Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Melatonin and sleeping masks

a boat getting buzzed by a humpback

northwestern glcier
old ass compressed glacier ice

I think thats how you spell it. All I know is i bought some. I have not really slept in two months and it is starting to catch up to me. I'm not really that normal to start with but put the cocktail of propane (a few of my pilot lights don't light) and no sleep together and you get Chris mixed with the dude in Predator only I have more issues. I

So I was talking to Danielle and she told me to buy Melatonin, after purchasing it a spoke to my assistant chef and he said and I quote" Oh yea, thats what all Alaskans take during the summer, shit,I have two huge bottles of it upstairs, you didn't know it's almost impossible to sleep up here without it. I d should have told you I guess". unquote.

SO after I came out of my red fury to I find out I had been holding him by the throat and punching him in the neck for five minutes we both had a good laugh. So he thought, I was still holding him by the throat and punching him in the neck in the back of my head.

So I have a bottle of Melatonin on it's way. I hope it helps. I really don't mind the no sleeping thing, it was the being awake and hearing everyone else who had taken Melatonin snoring and giggling in their blissful sleep thing that really bothered me.

I also bought a sleeping mask too. I wanted a pink one with a fuzzy border around the outside like them ladies on 80's tv shows holding a poodle yelling for Richard, but they only had black ones so again I don't get to purchase exactly what I wanted.

That seems to be a trend in my life. I see something somewhere and want to buy it, I look and look but can't find exactly what it was so I settle for something close. I then see my reflection somewhere and realize I look stupid. Great, again I settle for something I didn't want.

I'm sure the pink one would look better.

I'm guessing you people out there aren't telling anyone about my blog, I was hoping my blog would take off and Bobby Flay would see it and be like," I would love to work with that funny genius" and everything in my life would be easy from there but it doesn't seem you want to share me with the world people.

So goes the cycle of those who love you holding you back, I have seen it before. My Uncle Tim is the best example.

You see, I was working for Uncle Tim during culinary school. He was very supportive of me until the day I gave him a piece of seafood sausage and from there on he never wanted me to go on to full time cooking. He wanted me to be his carpentry, sausage making cook slave. You see, I am an amazing carpenter and Uncle Tim knew he not only was going to lose any chance of ever getting that sausage again but he was going to lose the 300,000.00$ a year I made him on the twenty dollars an hour he paid me. He had a peach of a deal going for him I tell ya!!

Where can you find someone who makes that much money for you and will cook for you too?

I just really love my Uncle Tim I tell ya, he's the person who inspired me to keep being myself. Let your freak flag fly he would say to me, let your freak flag fly.

But now I am traveling the world cooking in exotic lands and making sausage for random strangers. So is the cycle of life.

With that folks I am going to leave you with a few life points to ponder and I hope if you run across Bobby Flay or Alton Brown, or anyone who can get me back to dry land for a year, or even anyone holding a Betty Crocker cookbook looking confused you will send them my way and I'll try to mold my career around them.

And Uncle Tim, again I'm sorry I had to leave you with a house payment, two car payments and all your bills but I needed to spread my wings and fly man. Fly.

Have a good day everybody.

4 comments:

Joshua and Sarah said...

I heard that sleeping is a big problem. That would drive me crazy. Did you see the movie "Insomnia?" It had Al Pacino in it. It shows him going nuts trying to put paper over windows so he can sleep. I hope you don't go down the way he did.

Anonymous said...

HI!!! Your blog is great thus far now I am so excited to read more everytime you are in here! Have a great day!

Anonymous said...

Funny but i don't seem to remember you having a problem sleeping when it was light out while you worked for me. Sorry if I held you back, it must have been unconsiously on my part because conciously I was doing all I could to get you out of carpentry. Those were good sausage though. I do now admit that life is much less interesting without you on the crew. One question though; do you think it possible that some one was embezzling from me? i don't recall seeing any of that $300,000 you made me. In fact, i think I showed a loss for those years. I am glad you remember at least one thing I taught you. Freak flags are hard to get back once you stop flying them. Ask your Dad. Keep it flying.
Tim

Anonymous said...

Chris - long time reader, big fan of the blog.

Are those pictures of the whales and the ice taken by you? I'm really lovin' all of the great pictures!

Ryan C