14,001
I’m not sure how today is only Monday because we’ve arrived at the time of year wherein one day is like seven years in regular life. And for the most part, our schedules have been a dumpster fire and I’m just traveling between stores and covering random shifts. (One day last week I moved between the two stores four separate times between 7am and 6pm, which is neither a yay-me statement or a poor-me statement, but just a reality statement because if you know, you know.)
Anyway, here is what else is going on:
Jeanne’s mini chainsaw has not arrived from the Tik Tok shop yet. But because I looked it up on Tik Tok shop to discern just how much I should stress about her owning one (because remember, I once sat with her in the emergency room with a cracked rib from when she fell over a regular chainsaw), my social media is now convinced that I too want to own a mini chainsaw. I don’t. At all. They should have a filter setting for “only reviewing decisions made by difficult mothers”.
Speaking of social media, our Facebook just rolled over 14,000 followers. That’s a milestone. I distinctively remember our first 1,000 and how excited we were. So if you are building your business and you feel like it is taking a sweet forever, remember it took us 10 years - give or take - to grow 13,000 followers organically.
The October Pie of the Month is Mummy Rhubarb. As most of you know, Ellery designs all of our posters and we are just the luckiest to have tremendous talent in-house. We call the lattice that we do on the Rhubarb Pie a mummy lattice in general, so when she added googly eyes, we were sold for a Halloween vibe. As a bonus, the googly eyes are edible.
And Thanksgiving orders opened last weekend. We’ve collected around 140 separate orders (not total pies) in the past six days, so we are on target for a solid Thanksgiving. You would think I would have less stress about our 11th Thanksgiving as compared to our fourth, or eighth, or even 10th. But NO MA’AM.
And finally, this really has nothing to do with anything, but I was just thinking about Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift going to dinner in Kansas City and how the entire restaurant shuts down for their visit. Don’t you ever wonder how that works? Obviously I would close PJP for Travis and Taylor to shop, but do we think those restaurant owners are a little dubious it is actually Taylor’s people calling? I would need like a certified letter on official letterhead that it was real and they were visiting PJP, but that seems presumptuous to ask of the world’s most famous woman, right? And now that I think about it, official letterhead from who? The Offices of Taylor Swift? She’s not coming here, but you never know what the universe brings, so I want to be prepared. Also, I feel like if Travis had our Chocolate Bourbon Pecan just ONCE, he would be follower 14,001.
