Copycat "Olive Garden" breadsticks

It's Spaghettti Night at the P. househould and we are jonesing for breadsticks!  I love to bake, so I wanted to find something close-ish to Olive Garden or Fazoli's.  I found this from www.chef-in-training.com

Homemade Olive Garden Breadsticks

By Chef in TrainingFebruary 17, 2012

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups warm water
• 1 packet active dry yeast
• 4 1/4 cups all purpose flour
• 2 Tbsp. unsalted butter melted
• 2 Tbsp. sugar
• 1 Tbsp. salt

Instructions

1. In a large bowl, dissolve sugar and yeast in warm water and allow to sit for 10 minutes, covered. Mixture should be frothy.
2. In separate bowl, combine flour and salt. Add to yeast mixture. Add melted butter. Mix with paddle attachment of stand mixer or wooden spoon until fully combined.
3. Knead dough for a few minutes just until dough is smooth. Do not overknead!
4. Grease a cookie sheet. Pull off pieces of dough and roll out into strips. Cover the dough and let sit in a warm place for 45 minutes to an hour.
5. Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F and once heated, pop in the bread sticks.
6. In microwave, combine the following: 1 stick unsalted butter (or 1/2 cup margarine), 2 teaspoons garlic powder and 1 teaspoons salt.
7. After bread sticks have cooked for 6 or 7 minutes, brush the bread sticks with half the butter mixture. Then continue to bake. Bake for 5-8 more minutes.
8. Immediately upon removal from the oven brush the other half of the butter on the sticks.Allow to cool for a few minutes before eating.

New job!!

I resigned my position at the school I'd been at for the past 4 years due to some personal reasons.  However, that did not mean that I wasn't applying for other positions.  I'd been interviewing all over and had many "thanks for interviewing but we chose someone else" contacts.  I interviewed this past Monday (7/30) at a youth corrections facility in the same district where J goes to school and where we live. The facility is operated by the state but the school by the district.  I got a call not even two hours after I interviewed saying, "we want you," and of course I said yes!  It'll be teaching Special Education to a population of kids in the judicial system, working more directly with teachers and kids on IEPs.  I go in on Monday (8/6) and Tuesday (8/7) for trainings and my first day is 8/14. 

I'm excited and yet I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a bit nervous because I'd done the exact. same. job. for the past four years, which I could practically do in my sleep.  However, I'm thrilled for a new opportunity to expand my teaching and work with new staff and kids!