Years ago, when I was still trying to choose a path for my life, I almost chose to go to culinary school for baking and pastry. Here lately I have been doing a lot of baking and I had forgotten how much I love it. I have recently learned to make a cream cheese pound cake from scratch and now I can't stop. I love putting the ingredients in the mixer and watching the batter come together, taking the toothpick out and watching it come out clean, knowing that my cake is finally done and perfect! It's a really awesome feeling of accomplishment. I've heard Rachael Ray say on her show that she can't bake, and that is just a concept I don't understand. Baking is easy and so much fun! Part of me wonders if I chose the wrong path, but I think I'm ok. For one thing, a culinary degree isn't absolutely essential to have a career in culinary- look at both Paula Deen and Rachael Ray! Secondly, there's nothing that says I can't choose that way later in life. In the meantime, I think I am just going to enjoy experimenting in the kitchen!
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Sconyers!
My family came to see me today, and by that I mean they came to eat at Sconyers. Sconyers is a local BBQ restaurant that is owned by the former mayor of Augusta and they have the best bar-b-que HANDS DOWN! Their hash and rice is FANTASTIC, even if my brother says it looks like cat vomit (you have to remember, this kid eats pizza rolls cooked in the microwave- EWW!), and their potato salad is SLAMMIN! When it comes to local flavor, Sconyers takes the cake. Anyways, so my family came to eat at Sconyers, and while they were here, they bothered to see me. Thoughtful, I know. We had a good time and I'm glad I got to see them. I don't get to see them very often because they live 2 hours away, and between work and school, I just don't have time for a 2 hour wkend trip. We took a quick stroll around Old Navy, bought nothing, and then went to LifeWay, where Dad, of course, found plenty. Luke asked if we could go to MovieStop where they were supposedly having this huge blowout sale, not so huge or blowout in my opinion, where we found a few things, like the latest Wizard of Oz collector's edition DVD set. Awesome! It was a day that ended all too soon because they had to get home or the $50 worth of BBQ in the trunk was going to spoil. Yeah, it's that good. So, it was a good day off from work, spent well with family!
Oh, and I know I haven't mentioned this earlier, but we had a bake sale at work today, before the fam got here, and my cream cheese pound cake that I sifted flour 3 times for was a HUGE success!!! Not bad for my first pound cake, thankyouverymuch!
Oh, and I know I haven't mentioned this earlier, but we had a bake sale at work today, before the fam got here, and my cream cheese pound cake that I sifted flour 3 times for was a HUGE success!!! Not bad for my first pound cake, thankyouverymuch!
Friday, June 3, 2011
Spider Solitaire
I don't look at the score when I play Spider Solitaire. I find it's much easier to enjoy the game when I am not worried about points. That's not to say that I don't like to win, because what's the point in playing if you don't care anything about success? I play to win, but I don't worry about the number at the bottom of the screen. Sure, occasionally I look to see my score, but I don't let myself get worked up about it. That being said, I've decided to take up the same philosophy with my age. Instead of worrying about how I'm almost 30 and still single, still working retail, and still not done with college, I am going to not worry or think about how old I am, and just live my life to the end. I don't think I am going to tell people my age either. If I'm not worried about it, they shouldn't be either. Of course, I will always know how old I am, but I'm not going to let that define where I should be in life. Sure, most people my age are married, maybe have children, have their "big kid" jobs, and so forth, but my life isn't like their's. God has very different things in store for my life than he does for other people, and my life is where He wants it to be. It's not ideal, but I think it will all be worth it in the end. So, no more emphasis on my age, and more emphasis on my life, where it is headed, and how I am going to get there.
Monday, May 30, 2011
Just A Few Thoughts...
I went to TN this past wkend to see one of my best friends from high school get married. She looked beautiful and her husband seems like a very nice man. (Oddly enough, I still haven't officially met him!) They had such a sweet wedding, and her dress that her aunt made was absolutely beautiful! I am sooo happy for my sweet friend Sara STANTON!! and her husband Micah! I love you and I wish you both the best!
Tonight I hung out with my new friend, Raychel, who works at the Starbucks in my store. She is just plain awesome! She is here in Augusta for a year, at least, while her husband is overseas in Korea. I don't know how she or any of the other military wives do that. I'm not married so I cannot even begin to understand, but I can only imagine what it would be like to be without my husband for a whole year. Anyways, she and I went to dinner tonight and I got to know her a little better. She is just awesome!! We are very much alike and yet very different and I think she is going to end up being a good friend!
So, I got two different phone calls today from two different coworkers who called to tell me about one issue. Another coworker went upstairs and complained on me because I offended her yesterday. What did mean old Shea do?? I asked her if she and her STAPH infection were still contagious. Well, I think I have a right to ask and a right to know because this is my health here and I do not want a freaking staph infection. If that offends you, tough. If I choose to bathe myself in hand sanitizer after touching something you have been touching, I am going to do it, and if that offends you, tough. If I choose to come behind you and do a lysol wipedown of the surfaces you have been touching, I will, and if that offends you, tough. Trying to keep myself clean and healthy is not a matter of your comfort. If that offends you, tough.
I'm having a lazy summer and I am LOVING it.
