a long time coming =)

Hi everyone!!
I know, I know, it has been FOREVER!! and a TON has happened since my last post!
So, as a lot of you already know, i did not make it to Las Vegas like i had hoped. i did however make it to San Antonio, Texas. Yeah! i love texas. so i am working at the Omni La Mansion Del Rio hotel in downtown. I am the Pastry Sous Chef of two properties both Omni and right across the river from each other. it is a ton of work, but it is very fun. I love everyone i work with. they are fun and outgoing and very nice.
one of the big things that i don't like is that i have to work on Sundays so i don't get to attend a church down here. i did go christmas eve and the service at Redeemer Pres is much like ours at home and they are all very nice. i thnk that people in texas are just nice.
the first picture is of the hotel i work at. the second is of the wedding cake i just made for. it is not the first wedding cake i have ever made, but it is the first one i have ever made that is actually for someone. so i was really nervous while making it.
I miss st louis and chicago. SA is completely different than sstl or chi-town. but it is growing on me.
so, i PROMISE to start blogging more!!! ttfn

las vegas...

please pray for me. i am in the process of looking for a job for when i am finished being an intern. i am thinking very seriously about a prominent resort in Las Vegas decorating wedding cakes. it is totally up in the air with many big steps still, but you never know. love you all

i am an awful blogger =)

i have been horrible, sorry guys. i have been so busy at work that i just have no time to acutally blog. i know people are wondering what is going on with me. well...i am working A LOT!!!!!!! my internet is down...again. and i just don't have time to come to the apple store all the time and update my blog. =( i know i have been a bad friend and everything else. i really don't have all that much interesting going on in my life right now.

dad and jeffrey came up to visit me over their spring break. they went to museums and stuff. we went to the top of the john hancock building to take pics and stuff. i HATE elevators. this one went 20 mph and flew up 96 stories in 40 seconds. your ears pop like crazy. we took some great pictures and stuff. this is one of the better ones. it was a cloudy day and you couldn't see too far, but it was fun. mom came up the week after for a whole week. that was really fun. she was taking a gemology class and she had fun. we went out to eat and we also went to the top of the hancock...but we didn't have to pay. we went and had drinks in the signature room/lounge. it was a nice clear day and you could see forever. i took the train home with mom for easter weekend. it was a nice weekend, pretty relaxing. then i had an AWFUL flight back. first of all, i hate to fly, more than i hate elevators. and it was stormy and really bad weather in chicago. my flight was supposed to leave stl at 920pm. it was delayed till 1110pm. then we got on the plane and we were still waiting on the pilot who was flying in on another flight. our flight itself was bumpy and horrible. i was almost in tears. i seriously do not like planes. we finally landed at a little past midnight. i would normally then take the orange line el into the city. i walked out of the airport towards the el, and...they close it at midnight. i started sobbing and i just couldn't stop. it was bad. i walked back into the airport, still crying. and i thought ok, i will take a shuttle, they are much cheaper than cabs. but no, the shuttles don't run that late at night. so i had to take a cab. it cost almost $40. more crying on the cab ride home. by the time i got home it was 1am. i had to get up for work at about 430am. i got no sleep and had to work all day. it was not a good night or day for me... =)

ok, so that is about all that is going on in my life right now. well, i never want to fly again, but..i have to in july. i have to fly to phoenix for the world pastry forum. the forum will be awesome, but the flight is 3.5hrs long, i haven't had to fly for that long since i was 12 and came to visit grandma...oh well. that is still a while away, so i won't think about it now. =)
love you all!!!!!!

green river and guest chefs

ok guys...here are the pics of the green river i promised you... it is neon green. i only have a sec. i know i keep promising you a longer post but i never seem to have time. i worked a lot this week. i did a guest chef class which means that i was the intern for a visiting chef as he taught a class to a group of professionals. it was interesting because he didn't speak english and i only speak a teeny tiny bit of french. we had a translator, a girl who graduated with my last december. so it went ok. she was great. it was hard to get my point across whenever the translator was gone though. but my french definitely got better those three days i was with him. by the end i was able to carry on a conversation with him in half french half english. i also found out that he can speak as much english as i can french. =) it was fun and exhausting. i met some great people in the class. on wednseday night i went out with some of them. they are from new york, and they are itatlian and only 21 so very young and hyper. we went to italian for dinner and then we went to a couple clubs and i got home at 4am. aaaaaahhhhh luckily i didn't have to be at work til 10. still i only got about 4 hrs sleep. then the next night i was at work till 11pm cleaning the kitchen and trying to get the dishwasher to hurry up. and i had to be at work at 545 the next morning. needless to say i was exhausted thurs and fri. but it was SSOOOOOO much fun. one of the girls is going to email me all the pics from the class and i will post them. ok, i gotta go. =)

i miss you all!!

just a really quick note. my internet is still down at home. i will write a longer post later. i worked today and missed the st pattys day parade. not that i care all that much but they actually dye the river green here. it is REALLY GREEN. i took a picture on my way home, but i havent' downloaded it yet...when i do i will post it. it is gorgeous here in chicago. 65+ degrees. i walked home today...2 miles. i am very proud of myself. ok, well i am not on my own computer so i promise i will write more later. see ya
becky =)

stupid internet!!

my internet has been down at my apt for a week now. it sucks!! i have to go to the Mac store on michigan ave to use internet. so i am so sorry that i have been absent for a while. i have been working hard but this week has FLOWN by!! it was the first exam for the students and i thought it would be a little easier for me. boy was i wrong. they are running around like crazy and expect me to have everything ready for them. i have been getting to work earlier so i can set stuff up for them. i have never been asked so many questions in my life! it is insane. some of the most basic things, either common sense or stuff they learned the first week, they seemed to have forgotten EVERYTHING!!! i really do like the students in my class, but i will be happy tomorrow afternoon when i can go home and sleep.

I love my grandma!!! i was talking to her during survivor last week, which by the way is pretty good this season! i was saying how tired and sore i was and that i really needed a massage. she, wonderful grandma that she is, sent me a little money to get a massage. hopefully i will do that this weekend!!

i am excited because on monday and tuesday is a new season of the apprentice and of amazing race!! yeah!

k guys, i gotta go. btw i am just putting up a random picture that i took at a hot dog restaurant in town. kinda fun =)

too long with no sleep

I am so sorry that i haven't been blogging lately. my internet has been off and on these past weeks, sorry. I have had a few phone calls from my mother saying that certain people, you know who you are, have been complaining. =) I have been working very long hours with not a lot of rest. two weeks ago i worked 6 days and over 70 hours. This past week it has been 63 hours in 5 days and i have to work all day tomorrow. don't get me wrong, I LOVE THIS! I am jsut very tired and exhausted. i haven't even been cooking dinner, just ramen noodles =( and anything else fast. I am looking foward to next weekend and i will sleep all day saturday and all day sunday. i am sorry that i have no pictures to put up, i haven't done anyuthing that exciting lately. i made my own recipe for a lemon sorbet and i get to try it out this week at school. i am excited about that. i have been watching a lot of 24 lately. i have seen them all already but am watching them again. i just finished season 4 and am halfway through season 3 and 2. i am going to bed soon because i have to be at school tomorrow morning at 8. so i will talk to all of you later. you can always email me, i will try to return them. i miss all of you.
ps this is a great picture of the chicago skyline from navy pier.