As I sit here waiting to head out and end my shift for the day I just came across a video of morning tv. It was a segment with Bobby Stuckey, who owns and operates several restaurants in Colorado, he’s one of 300 Master Sommeliers in the world, and one of his restaurants has a Michelin star.

He has a restaurant called Sunday Vinyl, and now I’m having deja vu. Anyways during the segment they asked what the concept and name behind Sunday Vinyl meant. He said:

“For the last 30 years my wife has put up with me working 6 days a week, so on Sundays we listen to vinyl and drink wine.”

That was the moment, I know what I want in life. Hint: it’s not necessarily working 6 nights a week, but it is having that partner that sticks through the times where you don’t get to spend as much time together as you’d like because you’re building your careers and setting yourselves up for the days later in life that you have all the time in the world to spend together.

Most people aren’t willing to make that sacrifice but that’s what I want, I want a partner where one day a week no matter what, we do some activity on that day every week, because it proves that despite everything else in life going on, you can still make time to connect with each other.

I do enjoy listening to vinyl, not a big wine guy, but I just loved that through 30 years his wife saw in him what I bet most others didn’t, that he could do it. He could open his own places, he could get a Michelin star, he could become a master somm.

We live in a world where people are so quick to give up, give up on their dreams, give up on relationships, don’t have any fight in them.

Well I gotta make this short because I’m supposed to be working but:

Don’t give up, you can do it, someone believes in you, I believe in you. And I’m in search of someone who believes in me. When I was 18 one night I was sitting with my beverage director, 4 AM, wild snow storm, and he said what’s your goal in life, I said buy a house by the time I’m 25 and open a restaurant. He said he had no doubt I’d do both. Bought a house at 24. Aiming to open a restaurant by 30. 1 year 6 months, 25 days left. It’ll take a lot of sacrifice, but I’ll always make time for activities with someone.

Where the skies are gold not gray,

J.