I haven't written in a while. The past few weeks have been both hectic and remarkably productive. (Unless you count the past two days in which I've accomplished nothing more than chatting with gal pals, laying around in my pjs and eating tacos with the roomie.) A list of recent developments follows.
1. I was hired to work at the new brewery that will be in the same location of the old brewery that I worked at. I believe I will be doing a little bit of everything there. I'm pretty psyched, as anyone reading this who knows me at all can imagine. I can't help it- I'll always be a beer nerd. So that will be starting Septmeber 7th. I will be keeping my current job. And juggling my fledgling small business. I am a total masochist when it comes to my own schedule. Soon, however, I will once again be rolling in dough. Please, whatever fates are listening don't tell me i just jinxed myself.
2. Jam business is cranking right along and we're getting tons of attention, I made a gift basket for one of my mother's coworkers and all the women went crazy over it. I think the gift baskets are really going to be our bread and butter as we head into the fall months and the outdoor markets are no longer an option as a venue for our wares. Cross your fingers, toes, and eyes that we make it into some local gourmet food shops. (Goal!)
3. Apparently I have Lupus. Basically this means I am allergic to myself. Leave it to me to develop the world's funniest chronic illness.
4. I have reinstated dating status with the boy mentioned in the previous transmission. As of today All Systems Are Go. Even I have fleeting moments of being a softie.(sp?) Or at least a little soft in the head.
5. I got the best fortune a crappy faux-Chinese cookie has ever produced. " Your love of gardening is about to change directions". Let's just hope that this means the business will begin to make so much money that I never have to punch anyone else's clock again. Side note: they apparently don't eat fortune cookies in China . It is an entirely American tradition. Stick that in your creaky wallet for a trivia-less day.
6. Mary is having a baby. I am the godmother. I don't know precisely what that means- considering that Mary and I are both godless heathens and maybe it just means that I get to spoil him the most. Which I fully intend to do. She has requested that I make sure that he is raised with the best music collection an elementary-schooler can boast. This was a given. I've already started compiling the Liam mix. (That's my vote for his name and I'm not backing down! Since I do not plan on reproducing- I must live vicariously through Mary's motherhood-dom)
7. My car is a piece of rubble that I wouldn't terribly mind setting fire too. Oh wait, I guess that really isn't news.
I guess I am out of things to say.