The Confessional: Post your judgment-free confessions here

Thanks everyone. Driving down to Maplewood tomorrow and spending a month. Want to have a mini-f2f somewhere near?

Why not? It's always lovely on the Gold Coast!

I was at Target at 7:59 am this morning for the Marimekko pop-up shop. There were 20 people already there, waiting for the doors to open.

I'm unclear which part of that is the confession...

I confess I do not even know what the Marimekko pop-up shop is, I'm so out of the loop!

I have a student teacher who works very hard to design meaningful lessons but it is SOOOO boring watching her teach because she has no presence.  Only three more weeks . . . 

EBennett said:

I have a student teacher who works very hard to design meaningful lessons but it is SOOOO boring watching her teach because she has no presence.  Only three more weeks . . . 

Is she boring her students? Can she take some stand-up comedy lessons? This is important!

lisat said:

EBennett said:

I have a student teacher who works very hard to design meaningful lessons but it is SOOOO boring watching her teach because she has no presence.  Only three more weeks . . . 

Is she boring her students? Can she take some stand-up comedy lessons? This is important!

or, similar to lisat's suggestion, improv.  

I made a dessert with 6 cups of heavy cream for Passover.

sounds yummy.... Was it a fish/veg meal?

Um...we waited three hours before dessert?

This is the recipe (which I doubled). A real crowd pleaser.

http://breakingmatzo.com/recipe/chocolate-matzo-mousse-cake/

I am telling myself it is too late to take a walk today. I tell myself this every evening if I have not walked yet. Lazy.

lisat said:

I am telling myself it is too late to take a walk today. I tell myself this every evening if I have not walked yet. Lazy.

I do the same thing by convincing myself that I cannot use the hot tub for exercise unless I have the chemicals in the water perfectly balanced. Ditto the cold-water pool in summer. So far, it's working quite well for me, unless I remember my desire to lose weight and get into better condition. 

debby - yum!!! (We never get away with waiting that long!)

I am almost completely bored with the Internet. I used to be on it for entertainment and other things but now it's pretty much just a tool for personal and professional business. 

Sigh...

BUT...

snort.

You know that tiny house movement? I am opening up a tiny grocery store in Maine. I don't really want to but my life has led me to this, and I think it will be okay. I am giving up my place in South Orange, and I have elicited a promise from my life partner that we can return to South Orange in one year if I am unhappy, and I want to, or maybe just if I want to. I will be returning every now and then to visit friends. I am studying cash registers, and big box store memberships, and making Italian sandwiches, and have devised a rewards program so the customers, most of whom rely upon food stamps and are very hungry by the end of the month, can earn frequent buyer rewards of free food to be given during the last week of the month. I am employing one of my father's managers, a practicing alcoholic in the hopes that he will gradually take over the running of the store, and the making of the sandwiches, and I can return to South Orange, and have people pay me cold hard cash for my warm melodic words, or some such thing. The management of the building where my store is housed met with me yesterday, and they have already mentioned another building where they would like a store some day. My father would be surprised to see this focus taking shape in my life. Or maybe not.

Great idea about the rewards program.

Best of luck in your new endeavors, LisaT!

Thanks guys.

Lisat - I hope you are employing a recovering alcoholic.  Most alcoholics don't get better with practice.   

PetuniaBird said:

Lisat - I hope you are employing a recovering alcoholic.  Most alcoholics don't get better with practice.  "> 

I don't think he is recovering. I think he drinks almost every day.

lisat said:

Thanks guys.

I would like to judge you as courageous but this is a judgement-free thread.  So I'll just have to wish you luck!

a thousand endorsements from here!

Your plan brought me to tears-- I love the legacy of a family business. And if you have a community garden in the area, I might suggest that you partner with them for part of your voucher program. Just a thought, because it is in the front of my mind.  

Continued thanks for the good vibes you are sending me. Good news is that the cook from my father's store only has part-time work at another place, so she has asked if she can work in my little store, and I said yes. She has made the food that these folks have eaten for years, and so I think they'll like it. 

Thanks for your community garden idea, calliope. I am planning to talk to a non-profit, Prebble Street, that provides food and other necessities and services to low income Portland residents. I will find out if they are using produce from a community garden and find out if they have outreach the residents in our building or would like to help them. The residents are not very mobile.

I also thought about growing food for the store. Of course, that may take a little while with my not-so-green thumb, but I am going to ask for help from a family friend who is a good gardener. It's been so cold though. 

Right now I'm spending a lot of time pricing products. Fingers crossed. 

Sounds like a food truck could be part of this business, LisaT. Have you looked into that at all, to take the concept mobile?