JUST ANOTHER MMMM... DAY

The things you take for granted, someone else is praying for. - Anonymous

Just anther freezing MMM.. Day, With Nothing but a Huge Piece of moist Chocolatey Cake on my mind.

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COFFEE.CAKE.CONVERSATION

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

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Just Because I Never Start The Conversation,
Doesn't Mean Am Not 'Dying' To Talk To You..

I am the ULTIMATE listener!! :) but not much of a talker, sadly.

I love to listen to peoples stories. It always has a way of awakening something deep inside of me.

My ultimate conversationalist AKA talker is None other than Maria 'Ticho'. *yes! Maria*
Witty..Funny..Never short of stories to tell.. She loves to talk, i love to listen.
We automatically gravitate towards that.
Coffee Date #2 with Maria yesterday evening was as breathtaking as it always is.
Story after story.. line after line.. laughter..cake..coffee.. and more conversation.
The downside about ultimate listeners, we remember way too much.
It's almost like our brains are storage buffers o' something like that. Sometimes i wish i could format my brain and just keep what is current. lol.
Amazing conversations always have me smiling to myself, even hours after.
I go through the interesting parts over and over in my mind, just to wrap the feeling around it.
It is my own little walk in conversational shoes. *sigh* :)))
What gets me most are the gestures..Maria gestures a lot!! probably this animated scenario is what makes conversations so lively and funny at the same time.
She tries to describe everything in detail with a gesture,lol!
There's definitely never a dull moment.
I am counting the blessing of CONVERSATION! Every ... interesting, funny, gestured, witty, intellectual,wild, personal, business-like, child-like, hearty conversations.

{ HOPE ...

HOPE ----- heals our broken dreams ;)

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I don't remember learning how to bake EVER! I remember waking up in the middle of the night to write recipes though.
Am a cake freak! I follow blogs religiously..watch videos..read books on cakes ... I stay glued to FOOD NETWORK... browse recipes...etc etc
I've NOT held a spatula nor a cake mixer nor fresh cream nor strawberries in a looooooooong time.
Along the way i lost my MOJO.. my EDGE... my PASSION... my REASON to dream about cakes! I didn't not want to bake any more. I lost HOPE.
My family would always ask me what to do with all the baking equipment that i had saved up so religiously to buy? --- honestly, i still wanted them around. The equipment represented my sign of HOPE.
HOPE that maybe someday, i'll get fired up again about baking.

So, my ANNOYING workmate has been on my neck non-stop about reviving my baking side-hustle.
Am not ready to get back out there. Am taking it One-Cake-at-a-time.
A Silver-lining has come my way in the most unexpected way. I have found a way of staying relevant in the baking world without BAKING CAKES (just yet)!!

I discovered a GAP in the cake market about one year ago. I did my research and killed the idea! I was NOT interested enough to ACT on it.. I thought other things were waaaay way more important.
Now the opportunity has KNOCKED on my door AGAIN!
Went back into my research archives, did a new market research...and believe it or not, one year down the line, NO ONE seems to have noticed this elusive GAP!
Am on it like a rash!! No looking back!

I have found HOPE...and OH, how i missed you!!

"I learned during this devastating season, when our hearts become grounds of broken dreams, we may need to turn to the hope others have found..."

Am counting the blessing of HOPE.