Hey, Stranger!
/Hey, Stranger!
Well, maybe not stranger. No one on here is a stranger, and I like it that way!
It’s been so long since I’ve logged on to my own site that I feel like the stranger here. Tonight, though, I had a revelation, and that is…
I like to write.
There! I said it. I like to write, and I just so happen to have a blog on my cake site, and I don’t have to keep limiting myself to only blogging about cakes. I thought all this at the gym, which was after class, which was after work, which was after homework. Needless to say, it’s been a long day, and I didn’t think I had much left in me. However, it was like an internal alarm was going off in my head that, at 10:30pm, caused me to (cautiously) speed home, air fry some chicken nuggets, and get to my laptop ASAP.
This might have also been spurred by last week’s trip to Pennsylvania for Cheese Class at Penn State. Yeah, you read that right. Cheese Class! I’ll enlighten you with my new-found cheese-making knowledge soon, but back to the blogging for now…
Cheese Class certificate — it’s legit!
The truth is, I’ve been waiting for circumstances to be right to do this. Well, really, to do anything that I love. I’ve been in a season of life that’s simultaneously full of beauty and growth and wonder, as well as discouragement, frustration, and extreme fatigue. I’ve come to realize those things are never going away (Enneagram 3, anyone?).
Every day I wake up feeling extremely blessed to know what it is that I love to do — what engages my creativity, challenges my strategic thinking, and, for thirteen years, has never felt like work.
And that is baking cakes.
A recent wedding I did that I cannot get out of my mind! The entire day was as dreamy as this gold-tinted photo.
What’s been difficult with this knowledge is the inability to actually do what I love every day. As I’ve been working full time, earning an MBA, and planning our wedding (!!!!), cakes have had to take a back seat. I’ve been extremely intentional the past few months with narrowing my schedule down to only the essentials, thinking that would relieve some stress. To a degree, it did, because I’ve been able to spend some of the time with the people I love most. But it also cut out the time I spend doing what I love in the kitchen.
There’s not much I can do about my circumstances when it comes to work and school, and as much as I’d like to, I can’t make much more time for cakes in the next few months.
So, that lead me here. Writing. Thinking. Playing with words.
I really have no plan for where this is going to go, or if it will even go anywhere, but I do know that I like doing it. I also know the Lord has given me a lot of testaments to His goodness, and it’d be a real disservice not to share them.
Starting with the circumstances thing. They aren’t changing, and I’m done trying to tunnel-vision my way through them. I was specifically placed (and kept) in Rome, GA, doing exactly what I’m doing, with the exact people I have around me, for a specific purpose. Plus, I have a wonderful fiancé (like the kind you find in Hallmark movies) who brings light to my life every day as we enter an entire life together. And he won’t be my fiancé for that much longer — and I sure as heck don’t want to miss that!
See, here he is! And Seth, when you read this (I know he will because I signed him up for these email chains which is borderline illegal), please just know I love you. A lot :) (photo credit to Caitlyn Weathers Photography)
Even on the toughest of days, circumstances are only circumstances. They may change, they may not. But I’m here to make the most of them using the platforms I have. I hope you can do the same, too! And if/when it’s hard, we can help each other along. After all, we’re all here for far more than just circumstances.
I hope this finds you well on a late Tuesday night. I’m better go to bed so I can get up and do it all again tomorrow!
Until next time,
jorie
PS — I haven’t seen the chickens in awhile (and that’s ok with me), and, yes, I will be making our wedding cake (more on that later!!)
