Dave’s!

Dave’s Cosmic Subs where everything is cosmically delicious!

With a menu that stretches out across the whole front wall and where we create specials based off our taste buds or creative customers, there really is no better place for a sub sandwich when it comes to this hole in the wall wonder... at times I can honestly say it help save me... they took me in when I needed extra money and 3 years later I do it all right along with my crew.

Dave’s isn’t just a sandwich shop to me... it’s what I call family... we work together, we laugh together, we goof, joke and cry, we eat, we dance, we party, we spend holidays feasting and we have a love hate for each other as if we were all related because trust me if anyone messed with anyone of us we would all have each others back. Over the years we have greeted and waved goodbye to employees but the truth is once you are in the crew, burns and all it’s like a secret society and Dave’s blood is the best blood.

Sure I work at a sandwich shop in which I could be doing something else, making better money, with benefits and not slicing meat for a living but because of Dave’s I get to set my own rules and life... If I worked behind a desk for someone else making designs or taking photos I would loose my creative... I would hate that I was making someone else’s dream/vision come true while putting mine on the back burner... I am an artist, a creative soul, I have dreams and goals and I will work for them because I do not want to loose what I love about myself... I know that working behind a counter isn’t what I strive for but with the people I work with, getting to be creative with food, making people’s tummies smile and then getting to build myself as Hoffmeister is worth it.

In life all I’m looking for is to inspire, to create success, to find happy... I do want a family and I want to be able to take care of things so that they can live comfortably and I hope I can do that along with keeping true to myself because I want them to know me the way I see myself and the way I would want to see them live... as themselves.

So to Dave’s and my crew, I Love You and know I have your back like the perfect sweater, even when the day comes that I throw away my gloves for the last time!

Moving On...

Thanks for all the messages and concerns about where I was going... don't worry, I haven't left or moved on from my little abode that sits on Ponce. However, I am choosing to move on in the right direction.

In a world full of people there are many things that we are faced with. There is no stoping earths rotation or the way of life, emotions, attractions and feelings but you do have a choice. A choice to better yourself, to stay true to what you are looking for and how you want to live your life. To be strong enough to move on when things no longer make us happy or hurt us. In hopes to finding something better... for who knows, something maybe out there that we never even imagined or dreamed of.

I am challenging myself to make the right moves, so that as a person, I can be who my cat thinks I am, full of wonder. I want to surround myself w positive outgoing people, who can laugh along side of me as we'll as have a real conversation. For life is not about how many people know you it's about who you share it w. I believe life can be a fairytale but to have the real thing we must experience both sweet and sour so when we find it, we can appreciate it more.

So from a picture that was intended for an ongoing joke about lesbians and uhauls... it actually turned into a realization.

I hope you challenge yourself, go find your happiness, go out on a limb... as scary as it may seem the reward maybe worth the rush of the unknown, plus isn't that were the fruit is?

Treating the Ladies...

I don’t know if I should call it old school or if people have forgotten what it is to treat somebody they like but as for me I was always taught to show how you feel all while being a respectable person. For me if I like someone I show them by romanticizing them, making little things such as mixed tapes and write them little notes or letters (I love snail mail), to me this is not only special but something that should be done.

Recently it has been brought to my attention through a series of events that I am not who I say I am or the person a certain someone thought I was...

That I use the same tactics and make girls/women feel special by making them these mixed CDs, writing cute little notes and cook for them.

Truth, maybe I do use the same tactics but each person I meet and start something with is different. And who doesn't want to treat who they're with special? No one person is the same, just like I don't treat everyone the same. Yes, certain aspects because I am a creative soul so I like making things. I make mixes because I not only enjoy music but because I like to make the people I'm with feel how I am feeling though music. I have never once re-gifted a previous mix made for someone else because they aren’t the same feelings. I couldn’t have all the same songs or letters or words for them.

For each beautiful soul that enters my life I like learning about them and opening up, sharing not only myself but the experiences and getting to know each other because even if we move on from one another at least I can say I gave them me, I showed them the real Loren and if they walk away or realize they want something else it’s because we weren’t meant for each other and I tried the best that I could and that we had our moment, that we were meant for our moment that we shared. And in those moments I am given, I will forever look into the eyes of the one I’m with and let them know that they are special and that they are the person I want to be with in that moment.

Another argument is how could I fall for someone and then walk away so easy...? Easy, I don’t like being taken advantage of, I’m tried of giving myself and watching people somersalt into their actions. Don’t share things with me and have an underlining issues that you don’t let surface till after sharing parts of yourself with me. I realize we will have many people enter our lives who will excite us, challenge us, frustrate us, make us laugh till we feel like we have a six pack and when we do, I fully embrace it for I want to grow and know what it is like to feel. But when I think about who I want to be with at the end of my days it’s someone who is going to make me smile and reflect on the world not having to argue, yell at or wonder what if you are telling me the truth or are you yet again fabricating the truth. I want to end up with my best friend and when you are best friends things fall into place giving you a feeling of peace. Yes, I know there will be ups and down for nothing is ever easy because “anything worth having isn’t easy and anything easy isn’t worth having.”

All in all, I am happy the way I treat women and if someone thinks I don’t... then it’s their loss.