Actually, I do plan on being productive. I will be branching out into a different medium though.

Since the Graphic Design thing did not take off, and I mulled for months(year or so almost) about the college degree and education going to waste, changing my priorities, add emo nauseaum, etc, I came to the conclusion that I should probably, at this point in my life, peruse a career doing something that I have the most work experience with. Do something that I know I can at least tolerate.

Enter the food service industry!

Yes. In my months of moping I have not only drowned myself in work, but I drowned myself in food. I'm an emotional eater, and while stuffing my face with an assortment of pastry's, I became addicted to the food channel, and have discovered that there is so much more than cooking things to the proper temperature and plopping it on a plate!

While my life as a line cook in two restaurants leaves little room for creativity, I have used my skills of multitasking and cooking at home to invent and arrange several tasty dishes for myself. I have signed up for some cheap cake decorating classes through a local arts and crafts supply store(baking always was fun for me), and am going to try venturing into the art of food! Who knows, once I get caught up on school loan payments, I may even go back to school and try out LCCCs culinary and pastry arts programs part time!

I do hope this will be more successful. It should. I mean, I cant exactly not work with food for a few days, weeks, or months on end. Its my job... also, I need to eat too... Not only that, I enjoy making cakes, cookies, and pastry's for special events and holidays, and since something is always right around the corner, I will always have something to post.

Career-wise, I am working on climbing that magical corporate ladder at the one restaurant, if only to get a feel for what management is like. I do enjoy cooking, but I need to get a better feel for what the other side of the business is like(paperwork, finances, stock, customers, ect.). After that, I intend on attempting to open my own place, be it a diner or a coffee shop/bakery deal (the latter preferable, much slower pace). Also, as a person possessing skills in the food industry, I will be hard pressed not to be able to find a job, ever. Everyone needs to eat. If I become desperate in the crashing economy I can whore myself out to a rich person looking for cheap house labor, cause their stocks are gone and they don't know how to make anything!

DA wise, my Cake decorating classes start Nov 4, so my first cake should be done on the 11th or 12th, 1 or 2 cakes to follow within the next month after that, in addition to anything else I conjure up. I will be sure to post the recipes for everyone! In addition to classes, with the holidays approaching, I have lots of baking to do, so be prepared to get hungry whenever you look at my account!

As far as my previous artistic ventures, I do not plan on completely giving up and letting those skills die. I will still keep everything in practice and exercised, it will all come in handy at some point in time or another, its just that now, the bulk of my focus will be on food! ^.^