Chocolate
Ahhhh, chocolate. I started with a plateful of miniature pastries (everything was miniature): - a cake-like confection that had a layer of chocolate mousse, a layer of strawberry mousse and a very soft chocolate cake, - an almost-cheesecake with a vanilla-banana...
CHOCOLATE!
O, check this out: it's the chocolate buffet at The Peninsula Hotel Chicago. Chocolate in every form imaginable: pastries, candies, dipped fruit, liquid hot chocolate, other indescribable forms. I found out about it months ago and tonight my boyfriend is finally...
Potshots
(I'm back online!)Busy:- Have landed my first music job in years: I'm currently training as a baby music teacher.- Still getting my boyfriend moved into our new place, which isn't easy since his stuff is still an hour's drive from Chicago- Still working six shifts a...
Without Internet Access
I feel so bad for not posting, but I moved into my (our) new apartment on Sunday, April 29th and I haven't had Internet access since then. AT&T told me no one would need to be home when they came by to connect it, but they gave me the wrong information. Early last...
Movement
Over the past month, I've worked through my fear of living with another person, my sadness at leaving my home of ten years, a little nausea and a lot of cupcakes (people wonder where I put all the weight I gain from my stress-response-cake-binge-ing. The secret: each...
The End of True Spinsterhood
(Although I'll still technically be a spinster, which is to say, unmarried.)Okay, here's the news: after years of independent spinsterhood, desperate man-hunting and depression, I am -- for the first time in my life -- going to live with a man. I'm moving in with my...
I’m moving!
No, not out of Chicago and not even out of the neighborhood. But I am moving from this apartment where I've lived for 10 years, so I don't know how much I'll be posting in the next two weeks. The big moving date is April 29th. Plus I'm still on the job hunt. I hope to...
Easter vs. Christmas
I'm wondering why Easter isn't as big an American holiday as Christmas. Here is my friend Robert's response:I think it boils down to this: Would you rather go to a friend's (or savior's) baby shower or execution? Christmas is easier to co-opt than Easter because it's...
I want to sing Easter carols
To me Easter is like the sad, overshadowed cousin of Christmas. It's not lit up with colored lights, it doesn't sparkle with (fake) ice and snow and there's no magical figure that flies through the night to bring you WHATEVER YOU WANT. Easter just sort of languishes....
My Waitressing Saturdays Are on a Count!
In the restaurant, when we're running low on an item, it gets put "on a count." If there are only five creme brulees left, creme brulee gets put on a count and on the computer where we enter our orders, there's a little "5" on the creme brulee button. That number gets...
Irony
Candy Finnegan - bulimia interventionist (Oprah show)
So tired
So tired of being a waitress. Feet hurt. Feet hurt almost all the time. Don't like being up late. So tired of being up late.I'm giving myself one month to find some other way of earning a living. Something I can do SITTING DOWN. My feet hurt so much from being pounded...