Has it been three months since my last post? Boy, I am trying...very hard...and are failing iserably!
I was talking to a friend about all these commitment I am making to myself to get good at this year (blogging for one); and she said something I that so appreciated: "yume, you need to be true to yourself...I know you want to post all the cooking, the recipes each and everyday like all the bloggers you admire...but do they have a restaurant to run, a thriving sauce company that will become a party-plan company, do they have to create 20 new products for the market place in two months, do they have two kids and a full schedule cooking classes and a constant gigs on local TV? You just need to admit you cannot do it all and drop the stuffs you would like to do but have no time for. No one will accuse you of not having enough passion for food just because you cannot keep up with the blog. I don't read them anyway so there...you don't have to do it!."
She is right...I have been stressed about not getting to blog but my head and my body are on the verge of exploding into pieces at the end of each day. To be truthful, they are on the verge of exploding every minute of the day for the past few months.
I have been doing so much - doing so many different things. I spent a couple of days helping my sister Thy and her husband Thi opened Pho 101. Then off the help our nephew with his new menu at his Viet Pho. All of these activities made me realized that if someone told me 5 years ago - that I would be such culinary expert; I would laugh. Now, it is not that hard to open a restaurant, to train a completely new staff in a couple of days. It does get a bit tiring but when you enjoy it as much as I do, you notice your bones, your joints cracking when you try to sit down:-).
Let's get back to my previous point...I will not make myself feel guilty when I don't blog often or not at all. I need to feel that I do accomplish something by working on developing asian-themed rubs, mixes and so on. The focus should be on Indochine and on the sauce company. Then, maybe a couple or years from now; I can blog to my hearts contend....but then, I might not have anything to say then....
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