Feeling Better (although majorly overworked)
So, in my desperation I have done something a little silly. In my whoring about town trying to get a job, I've ended up with 3. Well, technically 2 since the one I mentioned in my last post about being a checkout chick only more boring STILL hasn't given me a single shift. But he swears he wants me to work for him! W/e.
The other two are pretty awesome. One is a newsagent, which in itself isn't really that interesting, but the people I'm working with are awesome (finally!!), and I get all the free magazines I want, so that's cool. The other other job is not so much a "job" as 'Jayde telling someone she was desperate for work and they took it to mean "Jayde will work free of charge, all hours of the year"'.
But it's cool. It's all cool now. I feel somewhere between a lot more and a little less lonely, if that makes sense. In as much as I'm now 18 hours away from my best friends and 28 hours away from my family, but I'm gradually making new friends here too. I'm starting to save money again. I'm seriously looking at going to Korea for a visit in the near future. I'm finally working again, which is amazing. Even if it is 8 hours at one job and then running across the street to do 6 hours at the second. It's all good.
I'm cooking again, which is another yay, because I so missed the Indian restaurant. A couple of weeks ago, nana hosted a dinner party and I was the chef of the evening. I went for Indian theme, since it was what I was most confident in. I made
Onion Bhaji
Cauliflower Pakora
An original "flavores de Jayde" chicken curry
Mint sauce
Raita
Mango lassi
Mango kulfi
(nana contributed) Mild vegetarian potato curry
(we bought) garlic naan, plain naan, gulab jamun, and papadums
We also had spiced nuts and seeds for nibblies
it was pretty amazing.
And now that my second job is in a sushi restuarant, I've learned how to properly make sushi (not the faily way I used to do it at home).
I promise I'll post pics at a later date of what I made this morning. My first ever party platter. <33 So exciting!
Unfortunately though, I will not be posting as often as I once did because for a start, I'm not working a totally horrible job where everything pisses me off and I need to rant to keep my sanity, and secondly - the ajumma at the sushi place really is working me basically every hour I have free from my other job. The sushi place opens 14 hours a day, from 8am til 10pm and already tomorrow I'm working 8am-2pm at the newsagent and she's asked me to go in from 2pm-??pm afterwards. The day after, I have to go to sushi work at 7.30am and work til 4pm, at which time I run back across the road to my real job until 7pm.
But still, it's not as bad as the other week, when ajumma and ajusshi left town for two days and I was to run the sushi place alone for 12 hours each day. It was only my 5th/6th days and I had to run the whole shop! So scary!!
Anyways, pics to follow of my sushi. Apart from that, J-man, nothing much to report. :)
Adieu, fellow readers!
PS. WTF is with Jini's hair? LMFAOOOOO
The other two are pretty awesome. One is a newsagent, which in itself isn't really that interesting, but the people I'm working with are awesome (finally!!), and I get all the free magazines I want, so that's cool. The other other job is not so much a "job" as 'Jayde telling someone she was desperate for work and they took it to mean "Jayde will work free of charge, all hours of the year"'.
But it's cool. It's all cool now. I feel somewhere between a lot more and a little less lonely, if that makes sense. In as much as I'm now 18 hours away from my best friends and 28 hours away from my family, but I'm gradually making new friends here too. I'm starting to save money again. I'm seriously looking at going to Korea for a visit in the near future. I'm finally working again, which is amazing. Even if it is 8 hours at one job and then running across the street to do 6 hours at the second. It's all good.
I'm cooking again, which is another yay, because I so missed the Indian restaurant. A couple of weeks ago, nana hosted a dinner party and I was the chef of the evening. I went for Indian theme, since it was what I was most confident in. I made
Onion Bhaji
Cauliflower Pakora
An original "flavores de Jayde" chicken curry
Mint sauce
Raita
Mango lassi
Mango kulfi
(nana contributed) Mild vegetarian potato curry
(we bought) garlic naan, plain naan, gulab jamun, and papadums
We also had spiced nuts and seeds for nibblies
it was pretty amazing.
And now that my second job is in a sushi restuarant, I've learned how to properly make sushi (not the faily way I used to do it at home).
I promise I'll post pics at a later date of what I made this morning. My first ever party platter. <33 So exciting!
Unfortunately though, I will not be posting as often as I once did because for a start, I'm not working a totally horrible job where everything pisses me off and I need to rant to keep my sanity, and secondly - the ajumma at the sushi place really is working me basically every hour I have free from my other job. The sushi place opens 14 hours a day, from 8am til 10pm and already tomorrow I'm working 8am-2pm at the newsagent and she's asked me to go in from 2pm-??pm afterwards. The day after, I have to go to sushi work at 7.30am and work til 4pm, at which time I run back across the road to my real job until 7pm.
But still, it's not as bad as the other week, when ajumma and ajusshi left town for two days and I was to run the sushi place alone for 12 hours each day. It was only my 5th/6th days and I had to run the whole shop! So scary!!
Anyways, pics to follow of my sushi. Apart from that, J-man, nothing much to report. :)
Adieu, fellow readers!
PS. WTF is with Jini's hair? LMFAOOOOO