Wednesday 3 October 2012

Its Been A Long Time

I think I last posted at the very beginning of July.... so it's been, to put it mildly, a while.

July was spent drinking my sorrows. Nothing to brag about, but the honest truth was that is what I was doing. February 2011 we (my family) lost someone very dear to our hearts. He should have turned 27 in July. It's hard. I think it always will be, and I can't say that every February and July will rush by in a haze of alcohol, nor can I say that that really means I'm coping, but there you go, my absence for July.

August should have brought on the fun times, with celebrating both my husbands and my own birthdays. Instead we found out we are expecting (due early next year), my husband ended up off work with a back injury and has only just been given the all clear. The baby news is exciting, but everything just came down to timing and it all kind of fell apart.

September, there were no reasons for anything to go wrong, but they say things come in three's. I was fired from my job for complaining about being underpaid. I was then diagnosed with fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia will be with me forever, and has already been with me for quite sometime, although, recently it has been debilitating. I feel relieved to finally have a diagnosis, but it leaves me in limbo at the moment, having to consider every little thing that I do as it could mean I end up unable to get up the next day.

All this brings me to October, which I hope will mean the end of all the bad luck and the beginning of something new. I've decided to take my being fired as a mostly positive thing, I have sought legal action in regards to it, and now with my diagnosis, having time off means I can focus on me.... and my food.

I hope that with the end of this year coming up and the start of a new one, to be able to announce an exciting collaboration with another talented cake decorator/imposter pastry chef. Together we will be able to offer a wider range of treats, look at regularly having market stalls throughout Canberra, and bringing delight to the residents of Canberra :)

I just want to thank you all for hanging round, I'll be updating some more in the next couple of days, with some recipes I've tried out, and more news on market stalls.

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