Let the Chocolate Games Begin!

OK OK OK... I have a part time job catering a chocolate fountain to wedding receptions. And you know what? I LOVE IT!

I also have an MBA... and you know what? Aside from learning a lot, it hasn't done shit for me since I graduated March 2007.

I sent my friend/mentor in Asheville my resume (looking for new work) and he helped me tweak it for his market. He told me to take the chocolate fountain work off the resume because... and I quote... "It's not something someone with an MBA would do." Screw that.

Several years ago I helped a restauranteur here import a chocolate fountain. Then we imported a different one. Then he did two more by himself. He keeps one in his restaurant flowing all the time as one menu on the dessert chart. The others he uses for catering to weddings and events.

In March I visited my friend and had some food there after a workout. It was just on a whim as I hadn't been there for probably six or more months. I told him how my business has basically shut down (i.e. almost no income). I tried to explain to him that it was my request to the Universe coming true. You see, I want to close my business down, and leave Japan. And the Universe is giving that HALF of my request to me. I still can't find work in N.A. but keep looking. I WILL find something, it is in the channels and the Universe will deliver it when the timing is right. But I still live on "borrowed yen" until that day comes.

My friend Kotaro told me that he could really use my help because he is the only one doing the fountain catering now and he is very busy with his restaurant (it's a second business for him). The stuff is heavy and the female servers really have trouble moving it all around. The male servers are also just as busy at the restaurant so he is short (they are all short compared to me) and needed help. So I came to him at just the right time.

What I do is take the fountain, melted chocolate, dishes and fruit to a wedding reception, set it up, get it going, and keep the food dishes full. When the reception is done, I break it down, clean it all up and take it back to the restaurant. It is usually an 8 hour day.

And I love it!

I love it because there is so much positive, loving, happy energy flowing at wedding receptions that I can't help but feel really good when I'm there. I'm also a people person to the nth degree and working alone in my house here for over five years has made me crazy. I need to get out, to see people, to interact, to share, to give, to love, to support, to talk, laugh, cry, converse, and just... BE.

So this is great for me.

It seems that there have been only one or two jobs a month (usually on Sundays). It isn't a lot of money, but I'm not doing it for the yen. I'm doing it for the Love.

Love of people.

Love of life.

Today there was a really drunk guest who tried to stuff chocolate-covered fruit down my throat. He also put his dirty fingers into the fountain, sucked them off and did it again. I ended up getting lots of chocolate all over my lovely white dress shirt. Oh well... that's all part of professionalism, I guess.

Another day at the chocolate factory.
Did I make people happy?

You bet I did!

Therefore...

Mission Accomplished!

I love you!

Cammy Wonka

P.S. See the guy in the mirror in the background? He's kinda cute, don'tcha think? I do!

P.P.S. They were ALL animals today! There was chocolate everywhere!