Its been a wild ride these past few days. The whirlwind of quitting our jobs, giving up our car and having to inventory our refrigerator (meal forecasting) to ensure survival. This is where great stories are born, I continue to tell myself as I recall the events of the past few days.
Going back three days ago during at a catered event from a food truck. (Alex and I have been the directors of operation, providing our culinary and hospitality insights to a busy catering company with a food truck). Everything that could possibly go wrong, did.
I won't bore you with the details of the fryer boiling hot oil out of control, the no lights in the kitchen situation, a grill too hot it burned all of our buns, and the fact that we scalded our hands fishing the bones out of a steaming hot crab risotto that someone clearly dropped the ball on during prep.
So ya....I bored you with the details of one of the worst nights of my 13 years of serving experience. It was crazy. Oh, I also got hot oil flung up into my eye and had to run crying through the party guests into the bathroom.
It was an interesting night to say the least.
(On a side note - with all of those issues the guests had no idea, we were praised for our amazing food and service and each received $100 tip! Bam!)
Fortunately that was our tipping point. We had had enough of being completely underpaid for our expertise and efforts with the company, and that night, in a rather intense showdown in the company parking lot, we walked.
We LITERALLY walked home (as we drove a company car and it was immediately recalled).
Alex with no shirt, as our ex boss had forced it off his back, and me, with the biggest feeling of relief, we had turned in all of our hats of responsibility with the company and were now jobless.
I felt light, grounded and the happiest ever on that walk home.
I never thought being unemployed would feel so good, but it did.
Alex and I have truthfully, been manifesting this change for the last few months, working somewhat shorter hours and balancing our efforts with The Teacup Tour.
We had now created a great open opportunity for ourselves... And although rather broke and eating rice - we have been happier than ever.
The Teacup Tour - our project that has taken us two years to put together...and will take the next year to complete now has our full attention.
More about the teacup tour in the next post.
Now - back to the life of the happiest most unemployed couple!
The reason I wrote this post was to highlight a few things....
1. When the decision is right your body knows and you won't mind walking 10 miles home after a nine hour shift from hell.
2. Don't make crab risotto with bones
And
3. That the universe will provide for you if you know what you need and are open to receive.
A list of things that have happened to us in our 6 days of unemployment:
-we got invited to a free wine and cheese art event
-our yoga studio started giving out Halloween chocolates already!
-we got given three free boxes of cookies at Walmart because of a pricing error on their behalf
-our yoga community invited us to dinner
-i sold my first painting
-the local library opens after being under construction for 3 years
And the finale...
-We went to print our resumes (gotta get a part time job at least...a girl's gotta eat!) with our last five dollar bill and the copier we chose had $1.69 of credit on it! Thank you FedEx!!
Our days have been filled with gratitude and as cliche as it sounds - we are richer than ever. (Though I really miss the late night car rides to buy our favourite $3 gourmet cookies!)
But our house is filled with love, library books and an even greater intention to live our purpose and make our dreams a reality.
Ashley xo
