Student Orientation: My Back Story

Hi there!

I'm Candice. I'm 36 years old, the mother to 4 year old boy/girl twins, and the wife of a cop. I live on the south shore of Long Island in the great state of New York.

Oh, yeah. I'm not a very good cook. I try, though. My sister, Julie, makes fun of me because I have maybe seven items that I can cook REALLY well. (Hey-- That's a different meal every night!) I've got a massive shellfish allergy, which is why I'm terrified to go to any sort of cooking class or school. And considering that the twins are four, I really don't have very much time. I own a travel and event planning company, Candy Cain Travel, and I also work from home as a Marketing Executive for an International Wellness Company. I'm actually trying to get the latter business to a point where I can step back from the first, but that is another blog entirely.

My family (I'm in the green)

To the left is a picture of me and my family, taken at Disney this summer. The five people you see in that picture are the five people that will appear in this blog. If others appear, I'll make sure to put post pictures of them so that you can get a visual.

When Hurricane Sandy hit in October, we lost internet and phone for about two weeks. I got an alert from Groupon on my cellphone saying that there was a groupon for a one year membership to Top Chef University. My husband and I love Top Chef, and I REALLY wanted the Groupon, but we had no way to purchase it. I mentioned it at Thanksgiving, when we were talking about cool Groupons that we had seen. 

You can imagine my delight on Christmas morning when my husband told me to check my email for another gift as he walked out the door to go to work. About an hour later, I jumped online and checked my email. Lo and behold, there it was: The Best Christmas Gift EVER. Hubs bought me the Groupon for that one year membership to Top Chef University!!!

I am outrageously excited about this gift. I love the idea of learning to cook like a Top Chef. A good friend of mine, Danielle, is an OUTRAGEOUS cook and we keep telling her to go onto MasterChef. Well, jeez, maybe with this University I will be confident enough to audition myself, rather than for The Worst Cooks In America!

Something that I do happen to be good at, however, is writing. I have a couple of blogs that I maintain, and my best friend Mechelle suggested that I track my progress with a blog. (What she actually said was, "Can, this sounds a bit blog-worthy...") I've got a few followers on each blog and several thousand views. I'm sure that this is going to be an exercise in comedy, so I hope you enjoy it as much as I anticipate I will. 

Merry Christmas!!!