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Dec. 20th, 2009 @ 12:39 am Moving back to the Valley
Current Mood: irritatedirritated
It's no secret that we are planning to be back in the Phoenix Valley by next Sunday evening, as long as the weather gods let us travel. I have been very stressed out at work. The situation there has not been good for quite awhile. The Chefs keep asking if I have news about employment at the Property I am returning to. No, I had not, until today.

They're constant hammering at me forced me to email one of the people I know at that Hotel. I don't know if that elicited the response I received today or not, but in any case I got the call from the Executive Chef who said definitely that I have my job there, and that I would get the offer on Monday, and that he understood my panic.

Some of my stress is that I am trying to get all this paperwork and transfer stuff done right before X-mas. The HR department at my current job has a tendency to close at some weird times during the holidays. I just want everything done before Thursday.

Knowing that I have a job to walk into is a huge relief for me. Knowing that I am getting the ****** out of my current position is probably an even bigger one. In either case there was satisfaction walking in today and telling the Chef who doesn't like me that I have a job back at my old place. He had no reaction except "Well, that's good." When I told him the other day that I wasn't worried his reaction was "Really, you aren't?" Like it was a huge surprise that I wasn't worried. Surprise Chef, people actually do like the work I do. I'm good at what I do, and could cook circles around this guy.

I'm just glad to be washing my hands of the whole bloody mess and get back to a place where people actually like me.

On another note, my dad is very sick and in the Hospital. He will probably go into a Home if he gets through this. So going back to the Valley to help the family take care of things will be beneficial. I really am surprised my dad lived this long after my mom died. I don't want my dad to go, but it really could be his time now. So I am asking for good prayers that he doesn't suffer too much. And that my family can resolve our issues peacefully.
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Nov. 30th, 2009 @ 11:12 pm Because the Universe said so
Current Location: Home
Current Mood: crazycrazy
Current Music: my own spoken word poetry
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The emails went out yesterday, so for those of you we left out, I apologize. Newest updated information...we are moving back to Phoenix. The burn at work was a finalizing factor for me. But we were pushed before that. It is going to be very easy to get back into the Valley. All we have to do is pack and roll, our jobs are secured, housing is secured, the junior members of the household are coming along.

We went to Phoenix a week and a half ago to a memorial service for a friend, and came away with job offers and a place to live. It really is a no-brainer.

I don't like the prospect of leaving Santa Fe. It is beautiful here, but it hasn't worked for us. It was a grand experiment that is now over. I'll miss the mountains, the pine trees, the smell of juniper after a rainstorm. I'm trading that for the smell of creasote, and a place where rosemary grows wild. Where the heat, though excessive, is something I'm used to.

So many people are afraid of change, not me, not anymore, not after moving so much. Hopefully when we get relocated, we won't move so much...oh, wait, there's that darn RV we are supposed to be getting at some point in this journey.

Darn that Universe and it's messages!
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Aug. 20th, 2009 @ 10:37 pm Tomorrow's the day
Current Location: Home
Current Mood: tiredtired
Current Music: none
So, tomorrow I find out from the Monday interview 1) If I have the job 2) What he's going to pay me & 3) What role I will play in this new restaurant...

I have tummy flutters, and much excitement. And hopefully it will save me from cleaning all the grills at the current property.
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Aug. 13th, 2009 @ 06:08 pm More interviews
Current Location: Home
Current Mood: tiredtired
Haven't heard back from Interview 1 on Tuesday...mmmmm

However, another interview, interview #2.  is scheduled for Monday at 10 a.m. with one of Santa Fe's Premier Chefs. It's interesting because I almost applied to work for him while he was at the Inn at Anasazi. But I got cold feet. They called me back today, and they are looking forward to sitting with me and talking! (maybe they say that to everybody?)

Chef Martin Rios is building his restaurant from the ground up, and when I took my resume over yesterday, he was driving the backhoe himself. Go Chefs! He seems to have a great concept going, and I'm looking forward to the chance to work with him. Depends on the offer, etc...can't afford a pay cut even for the prestige. Chef Rios also appeared on Iron Chef America in the Spring of 2008, yeah, that's cool. When I met him, I came away feeling some really great energy. I'm looking forward to the interview myself.

So, think of me Monday at 10:00 am Santa Fe time. I appreciate all of you folks out there who care! Go Foodies and Groupies!
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Aug. 12th, 2009 @ 06:07 pm Update II
Current Location: Home
Current Mood: calmcalm
Thank you for all the well-wishes. I certainly felt the "power". The interview was interesting, and there will be a part II hopefully on Monday, with me in the kitchen working with the staff, to see how I "fit."

