Yesterday, a very sweet little old lady came into the store (she's at least 85 if she's a day!) and has been in our store a couple of times. She's just the sweetest lady and always picks out a gift for me to ship to her son. Well, this time, she was walking up and down the aisles searching for her gift (I was working on the computer at the checkout counter), and as she got to the front of the aisle, right in front of me, she FELL!
Scared the HELL out of me and I damn near jumped over the counter to get to her! Fortunately, she was fine and didn't get hurt, although she could have, very easily, as she fell right next to the end cap of that row and could have easily whacked her head, which would have required stitches! She said that her ankle gave out and it happens occasionally, but hasn't happened in quite some time. Sure scared the daylights out of me and took a while for my heart to stop racing! Monday was just a CRAZY day! We had a boatload of orders to get out that we had been working on all weekend, and had a bunch left over from Friday because the day after Thanksgiving is a UPS holiday! Betcha didn't know that! Certainly, we didn't! Because of the issues I had previously with the box supplier, I had to wait until Monday to get the boxes we needed to ship all our Hot Dog Forks and Marshmallow Trees. Once Lee (our UPS driver) came in at 10 a.m. with the boxes and our bulk crystal cones, I had a LOT of work to do! I've learned that to make things go faster for me, I do certain things all at once (kind of like an assembly line). That meant taping up 12 hot dog boxes so I could start to fill the orders. Not only did I have to finish up all those orders, but I had additional orders from Monday that had to go out!
Oh, and let's not forget the fact that I had to drive 50 miles to the Clark County Humane Society to drop Mitzi off to get fixed and I had to be there between 12:30 and 3 p.m.! Greg had to see the chiropractor at 1:30, so had to wait for him to get back from that and then drive to Neillsville with Mitzi! OYE! Greg was supposed to work at 3 p.m., but he had to stay at the store until I got back from dropping Mitzi off, which was after 4 p.m. Not much we could do about that!
The reason we took Mitzi to the Humane Society was that they have a special program to spay and neuter pets and only charge $40! You can't beat that price, so if you have a pet that needs to be fixed, be sure to look into your local humane society and see if they can help you! She handled the surgery on Tuesday just fine and I was able to bring her back home today. I made Greg go and pick her up because I just didn't have two extra hours to drive to Neillsville and back today. She's obviously sore, but the only thing we notice is that she's walking up and down the stairs much slower than normal, but she'll be fine in a day or two!
I always feel so sorry for our pets when they have some sort of surgery! They're taken to a strange place, put in a cage, and then when it's time for surgery, they're handled by strangers, (I'm sure they're as kind and gentle as can be!), and put under . . . then they wake up, groggy and in pain and have no idea why! Poor things! We're only doing what's best for them and of course I know that, but it still must be very hard on them.
Not much else happening here. We're VERY busy at the store, with the holiday shopping beginning, so I've been going in at 8 a.m., instead of 9, to get a head start on things as there's a LOT to do right now. I thought I'd have Greg to help this year during the Holiday season, but now that he's managing full-time at the grocery store, I don't have that. What I'm probably going to end up doing is having the kids come to the store after school to help me start packing up the orders that will go out the NEXT day. I'm sure my mom will come in and help again, too, like she did last year.
As much work as it is, I'd NEVER complain! I absolutely LOVE being so busy, and this is only the beginning!
Julie
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