I've boxed myself in

And now I have no one to talk to.

Today I Feel Sad

I have no reason to be sad at the moment, but the feeling remains. There seemed to be nothing to do about it, so here I blog.

What does a person do to feel unsad if they have nothing in particular to be sad over? Are there ways to cope for that? It just feels odd to me.

Usually if your sad there's a reason, and then you either fix the problem and get over it or just deal and cope. But I've got nothing.

Perhaps, writing this will help me. But so far it's making me think I'm just back at the sad whiny teenager phase. Believe me, I don't want to be sad, I just woke up like this (leave the beyonce jokes at a minimum, thanks).

Maybe I need to focus on things to look forward to... I'm going to dinner tonight with my family and boyfriend, they're finally getting that one on one thing after about 7 months of us dating? Is that overdue? Maybe, I don't know.

We're having Italian. I can drown myself in a bowl of pasta, that'll be good right?

I don't know.

My Top Literary Romances

Ah yes, it's Valentine's day. Of course I don't have any plans because i'm perpetually single, so I thought I could tell you about my favorite couples from some of my favorite books.

Recipe: Orange Kiss-me Cake

The alternative to boring coffee cake, with vitamin C to boot!

Book Review Monday: Sellevision By Augusten Burroughs

A dark comedy about the scandalous life behind the scenes of a QVC type network.

2014 Reading Goals

Sweet Ambition

So you might recall from my previous post the mention of a cake project. Well today is the day, well the day it starts anyway. I'm planning to do all my baking tonight, decorating tomorrow and finishing touches the day of the party (saturday). But first I need to get through this shift at work. Wish me luck!

Sophie

And a Happy New Year to you Sir!

And here we are in 2014. 

Back where we started. A hood rat from the "Springs" with the swag of  that old bitty at bingo night that gets bingo 4 times in a row.

I've had my posolé, did my time (no really, I worked early at Sbux this morning), played with the cat and even interacted with children that I'm related to. 

I can already tell, this is going to be a good year. I've got a fancy smancy trip to the UK planned for the summer, made my commitment to the Goodreads 2014 reading challenge, and I'm baking fancy cakes this weekend. So watch out world!

If you've noticed I've changed my blog name, instead of rambling we're now craving. Make what you want out of that, but lets just say that I plan to make this a good year for food in my belly.

And now a gratuitous picture of what is left of the a fore mentioned posolé. 

Sophie

P.S. I have no idea why, but I'm extremely proud of this blog post.

Early mornings suck

I woke up at 4:45 this morning, and that really sucks, especially on a Friday.

Anyways, work was okay and it went by fast, but by the end of my shift I was majorly iffed. 

While I work I try my best to keep a clean work space, the cleaner the space is, the easier it is for me to focus on getting out everyone's orders. It's as simple as that. So I have my little system going, the minute it gets too messy I start getting frazzled, so I'll take a quick second to clean up my space and the move on to my next drinks, no big deal.

Well, I have this shift lead, and though we are friendly, I really don't enjoy working the same shifts with him. So this morning we had to work together, it's not a big deal, like I said, we're friendly. But today I just wanted to slap him.

We're super busy, and I'm doing my thing at the bar, turning out drinks left and right, and he decides he wants to help me make some drinks so we go a bit faster. But for whatever reason, this lead can not for the life of him clean up after himself, which makes more work for me.  He did this throughout the day, and for whatever reason he always did it right after I would clean up my area. It is just so irritating!

I am just happy that the day is over..

END VENT.

Here we are again

Well, blogger look at us. Not one actual update an over a year, how about them apples? Disregard those fashion posts from earlier this year, I was shocked to see that they somehow were posted here.

Things haven't really changed much between you and I, though I did give you a much needed make over as I felt it will make up for all of the neglect. Both you and I know it doesn't really, the generic template is hardly a makeover, but it will have to do for now.

I'm sorry that I abandoned you when things got rough and decided that running off with tumblr was the best thing for us. I don't regret it, but I still feel a little bad about.

You'll be happy to know that I managed to grow a little in the last year, I mean to say, I've actually managed to hold a job for over 9 months now, and I only called out once in all that time, just this last Monday actually. It was necessary as I was spewing grossness and coughing everywhere. So there you go, I'm almost a grown up.

The school situation hasn't changed much, it's currently stalled, but I'll have you know that I haven't just been sitting on it. But I think I might actually have a decent plan for it. But again like I said, it's on hold until I am able to move back west. Yup, that's right I'm still in DC, and actually it's not as bad as I once thought. Sure I miss home but living here isn't so bad when you make the best of it. I might be living in seclusion but I was always a homebody anyway. And hell, the DC metro makes getting around easy as hell.

Well, enough chit chat, I need to get to bed so I can wake up early for work tomorrow.

Goodnight, Blogger, maybe I'll write to you again soon.