I got brave enough to take my resume to another job opening. Chef Martin Rios is opening his own restaurant here in Santa Fe, less than two miles from our house. I got to talk to him even...he was driving a back hoe! Any way, the formal interview for that restaurant will be sometime on Monday. Looks like the 17th is going to be a busy day for me if all of this falls the right way.

With all you cats out there pulling for me, something will happen, and the right thing will happen. I can't keep getting pulled with my current position the way they pull me. At least at my last property I knew I was in the banquet kitchen or at the pool. Not at three different outlets at different times, with three different menus in my head, three different platings, and three different wait staff (that's ever soooo much fun!)

That's the news, and I'm sticking with it!
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Aug. 11th, 2009 @ 12:45 pm Update
Current Mood: anxiousanxious
I'm going for an interview at 3 p.m. Santa Fe time today. I know this is a late notice, I've already sent emails to a few friends, but I really really want this to go well.

Its for a Kitchen Manager position at a whole body cafe, organic, raw and local. I am so excited and would be really grateful if this came through.

Are you with me?

Thanks
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Apr. 29th, 2009 @ 12:51 pm Seattle Erotic Art Festival
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I was reading one of my groups in Fetlife, and came across a wonderful project by a photographer and chef, La Figa: Visions of food and form. This is a beautiful piece, and I got excited. Then I found out that the Seattle Erotic Art Festival is this weekend...drool...ok, there's no way I can afford to go, but looking at the cast of performers rocked my socks. Midori will be there, Twisted Monk (yes the rope guy we all know and love), Suspended Animation, and a bevy of genderbending, mindfucking artists. DJ's with creds out the wazoo from underground 90's to current. And this Chef, who has a James Beard Award, will be "performing, " putting food on live models...wow! Not my wet dream at all.

So, hopefully with Master's permission, I need to watch next year for the announcement of this Event and GO! I've always wanted to, just like I've wanted to go to Folsom Street Fair, just like I want to go to Stars and Stripes, just like I wish I was independently wealthy and could make it to every Independent film festival, Every erotic art festival, every Leather Conference/Event.

Someday that list will be satisfied, right now, good luck Midori, and have a great time!
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Apr. 4th, 2009 @ 11:34 pm Computer hell
Current Location: home
Current Mood: gratefulgrateful
Current Music: none
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So, we've been off-line fighting a malicious virus that the computer got on the 2nd. A friend came over and helped us both last night and tonight. He finally found the nasty little bugger and got it removed from the system without having to reformat and reinstall everything! YAY for the computer gods smiling down on us and him. And I'm grateful to someone who is willing to give up their weekend nights to come help the non-geek who thinks they are a geek. What was good was the things he found were the ones that I thought were suspicious anyway.

I'm not happy about people who spend their time writing code just to destroy someone else's computing life. I am grateful for not losing valuable information, and for programs that keep that information safe.

I owe the Universe big on this one.

We are back on line and able to email and communicate through the journals.
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Mar. 31st, 2009 @ 10:23 pm ScriptFrenzy
Current Location: Home
Current Mood: amusedamused
Current Music: tv in the other room
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1 hour and 30 mins to go. A screenplay in 30 days or less. Woo-Hoo! No editing, no peeking. Just writing, and many, many Action Scenes! Brought to you by the folks of NanoWrimo.





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Mar. 10th, 2009 @ 08:21 pm It's been a while
Current Location: Home
Current Mood: anxiousanxious
Current Music: quiet
I haven't wanted to post because I don't like being a whiny boy. However, life, and my chosen career have caught up to my age. The foot problem has persisted, and I've been out of work for a week. I plan to take several weeks off in order to combine physical therapy with rest, in hopes that I get better.

Yes, this means a 40% pay cut, not something we can really afford right now, but what's better? A pay cut, or becoming crippled, past the stage of repair.

As my friends know, I love what I do for a living. Having to take time off sucks, especially with what's been going on at the resort lately. But taking care of the property is first priority, and Master has been deliberating this decision for some time now.

I'm kind of glad though, to have some down time. I haven't had much since we moved. And wasn't that fun? I hope to be a bit productive and get some more painting and mixed media accomplished, and look into a school that can further my Shaman studies. There are other things I planned on doing, that involved walking and standing, like planting a garden, but for the most part, I just need to lay low, and stay off the dogs.

If anyone here in NM wants to come visit me while I'm down, now's the time. There's a train! And my schedule will be pretty flexible. Send me a comment here, or if you know my email, drop me a line. I hope to make it to ABQ for some things. And there are two farms I need to visit. Of course, that involves...walking!

Please send loads of healing energy and love. And thoughts of not going stir crazy!
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