Those are all my thoughts for now. Stay tuned....
Tonight I hung out with my new friend, Raychel, who works at the Starbucks in my store. She is just plain awesome! She is here in Augusta for a year, at least, while her husband is overseas in Korea. I don't know how she or any of the other military wives do that. I'm not married so I cannot even begin to understand, but I can only imagine what it would be like to be without my husband for a whole year. Anyways, she and I went to dinner tonight and I got to know her a little better. She is just awesome!! We are very much alike and yet very different and I think she is going to end up being a good friend!
So, I got two different phone calls today from two different coworkers who called to tell me about one issue. Another coworker went upstairs and complained on me because I offended her yesterday. What did mean old Shea do?? I asked her if she and her STAPH infection were still contagious. Well, I think I have a right to ask and a right to know because this is my health here and I do not want a freaking staph infection. If that offends you, tough. If I choose to bathe myself in hand sanitizer after touching something you have been touching, I am going to do it, and if that offends you, tough. If I choose to come behind you and do a lysol wipedown of the surfaces you have been touching, I will, and if that offends you, tough. Trying to keep myself clean and healthy is not a matter of your comfort. If that offends you, tough.
I'm having a lazy summer and I am LOVING it.
Those are all my thoughts for now. Stay tuned....
Friday, May 20, 2011
Revolver Globe!
After MUCH frustration of trying to get it onto my blog, I FINALLY I have the revolver globe to the left of my posts. Check it out!! See yourself??
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Allow me to be a little bit selfish....
Another friend is engaged, which means, this time next year, another friend will be married. I'm very happy for my friend. She is such a wonderful person and one of my best friends, and the man she is going to marry seems like a really nice guy. I knew when I started seeing the phrase "I love you" appearing on his Facebook wall that the engagement would be soon. What I didn't know was how I was going to feel about that. Of course, I'm sooo excited for her. She's getting married!! But I'm not so excited for myself. She will be married this time next year, and I am certain to be still unmarried, still unengaged, and still undating. You see, it's all very discouraging. I am truly beginning to wonder what is wrong with me that I not only don't have a boyfriend, but I don't even have any prospects. I feel like screaming at God right now asking Him why He has forgotten about me. Part of me knows that God has amazing things in store for me, but is being single FOREVER really necessary????
Things I Could Not Live Without.....
iPod
Cell phone
Camera
My "Dianky"
Chapstick
Laptop
Car
Sweet tea!
Toothbrush/paste
There are so many more! It's easy for me to say that I couldn't live without my listening device, or my link to the outside world, but notice I haven't listed anything that I truly could not live without: clean drinking water, food, roof over my head (not absolutely essential, but still). There are people all over the world who do without those essentials on a daily basis. If there is a question about where my next meal will come from, it isn't about how I am going to get it, it's about where do I want to get it. I don't scavenger trash cans and dumpsters for food and water or build a shack with cardboard boxes. I don't have to walk the streets day and night because I have nowhere to go and nowhere to be. I don't spend holidays alone because I don't have friends and family and it doesn't occur to me NOT to make a Christmas list. All of these things just are for me. I want them and there they are. Food is in the fridge, sweet tea is half price at Sonic between 2-4, and my iPod not being charged is a crisis. I have gas in my car and if I want to go somewhere, I go. This isn't a pedastal and I'm not preaching. I was just thinking about how much I love my stuff, and then it occurred to me that not only do majority of the people in this world not have these things, they have so much LESS. And the real kicker is, you don't have to go to a third-world country to see people in need. These people easily live in the house down the street, or sleep under the bridge on 15th St. So the next time I am complaining to myself that I would like a new Vera Bradley or a new outfit, perhaps I should just remind myself of the little girl sitting in class on Friday thinking about the food she won't get at home over the weekend.
Cell phone
Camera
My "Dianky"
Chapstick
Laptop
Car
Sweet tea!
Toothbrush/paste
There are so many more! It's easy for me to say that I couldn't live without my listening device, or my link to the outside world, but notice I haven't listed anything that I truly could not live without: clean drinking water, food, roof over my head (not absolutely essential, but still). There are people all over the world who do without those essentials on a daily basis. If there is a question about where my next meal will come from, it isn't about how I am going to get it, it's about where do I want to get it. I don't scavenger trash cans and dumpsters for food and water or build a shack with cardboard boxes. I don't have to walk the streets day and night because I have nowhere to go and nowhere to be. I don't spend holidays alone because I don't have friends and family and it doesn't occur to me NOT to make a Christmas list. All of these things just are for me. I want them and there they are. Food is in the fridge, sweet tea is half price at Sonic between 2-4, and my iPod not being charged is a crisis. I have gas in my car and if I want to go somewhere, I go. This isn't a pedastal and I'm not preaching. I was just thinking about how much I love my stuff, and then it occurred to me that not only do majority of the people in this world not have these things, they have so much LESS. And the real kicker is, you don't have to go to a third-world country to see people in need. These people easily live in the house down the street, or sleep under the bridge on 15th St. So the next time I am complaining to myself that I would like a new Vera Bradley or a new outfit, perhaps I should just remind myself of the little girl sitting in class on Friday thinking about the food she won't get at home over the weekend.
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