A day in the Soup Kitchen.

7:45- Alarm goes off. I moan, stretch and fall back asleep.

8 ish- I finally roll out of bed, clothe myself (I have to sleep in barely anything because it's so flipping hot onthe top bunk upstairs. Stupid house heating.

8:18- I leave the house slowly and walk briskly...it's cold outside. And windy.

8:25- Arrive at the Salvation Army (Did you know they are affiliated with the church??? Foud that out today. If you go to their church you are a Salvationist.)

8:40- Await instructions from the All-Knowing Marj.

8:45- Start the meal. Somedays its soup and sandwichs. Somedays its a full out porkchops-potato-vegetable meal.

9:00- Start cleaning walls. Had the pleasure of finding buns behind the freezer. The must have been from September. They were a beautiful shade of yellow-green, forest green and white and mushy and hard. I threw them out. Good riddence.

9:30- Stanley visits and takes some coffee and tea for the ladies in the second-hand store. We chat.

10:00- Tea break. Bob arrives with the buns, and things from Tim's, Sobeys and Farmers Market.**

11:00-The volunteers arrive and I introduce the meal and the appointed jobs.

11:30- Doors open. Time to serve.

12:00- I start to worry if there will be enough food. Start planning plan B.

12:30- I realise there is enough food. I scrap plan B.

1:00- We turn off the food. I eat. So good.

1:30- The volunteers leave. *tear* I have to start cleaning.

1:35- I start with the dishes. The nice volunteers do all of the dishes and I get to take another 15 minutes.

2:00- I wash the blasted walls.

2:45- I get a headache and have to start sweeping and moping and clean the bathrooms.

3:00- I run over to the second hand store, get scolded for not wearing a coat for the 5 second walk over, and I get the vacuum and head back.

3:03- Move chairs and vacuum.

3:20- Start shutting everything off, the coffee maker, the dishwasher, recheck the stoves.

3:25- Put away cleaning supplies. Take out compost and leave the waste for Bob. Get coat and purse. Set alarm and take vacuum back.

3:35- Wait for All-Knowing Marj to tell me to go home.

** Salvation Army has a deal with Sobey and the Farmers market. The food that is a day before the "best before date" is donated and given out at the food bank and in the ktichen as desserts. And whatever Tim's makes the night before and doesn't seel gets wrapped up and picked up the next day by Bob. I then make nice little packages and set them out for the poeple to take. It's pretty sweet.

So far I've served:
73 people on Monday (Ham, scalloped potatos, and mixed vegetables)
61 on Tuesday (Pork chops, mashed potatos, turnips)
56 on Wednesday (Tomato soup with rice and tuna sandwichs)
50 on Thursday (Beef and barley soup and leftover tuna sandwichs)
49 on Friday ( Leftover beef soup and buns)

Its pretty sweet. And if you have an idea that involves a lot of bacon in a meal, please let me know. There is a mountain of bacon in their freezer and I was told to use it. I have no freaking idea how. I need help.