At 08:47 PM 6/11/2003 -0500, Gumbie Tygress wrote:

>I'm sure a bright girl like that with a reasonable work ethic could get
>on at any trendy bistro....
>Russ and I were seriously solicited to start up a new restaurant once. We
>declined, politely, "Sorry, you work too hard." [Like I've managed 9-5
>jobs else....]

As someone I knew who, with her husband, ran her own business, said:  Why
slave 40 hours a week for someone else when you can slave 80 hours a week
for yourself?

>However -- and whack me if I'm suffering amnesia -- isn't Elizabeth the
>one with the cinnamon allergy?
>How's that gonna work out for her?

Yes, she is.  Our doctor has hit upon a combination of meds that can help
her survive exposure, and they don't cook with cinnamon all the time.  I
hope that the trend is dying out.  They'll latch onto some other
ingredient, most likely!  But she can survive it -- at the very worst,
she'll have to do something else.  She's already talked to an admissions
person about this and other considerations.  They seem to bend over
backwards for people, or at least meet them halfway.
 
>> So we're behind her 100% in this.  We think it's great.  But that 
>> quoted  paragraph haunts me . . .  
>> 
>> Veloci--my kitchen is so tiny--raptor
>
>Lately we seem to have houses built around kitchens.... the one we have
>is pretty darn nice. Still pales from the marvel that was the Montara
>house, but so goes life.

Our house is built around the kitchen, all right -- the kitchen is smack
dab in the middle of the house.  Rational plan, that -- no matter where you
are in the house, you're never far from the food!  But the whole house is
tiny, ergo, the kitchen is, too.

Veloci--but the eatin' is good around here!--raptor


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