I love my job at Starbucks! All the girls working there are so sweet and so much fun to be around. I am catching on very quickly and they seemed impressed that I was making drinks by myself on my 3rd shift. There are a lot of regular customers, which I really like. I thought that working at Starbucks would be so impersonal compared to Eclipse, but I am seeing the same faces consistently and that makes me happy. I do miss Eclipse and having the freedom to spend 3-4 minutes on each latte to make sure the espresso, syrup, and milk were all perfect and beautiful before handing to the customer, but this is Starbucks, and people expect speed.
I also love working at 7 AM. It is early enough that I don't have to stay late in the day, but it is late enough that I don't have to get up at an ungodly hour. I got up at 5:30 this morning. Derek and I rode the El together and I got off at my stop and he rode on to his. It was nice. I walked home from work even though there was about a foot of snow on the ground in places. I was freezing and my nose was dripping by the end, but it was good to be outside and moving.
Here is a picture of my backyard in the snow. It's hard to tell that there is even a backyard because the snow is so deep that it just extends from the porch all the way to the garage!
The landlord shoveled snow before I could get a real picture of it, but I like this one of the path that goes next to the garage to the alley. The stairs are completely covered with snow!
This week has been busy, and the weekend will be busier. I've worked every day this week, and I'm working Thursday and Friday. Tonight I have Lady Parts rehearsal and a possible Piercing Music rehearsal. Tomorrow night I may have Lady Parts again. Then Friday night we're going dancing for the Valentine's themed Fast Friday. Saturday I need to shop for more black clothes to wear at work. Saturday night is a Tracer Bullet show. Sunday is Valentine's Day, but I don't remember what Derek and I said we would do. It probably involves eating cheesecake. Maybe we'll go to Soul Vegan! I should bring that idea up to him. Sunday night we have band rehearsal. Then work again M-F next week, the Piercing Music show on Thursday, and Lady Parts on Friday, and then a Piercing Music studio recording session on next Saturday. I'm busy and I'm loving it!
Now on to the food.
A lovely sight indeed: a full and diverse fruit basket.
Alas, as tasty as this split pea soup is, it gets an F for photogenesis. What is the noun form of "photogenetic?"
I made some more barbecue jackfruit this week. Erika came over and we ate it with the best home fries ever and broccoli. She is an omnivore and declared that the jackfruit was just as good as barbecue pork.
A couple of weeks ago, Derek took me to his favorite Indian restaurant. I used to shy away from Indian food, but I really liked a lot of what I ate there. We ate this stuff called Garam Massala, which we both loved. I wrote down the name so I could try to recreate it at home. Turns out, garam massala is not a dish, but rather a combination of spices. I made a garam massala sauce here with tomato paste, soy milk, and spices. I pressed, froze, and thawed a block of tofu and cubed that into the sauce. Then we had seasoned brown rice with it. The meal was very good. Zach ate that with us. Derek and I both wished we had some naan with the garam massala sauce, but it was still good without it. I was happy with the recreation.
After my walk home from work today, I was freezing, and I never really warmed back up. I am now in my warmest pajamas and snuggled in bed with Moose and Pudd. In about 20 minutes, though, I have to go dig my car out of the snow so I can go pick Derek up from work. He has an errand to run that he needs to use the car for. Zach is here and he is about to go to a job interview. Let's hope he gets it!
That's all for now.
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