Cooking is Good...

Bookkeeping, on the other hand...

Although it is not really awful, just dull, and gives me a headache, since I am convinced that I am about to transpose numbers or create some other error.

But the worst, is estimating.

No. It is kind of fun to do.

The worst is comparing the estimated costs and hours to the actual costs and hours and realizing that, on an hourly basis, my kitchen grunts are making more than I do. I used to think that it was a grand gesture when an employer retired, giving the business to the employees. I now realize that it is nothing more than a parting act of vengeance.

Anyway, I can't really complain, since the nature of estimating is that one gets better at it (unless one is a bit slow), and we can also expect improvements in our processes and systems which will help us hit lower numbers. And, meanwhile, the whole thing is pretty fun and exciting, even the feeling of impending doom when your stand mixer dies on you while you are making a batch of wedding cake batter, and the sixteen pounds of buttercream that need to appear in the next twelve hours suddenly seems like a totally different task than what you had planned on (yes, this happened).

Anyway, that was my whine for the day. Now back to bookkeeping (and trying to keep Amalia on task in her room cleaning).