September 2009 Weddings
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So bored! Ask me anything?
Now that my big project is over, things have slowed down to a snails pace! And this board is not hopping enough to keep me entertained.
So ask me anything. I mean, ANYTHING. I will answer.
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Re: So bored! Ask me anything?
absolutely. Part of me was afraid I was changing jobs just to get out of seeing clients. But now that I'm in it, I feel like I was meant to do this kind of work. I still get to use all of my clinical knowledge, I get to work with numbers (which I've always loved), and I feel like I'm on the back end of making difference - helping clinicans do their jobs better. I'm going to be doing a lot of provider training in the next several months, and I really feel like I belong here.
I also work with a kick-a$$ group of people who really believe in a work/life balance. I'm praised/rewarded/recognized for hard work (something I've never really had before), encouraged to take PTO, they are supportive of the catering biz, and the heirarchy feels non-existant at times. I feel like I can talk to our CEO about my weekend or ask for help without being intimidated. He asks me every Friday if I have any catering jobs for the weekend. I just love the environment.
and after just 2 months, I feel like I've lost so much of dysfunctionality I was developing from being around so many dysfunctional people. My relationship with H has never been better, I'm actually able to maintain a healthy lifestyle without coming home and wanting to eat an entire bag of chips and down an entire bottle of wine out of stress/loathing of my job. I've realized just how miserable I was.
So short answer: abso-freaking-lutely.
Yes! I'm actually trying to figure out some logistics for this now. My catering license allows me to cook in someone else's home, so I can do private lessons. I might start there, then maybe branch into an organized class at the kitchen eventually.
#1 travel destination: Italy. We were hoping to get there pre-kids, but I don't think that's going to happen. I think we're just going to do Napa pre-kids now.
Favorite things about living in CO - hard to pick just one! Honestly, probably the weather. sunny 300 days a year? Yes please!
Make it happen! I told Jay long ago that there would be no babies until I went to Italy...we're booked to tour Rome, Florence, Venice, Pompeii and Assissi in September, I guess he is ready for those babies!
Question(s): what is your favorite cupcake that you make? favorite one that you buy from elsewhere? If you had the opportunity to train with and be mentored by one famous chef who would it be?
ugh, I wish we would, but financially it's just not in the cards. We're just starting to get a grip on our finances, we'd just be going into further debt to make Italy happen, which I dont' want to do. I feel like Napa we can save up and pay for without CCs.
Favorite cupcake to make: I think the margarita cupcakes will always be my favorite, especially now that I've figured out how to do them sans boxed cake mix.
Favorite to buy: Honestly... I have no idea. I don't buy cupcakes often. I seriously dislike Gigi's. Oh, I did have a fantastic apple pie cupcake from a cupcake truck in Fort Collins. But I'm not up there much to get it on a regular basis.
Mentor: ooh, tough one. Michael Symon. I just positively adore him and I feel like he makes amazing food that it's too stuffy - it's still real. If I'm going all out, I'd pick Thomas Keller. oooh, or Alice Waters from Chez Panisse. I told you I couldn't just pick one.