Friday's Feast, on a Monday

ahhh, better late than never as they say.

Appetizer: What was your first “real” job?
This could be open to a fair amount of interpretation. When I thought that I wanted nothing more than to be the world's greatest hairdresser I applied for and got a job as an apprentice in the coolest hair salon in Collingwood, ON. I was only there for a while and then moved to another salon. All in all I spent two years working at learning the art of hair styling. I still miss aspects of "Headlines" and "Marion's." (The two salons I worked at.)
The work I do now is more related to the courses and such that I have taken over the years and so I guess I am now working at my first "real" job. I love what I do though, if that counts!!

Soup: Where would you go if you wanted to spark your creativity?
The ocean's edge. There is nothing more breathtaking to me that the oceanscape. It is where I feel largest and smallest at the same time. I take a fair amount of creative inspiration from a quiet evening spent with Doug and the boys too.

Salad: Complete this sentence: I am embarrassed when…
I burp while I am trying to teach a class. They are never loud belches but they are enough that it is pretty hard to pretend they didn't happen.

Main Course: What values did your parents instill in you?
Be grateful for employment. No one ever owed me my job. I was to feel privileged to have been given the job in the first place and do what was asked of me in order to keep it. This was particularly relevant when I was a teen and all of my friends were complaining about their jobs and telling their bosses when they would and wouldn't work. My father, a business owner, could not abide by his employees telling him how things would be. He was happy to try to accommodate when asked but never when told. Wow! Can you tell that lesson stuck??

Dessert: Name 3 fads from your teenage years.
BIG, permed hair, stone-washed jeans pinned at the calves and ankles to be as tight as was physically possible, and ghetto blasters