The business of eating

Wishbone is a really good business model. Most food enterprises have not successfully captured all 4 meal markets of the day. Wishbone has reasonable breakfasts, healthy lunch options, jars of spreads/olives/nuts/sweets for when people are having afternoon tea parties and need to quickly grab some snacks, and then the real winner, take-home shrink-wrapped dinners. The dinners keep for a while, and taste better than frozen dinners, being fresher and not frozen. I still haven't decided whether their new business approach, the larger sit-down cafe, will be as successful as their 5 million take-away only locations, but I certainly appreciate having the inaugural one in my building. The only market they haven't cornered (and don't have a chance of cornering) is the morning/afternoon tea coffee rush. If I walk half a block further, I can have the amazing coffee I've grown to expect in New Zealand. Still, even their coffee is not bad. You can sum up everything there as, "not bad."

For some reason I find myself thinking about food businesses that cater exclusively to the 9-to-5 workforce a lot lately. It's a really boring thing to do, but seems like it makes a lot of money. I have no interest in opening up one of my own, and yet I can't stop thinking about it.

Work is back to usual, but I'm finding it reasonably satisfying at the moment. I should take advantage of this career-wise positive frame of mind and start planning future things. I'm following a piece of advice I picked up in a women's interest magazine by doing this. Next magazine advised me not to think about the future during negative anxious periods; rather to turn optimism into productivity. Ha! Magazine advice: Works?

I've had an almost nonstop headache for the past week. Nothing major, but this minor persistance is something I'm not used to. I'm taking excedrin more and more frequently lately as well. I used to take one pill a week, but these days I'm taking at least four. Maybe it's time to rethink my lifestyle again, do more yoga, eat better, etc. It's funny that I know all the right things to do but still fall out of the health routine over and over. How can I hope to fix other people if I can't fix myself?

Basic and boring questions. Today is a practical and boring day. So what?

I saw Nayou again on Sunday. I can't wait until he's old enough to be more engaged with the world....that's reason enough to stay out here a few months longer! Once babies get to that age where you can play little games with them to make them laugh, they become the best thing in the world. If I stay until May he'll be 5 months old. Hmmm..... I definitely don't feel ready to leave when Joe/Kris/Francisco are in early March....right now I'm thinking mid-April....it really depends on what discount plane fares are available though. And what happens with Francisco. And how long I think I can deal with living with Mom/whether I can get a temp job on LI. I'm excited at the moment about having a NY limbo period though. I can visit Boston! See a show! Visit Vis and her new baby! Maybe my travels should center around jumping from birth to birth. Like a nonfunctional transcontinental nursemaid.