Weekend update

[wordinista]

Not much to update, really.  I've posted a new chapter of Universal Truths over at original_niamh, and I'm currently contemplating a cup of tea and a slice of one of the breads I made this weekend (orange-cinnamon bread w/raisins and pecans OR Italian lemon ricotta bread w/ golden raisins and walnuts).

Last week was... relatively eventful.  Had a nice mother/daughter day with Mom, during which we brought Zoe and Darwin to the groomer, dropped them off, and then went and grabbed a light breakfast and went off to the open-air mall.  I got a wine rack at World Market, and a bottle of Vampire pinot noir (want to go back and get a bottle of the merlot), and a box of PG Tips, which I'd been missing sorely.  That's such an awesome store to just wander around and get lost in.  And they've got a great wine selection.  I need to go back and get a bottle of Marilyn Merlot, too -- I had two bottles for the longest time, and drank one on my 30th birthday, and the other we opened on the honeymoon.  (We never opened the Perrier Jouer on the honeymoon, and I'm starting to wonder if we'll EVER open it, because whenever there's a special occasion, it's like, "Is this worthy of a bottle of Perrier Jouer?  I don't think so...")

However, now that I think about it, there may be an event that will necessitate the opening of such a bottle.  We'll see.  More on that in a little bit.

After World Market, we wandered around a bit -- I got my watch battery replaced (and while we were at the jewelry store doing that, I found a pair of earrings that I was drooling over-- come to find out there were $968.  Mom's response?  "You've got good taste, girl.") and then we meandered over to a place called "Wine Styles," which is a local wine shop (kind of out of place in The Avenues, which is mostly established chain stores).  Mom got a bottle of... something, and I picked up another pinot noir (which claimed to have notes of root beer, so I felt compelled to get it, just to see for myself).

Anyway, we started talking to the owner and... well.  Suffice to say the tea-shop idea has never really left my mind.  If all goes according to plan, I will be signing a lease in April and opening next October.  Key words, of course, being "IF all goes according to plan."  Big if.  But... that would be an event that would call for a bottle of very good champagne.  So I'll be saving the bottle of PJ (which I seem hopelessly destined to misspell, and right now I'm feeling too lazy to double-check my spelling).  So.  We'll see what happens there.  I'm both terrified and excited, but more excited than terrified, which I take as a good sign.

The week went quickly, leading up to Friday, which was HELL.  OMG.  HELL.  I got up at 7:30, and I quite literally did not stop until 7:00 that night.  Ran around ALL DAY.  UGH. 

Yesterday was nice and lazy -- I got through about 2/3's of The 'Cane Mutiny, a book on the history of the Miami Hurricanes, and... did not much else.  Today we had to go to a baptism, which was nice, even if the church was one of those churches where everything is new, hip, and happenin.  I don't like hip churches.  They make me uncomfortable.  I mean, the pastor was nice and all, but there were no hymns --just praise music.  And the lyrics flashed across this huge screen in front like karaoke.  Tora and I sat in the back.  Me?  I'm from the old school, with organs and proper choirs and ... well.  Not bongos and tambourines and jazzy electric keyboards.  Granted, if that's your thing, cool.  But it's so very not my thing.

Comments

[darkfrog24.livejournal.com]

A tea shop like Tealuxe or Alice's Tea Cup? Indeed. 'Tleast you could do some of your own finance work.

[w0rdinista.livejournal.com]

Hmm. We don't have either of those down here, so I can't really say whether it'd be like one or the other. Loose teas, bagged teas, tea accoutrements, and gourmet provisions (hard to find spices and the like). I want an area where people can kick back and drink their tea, too.

And I figure this is as good a way as any to use the business education I'm getting. ;)

[darkfrog24.livejournal.com]

Tealuxe is the only legal pot in Harvard Square and for a brief while it was the only legal pot on Broadway. Alice's Tea Cut has a huge selection of teas and is still around (recently opened into another location, in fact). The difference? ATC offered yummy food at not-too-out there prices. It's the only place in the tri-state area where the scones are better than mine.

[w0rdinista.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I'm not sure if it'll be much like either of them, but I am planning on having a very small selection of goodies to start off with, and maybe adding to that over time. Like starting off with scones and tea-cake, and if those work out, then expanding that selection. There's a Panera Bread in the same complex, though, so I'm not sure about the baked goods part.

[darkfrog24.livejournal.com]

I ate food at a Panera once. They are no threat.

[manda-moo478.livejournal.com]

A tea shop! That would be so wicked...*goes all starry-eyed* I wish you luck in your endeavors!

So I'm not the only one who is creeped out by the karaoke screens at churches o_O I like Christian music (like Relient K, Kutless etc.), but if that's all I do for an hour and a half I tend to get bored. I understand a few songs scattered throughout the service, but all at once? No thanks. I was raised Presbyterian so I'm pretty reserved when it comes to worship anyway.

[w0rdinista.livejournal.com]

I was raised Episcopal, and I never realized how reserved I was about church services until I moved to the South. I actually haven't gone to church regularly since I moved here, because every church, it seems, is all about being hip and "with it" and encouraging people to sway and clap and dance and... no. Just.... no.

[kitesareevil.livejournal.com]

well darn, if you were opening THIS October, I'd have to make a special trip from Disney World to come to the tea shop. :)

SQUEE!!!!

[w0rdinista.livejournal.com]

Hee! No one's saying you can't go visit The Mouse for your first anniversary! (First anniversary's paper, right? Tickets to Disneyworld are printed on paper!)

[smtfhw.livejournal.com]

I'm exhausted just reading about all that! But good for you for going with your tea-room plan. I do hope it all works out for you.

[w0rdinista.livejournal.com]

Thank you :) I've been trying to talk myself out of it for about a year now, and ... honestly, the idea came to me first in about 2000, so I've been fighting the idea for a long while. It's just gotten more insistent. So... well, the way I see it, if it doesn't work out, then I'm still young enough to bounce back from any failed entrepreneurial endeavors. (Trying not to be negative -- just realistic.)

[rya-kelley.livejournal.com]

Oooooh, good luck on the tea shop thing. You're so classy. ^_^

[w0rdinista.livejournal.com]

ROFL!! Thank you, but I think maybe I left out all of the things this weekend that would change your mind about the "classy" thing. :D

[rya-kelley.livejournal.com]

Hey, nobody's perfect.

[tatertott.livejournal.com]

TEA!!! You let me know if you ever need anything in terms of advertising or in the design-related area (plus I know a wonderful printer that I'm also having do my wedding invites). You need to get those incredibly overstuffed chairs that swallow you up - only problem is you might end up having people fall asleep!