Those skills may come in handy.

I always forget how much I love baking until I come up with something that tastes so great. Of course I have my flops every now and then. There are a few things I have made that were just terrible. No, I am not saying this to dish for compliments. I am my harshest critic but aren't we all?

I have come to the conclusion that I am very hard on myself. When I do not succeed in even the smallest of tasks I get upset. I get frustrated with myself a lot lately because I know I could be doing so much better for myself. I have been working in fast food for six years now. It is time for this to come to an end. It is time for me to get a job that has NOTHING to do with greasy burgers and fries. It is time for me to work somewhere where I am not up until two in the morning mopping a floor or washing dishes.

I have had enough. I stick it out because at this point in time I have no other options. Until I find something better I am stuck in this world that I have created for myself. I am stuck in the world where I contribute to the obesity factor that we all have come to love in the great country of the USA. Yes, I help make skinny people fat and fat people fatter. You laugh but it is, in a sense, part of my job description. I am constantly told to make sure I am upselling more food so the company can make more food.

This job kind of depresses me a little. People make it seem as though it is so serious but it isn't. It is just yet another obstacle that I have to go through to reach my final goal. The final goal being owning a bakery and allowing people in low income families work. I am going to allow people who would not normally be able to get a job work and make money for their families. It will probably be high school students and somehow the program will run through the school, or city. I have yet to figure that part out but I have more than enough time before I reach that point.

I get frustrated so easily at work. I have no tolerance for ignorance. Yet so many people that come through are so ignorant that they frustrate me. Honestly, how hard is it to order food at a fast food joint. People act as though they do not know how to read. Look at the menu, check out the prices, figure out how much money you can spend, and order accordingly. If you have a question ask. It is simple really.

It is nice to have nice customers come through. It is nice to know that not everyone is a dick. It is nice to know that some people know how to read. It is nice when they order with confidence as though they have their order rehearsed in their head before coming through. Simple things like that make life so much easier.

I have heard of people who are afraid to bake. I have also heard of people who are afraid to cook. I have a hard time figuring this out. These are both such simple processes. If you know how to read and how to follow instructions, I promise you should be fine. By reading directions even the dumbest person in the world can make cake out of a box. The same person would also be able to make macaroni and cheese.

With all of the resources that are available, we can learn how to do anything. I believe there is a website called howto.com?? I could be wrong. I also am unsure how valid it is. I have never visited it unless I get navigated there through Google. (Which by the way is one of my favorite resources)

Just because I do not know how to bake the best and most elegant things in the world I am on my way. When I mess up a recipe I look up information online and try again. I do not give up. I keep on perfecting it until I am exhausted. I was once told (by a teacher who I did not necessarily like) that practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect. Even though I did not like this teacher it makes sense. If you keep practicing but are making mistakes, the final result will have mistakes. This is the one thing he ever said in the four years that I had him as a teacher that ever stuck with me.

My advice to anyone is if you love doing something, keep doing it. If it is a hobby, why not keep doing it? It never hurts to be better at something. It never hurts to have more skills under your belt for your personal resume. I am always working on my baking and cooking because quite frankly I am nowhere near where I should be at this point. Thanks for listening.

Good night.

We all make mistakes!

Mistakes. We all make them. We are human.

Recently a member of my church and his wife both made some pretty big mistakes. They are both in big trouble because of the poor decisions that they made over the past few years.

Do I judge them? No, it is not my job to judge. Do I hate them because of what they have done? No, because they are paying for them regardless. I will welcome them into my life with open hearts. They have not done anything to me personally.

I saw the story on the news last week and I could not believe my eyes. I almost fell out of my chair. My mom cursed. None of us could believe what we were seeing. How could people we see every week have done something so terrible? These are people that we are not necessarily close with but it is like our extended family.

I do not shun them for what they have done. I pray for this couple every night in hopes that something good will come out of this mess they created for themselves.

I am not going into detail as to what they have done because I do not believe that would solve anything. The fact of the matter is I do not know the whole story. I only know what I have read in the newspaper and seen on the news. Their whole family attends my church but I am unsure when we will see them there again. Unfortunately there may be a little bit of shame and humility involved. I can only hope and pray that they will over come this humility and know that we are there for them as a congregation.

I make mistakes. I am human, what do you want from me? I mess things up from time to time. I crash my car, I spill things, I say things that I shouldn't. I am not perfect, nor do I ever try to be. All I can do is be the best me that I can. All I can do is hope that when I mess up from time to time that there is someone on the other end who is willing to forgive me.

Celebrities make mistakes and we all know that they do. It is all over the news. This one did this, this one stole that, this one overdosed on this. Blah blah blah!! I do not care. I am well aware that we all mess up sometimes. Wouldn't the world be a little boring if everyone was perfect? This reminds me of that one movie where it is all black and white and it slowly turns into color when people have sex. The sex is what makes the movie interesting. It adds color and because of this it adds an extra dimension into the movie.

It shows that in a world where everything is black and white perfection can only last so long. In the end of the movie when everything is colored they are happy with their imperfections.

In the end of the day I will forgive anyone who has upset me. I will forgive anyone who has broken my heart. I will forgive annoying customers for not understanding how to order in a drive thru. I understand that we all make mistakes every now and then.

My only hope is that when I make a mistake is that I am forgiven and welcomed into the House of God with open arms just as that couple at my church is!

Work rant.

I need a house elf. I need someone to fold my laundry and put it away. I needed someone last night to wash the two hours worth of dishes that I had to clean last night. It was unneccesary. I hate Saturdays. They are my least favorite day of the week. It is the day of the week when everything that can go wrong at Wendy's will.

I do not like feeling behind. I do not like thinking that I cannot catch up no matter how hard I try. I work hard no matter what some people say. There are nights at work though when I feel as though I deserve a little bit of a break. Last night was one of those nights. It was just terrible.

I try not to complain in this blog but I just need to rant.

I need to get these thoughts out of my mind before I go insane!

The drive thru is currently under construction. Usually there is someone stationed outside the window to collect the money and give the customer their order. This person is sort of a middle man so the customers do not have to drive through (I am so angered that I had to look up how to spell that simple word. It kept looking off when I typed it. sigh.) Last night we did not have that extra person.

Despite the fact that I would say, "Please drive UP to THE WINDOW," customers were insistent on not doing so. At one point they were making it EVEN harder because they would then pull to the front door. I was running in and out and in and out so much that I am surprised I did not drop or spill anything. If I was able to get ONE customer to pull to the window they would all follow suit. However, if one customer stayed on the concrete, they ALL stayed on the concrete.

Why they insisted on NOT listening to my clear and precise instructions is beyond me.

Along with running in and out I was attempting to finish dishes because there was no one there to do those either.

When we closed it took me two hours to wash the dishes that I was unable to get to.

For minimum wage I think I work way too damn hard.

It is not worth it.

Someone please hire me!