Oh hey look, I’ve made it 1/6 of the way through my challenge! Today I’m going to tell you a little about my day job, but first I’m going to tell you about dinner.
I love Fridays because I work a short day from home and then if all goes well I have time to do stuff, like cook dinner or take the cats to the vet. My goal is to make something special for dinner on Friday. And by special I mean something besides whatever-it-is-I-can-throw-together-in-30-minutes-because-that’s-all-the-time-I-have, which is what happens on all of the other weeknights.
Even with the extra time on Fridays, somehow I often end up not having time or forgetting to go grocery shopping. Tonight was one of those nights. Fortunately we had approximately 14 shrimp in the freezer, a massive head of cauliflower, and lemons. And since 99% of the time we also have olive oil & pasta, I was golden.
Regular readers probably think I have an odd proclivity for cauliflower. What can I say? It’s a hearty vegetable that soaks up flavor well and fills the void when everyone else is eating meat or fish. So yeah, we had cauliflower again. This time, just roasted with lots of olive oil & salt, lemon juice, lemon zest and a sprinkling of red pepper flakes. Yum.
For the kids and Shane, I made Shrimp Scampi. And we had a side of linguini. Shrimp scampi is super easy, this is my favorite recipe (you can skip the shallot and/or the parsley if you don’t have them) but this one is fine too, if you’re just serving it alone or with pasta and don’t need a lot of sauce.
So, do you still want to hear about my day job, or do you just want to look at another picture of that cauliflower?
Enough about cauliflower! What I do for a living is design real estate marketing campaigns. So, my team and I, we brand buildings (as we like to say) all day, every day.
It’s a super interesting job that stays interesting because for each building we have to find a way to carve out a real personality, and try to get inside the heads of the people who will live of work there, and create a campaign that caters to them. Not who they really are necessarily, but who they aspire to be.
I love home. I love homes, all kinds of homes. Whenever I go somewhere, I fantasize about living there, and sometimes even seriously consider it—even though moving is my personal version of hell. In fact, I love looking at real estate so much that when Rose was little, she thought my job was “looking at houses on the computer.” For better or for worse. So this line of work is pretty much perfect.
Maybe the connection between the blog and my career has something about home? Or not. That’s ok, I still have 25 more days to figure it out.
Until tomorrow!
