Having recently returned to the forum on the book swapping site, READITSWAPIT, I found myself taking part in a challenge; namely to read the chick-lit novel Dreamworld of a shopaholic! One member suggested that for this year everyone should read one book they normally wouldn't pick up- and this was my paticular challenge. It was not my first experience of chick-lit, as one person who follows this Blog at least will be able to testify, but it was at least more enjoyable than my last attempt at the genre!
A full review is available here on DOOYOO; http://members.dooyoo.co.uk/printed-books/secret-dreamworld-of-a-shopaholic-the-sophie-kinsella/1182689/ but needless to say I actually found myself quite enjoying reading it in the end and, because it was short and a very easy read, it only took two days to get through. Now someone very naughty has changed my challenge to read ALL the shopaholic books but to be fair, I'm not sure I mind as this first installment actually had me chuckling out loud in places! Must be sure not to read the others where anyone other than Mrs.Sparky can see me though or people might question my sexuality!!!
Head Chef is back and my first day back at work with him begins at 4pm today.....we will see what he has to say about some of the changes that are happening but I don't think he will be happy. My week covering his absence was largely unremarkable though I did have a bit of a nasty night on tuesday and made a couple of mistakes and had one person complain about their meal. That really annoys me when that happens and I kind of beat myself up over it and take it pretty personally but in retrospect if that was the only night that anything went wrong then I suppose that means it hasn't been a bad week. It's not like people complain all the time about my food and I guess I have to treat this instance as a one-off blip and not a personal failure. Still, I am not happy that one of my customers was unsatisfied and that I disappointed them and DO take it very badly in myself. Sometimes my job really gets me down and I am not sure if I want to keep doing this shit anymore but it was one of the few things I can do and writing reviews is never gonna pay the bills. I wonder if perhaps I should have chosen a different career- maybe tried to be a journalist or something as I do enjoy writing but I live my life with no regrets. If I changed anything I had done in my life I would not have Mrs.Sparky and I would not have Emilie. It was a fortuious chain of events that was put into motion so that we couldf meet and be together and to change anything would be to stand in the way of Fate and who knows? I might not have been happy by now doing that either. I might've become a lonely alcoholic wondering what might have happened if I had decided to become a chef....
Thats the thing about life- you never know what to expect and that in itself is a challenge.....
A full review is available here on DOOYOO; http://members.dooyoo.co.uk/printed-books/secret-dreamworld-of-a-shopaholic-the-sophie-kinsella/1182689/ but needless to say I actually found myself quite enjoying reading it in the end and, because it was short and a very easy read, it only took two days to get through. Now someone very naughty has changed my challenge to read ALL the shopaholic books but to be fair, I'm not sure I mind as this first installment actually had me chuckling out loud in places! Must be sure not to read the others where anyone other than Mrs.Sparky can see me though or people might question my sexuality!!!
Head Chef is back and my first day back at work with him begins at 4pm today.....we will see what he has to say about some of the changes that are happening but I don't think he will be happy. My week covering his absence was largely unremarkable though I did have a bit of a nasty night on tuesday and made a couple of mistakes and had one person complain about their meal. That really annoys me when that happens and I kind of beat myself up over it and take it pretty personally but in retrospect if that was the only night that anything went wrong then I suppose that means it hasn't been a bad week. It's not like people complain all the time about my food and I guess I have to treat this instance as a one-off blip and not a personal failure. Still, I am not happy that one of my customers was unsatisfied and that I disappointed them and DO take it very badly in myself. Sometimes my job really gets me down and I am not sure if I want to keep doing this shit anymore but it was one of the few things I can do and writing reviews is never gonna pay the bills. I wonder if perhaps I should have chosen a different career- maybe tried to be a journalist or something as I do enjoy writing but I live my life with no regrets. If I changed anything I had done in my life I would not have Mrs.Sparky and I would not have Emilie. It was a fortuious chain of events that was put into motion so that we couldf meet and be together and to change anything would be to stand in the way of Fate and who knows? I might not have been happy by now doing that either. I might've become a lonely alcoholic wondering what might have happened if I had decided to become a chef....
Thats the thing about life- you never know what to expect and that in itself is a challenge.....
2 comments:
Hi Sparky ~ You didn't say how many covers were in on the night of 'the customer'? Try and focus on all of the people that really enjoyed your food and not just the 1 that maybe didn't enjoy it so much. Loving the blog. D x
I wonder who you could be talking about... wasn't that book I sent you called Sparkles!!! Hahahahaha!!
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