I didn't disappear, I swear!
It's been about 8000 years since I posted last. At least if feels like it. I've been meaning to do so for a while but then I'd get distracted or something. I'm always composing posts in my head on drives but I just never executed them.
Well much has happened so I'll try to remember everything that's important. Erik was just here for the past week visiting me and it was a lot of fun. I missed him so much and just having him here was so calming. We went to SF and I took him and ryuuka_no_jutsu to my work, we hung out a lot, Erik cooked a lot and overall we had a fantastic time. He flew home last night and I miss him already. He says he's moving out here, that he loves it too much and this is where he needs to be which makes me happy. We just don't know when that will happen since it all depends on employment and money to move and all that good stuff. We shall see what happens.
This month I haven't really worked much because I had a 4th of July party which I took two days off for, then I had Lisa's baby shower which I took another two days off for. I made her cake and cupcakes which turned out to be a huge hit. She had a lot of people at her party and everyone was raving about my cake which was vegan since Lisa is vegan. Her guests didn't know the cake and cupcakes were vegan and they just loved them so much. Her mother is a teacher and all her teacher friends want to order cakes from me. I've always dreamed of starting my own business because I really hate working for other people. It's in my genes as my dad and brother were the same way. Anyway, I'd been talking about this with one of my co-workers and she used to do wedding cakes on her own and was a personal chef. She's really been getting me to consider this business thing. I always thought that if I wanted to do this I'd need to get years and years of experience but I don't think that is the case. I'm organized and smart and I know what I want. I plan to start out very slowly, doing things on my own. Lisa and her mom are like my biggest supporters. They want me to make up pricing lists so they can distribute them to the teachers at the different schools they work at. Lisa's mom also wants me to make some cupcakes and send them with her and she'll put them in the teacher's lounges. Lisa's brother gave me his Kitchen Aid mixer since he doesn't use it ever and I just think things are coming together and there's no use in saying I should do this "some day" if things are sort of pointing me towards this now. Like I said, I plan on taking this slowly and really figuring out everything I need to do to get this off the ground but this is my dream and I really want it to be successful. Right now I'm thinking about names for my business and products. I know I'm going to do cupcakes and specialty cakes. I'm thinking about brownies and chocolate chip cookies too. I've had a lot of ideas. I'm terrified though because I'm unsure of where to start. I don't want to fail.
Yesterday before Erik left he turned to me and said he was going to miss me and I started crying. I cried off and on all day because he was leaving and he just hugged me and told me to stop because I was being silly. I said I was crying because he was leaving and my life would go back to being the boring and mundane life I'd made for myself. He said if it was so mundane and I hated it then I should change it, make it what I want it to be. I'm going to do that. I'm going to take better care of myself, get control of things that are out of control, focus on this new venture in my life and be happy. This is what I want.
Well much has happened so I'll try to remember everything that's important. Erik was just here for the past week visiting me and it was a lot of fun. I missed him so much and just having him here was so calming. We went to SF and I took him and ryuuka_no_jutsu to my work, we hung out a lot, Erik cooked a lot and overall we had a fantastic time. He flew home last night and I miss him already. He says he's moving out here, that he loves it too much and this is where he needs to be which makes me happy. We just don't know when that will happen since it all depends on employment and money to move and all that good stuff. We shall see what happens.
This month I haven't really worked much because I had a 4th of July party which I took two days off for, then I had Lisa's baby shower which I took another two days off for. I made her cake and cupcakes which turned out to be a huge hit. She had a lot of people at her party and everyone was raving about my cake which was vegan since Lisa is vegan. Her guests didn't know the cake and cupcakes were vegan and they just loved them so much. Her mother is a teacher and all her teacher friends want to order cakes from me. I've always dreamed of starting my own business because I really hate working for other people. It's in my genes as my dad and brother were the same way. Anyway, I'd been talking about this with one of my co-workers and she used to do wedding cakes on her own and was a personal chef. She's really been getting me to consider this business thing. I always thought that if I wanted to do this I'd need to get years and years of experience but I don't think that is the case. I'm organized and smart and I know what I want. I plan to start out very slowly, doing things on my own. Lisa and her mom are like my biggest supporters. They want me to make up pricing lists so they can distribute them to the teachers at the different schools they work at. Lisa's mom also wants me to make some cupcakes and send them with her and she'll put them in the teacher's lounges. Lisa's brother gave me his Kitchen Aid mixer since he doesn't use it ever and I just think things are coming together and there's no use in saying I should do this "some day" if things are sort of pointing me towards this now. Like I said, I plan on taking this slowly and really figuring out everything I need to do to get this off the ground but this is my dream and I really want it to be successful. Right now I'm thinking about names for my business and products. I know I'm going to do cupcakes and specialty cakes. I'm thinking about brownies and chocolate chip cookies too. I've had a lot of ideas. I'm terrified though because I'm unsure of where to start. I don't want to fail.
Yesterday before Erik left he turned to me and said he was going to miss me and I started crying. I cried off and on all day because he was leaving and he just hugged me and told me to stop because I was being silly. I said I was crying because he was leaving and my life would go back to being the boring and mundane life I'd made for myself. He said if it was so mundane and I hated it then I should change it, make it what I want it to be. I'm going to do that. I'm going to take better care of myself, get control of things that are out of control, focus on this new venture in my life and be happy. This is what I want.