I wear many hats--okay, I don't wear hats that often, I prefer shoes, but you get the idea. I have a Culinary Arts degree but no longer work in the hospitality industry with the exception of my food and cocktail blogging. Instead, I have a day-job as a Bookkeeper with the same company I've been at for the last 15 years. I like what I do, it pays the bills and it's predictable. Unfortunately, as I told my boss one day, creative accounting gets you 10 to 20...
Enter the off hours. Some people call it free time, I'm not sure I really embody that. Almost every spare moment is spent working on my comics (I have 2, they're both on the web, check 'em out at the links below), writing or creating in some way or another. For the last 2.5 years (give or take a month) I was the Art (& Crafts) Expert for eHow.com so I did a lot of writing for them, creating projects to photograph step-by-step and sharing my creativity. With that program finished, it was time to move on to something else, freeing me up to do more of my own projects instead of someone else's.
I throw fabulous parties, still love to cook, just got my BAC (BarSmarts Advanced Certification) to beef up my cocktail knowledge, knit, scrapbook, sew, make jewelry, take photographs and get the greatest joy from sparking a smile or laugh from one of my comics. I prefer useful art and functional fun stuff to dust-catchers and collect monkey-stuff.
