Rainy days off

Usually, my first day off is recoup day and I just sleep - and sleep
and then by the second I am ready to go do something

today it is dark grey and rainy
but I have a lunch date with my old chef to vent about my current chef so that should be therapeutic for me at least i hope so

I have been thinking it is now time to start my own business - and even if I start one here in NOLA I think it will all work out to get back home or at the very least visit more

I have been craving Kris's waffles nothing like someone else making you breakfast

It has been hard to get back into the swing of things since being home - and with the holidays looming over - I just miss everyone and hate that I am here by myself for the holidays again. To turn this around though I am working in a nice place and I live in a nice place ...even though still no furniture I have been pretty healthy over all so life is good
It bothers me that the last week has been such a battle to stay positive - I guess though as long as it is in my mind frame to be positive...right?
This girl I work with most mornings is kind of a debbie downer and I have decided to ignore her if I can she wines and complains a lot!!! Which I have found effects me a lot. Basically the story is she has never had a real job never mind a job involving real labor and wacky hours and her parents are filthy rich. They own Kentucky Derby Racehorses! They want her to be a lawyer but she doesn't it is interesting sometimes to listen to her ideal look on life and other times down right annoying! I wish I had her problems well maybe just her allowance!

Life seems to be moving quicker lately.
Friends have had some babies, as well as, my sister had a little boy not to long ago - it seems that things are just going fast.

I think life here has finally settled into some what of a rhythm
My job is going ok - the hours still really suck.
Yet, I am doing really well it appears that I may have my first publication coming up ...WOW!!
Not even a year out of school...HA!
That is just crazy talk I think. I am trying to not get to excited in case it doesn't happen

I picked up part time work at my old restaurant again so that is good also very good for the resume to keep that place on there. Can't beat Michelin Stars baby.
Things as far as my huge debt to all should start to finally be making progress in the downward direction with the help of that second job...Hooray!!

Now that things are finally going in the right direction I feel like I may have to stay here a bit until all my bills are paid off or down before I move again...unless of course I get hired by a place before I move back to Cali that would be ideal but that is at least 6 months away due to my lease.
I just miss everyone back home
It can get very lonely here

I think it is time to get back into writting again
Gosh, it has been so long I am not even sure what to write any more
I am sure it will come
in time

It's been to long....

Life is finally settling down -
I have a job
a place to live
and I am doing ok
I of course was far from home for my birthday and that really sucked
I do miss everone - a lot
I miss California
but life is coming a long here
I went out on some dates
some where terrible some were fun and exciting
more later

Great * Bad* and really maybe grey

Well, I am working at August. The restaurant I moved down here for should open in July. All of this is really pretty amazing me working at August?. My first two days kicked my ass. They were long and I was hot and tired and my feet really f++king hurt. My Pastry Chef is kind of young and maybe a know it all - I don't get a good vibe from her but I am only working there for a month and half. I can make it through a month - that is nothing.
I was approved for the apartment building that I applied for but they have a huge deposit. All of this stresses me out I need a bed and I am just tired of trying to figure things out - exhausted. Where am I going to get 500 dollars? UGH! I just want my bed - I want to sleep in a bed.

I had two interviews today at Muriel's in Jackson Square so that is very hopeful since that actually makes interview two and three there. I also have several more interviews later this week around town. Can you see... my fingers are crossed.
I am still waiting to hear about the apartment in the sky. First month rent is free and the deposit is only a couple hundred so hopefully family or someone can help out with that since I am dam near out of funds. Sadly, I would need a little bit more so I can rent a moving truck and get my stuff out of storage that I sadly put in there on Monday and for some food.

I kind of feel like up till this point I was hemorrhaging money - things are changing ...finally!

Where am I?

New Orleans. I have been here for just over a week. I got the job with Chef Besh. Great news right! Then days later the opening of the restaurant was delayed till the beginning of July. UGH!!!

