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NOV 2016: Vlog with a Jog, One Year Later
NOV 2016: Vlog with a Jog, One Year Later
To think that it’s been a year since I made my last “Vlog with a Jog,” I cannot believe how fast this year has passed us by!
I was just a fresh graduate who recently moved back home and was beginning to feel the “itch” to get going with her career. I was hopeful, insanely ambitious (plagued by my hustle from college) and probably a…
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This warms my heart. A couple of months ago one of my regulars at work paid with a credit card with a photograph of a robot on it. I told them how much I loved the card; they told me how their son made that robot himself in the third grade. This morning, the dad came in saying he has something for me. It was a poem attached with the robot and a couple of photographs. It read: "My Treasure is as good as gold, not a junk heap of old. A hamburger box, now covered with blonde curly locks. A paper dress, she looks her best. Her heart of tin, now belongs to Finn. Because one person's trash is another's Treasure." I couldn't get over how precious this is. It's a simple poem about how there is always beauty in the ugly; how one's trash can be another's treasure; how a heart of tin can steal Finn. I told Finn, whose much older now, that he should keep creating. It's simple joys and simple messages like this that can warm a heart. ♡ #happymonday #mondaymantra #keepcreating #childatheart #robot #robots #treasure #trash #recycled #finn #poem #child #childhood #precious #peetslife #coffeerachel #regulars #creativity #imagination #love #iamsodamnsappy (at Peet's Coffee)
This morning at work, a regular at our store came up to my register and said, "Do you have a twin?" He mentioned how I look exactly like this person on an ad he saw for a sales corp thing. I laughed and said, "Well I'm the only me I know!" He was still convinced and I said that I was curious. He told me, "I'll print out a picture for you and show it to you next time!" Five minutes later he brought me this picture. I don't see it, but I guess since I'm a young Asian girl, any Asian girl on an ad looks like me. Oh, Orinda... "How many stalkers do you have?!" my coworker said.
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I had a mini freak-out the other day when I realized I had gained weight. "I've never weighed this much in my life! Is there something wrong with this scale? I haven't been getting enough sleep!" My weight has generally stayed within the same range since high school and college, fluctuating throughout periods of time but always returning back to normal. I've been working up to 30-40 hours a week at work now, and I've been doing more moving around lately--working the bar, constantly lifting and moving machinery, unpacking boxes and whipping my body around for those morning rushes. I went for a mad walk to lighten the load, and felt my muscles tense up. My brother realized that it's probably muscle weight from all the heavy-duty lifting and moving I've done at work. "You're probably right." 😅 #coffeerachel #peetsrachel #workmakesmebuff #hahanotreally
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Me: Luck? You gotta make your own luck in life!
Coworker: Luck and love.
Me: Awww.
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My first day at Peet’s, I was appalled at the idea of cleaning floors or wiping down walls. “I’m too smart for this,” I told myself. “I’m such a princess!” “Do I even know how to mop?” I tried to convince myself to quit.
I’ve realized that now that I can say that I’ve cleaned trash at Peet’s, getting people’s coffee or doing other dirty work is the least of my worries.
I’d be glad to be a damn “sandwich girl” or intern. As long as I have my first foot in the door, that’s all that matters.
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People say I would make a great merch girl.
(It’s also good to just get experience on the road and being a “right-hand girl.”)
Maybe my work at a coffee shop is more beneficial than I thought.
“Hi, what can I get started for you?!”
Me: “I’m off!” My Manager: “Oh no, you can’t leave. You’re like rainbows. You’re always so happy.” Ha. Attitude is everything. 🌈👍
@rachelannc
