Emerging from hibernation
Life has once again been a bit crazy. I seem to only have the energy to post when I have a day off, as that's when I can actually sit down and relax for a bit.
My boss was on vacation for two weeks and, as we are short staffed, I've been working my butt off. She returned this Monday and then we had to dive into prep for a visit from a company bigwig, the visit is today and I am blissfully at home sitting on the couch typing away instead of running around like mad trying to get things done. Yesterday I made 35 trays. I didn't realize how many it was until I did the math last night. 18 were small appetizer trays which, in theory, should be easy to bust out. BUT, the corporate yonks have to make any kind of tray they format over-involved. If you get an assembly line going and have everything prepped ahead of time go by pretty quick, but then you get stuck by the labelling, each one gets 5 separate stickers and a price tag. They have finally seen how much time is wasted on this process and combined all the product information on one sticker. Thank god. I was drowning in the fussiness.
Himself is supposed to be heading out to Japan on business in two weeks and be returning the evening before Thanksgiving. He will be a complete zombie.
He's got a trip coming up next summer which will probably keep him over there for 2.5 weeks including travel. We may need to explore the option of me flying out when he is through and spending 5 or 6 days out there together. I'd really like to go to Japan.
We will be attending the 2012 Culinary Symposium in February, yay! Our reservations are being sent in today. I can't wait for the class schedule to come out but I can tell you now that the Dairy Track is going to be great. We have people teaching soft cheese, hard cheese, skyr, and mozzarella. There will also be a cooking with cheese session and quite possibly a cheese overview (i.e. tasting). If you are in the area of Fairfax, CA in early February I hope people can make it.
That's most of my updatey-ness. I've decided I need to get out more and try and be more social. I don't do well as a hermit and when you only get a day off here and there it means you have no life and the days just start running together. You lose your reference points.
My boss was on vacation for two weeks and, as we are short staffed, I've been working my butt off. She returned this Monday and then we had to dive into prep for a visit from a company bigwig, the visit is today and I am blissfully at home sitting on the couch typing away instead of running around like mad trying to get things done. Yesterday I made 35 trays. I didn't realize how many it was until I did the math last night. 18 were small appetizer trays which, in theory, should be easy to bust out. BUT, the corporate yonks have to make any kind of tray they format over-involved. If you get an assembly line going and have everything prepped ahead of time go by pretty quick, but then you get stuck by the labelling, each one gets 5 separate stickers and a price tag. They have finally seen how much time is wasted on this process and combined all the product information on one sticker. Thank god. I was drowning in the fussiness.
Himself is supposed to be heading out to Japan on business in two weeks and be returning the evening before Thanksgiving. He will be a complete zombie.
He's got a trip coming up next summer which will probably keep him over there for 2.5 weeks including travel. We may need to explore the option of me flying out when he is through and spending 5 or 6 days out there together. I'd really like to go to Japan.
We will be attending the 2012 Culinary Symposium in February, yay! Our reservations are being sent in today. I can't wait for the class schedule to come out but I can tell you now that the Dairy Track is going to be great. We have people teaching soft cheese, hard cheese, skyr, and mozzarella. There will also be a cooking with cheese session and quite possibly a cheese overview (i.e. tasting). If you are in the area of Fairfax, CA in early February I hope people can make it.
That's most of my updatey-ness. I've decided I need to get out more and try and be more social. I don't do well as a hermit and when you only get a day off here and there it means you have no life and the days just start running together. You lose your reference points.