Gimme three Pina Coladas....One for each hand....????

welcome back to my world....watch your step.

okay...so today's topic...me! I have come to the conclusion that I need to do some overhauling in my life. Yes, the weight thing is a big part of that, but I mean deeper.

I have alot of things that I love to do. Probably too many, but they make me happy so deal with it. First off, I love music. I love to o out and do karaoke with my friends on sunday nights. I am even working on a couple new songs to knock em dead with when i et back to Cricketer's Arms. I do mainly rock and country..but i do throw some Sinatra in there too. so I am diverse.

I also love to play the drums and guitar. Drums are kinder to me than the guitar but i still love it. I need to buy or build a house where i can set up a room for a recordin studio. there i will hae my drum set up along with guitars and computer and microphones to put it all together. I know a couple friends wanted to put some people together and play some. Maybe even write some. And if we get good enough, perform too. Do we have delusions of grandeur? No...just bars for beer tabs and all that. Maybe pick up a couple girls..who knows. I hope they are serious about it, because music is my favorite outlet for creativity and all that. Rudy, Westhoff...Im serious!

You may know i wnet to culinary school as well. I love to cook and i so kick ass at it. But I dont want to work in a restaurant or caterer. Why? long hours, crappy conditions and idiots above and below, inside and out. Unless I open my own..thats different. I'd love to spend a year or two working for Gordon Ramsay, Anthony Bourdain, Ming Tsai or Mario Batali at one of their restaurants, but thats about it. I worked at a local Dunwoody hangout called High Cotton for two years and I loved it. Was there opening night and thought it was fun. Mike Zajac was great.

But I want more. I want to have a restaurant WITH him or like him. But he put in 20 hour days all the time, which is nuts. But it was the right thing to do. It opened in 2000 and its still open today. Well done.

But cooking or managing isn't where I wanna be. If I were the owner, then I'd gladly do it. My restaurant, my name on the door, my standards. My REAL love is wine.

Yup wine. I wanna be a sommelier. A professional wine steward. build menus, teach classes, pairin with food, travel. The nerdy part of wine. Hell, I was great at that in culinary school and in the restaurant. I have a friend who owns a wine store in Orlando and his friend IS a sommelier. I plan on pickin his brain for every morsel I can until I enroll in the IWA School. It costs money and time, but it will be well worth it. My ultimate aol: Grand Master Sommelier...theres only like 20 in the world now.

But more than that, I like all kinds of alcohol. Now before you start shaking your fists and gnashing your teeth, listen. I like the educated part of aclohol..sophisticated. Know what pairs with what and how its made and blahbity doo dah.

So I will also be pursuing a couple more degrees. A beer sommelier's diploma....and a whiskey one...and alslo a Sake master. Yup I love drink. This may take me my whole life and I hope to teach many people and write several books or articles, but it will make me happy.

and on top of that, I got the wild urge to become a sushi chef as well. I loe sushi and to atch guys like Masaharu Morimoto amazes me. That will take years of practice and training but I will so love it. and they have REALLY COOL KNIVES. Morimoto had a knife MADE for him that is worth $15,000 ALONE. One of a kind....perfect balance..looks like a sword. It's awesome.

So there are my dreams for today. I'll keep you informed when this all happens.

For now... I wanna sleep.

Tomorrow's topic: who knows. I'll figure that out tomorrow.


.....oh and for that other pina colada....I drank the other two too quickly. I have a brain freeze now. Anyone want it?

Grrr...major skull pounder.