Weak Sauce

I heart Ballard, but we always get the weak sauce weather. Come on, bring on the snow. I have 3 days off and want to play in the snow!

Grove Holiday Party

This is what happens when you give me 4 martinis and an iphone camera.

Yeah for snow!

It's snowing in Ballard! I should take pictures before it's all over tomorrow. Just got back from a fabulous Christmas party at my friends who I first met as customers at Bambino. It was fantastic and it snowed the whole time and now I have to go to bed because I have to work at 6:30am and it's 12:30am right now. Oh the life of a Barista.

Now at Aster Coffee Lounge

I quit my job at Bambino about a year too late. Don't get me wrong, it was a great job, awesome customers, amazing co-workers, but having mean and unappreciative management can be a deal breaker. My last day was on Thanksgiving!

When I quit I decided to take a few months off to clear my head and re-evaluate my position in the service industry, see if I really wanted to continue with it.

Then...my barista who works at the coffee shop down the street from my house got into a nasty cycling accident and broke her elbow and is out of a job. So having extra time on my hands I stepped in and am now working 4 days a week at Aster Coffee Lounge. It's an awesome place, amazing coffee, the worlds best cinnamon rolls (rivals the Stehekin Bakery), good beer and wine and will soon be featuring some of my famous soups. I don't know for sure how long I'll be there, who knows it could end up being a full time thing, but I am enjoying helping out and getting to learn a lot more about coffee. Oh yeah, we are the only ones in Ballard that has a Clover machine too, and the hype is all correct, it's the most awesome drip coffee maker ever!

Oh what it is to be a Scorpio.

I always new Scorpios were different. But, I don't have asthma, guess I'm a lucky Scorpio.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/health/research/09asthma.html?no_interstitial

Back to the real world

Yeah, yeah, yeah I am absent again and I said I wouldn't be. Well I'm back, I've got a shiny new iphone to help me keep connected to the world 24/7. WhoHoo! I am also back to being creative and selling my handyworks on etsy. Check it out if you have time and give me some feedback.






See I have been in a whirlwind the past few months, the photo doesn't lie.

I finally got my tattoo...

Yeah, I finally gathered up the courage to get the tattoo I've always wanted. There is a lot of special meaning for me in it. Most people say, "Oh, you got a tree," well yeah I got a tree, but it's so much more than a tree. It's the Katie Tree of Life. The trunk of the tree represents myself with the branches being my close friends and family, the roots are my parents and my sisters, and each of the leaves/dots are an important accomplishment that I've completed thus far in my life. So far there are 16 leaves and I hope to add more to the tree as I get older.