fifth business

A lot of really interesting things have been going on right now. But Whenever I have had the chance to write about it my mind goes blank or I have no inspiration.

I’ve been working at the cafe quite a bit, it will never be like working in design but for a parttime job it is possibly the most amazing thing right now. One of the girls quit, and most of her shifts have been given to me which means I will have more time during slow periods to work on a business plan. Speaking of graphic design 4 positions just opened up locally and one in the NWT. I am hoping to get a call back on any of them. Right now I would take the one up north, its not like I eat expensive food anyways (bread milk meat) or have a car.

Tomorrow I have a meeting for the Young & Fearless project. I’ve decided to be the “auctioneer”, hopefully they need some design or marketing. Not that I dont enjoy doing other things, I would just really like to be able to say I did something in my field for this project.

A few weeks ago I took this photo of food from the market and then felt very dirty for some reason. I think it was because a lot of the food pictured (Broccoli, tomato’s, chives) are all summer veggie’s and even though I bought them from the market they probably came from the same suppliers asthe Stupid Store.

I feel less guilty about these flowers, I bought them at Pete’s Frootique, and I know the supplier is the same as the stupidstore, however Pete’s sells them cheaper and with more variety of colours. These are Petticoat/Double tulips. I love the colour of yellow, its a nice Naples.

I have been enjoying the leisure of boredom self employment for the last few weeks. As stated I placed and ad with the coast, it has been driving people to my website but I have not received any emails or phone calls yet. 4 more days to wow me. In the down time I have been knitting. I learned how to make gloves, and mittens. Below is my updated yarn stash as well as some of the things I have made over the past few days.

I love the new blue/green chunky that I picked up

 Gloves for myself I am calling them Scudgloves.
10 points to the first person who can figure out why.

Zoe’s arm warmers

One of the mittens I am making for Laura

 And who doesnt love cookies.

 I am thinking of taking part in guerilla marketing tomorrow evening. The only problem is it is kind of controversial and risky. But you cant get a chance if you dont take a chance. And you never know it might get me some publicity. I just dont know what to do. You cant make money unless you have money to spend and I do not have an excess of cash flow right now. I dont know how other designers get the work. What am I doing wrong?

It has been forever since Ive sat down and written. The Hotel finally forked my money over, after a week of me complaining.

Friday Evening I took Greg out for dinner at Chives, our favourite fine dining. Super was amazingly good.

Becky and I went out shopping on saturday and I got a sexy new hair cut for 15$. A salon was doing a “Cut for the Cure” breastcancer fund raiser. So i ’splurged’ and got a hair cut. Becky also humoured me and tried on clothes too. I bought 3 sweaters, 1 shirt, a blowdrier, and a pan, and 2 pairs of leg warmers. One for me and one for B.

I know I didnt do a photo post of this weeks groceries but before I got to take a picture I was already baking. So I will do a list:

10$ Salmon
3$ Tomatos
2$ Celery
5$ Bacon
6$ Bagels
4$ Quark Cheese
3$ Goats Milk
5$ Flour
4$ Quinoa
2$ Peas
3$ Spinach
4$ Eggs
2$ Apple Cider
4$ Cranberries
4$ Honey
5$ Misc Baked goods.

Sunday I spent baking. I made Minestrone soup, 2 pumpkin pies, a batch of cookies that failed, and cranberry sauce.

I am currently working with a client who wants me to use copy righted work and it makes me want to vomit. Vomit so bad.

I know most of my post have been about food lately, but when i havent been  working or hanging out with Greg i have been cooking. This weekend I made (top to bottom) Peach crisp, 4 batchs of pizza dough, chocolate chip cookies, blueberry muffins, and pizza sauce.

Side note, frog in the hole made with montreal bagels, is AMAZING.

This morning was market day *nom nom nom* I convinced Greg to come with me. The market sells real  montreal bagels, which he (and I) loves, so it wasnt really an arm twist. This weeks budget was $60, I underspent by five bucks.

Bag of Rye Flour ($2)
Bag of Oats ($4)
Bagels ($6)
3Lb of apples ($3)
1Lt of Goat Yogurt ($2.5)
Pesto ($2.75)
Lettuce ($1.5)
Spinach ($2.5)
Mushrooms ($3.5)
2 Tomatos ($1.75)
Peas ($1)
3Lb of Onions ($3)
3/4Lb of Salmon ($5.5)
1.5 LB of bacon ($11)
Eggs ($3.5)

I made blueberry muffins, with last weeks blueberries. Yum yum yum. And I had to split the bacon up into 3 batches because there was so much of it. Most of it is going on pizza’s I have no clue what to do with the rest though. Oh well thats what the freezer is for.

While I was back in NS I was spoiled rotten. I didnt have to think about buying groceries at all. Now I am faced with a pay cheque, no food in my apt, and a burning desire to eat. But I have no clue what to get. Cant I just order take out for the rest of forever?

Today was a glorious day, the last day before xmas break. And as we all know those days are usually half days. Today was no different. We had a potluck for lunch ( i was cheese and cracker girl!). There was the aforementioned cheese, and swedish meatballs, and deviled eggs, and potato salad, and dips, and oh my god the glory! So naturally I made a pig out of myself, as I would in any situation that involved food.

I had a lady come over today to take a look at some of my furniture, she gave me 90 for a couch and a fan. Which I promptly used to go and get myself waxed. I had a very nice girl do my brazilian today. Btw - brazilians hurt when you arent used to getting them. I used to get them every month but stopped when i moved. She missed a few hairs though, very annoying. To sooth the pain of having hair ripped off of my girl junk I went out and got padthai, and by out, i mean i walked down the stairs, around the corner and into the asian resertaunt that us in my building. I will miss that luxury when I move back, but I am sure SUSHI will calm that pain.