So Its all to the good

Ahh..

I have been busy my internets!

I have started at my new jobby. They have no PC for me, I am usually sitting at the desk of a coworker who is out of the office for the day – that sometimes does not happen so my PC access is spotty at best. So my blogging will be spotty at best. My boss, and her boss, are both mothers so the breast feeding has gone back to being a non-issue. It is refreshing to like the people you work with, they are such a small group of women, and they are all very cool interesting characters. And I love the whole working downtown thing. I am seriously a city rat cause I just can’t get enough of beign down here. I can’t hardly wait for the weather to break a little and I get to take my camera outside to play in the city streets.

St. Louis Downtown, is seriously a beautiful thing. The city is growing by leaps and bounds. I’ve already gotten lost while walking in subzero freezing while trying to find lunch, which happened to be owned by a relative of mine. It was rather tasty soup from the Original Soup Man. I highly recomend them, not because they are related to me, I don’t see this part of my family enough to actually warrent calling them relatives, but because the seafood bisque was delish! It was good enough that I WILL say I am related. HA!  We went to Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse for dinner on Sat, and the bisque was TEN times better at the Soup Man’s than it was at Ruth’s Chris. NO LIE.

Ah yes, Jerry’s birthday. It was Feb 8th, and we had cake and ice cream or rather an ice cream cake from coldstone, to celebrate the sick mans day of birth on the day of his birth- this is right, he was sick on his birthday. He got some clothes for to wear to his new jobby job, and spent all day Saturday sleepin it off, the sick that is. Which was okay, as I spent all day RUNNING MY ARSE OFF trying to get our dinner and his before dinner treats set up. 

He got a hour and a half long massage, and a hair cut before dinner. And dinner at Ruth’s Chris steak house. Which was average for the money it cost. Did I mention they made us wait for ever for a table. They gave away our original reservation which they told me was 7:15, they said it was seven, despite the three reminder calls they gave and I mentioned at each call my reservation was for 7:15.  I showed up at 7:35. I had people from the party there at 7 p.m. Why didn’t they just seat the people who were there? who knows..  When did we get a table? like an hour and a hlaf later?!!? right. They were fighting up hill from there.

I would have expected the steaks to be seasoned a bit better, and not require steak sauce, the veggies to not be over cooked, and repeated small mistakes in the waiting of our table to not have happened. If you are making a automatic 18% (which is never automatic mind you – you can request that it be removed.) on a party of ten at a business that charges 77 bucks for a porterhouse steak, I should never have to ask for anything more than once. Not my salad, not a refil, not sour cream, a new fork, the soup, NUTHIN. And we did, multiple times. And as I used to be a waitress, so I hold the wait staff at places to the same standard I held myself to. Oh I tip and tip well, but you will earn it. There were high points including the Chilean Sea Bass, and the Pork chop were excelent. But there wern’t enough excelent points to cancel out the not so excelent points. So needless to say we will not be returning to Ruth’s Chris. We had a much better experience at Flemmings Steak house and have yet to try Mortons, Sams – so odds are that was our first and last trip to Ruth’s Chris.  

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The rest of his birthday present cannot be discussed with out much blushing, on your part, not mine.

We are excited about all the changes our lives are offering up. Jerry sucks at blogging so I will tell you that his royal sexyness got a new gig as a tech writer for a local young internet company. We were all pulling for him to get the job as the company seems so much more suited for Jerry as a person. We are really hoping that he can carve a wonderful career with them.

I will also tell you all that I have decided agaisnt the bakery thing. Why you ask, because I really think my dream isn’t bakery its photography. As much as I like to cook and to bake, I love getting the perfect picture. LOVE IT. I love giving people their memories. I love wedding shoots, and kid shoots, and flowers, and pets and the whole nine. I love it all. And thats what I think I am really gonna aim for in ’08. build my portfolio, hopefully working with some awesome photographers as to learn some more and by mid 09 jump out there and actually open a studio.

So as soon as I’m ready I’ll be begging to shoot your kids parties, and portraits, and everything else. Thank you guys for the support, All of your advice was perfect, it just took me a minute to decide which dream I should be applying it to. 

Again – Thank you all for the wonderful words of support.