That's OK, I am rebounding and looking for something else to keep me going till July. Just maybe I can work both jobs for a while and get caught up on everything now that would be heaven.

I also was going to have a roommate here a friend from cooking school but his luck was a little rougher than mine and he went back home. So I kind of feel like I wasted a lot of time looking for a two bedroom and changed everything to just something for myself.

Well, I think I found a place for myself and it is kind of really nice - the weird thing is it is a high rise and the windows don't open. Not sure about that. And it is two blocks from where my new job is and a block from Bourbon St.

I am hoping everything works out soon because I am almost out of money - a never ending story for me sadly. So lets have happy thoughts and wishes for money to make it all work out.

Ah, I have three interviews hooray a light at the end of the tunnel.

Really open to any direction or ideas.
I started to chicken out about NOLA (it is far and scary) but then I realized
1- do it different
2 - I would regret not going so there you have it

I applied to John Besh who is grade a number one as chefs go - so I would learn a lot there which is what I want
The roommates are still partying like crazy and I am lacking in sleep! I had planned on going home this last weekend since it has been four months since I have been home - but it didn't work out. I did get to go to some friends graduation so that was fun and bittersweet all rolled into one. Meeting all these new friends at the CIA has been great! It is kind of amazing, you have a great thing in common a passion about FOOD.
What that also means is they are from across the country from Rhode Island to Georgia, Texas to Washington they are everywhere which I guess is also a blessing

So it all looked really promising for NOLA got a job and a new roommate that I already new and I was moving and then I got an email. Construction delays no idea when the new opening date is...ugh!!! Why do I hit so many road blocks? In dam near everything i do.

To win lotto someday would be great! Screw all of this and I would just open my own business then... to dream, its free. Lotto dam near free a dollar

NOLA is looking more and more promising. Looks like better pay then Cali and cheaper housing. I am not sure that I can refuse that much longer. Don't get me wrong I love what I do and the place I am at is great for my resume but I do want to come home some day and at this rate it will be oh, like 10 years. I am trying to decide (and I guess it won't be that hard) about what to bring since I am in the broke category of life currently, I think I will just fly with a couple of suitcases and put the rest of my stuff back into storage.

I currently live with a couple of twenty year olds that are making me very sleep deprived which as you all know can make me kind of crabby. The cops have been at the house 4 weeks in a row and the twenty year olds have gotten two thousand dollar tickets. Young dumb wouldn't want to relive those years.

...next

I have been pondering moving to New Orleans there is quite a few opportunities there and I just keep thinking about it.
I have already talked to a couple of people about jobs so we will see what comes of that

I just would really like something that I would push me to master technique and have perfect execution - and really just something that pushes me to be better

plus it is just cheaper there

So I am still working

So my Chef is gone and the kitchen is a little bit like the parents left the kids in the house on the weekend alone. There is no buddy to learn from or push me so I have been looking for something else. I have also been experimenting with recipes and such for when I own my own place some day. SO that is a plus - it is such a big plus that I wonder if I should stay and experiment my way to my new menu?
I got a new old bike to replace the stolen one and it has no middle gears I just realized this - I am not to awake at 3am so I was not getting why I thought this bike sucked and then it became clear because it is missing the middle gears! I want my old bike back!

well,

I got some crazy news today...My Chef was let go today. Wow! I only know at this moment because she called me to let me know.
Well, it makes some other decisions easier but the whole thing is really kind of crazy. I moved up here to work with that Chef and to learn from her...the whole thing is crazy. WTF

Happy New Year

wow, are things different from last year at this time. Things are definitely better even though I have had a rough week my bike was stolen and then accidentally dropped my ipod in the washer and no matter how hard I tried to go home for the holiday It just didn't happen.

I have been trying to figure out if this is harder than when I moved to go to school last year and it kind of seems like it - maybe because there were many people that had similar interests food, gardening - it could be to that I moved here over the holidays and that can be tough.

I have been trying to use my down time productively - by planning my place I want to open back home after I learn all I can here