The journey to Cherish

Can I freak you out...continued...I think

2009-09-08T18:30:00.000-07:00

Ahh...so what's next? Well, To say the least I was trying to change my outlook, I wanted to make a "difference" in the world. It didn't seem like anyone felt the same way I did. I was completely alone. At one point I had completely abandoned my efforts of recycling buying locally and organic products. I was mostly put off from buying local and organic products due to their cost alone. Though I had abandoned my efforts I kept finding myself coming back to the same place, recylcing, organic, sustainable, macrobiotics, eco friendly. I was afraid of these words and ideas at first, of course, but I must say I have been getting used to them and they are friendly. Jumping into buying organic and local products can't happen overnight. Don't stress over it. It can be like any other relationship taking it slow will never hurt. Get to know what all the buzz words mean and how they apply to your lifestyle. Anyway, I think I am getting off topic a little bit. To wrap this up I got excited and anxious and somewhat angry when I realized that there are a lot of people out the who don't care about me and how I treat my body mind and soul but I have already one that fight because I am aware of that and now I make choices to support those that care about me AND themselves. I have to thank my family who stayed by me through my very tumultuous enlightenment process. Gosh that was seriously one of the most intense periods of my life. This is why I want to create Cherish I have so many ideas and I really want to make them come to fruition but being under the umbrella of someone else can make it more difficult. May I recommend watching ECO Trip from the sundance channel. Kinda Cool!

Can I freak you out!?!?!

2009-08-23T18:47:00.000-07:00

This may take a few installments!!!!

More about the inspiration behind Cherish. One could say that it all started about six years ago. Madonna just released American Life and we were in another war with Iraq. After listening to lyrics of this album and learning of things Madonna was learning about I started reading books on Kabbalah, Macrobiotics and Quantum Physics. (remember, I'm obsessed with Madonnna. :-))Only the kind of reading Madonna could inspire, of course. I read The Book of Macrobiotics: The Universal way of Health, Happiness and Peace by Michio Kushi. I will be honest and say that I went off the deep end when I read this book. It pulled me in and I was hooked. I wanted to live off the land and live in the kind of house that a hobbit might live in. I wanted to be a vegetarian and go organic, I thought I had found the fountain of youth. I wanted to quit my job and "help others". It made me want to read the Bible and start comparing the scientific concepts of this book to the story concepts in the bible. OY!!! Due to how focused I was on the prinicples in this book I started pushing people away with my ideas because I wasn't seeing the big picture, even though this book was all about the big picture. Even if my ideas still all revolved around being the best we can. It takes baby steps to change! Don't try to change your life over night give time for the "road signs of life" to emerge to help you. How interesting the way that happens to most of us. In conjunction to this I was reading The Universe in a Nutshell and A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. These books were putting into perspective, for me, just how tiny we are and I am, yet at the same time how much of an impact we each can make on our surrounding space. I highly recommend these books but don't go overboard use them as a tool not as an all or nothing. That won't get you anywhere! So how does this relate to Cherish, you ask. I guess you could really say that it was the beginning the start of many changes in my chaotic life that needed to happen. I needed to clean up my act and become a person that I enjoyed being, not a person that I hated to be. Sometimes things do have to get worse before they can get better and boy did they. Needless to say it took me a good year and half to only lbegin grasping this knowledge and what wisdom truly is. What can I say, I'm a pisces if it ain't deep then the water ain't worth swimming. I am adding here the lyrics to my favorite song off of American Life.

Easy Ride, by Madonna

I want the good life
But I don't want an easy ride
What I want is to work for it
Feel the blood and sweat on my fingertips
That's what I want for me
I want to know everything
Maybe someday I will
What I want is to find my place
Breathe the air and feel the sun on my children's face
That's what I want

I go round and round just like a circle
I can see a clearer picture
When I touch the ground I come full circle
To my place and I am home
I am home

I want to let go of all disappointment
That's waiting for me
What I want is to live forever
Not defined by time and space
It's a lonely place
That's what I want

I go round and round just like a circle
I can see a clearer picture
When I touch the ground I come full circle
To my place and I am home
I am home

Intensive Catering and a little Secret

2009-08-21T17:20:00.000-07:00

It has been a few days and I am preparing my menus for this semesters student reviews. See, I am an administrative assistant at an architectural college and my department reviews student portfolios. My job includes coordinating the review and catering them. During the economic kurplunk of late I have been taking matter in my own hand and have been preparing more and more of the food myself. This semester though my goal is to prepare as close to %100 of it as I can. So far I have made a huge batch of my fantastic chili with a wonderful secret ingredient. The chili is in the freezer since the reviews don't start until late september through end of november. I did make some veggie chili as well. I have been making chocolate chip cookie dough and have been freezing it as well. I'm enjoying this in conjunction with my other job duties. I feel this is a good way to blend the right and left side of my brain in preparation for one day owning my restaurant type cafe thing. :-) As I write plese feel free to leave suggestions on how to run small businesses, recipe ideas or anything you'd like.

Madonna "Secret"
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Since I have a secret I thought I'd share with you Madonna's

I flipped.....

2009-08-17T13:18:00.000-07:00

I flipped my first egg omelet this morning. I saw Julie & Julia this weekend. I was inspired.

I woke up after getting back from NYC with Dan. Weary in my prep for work my stomach was screaming to be fed in a house with no food. I grabbed to eggs and I beat them, threw some clarified butter in the pan and added the eggs. I thought to myself, 'I want to do what Meryl Streep did as Julia child in in the movie. So I geared myself up and shook the pan briskly breaking the seal from egg to the pan and then flipped one side of the egg over in the style of an omelet and then flipped the whole omelet to cook the other side. For most of you this may sound like nothing BUT IT WAS SOMETHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-) Ahhhh how the simple things amuse me!

In the beginning...

2009-08-17T11:31:00.000-07:00

I had been wracking my brain as to what I can do with my life that allows me to be creative and practical at the same time. Some may say I am blessed or maybe even cursed being that I am almost evenly right and left brained. In February 2007, I was in the car with my fiancee, Daniel, and it hit me! Cherish! Cherish Cafes! You can cherish anything, a brilliant marketing tool, if I do say so myself! Ideally I'd like this to be a cafe that also sells plants. I am very interested in cooking and horticulture and this seems to be a good blend of both.

I am a huge Madonna fan so I know that people probably think that this is me obsessing over the Madonna song "Cherish." Well, they are wrong, it is me obsessing over a Madonna lyric from the song 'I Want You'. "Don't play with something you should cherish for life."

So, please, join me on my journey to make my dream come to fruition!