I am not a cook!

Contrary to the name of my blog, "I am not a cook!" Please forgive my cheap play on Nixon's famous claim, but I just couldn't resist!

The name of my blog comes from an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, where Buffy is telling Angel that she isn't done baking yet, meaning that she is not yet a finished product...not yet who she is meant to be. And that is how I feel about myself. I'm not yet who I'm meant to be.

At 35, I'm at an age where most people are pretty settled in their lives, and I was. Settled that is, for the most part. But I didn't feel that I was done baking...that for some reason my chips weren't quite gooey enough. Ok, I think that I have taken the cookie/baking metaphor as far as it will go, but the point is that I still have things to do.

So last week, on the day that my daughter graduated from high school, I did the unthinkable in such a difficult economy. I quit my job of 14 years. Wow! I still can't believe that I did it! So now my plan is to finish out the month at my job as Interim Registrar, and then to begin the next chapter of my life.

This new chapter will involve many new challenges but hopefully some fun and maybe, just maybe, a little excitement. So this blog will hopefully be a manifestation and a chronicle of my new "baking" experience...not to be confused with my half-baked experience, which is another blog post altogether.