Juggling

Posted By hiromi on March 10, 2012 in Thoughts on life | 1 Comment

My life these days is one big juggling act.  I have so many demands on my time that I don’t have any down time mentally.  The cooking classes have really taken off this time and every class is full.  Plus I am now getting requests to do private classes which is lots of fun.  The famous foodie blogger Ms Marmite Lover came to a class and wrote about it.  You can readher post here.  This has led to new enquiries about classes and more followers on Twitter.  All very exciting.  So I spend a fair amount of my time thinking recipes and menus.  It’s almost two years since I started teaching and I am finally comfortable enough to not be in a panic before.  But I’m also thinking of restructuring the class schedule so more thinking, more planning.

Then there’s the Kinomi business.  In hindsight it was probably foolhardy to begin this not too long after launching a cooking class business but ignorance is bliss, right?  I have added a new flavour, Spicy Chilli Nuts and reformulated the Sweet Miso Nuts and I am really happy with all three flavours.  So now I have to go out and sell them.  It’s scary, nerve racking and hard not to take the nos’ personally but I have made some small attempts.  It is so much easier to advise other people what to do.  Lead by example is not one of my strong points, I am discovering.

I also have a translation due at the end of April.  It is a continuation of the last one I did so I know the story, I know the format.  But it still needs to be done.  Fortunately I have plenty of time, just have to get down to Piccadilly Circus to pick up the book (really a manga).

So these are the three balls that I have up in the air at the moment.  I do plenty of procrastinating during the day but I don’t know that I’ve ever worked this hard.  When you do your own thing, it’s hard to not always think about it.

My mental sanctuary is the gym.  When I am there doing a class, I don’t have time to think about anything else.  For one hour, sometimes two, all thought beyond how to survive the class gets put on hold.

I wonder when I come out the other side, will I still have friends?  I haven’t seen anyone for lunch in I don’t know how long.  But I am content in a chaotic, panicked, each day is a roller coaster kind of way.   Is it time for a holiday yet?