This week I have been really thinking about my future and what I want to do with my career. I've come to the conclusion that Teaching is nice but it's just a job for me. I'm finally at my breaking point with being a pushover. I just can't do it much longer. I'm a crossroads but stuck all the same. At work teachers are getting laid off and no new teachers are being hired. I'm not sure where my job as a para-educator will stand in the fall but I am sure of what I'm going to do with myself in the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness. I'm going to take some business classes in the fall and over the next year earn a couple of certificates in business. I know nothing about business but I have so many ideas for what I want Rosie's Bakery to be. Although where we are right now, culinary school is not an option for me, business courses are. So that idea is keeping me content at the moment.
John has been incredibly supportive of me really pursuing my dreams. I know that he more than anyone can see how much I don't like teaching. How it is just a job for me. He keeps saying "It is your destiny!" Destiny is a broad term to use but I'll accept it. I really don't know where I would be without John. He is always always so incredibly supportive of me. We were briefly talking about this the other day and I said to him, "You realize that this is a gamble, and if I go down, you go down because we're in this together, right?" although I don't remember exactly what he said, I remember him again filling me with support and saying he's willing to take that chance with me. Even last night I was being a woman and upset for only God knows why and he said when he gets out of the Army if he has finished his bachelors he wanted to transfer his GI Bill to me to pay for culinary school. While I would never ever accept this, (and I think he knows that, because since he has met me he knows I'm all about working hard) in fact I would so much rather see him use it for graduate school for himself, I can't describe what his offer meant to me. He would be willing to hand over to me, all of his education benefits that he worked so hard for in his military time just so I could bake some cookies? But that's the thing! He is the only one who see's it the way I see it. It's not just baking cookies for me, it is happiness, joy, a hobby that I LOVE to do, life's little pleasures and what I live for. I can't describe why I love baking and dessert making, I just do. And John sees that more than anyone.
I want to mention that I do no live in the land of OOOoooo (Adventure Time Reference) and I realize that my dream of Rosie's Bakery is far off. That's okay, I want Rosie's Bakery to be like fine wine. I believe my idea will get better with age. I know that I have so much ahead of me because Rosie's Bakery even becomes a possibility, and it probably won't until I am way into my 30's or 40's but again that is okay. I know it's going to take time, I just want to plan, plan, plan, and learn everything I need to learn about baking and the business of bakery owning first.
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Introduction
The purpose of this blog is to provide an outlet to share my kitchen creativity.While there is no real "Rosie's Bakery" of my own yet, someday I promise you there will be. Baking for me is an indescribable joy for me.
The name Rosie comes from my first dog's name which was Rosie. She was a beautiful red golden retriever whom has always stayed with me, even though she passed away when I was 15. My grandparents used to operate a diner named "Corky's" after my grandfathers dog he found in Italy during WWII. I guess it just felt fitting to follow the same idea I was stumped on a name and this just came to me. Rosie was a very special dog to me, and really held a special special place in my heart. I don't know why but after that idea came to mind, I can't think of naming my bakery anything else. Besides I'd like to devote a section of my bakery to making gourmet doggie desserts along with people desserts. Nothing crazy, just a few doggie cookies and biscuits. Maybe someday Rosie's will be a bakery for just dogs, and I can devote another establishment to humans. :)
It started for me in college, about my sophmore/junior year in college I really got into the trend of caking shows that were dominating TLC and Food Network. My housing area did not have a kitchen so I just got my fill watching late night airings of 'The Cake Boss'.
Then junior year came and I came across an opportunity to take a cake decorating class at the Michael's Craft Stores offered by Wilton. This was really fun. So fun to where I considered dropping out of college to pursue cake decorating. I didn't and I moved back home instead and finished my college degree. In retrospect I should have followed this wild idea but I digress. That was my start into the idea of dessert making.
Moving home was good because it meant a kitchen. Bad because it meant my fiancee was six hours away back at college. Eventually the next year he moved in with me at my parents and joined the Army. We got married a few months later and he was off to Army Basic Training. Again baking was a huge stress relief for me at this time. On weekends I often couldn't sleep so I stayed up till 3-4 am baking. Baking anything we had ingredients for, pies, cakes, cookies, it was just fun.
Well he survived basic training and I met him at graduation with a bag full of homemade cookies and a slice of homemade cheesecake (of which I carried in a lunch bag on a plane and kept overnight from Tampa, FL to South Carolina, IT WAS MY MISSION and his only request.) and again baking was a huge part of my life and I was not only so happy to see him (after 10 weeks apart) but to be able to have delicious homemade cheesecake for him.
This brings us about here to where we are now. Married living in Korea, with no kids and two pet rabbits. (no dogs/cats allowed in our apartment)
I currently work at a middle school as a para-professional and live in in Seoul, Korea and we are stationed here for a while. I graduated in 2011 with a bachelors degree in education studies- special education and really haven't done much with that besides this job I'm working currently. Teaching is a good job but it's not my passion. I've been working with a program to become a certified teacher but that has to be put on hold at the moment because of being in Korea.
I want blog about my dessert making, on occasion life in Korea, and desserts in general.
The name Rosie comes from my first dog's name which was Rosie. She was a beautiful red golden retriever whom has always stayed with me, even though she passed away when I was 15. My grandparents used to operate a diner named "Corky's" after my grandfathers dog he found in Italy during WWII. I guess it just felt fitting to follow the same idea I was stumped on a name and this just came to me. Rosie was a very special dog to me, and really held a special special place in my heart. I don't know why but after that idea came to mind, I can't think of naming my bakery anything else. Besides I'd like to devote a section of my bakery to making gourmet doggie desserts along with people desserts. Nothing crazy, just a few doggie cookies and biscuits. Maybe someday Rosie's will be a bakery for just dogs, and I can devote another establishment to humans. :)
It started for me in college, about my sophmore/junior year in college I really got into the trend of caking shows that were dominating TLC and Food Network. My housing area did not have a kitchen so I just got my fill watching late night airings of 'The Cake Boss'.
Then junior year came and I came across an opportunity to take a cake decorating class at the Michael's Craft Stores offered by Wilton. This was really fun. So fun to where I considered dropping out of college to pursue cake decorating. I didn't and I moved back home instead and finished my college degree. In retrospect I should have followed this wild idea but I digress. That was my start into the idea of dessert making.
Moving home was good because it meant a kitchen. Bad because it meant my fiancee was six hours away back at college. Eventually the next year he moved in with me at my parents and joined the Army. We got married a few months later and he was off to Army Basic Training. Again baking was a huge stress relief for me at this time. On weekends I often couldn't sleep so I stayed up till 3-4 am baking. Baking anything we had ingredients for, pies, cakes, cookies, it was just fun.
Well he survived basic training and I met him at graduation with a bag full of homemade cookies and a slice of homemade cheesecake (of which I carried in a lunch bag on a plane and kept overnight from Tampa, FL to South Carolina, IT WAS MY MISSION and his only request.) and again baking was a huge part of my life and I was not only so happy to see him (after 10 weeks apart) but to be able to have delicious homemade cheesecake for him.
This brings us about here to where we are now. Married living in Korea, with no kids and two pet rabbits. (no dogs/cats allowed in our apartment)
I currently work at a middle school as a para-professional and live in in Seoul, Korea and we are stationed here for a while. I graduated in 2011 with a bachelors degree in education studies- special education and really haven't done much with that besides this job I'm working currently. Teaching is a good job but it's not my passion. I've been working with a program to become a certified teacher but that has to be put on hold at the moment because of being in Korea.
I want blog about my dessert making, on occasion life in Korea, and desserts in general.
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