Living your dreams

[pbray]

Today marks the official opening of Purple Awning Pastries in Endicott, New York. For years my friend Judy Ghosin talked about wanting to open her own bakery, and this year she decided the time had come to leave the corporate world and take the plunge.

At lunch today a few of us went over to visit her, sampled the offerings (yum!) and placed orders for Thanksgiving desserts. Her bakery is gorgeous, and the treats inside are amazing. You wouldn't believe the delicate swan shaped cream puffs that she was handing out as samples, they were (almost) too good to eat.

Wishing her the very best. I know I'm going to be stopping there often, and will need to increase my exercise regime to match :-)

Comments

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, best of luck to her! Mmm, fresh baked goods!

[pbray.livejournal.com]

For years she used to test her recipes on her co-workers, much to our delight. Her recipes for cheesecake are out of this world-- IMO it's a toss-up whether her Bailey's cheesecake or her brownie cheesecake is the best.

For Thanksgiving I ordered a traditional dessert :-) Chocolate Bourbon Cake. Chocolate cake, bourbon mousse filling separating the layers, then chocolate icing. Mmmmm, can't wait.

Judy was my manager back when I first became a published author, and she was great about encouraging me to pursue my dreams, so it's wonderful to see her pursue hers.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness. Does she share recipes with wayward writers on the far side of the world, I asked hopefully? :) Wow, what wonderfully yummy things those sound like! I've gotten into making cheesecakes lately, and a person can never have too many recipes. :)

*beam* That's really terrific. I hope her bakery is wildly successful. *sends good vibes from the far side of the world* :)

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Sadly her recipes are now intellectual property that need to be protected, so when she is wildly successful she can start a franchise operation.

She's been planning this for years, and is really smart about how she's gone about it. Quitting your day job to become a full time writer isn't quite the same thing (for one thing we don't need a health certificate nor staff in embroidered aprons), but much of what she has did to put together her long range plans is exactly what I'm doing in looking at the day I can leave CorporateWorld.

Unless, of course, I strike the mega lottery this week, in which case I'll be leaving CorporateWorld a bit sooner than I'd planned-- and buying drinks at cons from now until the money runs out.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

I suspected as much, regarding the recipes. But hope sprang eternal! :)

*laugh* I had a plan for quitting my day job to become a full time writer. It was a pretty good plan, even. Then my day job quit me 13 months ahead of schedule, which gave me a lot more room to do the full-time writing part, although rather less of a financial cushion than I'd hoped for. :)

I vote for you winning the mega lottery, and I'll meet you at the next con. :)