WOW! I can't believe another month has gone by and I haven't been keeping up with things!

I'll give you one reason for my sluggishness . . .

Working!

I'd forgotten that I haven't talked about my new job! Well, here's the deal . . . thanks to Capital One dismanteling Hubby's old company (although he'd left before they pulled the plug on it completely) . . . and then all the sub-prime lenders falling like dominoes . . . being in the mortage business has been (how shall I put this delicately) . . . challenging.

So . . . I went back to my old stomping grounds . . . COFFEE!

I have always been a retail kind of girl (especially after I decided teaching elementary school was NOT for me, but writing was), and that's been my business both as a worker bee and also managment.

Well, in 1994 I went to work for Peet's Coffee and Tea as an assistant manager. At the time Peet's was still a hole-in-the-wall kind of company. I was hired for store #18 (yes, that's right #18). Each of the stores were basically run as individual cafes under the Peet's umbrella of strong-dark roasted coffee.

6 1/2 years and two kids later, I left when Hubby and I decided to try for Kid #3 in 2001. I had figured out by that time that standing all day and pregnancy didn't mix well for me. When I stopped working for Peet's I stopped going there too since I didn't have one in the town I live in.

That's when I did the unthinkable . . . I started going to Starbucks!

At that time we only had one Starbucks (now our town has 5 locations not including grocery store ones). But when they opened one approx 5 minutes from my house . . . I was hooked.

I've been going to that location loyally for some 4 1/2 years . . .

And now I work there!

I've been here for about a month and it's just like riding a bike . . . you never forget how to make a latte!

How's it going? I LOVE IT!

I still use my store as my office/writing place . . . but now I get a discount for drinking my coffee here too.

How awesome is that?!

Now all I have to do is sell my first book and I'm set!

I can dream . . . can't I? :)