On Sunday I am going in to a bakery called Vegan Treats to work with the pastry chef for a little while to see if they might want to hire me as their new pastry chef. Truth be told, I'm nervous as hell and feeling really under-qualified for the job. However, it is pretty much my dream job, so I am going to suck it up and give it my all. Right now I am working in the bakery of a fancy-schmancy grocercy store. However, not only is the bakery I work at NOT vegan, but they really don't actually bake much there. We basically have everything premade and frozen. So I can't really bake so much... and I have very little vegan baking experience on top of my lack of non-vegan baking.
But I do kind of kick ass at cake decorating. Not to feel all high and mighty or anything, but it was something that came incredibly naturally for me, and I could make icing roses better than the people who taught me pretty much the instant I was showed how to do it. And even though I haven't been doing much by way of cake decorating as of late, I am still really confident in that area... so I am hoping that is enough to pull me through. Hopefully. I would do anything to work at this place!!!!
I just got back from a camping/hiking trip that I took with my best friend. About 2 days ago we did an 7.2 mile hike that took us on a trail up a mountain and past/up about 30 waterfalls. It was so incredible! I stood under a 35 foot waterfall and felt like I was being hit with a firehose, but it was awesome.... and then I climbed up and sat on top of it and watched the water roar past me. It was one of the most exhillerating experiences of my life. I guess a 35 foot waterfall isn't that big in comparison to others out there in the world, but that really doesn't take away from how amazing of an experience it was.
Today I went on a 1 mile hike that went straight up the side of a mountain. It was so rough... in only 1 mile we went up a couple hundred feet in elevation, so the trail was completely uphill and most of it was very steep. However, the view from the top was breathtaking and it was so worth all the huffing and puffing to get up there.
Any time I am outdoors (or really indoors, for that matter.... but more so outdoors), I really can't help but think about the cycle of life, death and reincarnation. I don't believe in reincarnation of souls or anything, because I don't make any claims at all about what I think happens to the "soul" after death (I'm agnostic, afterall), but I certainly believe in the infinate physical reincarnation of the body back into the universe. I find the idea so freakin exciting and sometimes I really get caught up trying to attempt to think about what living beings died and recycled back to form my physical being.
I have a really hard time balancing my thoughts when I get into that mode of thinking. Sometimes I will just stare at something and start thinking about the atoms and energies that create that object... and how that energy came from somewhere else and somewhere else before that. Or how absolutely everything we see and experience is the force of this unseen energy, even our own thoughts.... and how for so long I laughed at the idea of telekanesis or that Matrix-style mind-spoon-bending... but when you think about it, why shouldn't it be possible? Maybe someone somewhere has the ability to concentrate hard enough and focus their energy on manipulating other energy. Who the hell knows? All I know is that I need to find someone who knows more about this stuff than I do who can explain it more/discuss it with.
But most of the time, I try not to think about that sort of stuff or else the realization that everything I experience is both ultimate and real to me for the time being in this physical form, it is also pointless and a speck of a speck of a grain of nothingness in the eternal and infinate universe of recycled energies.
But I do kind of kick ass at cake decorating. Not to feel all high and mighty or anything, but it was something that came incredibly naturally for me, and I could make icing roses better than the people who taught me pretty much the instant I was showed how to do it. And even though I haven't been doing much by way of cake decorating as of late, I am still really confident in that area... so I am hoping that is enough to pull me through. Hopefully. I would do anything to work at this place!!!!
I just got back from a camping/hiking trip that I took with my best friend. About 2 days ago we did an 7.2 mile hike that took us on a trail up a mountain and past/up about 30 waterfalls. It was so incredible! I stood under a 35 foot waterfall and felt like I was being hit with a firehose, but it was awesome.... and then I climbed up and sat on top of it and watched the water roar past me. It was one of the most exhillerating experiences of my life. I guess a 35 foot waterfall isn't that big in comparison to others out there in the world, but that really doesn't take away from how amazing of an experience it was.
Today I went on a 1 mile hike that went straight up the side of a mountain. It was so rough... in only 1 mile we went up a couple hundred feet in elevation, so the trail was completely uphill and most of it was very steep. However, the view from the top was breathtaking and it was so worth all the huffing and puffing to get up there.
Any time I am outdoors (or really indoors, for that matter.... but more so outdoors), I really can't help but think about the cycle of life, death and reincarnation. I don't believe in reincarnation of souls or anything, because I don't make any claims at all about what I think happens to the "soul" after death (I'm agnostic, afterall), but I certainly believe in the infinate physical reincarnation of the body back into the universe. I find the idea so freakin exciting and sometimes I really get caught up trying to attempt to think about what living beings died and recycled back to form my physical being.
I have a really hard time balancing my thoughts when I get into that mode of thinking. Sometimes I will just stare at something and start thinking about the atoms and energies that create that object... and how that energy came from somewhere else and somewhere else before that. Or how absolutely everything we see and experience is the force of this unseen energy, even our own thoughts.... and how for so long I laughed at the idea of telekanesis or that Matrix-style mind-spoon-bending... but when you think about it, why shouldn't it be possible? Maybe someone somewhere has the ability to concentrate hard enough and focus their energy on manipulating other energy. Who the hell knows? All I know is that I need to find someone who knows more about this stuff than I do who can explain it more/discuss it with.
But most of the time, I try not to think about that sort of stuff or else the realization that everything I experience is both ultimate and real to me for the time being in this physical form, it is also pointless and a speck of a speck of a grain of nothingness in the eternal and infinate universe of recycled energies.
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partyhats:
So, how did the pastry chef hiring go?
dollywithanh:
Meehh. I don't think I got the job. Well, I am assuming since I haven't heard anything back yet. Oh well. I got to work there for 3.5 hours of my life--so that was fun.