Time Warp

The last month and change has been a busy one for me.  I got to take a trip out to the West Coast, my job has picked up in pace, and I started interning at a bakery two mornings a week.  Every Tuesday now I get up between 3-3:30am and I pack my stuff for the day and help an awesome woman make batters and cakes and frostings, croissants, etc.  I love it.  Once 8am rolls around I take off my apron and head to my day job with a quite satisfied feeling.  I go into the bakery on Saturday mornings as well.  The way I see it is that I like baking and cooking enough that I want to incorporate it substantially into my daily life, and if I can learn techniques and skills I wouldn't normally have access to, without a culinary study program, in a great environment with beliefs I share, then I am over the moon.

This seems unnecessary to point out, but because of all this, I am Le Tired most of the time.  I look forward to Thursday nights when I go to a friend's house to chill and have an 'Office Party' to watch The Office and 30 Rock and get  a little stupid and relax with friends.  Every other night during the week I am either going to sleep early or at the gym or trying to find a month's worth of laundry that has piled up.  I know the situation has become dire when I start forgoing underwear with certain outfits.

Anyway, so baking at home has become 'strategic' in nature.  If I can whip up a frosting while I'm making dinner I will.  If I can find 15 minutes to get  cake batter ready and pop it in the oven, I had have the next 45min to get something else done, and so on.  I baked a green tea cake for my friend's birthday strategically over 2 days, cut it in half and frosted it two different ways; One half had royal icing with marzipan shapes I rolled and cut out and colored and the other half had cream cheese frosting topped with toasted coconut.  I had just enough time to jump on a bus and deliver them to the Beat Kitchen where she was celebrating that night.

On the whole, life is really Super Good right now.  I am doing and learning awesome things right now, I'm experimenting and writing and doing a ton of stuff I've said I've wanted to so for years.  The ball is rolling.  The next major hurdle on my list is surf camp, but that's harder to carve time away from baking for.