The problem with working yourself to death is there's no time for fun and learning, just rush, rush, rush. If I try to stop and figure out how to be more streamlined and productive, I lose momentum and the whole day seems to go downhill. The only relief are my days off when I can sit and breathe, but then my head fills up with work and it's over ( Read more... )

I haven't felt the need to be amazing in a long time. So long, in fact, that I thought it was just part of "growing up" and I'd reached the next stage. I've been browsing cake images online and that feeling is back, the desire to make a cake that fantastic. I want to find my own decorating style. I've learned from two awesome decorators with two ( Read more... )

1. What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before?

Sooo much. Moved into an apartment, got a job in a field I'm professionally trained in, adopted two dogs, finished college

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don't make NY resolutions.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Not that I know of

4. Did ( Read more... )

I miss being elegant. I love pushing my boundaries and making fun, bold, easy desserts, but I miss the delicate, thoughtfully placed, gentle lines of elegant desserts. I would probably hate it if I did it full time, but I haven't done anything similar in months now and I miss it.

This new little dog has grown on me the past few weeks. I'm watching her right now sniff the air around the entire house because it smells so yummy from the soup I'm making. She's being driven nuts by the smells of ham and vegetables, and I can't blame her, because it does smell good. She has a pretty smile and ears that make me laugh continually. ( Read more... )

Somehow Halloween has come and almost gone without much notice by me. We did plot a few fun Halloween treats for the bakery this week, and I got to decorate a spiderweb cake and make little dirt cake cups with neon gummy worms, which apparently made me so happy it warranted a picture from Alex. Life has found a happy rhythm here in our little ( Read more... )

I should seriously stop watching political news shows because they get me way too riled up. How the hell can we be in 2009 and still have insurance companies deny domestic violence victims insurance as a "pre-existing" condition? Or pregnancy? WTF?! It's bad enough we have tens of thousands of people protesting that the president is racist/ ( Read more... )

I am jobbed somewhere that sounds absolutely perfect and is close by without any tolls or much traffic. A scratch bakery with a family like atmosphere and absolute cutest canvases on the wall.

It's so nice to feel aligned with the universe again. <3

So the job hunt is over but its not. I'm employed but I already know its not a forever job, its only a few month's job, if that. It's strange knowing this already but I guess that's why hospitality has such a high turnover, we just know.  But now I'll have the ever so important "experience" that I've been lacking everywhere, so I can at least find ( Read more... )

Almost moved, even if it's not completely real yet since I have no job and no way to support my new life. The boxes will be gone tomorrow and I will spend the first night in my new home with my lover. I spent Friday cleaning and pondering the life that was before me. The hints of walls painted pink and teal, hairbrushes with blonde hair and ( Read more... )