking if we have any food that's Quick or Ready...... so i took her to the buffet leftovers we hadn't had time to clean away yet. told her to take however much she wanted for free, YES including cake. she told me it was the happiest she had ever been :')

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[through gritted teeth] you gotta pick your battles. put some battles down. you're NOT going to convince oslo girl we're not gonna get food poisoning from dry, clean plates just because they touched the sink area where we don't even prepare food. it is not my anxiety to quell

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her!!!<3

Artfight Attack 28 - Dor, for @bogkeep

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art fight 2025, part 6 - last one for this season!!

muirín for @enjoliquej

tornon for @cryptidofthecove

sefla for @devotedlystarstruckartisan

thanks for a good art fight everyone c:

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no this post is absolutely About This Also. it's strange to me how people say yearning to always mean for a person or for love or for companionship, when there's so much else to yearn for as well! to yearn for a place, for a time, for a feeling, for rest... i have felt my heart split reaching for several things at once when i cannot have it all.

i said what i said, and if that's what this post means to you, then that's what it means!!

romance does not have a monopoly on love, you know this, that's step one. step two is that romance does not have a monopoly on yearning, on heartbreak. it's easy to think yourself immune, that you've been dealt a hand that'll let you dodge those arrows, but do you know how many ways there are to break a heart? how many ways there are to fall, even if not in love? your heart is just as strong as anyone's, so be kind to it.

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you would not believe how many people are taking photos with the kitsch troll, even though it's withered and peeling... every day i see people posing for a photo with it

sometimes i take selfies with the kitsch trolls

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i miss the antler chandelier </3

closing time aesthetic

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"but i don't COMPLAIN like the other chef does" no you just rant to me at length about whatever is bothering you regardless of whether or not i said anything to prompt it......... why are the chefs like this

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most helpful italian i've picked up so far is FRIZZANTE (sparkling) and NATURALE (still, in the context of water). we sell bottles of both kinds of water, which are helpfully named BOBLE (with bubbles, sparkling) and STILLE (still), but the small text on BOBLE reads "natural sparkling water" so when italians are reading the small text to figure out which is which they zoom in on "natural". i always try to help them out........

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still thinking about the scammer - when i still thought it was a tourist looking to travel to norway i gave advice to always pick local currency, because i have to explain that to other tourists 37284738 times a day, and i was already giving travel advice... and after i did that they were like omg you're so smart with finances..... and i was like haha i wouldn't say that, but they were like noooo you're really wise about money and it's important to be smart first and you will get rich later... my aunt always says this... the scammer was really sowing the seeds for whatever upcoming scheme they have. it's all so obvious in hindisght!!!!