Song of the day: “Bad Liar” by Selena Gomez. Such cute song. Am not at
all bothered by having it in my head.
So this is going to be a real quickie post, even though I owe you
guys more than that, after the “radio silence” of the past couple of months,
but what the heck. I promise I’ll make it up to you…in part with the news that
soon you’ll be able to follow my upcoming trip, with, hopefully daily updates
of the where and hows and whatevers of the road trip through the USA together
with big brother. Yay!
It’s been and incredibly busy couple of months. I know I have said
that before, but besides the vacation coming up, there’s quite a few changes
that have been starting to take route.
First off, big brother got some good news, which involves him
finally getting a permanent contract at work. Yay, for him. He likes the job.
It’s varied, a challenge, and he knows his thing. Can’t ask for more than that.
Second bit of good news is that our book “Girl in the Misty” Finally
became a bestseller at all the big outlets online. It hit various number spots on Amazon.com (in
multiple countries, thank you very much) and managed to get as far as #37 of
all their books. Wow. On iTunes we got to #10, I kid you not and B&A we
actually got till #2 Yay! Was all very exciting for a couple of weeks and an absolute
pleasure to see that it was indeed was possible. We didn’t make the USA Today
bestseller list, especially because the sales didn’t shoot until two days
before the list was made up, but it was close, I think…or I like to think. Hah
Received some wonderful reviews, too, not to mentioned tripled our ratings on Goodreads,
which is always a good thing.
Thirdly, another job change lies ahead of me. Nothing wrong with the
catering one that I had, but an opportunity came up, another offer was made,
and I felt I had no choice but to take it with both hands. I’m gonna be a cook.
Yes, you read that right. I, am going to be a cook. A paid one at that. And not
badly paid either. And it’ll be a challenge, and I really enjoyed it on the occasions
that I worked over there, combined with my other job, which was a pain in the
behind, not to mention exhausting. Two jobs, and then trying to get another
book ready to start sending out? Practically impossible. Got one more day…what do
you think? Will I make it? We’ll just have to wait and see, won’t we?
The new job will involve live cooking, which is a lot of fun,
considering you get to talk with people and cook at the same time. Of course
that is not all. There’s also prepping work, and cutting and mixing and making
desserts…sooo many desserts. That’s the least favorite bit for as far as I’m
concerned. Way too much sweetness.
Well, everything is ready for the trip. Bags are packed, house has
been cleaned and organized for the house sitters, paperwork taken care of,
everything triple checked, route completely set out, stops planned, people to
see (at last), places to see and even a big part of our rooms already booked.
Starting to get a wee bit nervous about the whole thing. I mean, this is the
biggest trip I have done in ages, and to the other side of the world, no less.
Exciting and scary a the same time, if you know what I mean. On the one hand,
can’t wait to see it all, and on the other hand…OMG! OMG! OMG!
Car has been having some trouble. Both of them in fact. Had to call triple
A myself once, because the engine stalled. Thankfully it wasn’t anything
serious. Regretfully big brother’s is now also having trouble, so that means we
have to deal with that as soon as we get back. Darn it.
Did quite a bit of experimenting with cooking, but the greatest part
of that was that I was offered to arrange a big dinner for the CEOs at the
company I now used to work for. So much fun. Got to set up a 3 course meal
(well, I made a 3 course with three options per course so they could chose) and
then serve it, which is not an easy thing, since there were products to order
via places that only had order numbers and descriptions, rather than pictures,
not to mention a limited amount of time to prep and actually cook before it was
serving time. But it worked and everyone was happy and liked the food, so all
went well…which was a relief. You know how I can stress about stuff like that. Hah
Well, that about sums it up for me this time ‘round. I hope that
internet won’t be a problem for me over there, so I’ll be able to post blogs
about the entire trip and let you all see where I’m at.
Looking forward to it.
