When did you get up?

I had a wonderfully busy day today. How ‘bout you? For some reason I’m feeling a bit down right now. I don’t know if it’s just from being tired or from the prospect that my time at Four Seasons and senior project will end soon. But you know when you get that high doing what you loved surrounded by all these wonderful people and all the sudden you take a moment and stop and everything just seem to drop then you realize that you’d have to let go sometime because this is not forever? Alright enough said. There is nothing like a container of ice cream and box of graham crackers that can’t fix. Anyhow, I went to bed around midnight last night and woke up at 4:30am to get to the bakery. It was bazaar and scary to be driving around town this early in the morning. The moon was still out, rain was falling, it’s never been quieter and let me just say, riverside drive has no streetlight=darkness. But the bakery was all nice and warm and thank goodness brightly lit.

Overnight oatmeal again: equal oats, milk and yogurt, dash of cinnamon, vanilla an pinch of salt. In the morning I added graham crackers and almond butter. No cook breakfast at 4:30am.

I scooped out scone batter and coffee cake batter using an ice cream scoop. Who knew one job can carry over to another so well? And I made brownies and packaged I don’t know how many of those ginormous cookies. One thing that I wondered the entire time on this job is what do these people do if I wasn’t here sharing the labor? I mean, hands are just flying sometimes! Everyone has a job and the timing on these baked goodies have to be precise. So when the boss asked an employee to package all the cookies before 7:30am, he would have never made it without me doing most of it because he was also manning the big ol’ oven. Just a thought.

A marker for the oven indicating which racks are used

Rolling out thin sheets of cinnamon roll dough. I was on my tippy toes!

Nothing like the smell of things coming out of the oven. Double chocolate chip cookies.

Now stretch out your hand and see how big these are.

Mixing the brownie batter like I’m actually getting paid for this.

Challah bread. It was really fun to braid the dough. Everyone here's your sign to start drooling. I love that smell of warm, sweet, yeasty bread.

Challah monster from leftover dough. What does that look like to you? It was intended to be a ladybug.

Boat paddle!

I ate obviously.

lemon blueberry

The consequence of rolling out blueberry dough. Inky stained hands!

I really thought this green monster was going to hold me over cause I was really full when I finished it. But it didn't and I ate a few too many bananas to hold me over plus I stayed a couple hours after school hours to keep working. I was hungry when I got home and ate everything in sight.

School dining hall

Juniors taking over the senior quad

At least my spanish is still good enough to read it: good for the heart. Really? It was banana overload. I had quite a few bananas. I was clearly hungry.

Ipad! Too cool!

Me struggling with technology.

Okay, I was going to make baked eggplant Parmesan but eggplant was bad so I used zucchini. I dipped it in egg and bread crumbs, baked it at 425 for around 15 minutes then added cheese then baked for another 5 minutes.

Before

After

It was okay. I like the crusty cheese more then anything.

Also tried some kale chips using really limp kale. That was okay too.

My darling flute.

Sweet dreams.