sloshing through a winter wonderland
today was our first significant snowfall. everyone was joyous except for me. just joking, i was actually fairly entranced by everything turning poofy white. well, until i walked home in sneakers through a big slooshy muddy field... but then i lit a fire and did yoga by it and it was delightful. this is the only hot yoga that i will condone! so i guess what i'm saying is, i'm not quite settled where i stand on the snow issue but it doesn't matter because it's coming whether i like it or not!
things in pemberton have been going really well. i really like the baking lifestyle. i like getting up in the wee hours of the morning and doing things while everyone else sleeps. it is sneaky and fun and quiet. i especially like mornings when it is clear and i can see the stars, or the moon illuminating the snow on the mountains. i mean, don't get me wrong, my job is stupid. i work in a supermarket bakery which basically consists of heating up frozen bread and then hauling boxes out of freezers to access more frozen bread. it is not really baking. but the lifestyle, i'm digging that. i've actually been thinking seriously about doing a bread makers apprenticeship somewhere in the next few years. i know that my experience with so many bitter, crazy bakers should warn me off, but well, it has also been a lot of fun over the years. i miss freddy and i miss the folks at pat dan. they are truly masters of the tasty. i've been making copious bread and baked goods at home to satisfy my desires and curiousities and trying to wash the bad-baking karma off of my soul.
further on that note: supermarkets are depressing. i mean, yah, you normally go in and see all that crappy food but it's another to see the people who go in and buy it everyday. everything is old and has no nutrition but they pump it full of preservatives and weird esthers to try to make it taste good. i'm not fooled. i have pretty much cut all pre-prepared items out of my diet. watching my coworkers daily sit down to pre-made lunches bought in the store makes me depressed. depressed for them and also for me. sometimes i wish i hadn't become such a snob, but damn it! why does yogurt now require gelatin or weird gums and why can't i buy bread without diglycerides (whatever those are)??? i seriously take these things as an indication of the decay of humanity. we are gross.
life would be easier if i didn't get in such a tizzy over these things. they probably don't even matter that much. some people like some things, some people don't. i have just spent my time mixed up between too many vegans, hippies, food activists, chefs and gourmands. it's a bad combination because between them they manage to ruin pretty much everything.
but if i was a baker then i could try to force my tastes upon the world! force!
master of tasty!
so there is that... and now for some things that don't make me go on long-winded rants: yoga, horsey riding and natural hotsprings. those are some other things i have done recently. i like living here. peaceful.
things in pemberton have been going really well. i really like the baking lifestyle. i like getting up in the wee hours of the morning and doing things while everyone else sleeps. it is sneaky and fun and quiet. i especially like mornings when it is clear and i can see the stars, or the moon illuminating the snow on the mountains. i mean, don't get me wrong, my job is stupid. i work in a supermarket bakery which basically consists of heating up frozen bread and then hauling boxes out of freezers to access more frozen bread. it is not really baking. but the lifestyle, i'm digging that. i've actually been thinking seriously about doing a bread makers apprenticeship somewhere in the next few years. i know that my experience with so many bitter, crazy bakers should warn me off, but well, it has also been a lot of fun over the years. i miss freddy and i miss the folks at pat dan. they are truly masters of the tasty. i've been making copious bread and baked goods at home to satisfy my desires and curiousities and trying to wash the bad-baking karma off of my soul.
further on that note: supermarkets are depressing. i mean, yah, you normally go in and see all that crappy food but it's another to see the people who go in and buy it everyday. everything is old and has no nutrition but they pump it full of preservatives and weird esthers to try to make it taste good. i'm not fooled. i have pretty much cut all pre-prepared items out of my diet. watching my coworkers daily sit down to pre-made lunches bought in the store makes me depressed. depressed for them and also for me. sometimes i wish i hadn't become such a snob, but damn it! why does yogurt now require gelatin or weird gums and why can't i buy bread without diglycerides (whatever those are)??? i seriously take these things as an indication of the decay of humanity. we are gross.
life would be easier if i didn't get in such a tizzy over these things. they probably don't even matter that much. some people like some things, some people don't. i have just spent my time mixed up between too many vegans, hippies, food activists, chefs and gourmands. it's a bad combination because between them they manage to ruin pretty much everything.
but if i was a baker then i could try to force my tastes upon the world! force!
master of tasty!
so there is that... and now for some things that don't make me go on long-winded rants: yoga, horsey riding and natural hotsprings. those are some other things i have done recently. i like living here. peaceful.
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