Winemonkey and I are heading to the city. The winery owners invited us and the winemaker (including his super fun other half, who’s name is Michie too) to a restaurant called Chapeau! The menu looks good and it has some classic french dishes, which I am sure Winemonkey will be excited about.

The only thing is that we have to be at the winery at 7 tomorrow morning… well Winemonkey does. I might not. So that means no excess wine, which I don’t do very much anymore anyways.

So it is Thursday. Yep. Thursday. And yesterday I realized that at ~3 pm, I don’t like working anymore. I mean that by 3 pm everyday I think, “Wow. I wish I had a desk job.” But then I trudge up the sloped floor of the cave with a pallet jack full of barrels and I suck the whine (not the drinkable delicousness that I am helping make this harvest) inside. Because I realize that the hardest thing I will probably EVER put Winemonkey through is the abhorring duty of ordering me around, then having to listen to me complain about what he asked me to do. Mind you, he might enjoy the ordering me around part, but the whining? He’d just as soon lock me in a closet when we got home… or not make me dinner, which would mean that I would waste away to practically nothing because all I would eat for dinner are tuna fish sandwiches or nothing… Because… it turns out that I am actually kind of lazy and manual labor = the devil most of the time. By the time I get home I am just a bucket of tired muscles.

I have never wished for a desk job so badly in my entire life.

Oh – and my interview – it is for a job that encompasses everything I hated about graduate school. Literature searches and technical writing.

But.

The job would pay the bills. And if I am doing a lot of writing and literature searches, I might be able to work from home, which means not commuting 2 hours each way every day. Of course, I have to get the job first. So we’ll see.

My feet hurt. And I went to bed before 9 last night. I have worked 21 hours in the last two days and it seems like every day is going to be a long one.

I think it is ironic that today was my first day working at the winery and I got a call from someone I had sent a resume to about three weeks ago letting me know that they would like to interview me.

Too bad the commute would be 4 hours round trip… and that’s without traffic.

I just got back from a week of camping with the Padges and Winemonkey. Ever been camping with a three year old? It was fun… reminded me of when I was nanny but with a lot less responsibility. But you are still constantly on. We went to this place called Union Valley Reservoir. The camp was dusty, the weather was perfect, and the water wasn’t so cold you couldn’t stand to be in it. Our first night there, I saw a bear lumbering through our campsite. It was pretty scary because the two children were asleep in the tent. But the bear already stole food from another campsite and our camp was between the food source and his den. It was nice to not think about finding work for a whole week. For some reason I didn’t stress about it at all. Perhaps I should just live in the woods?

After a week without showering, we went over to Porter’s house. It was like a little slice of heaven. Warm shower, soft bed, and the best were toilets that didn’t want to make you gag everytime you went into one. It was a great weekend with their family and I got to see some friends who I don’t see very often. We had a shrimp taco extravaganza. Lisa and lam came over too! It was such a good time. And again, I really don’t remember feeling particularly down at any point during our visit. We played games after dinner and even had time to go to market on Sunday before we headed home.

Today is my first day of work at the winery as their “harvest intern”. I am really looking forward to it, except that I shaved all of the callouses off the bottoms of my heels and it turns out that I had built them up for a reason. So hopefully I will be able to find a pair of shoes that don’t make my feet hurt. Other than that… it’s going to be a great day! We might be getting grapes as early as this week!

My website is done – finally. Well sort of. The only thing that needs to be completed is my portfolio. But I am well on my way to getting it finished.

www.impaginationdesign.com

check it out and let me know what you think!