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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • When I was a cook, even if I was just making something simple, I could still find creative satisfaction in a variety of ways. How you sprinkle on the garnish, plating, using a little more of this, a little less of that. Food to a chef is like art designed to be destroyed, so with the temporary nature of the medium, it really allows you to be creative. You’re not hung up on making it perfect, because it’s just about to be eaten, so it let’s you be more free with your design choices. It can be fun creating art while you’re supposed to be working.

    but if my job was suddenly just washing up after a machine… well. That will get old real quick.






  • Recently I decided that I was done with my usual vacuous, timid approach to life. I want to follow my dream with the one life I have to live.

    And then I think about how someone in 1940’s Germany could have felt the exact same way. Do they give up on their dream, flee the fascist regime, or did they doggedly stick around, ignoring what was happening around them in an attempt to fulfill their truest desire? Is it possible to be a successful actor/comedian whilst not living in NYC or LA? Do I make the push for my dream, while pushing away all the news, or do I flee to a safe country and try to cobble together something I can call fulfillment?

    Shit, the amount of far-right lunatics with guns in this country already scares the bejeezus out of me, but adding on a fascist dictator is just a bridge too fucking far.







  • Posting here is a great first step. AA meetings can be intimidating at first, but if you’re ever white knuckling it, they can be a godsend.

    I try to look at my drinking this way, I just can’t anymore. Much like how I can’t breathe underwater, I can’t drink alcohol. My life is no lesser for it, in fact, it’s far better than I ever could have achieved if I had kept drinking.

    I remember when I quit… I was thinking about string theory, and how there are different timelines of my life which deviate based on my decision making. I thought that, surely, if there was a timeline in which everything in my life went to shit, I lost my marriage, my will to aspire, my everything, surely that would be the timeline in which I kept drinking.

    So I decided to explore a different timeline. In this one I’m healthier than I’ve ever been, with money in the bank, and dreams I’m reaching out to.

    You can do it too. ❤️‍

    P.S. I also have CPTSD, and quitting drinking was essential in my path to facing it. It was only when I got sober that I could confront my past, and move beyond it. When I was an active alcoholic, I was using alcohol to run from my demons, but when I stopped and faced them, my symptoms let up immensely.