Sunday!

Good morning everyone. Mr. Foodie is in the kitchen cooking up a nice breakfast for us. His new specialty is Creamy Dreamy Grits - a recipe from the Flying Biscuit cookbook. The cookbook is published by a restaurant name the Flying Biscuit in Atlanta, Georgia. The restaurant is one of mother in law's favorite places to go when she visits her best friend in Atlanta. The Creamy Dream Grist will CHANGE YOUR MIND about grits. I am from the south, so grits already have a special place in my heart. I know there are many grit haters out there but you need to try these grits before judging.

Also - I bought a pair of boots online this morning in preparation for fall. Mr. Foodie helped me pick them out. I haven't had boots in a while, so I think it will be a nice change.

We have a couple of activities planned for today. We are going to go on a guided ranger tour of Kingsley Plantation at 2:00 PM. This is a really cool place here in Jacksonville, right down the road from where we got married. We are going to take our camera and take some photographs at Kingsley and at the Ribault Club (our wedding location). In my opinion, this is one of the top 5 wedding venues in North Florida. I will post some photographs here on the blog once we get back.

Employment Mayhem

I have some great news on the job search front. I currently have two really great prospects that I am excited about. I will share the details about the two options and give you a status update.

Job 1: This job would be a sales position with a major health insurance agency. Salary would be base + commission. Advantages to this include the following: Major Company (less likely to go away any time soon), Steady income (some ups and downs based on my performance), possibility of promotion (never a certain thing with a big company), and the big plus: Benefits. The only reason the benefits thing matters is because I have several health conditions that may make it hard for me to qualify for an individual health policy.

Job 2: This would be a sales position with a small local employee benefits agency. Here I would have a lot of opportunity. Salary would be base + commission, but the commission would be highly variable based on my performance. This job would require more work, but also much more satisfaction. I would have flexible hours and the ability to work as much as I would like. I could easily be making some serious cash about 1 year or so from now. The only negatives to this job are the lack of benefits, the fact that it is a very small company, and it would require a certain amount of risk.

I am 90% sure I will be able to choose one of them. I am heavily leaning towards job #2 but it will require me to step outside of my comfort zone. I thrive in a challenging environment. In my current job I spend most of time doing NOTHING (like blogging) because I literally don't have anything else to do... I will keep you guys updated. Thanks for your continued support.

Life Update

A couple things I wanted to share with you all this morning:

1. I went to the dentist yesterday to get my permanent crown and the dentist chipped a minute piece of porcelain off so they have to send it back to the lab and I have to go back to the dentist. I am a little annoyed at this. I am so tired of going to that dentist office and missing time from work.

2. I have my interview tomorrow at 11AM with an awesome job prospect. I am nervous about it and excited at the same time. If this works out I will be so happy, I can barely control myself.

3. Mr. Foodie loved the Pottery Barn glasses. He was so excited and surprised that I found them.

4. College Football starts this weekend. We are spending Saturday with my parents eating ribs and watching the games.

I have had horrible nightmares all of this week. I am attributing it to a new allergy medicine the Doctor has me taking. I normally have nightmares occasionally, but nothing like this. Usually side effects like this are short-lived so I am confident it will end soon. I will just have to stick it out until then!

Crafting

I have mentioned several times about my forays into the crafting world. I have some great news. I finally finished a Cross Stitch I have been working on for quite some time. I am going to post a photo as soon as I take a good one. The only step now is to get it professionally framed to hang on the wall.

The pattern is called a "wedding record." I choose to customize the colors with Hot Pink and Black, the colors from my wedding. The pattern includes our names and our wedding date. My Mom always did cross stitch when I was a little girl, and so did my Mother In Law. I picked it up about a year ago and I have really enjoyed it. I am a high strung person with a lot of anxiety at times, so cross stitching helps me because I can calm down while intensely focusing on something other than what is causing me anxiety.

My next project is to make another Christmas Ornament. I bought a pattern last year that has 16 different ornaments in it. I completed one last fall, and I just started a new one. I let Mr. Foodie pick it out. It has a Light House and Sailboat on it. I have only done about 30 stitches on it, but I thought I should go ahead and get started. I can't wait to show you all my handy work.

TOOOsday

I visited Pottery Barn today on a whim before returning back to the office after my dentist appointment and I found an amazing deal of glassware. Mr. Foodie and I have an obsession with glassware. We have red wine glasses, white wine glasses, port glasses, margarita glasses, brandy snifters, champagne flutes, Pina Colada glasses, Pint Glasses, Pilsner Glasses, Irish Coffee Glasses, Martini Glasses, stemless martini glasses, and shot glasses. I think that is everything. You may have noticed that I didn't mention highballs and lowballs. We have 7 glasses left over from college, 2 from Pier 1 I purchased Sophomore year, several from a set we bought at Target, and 2 GlenLivett branded glasses we got free when buying scotch. However, do not fear. I have finally remedied the situation. While browsing in Pottery Barn I found the glasses we had been wanting to purchase for $4 a glass. Also I got $3 off for purchasing a set of 6. I was able to buy 8 highballs and 2 low balls. The rest of the set is on hold at another store in town. I will be going there tonight after work to finish off the set. I am super excited! I can't wait to tell Mr. Foodie. I would love to share a picture of the glasses but I can't find them on the website.

I also purchased a Basket for holding magazines which is not on the website either. Oh well, sorry for the severe lack of visuals.