This week has been a weird week wherein if things have not been specified down to the nth degree, then the wrong thing happens. The worst is when I am trying to be a middleman for things I have no knowledge of (like the restaurant's fire suppression system). It just feels like a Virgo Week. Like... if things are not exact and the details SO clear ( Read more... )

I hear kids playing in the sprinklers... and the night feels warm and alive. Pliska and Galen cleaned the house over the weekend so I am going to take Plis out for cheesy American Italian food (which he loves ( Read more... )

The state of me...

Things are really more exciting and wonderful than I am probably expressing in my angsty "OMG! Opening a restaurant is HARD!" posts of late. It IS really hard. In some ways, shockingly and depressingly so.

BUT... most restaurants take 18 months to open and I am WAY ahead of the curve clocking in at lease-signing in February ( Read more... )

Soooooo... all day yesterday I am getting texts from friends like thus, "I think I am coming to practice tonight". Stein and I are working on sausages etc and I mention to him, "I think practice is going to be busy!"

Then people start rolling in... Catherin of Wessex... Kate... my laurel... Paul and Sue... Matt and Lisa... Francisco (his first ever ( Read more... )

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YAY!!!

http://www.martinezgazette.com/news/story/i2708/2011/06/07/old-world-cuisine-finds-home-main

So much to do lately... this whole work thing (especially with no real paycheck in site) is tiring! thankfully I love it ( Read more... )

It was a really nice event. I know I should not have felt relaxed with my schedule as it was, but it really was very restoring and relaxing.

I brought the kids and they both had a lot of fun (other than a very cold night of sleeping on Friday night). Sammy went feral for the weekend with the other children and VERY important things were ( Read more... )

All I can say is thank goodness I can do this in my sleep, 'cause that is what I basically did today. I didn't even drink all that much at practice and didn't have a hang-over. I just think the two solid days of sausage making, plus teaching a 5 hour class on sausages, plus practice (Brion and I did squeeze in dinner alone on my birthday) and all ( Read more... )

Bad Rachael... no biscuit.

I did get the pickling done this morning, go me! I also stopped by the Middle Eastern grocery and grabbed some lebneh and green almonds, plus black peppers for the chocolate chili sausages Stein and I will make this week. I also got my class hand out written for the sausage class I am teaching tomorrow night at the Jr ( Read more... )