"Peabody, I will have you know that you taking down your website RUINED my 7 year daughter’s birthday party. My daughter had requested your Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cake which we served for my husband’s birthday a couple of months ago. Imagine my surprise when I opened up my browser to see that your site is no longer running. How am I supposed to make this cake if you site is down? Why put up a website only to take it down? I waited all Saturday night and all Sunday morning for your site to work, I even went to my neighbors to see if it was my computer. I am beyond upset. I had to serve a store bought cake to my guest and daughter. She was crushed." Oh goodie, let’s add Child Birthday Ruiner to my resume shall we, right after ball buster and before dream crusher. First off, I did not voluntarily take my site down. It crashed. My ex (aka webmaster) was out of town and could not see what was wrong as he was in the sticks with very little connection. It crashed because … [Read more...]
Panera Bread: Fresh Ingredients, Quality Food
One thing I judge in a restaurant is whether or not former employees will eat there again. Having worked in restaurants I can tell you that many of the things that you see behind the scene can send you running, and running fast. There have been places I have worked that after spending time in the kitchen and either seeing really poor sanitary choices or poor choices in food quality; I simply won’t eat there again. So it was important to me to know that all of the people I know and a few people who left comments on the last Panera post who had worked there….still eat there. This speaks volumes. Volumes. In fact, most of them still crave it. :) Panera Bread is one of the few companies in the food industry to have thrived so far in our not so awesome economy, and the reason why that is, they stick to what they do best: Fresh Ingredients, Quality Food. Let’s take their strawberries for example. I mentioned in my last post that I love their Strawberry Poppyseed and Chicken Salad. … [Read more...]
Looking for a good time…
There is rarely a good time to do anything. And yet people are always waiting for it, waiting for the right time. The right time to get married, travel, have kids, move to a foreign country, go back to school…you name it. This is no way to navigate through life. The hardest part of the divorce was getting up the nerve to talk about it. The elephant in the room that we chose to ignore week in and week out. I kept building in my mind how horrid the talk would go all the things that would go wrong, etc… And yet, once it was out there it was a huge weight lifted off. I think so many times people build up all the worst case scenarios in their head and instead of doing what’s best they wienie out instead. They don’t want to disrupt the status quo. Well to this I say put on your big girl (or boy) panties on and bite the bullet to whatever it is you’ve been needing to do. You will never find the right moment. This week one of my former students had to tell her son that her … [Read more...]
Special Project…
I got a tug on the arm. Fellow teacher and friend Mrs. L dragged me off to the side of the building and said “D just told me to go meet him in the parking lot. You’re coming with. He won’t kill you, he likes you.” D was one of our students. A student that one may like to say made poor choices. Sadly because he made poor choices he never got placed on the advanced math track, which he should have been. In all my years of teaching math, he was by far the most gifted at it. Everything came naturally to him. Which in a way was good, but in a way was bad. Math was the only subject he liked; he skated by with a D in just about every other class. Not because he couldn’t do it, just because that took effort and he was lazy (yes, I said he was lazy, deal with it). Since math came natural to him, it took no effort. Though I was amazed by his math talents, he was in every form a huge pain in the butt, and that was in the class he liked. Imagine him in the classes he didn’t like. … [Read more...]
