Goodness
So, I didn’t mean to fall completely off the grid for the past week, but GOODNESS…it’s been a non-relenting slew of days at PJP. And that’s pretty on brand for November, right? Here’s a list of things worth mentioning:
Thanksgiving orders close next Monday, November 16th. I don’t doubt I’ll fold like a cheap suit if someone tries to order after the 16th, but I’ve instructed Team PJP to keep me away from the phone.
And honestly, that’s the least of things happening next week. On Monday, we are shipping 180 jars. And on Tuesday, we are shipping 1,440 jars. And Wednesday, there’s even more jars to ship. A company actually emailed me about our drop ship policy for 3,000 jars and I had to explain that our drop ship policy included walking the boxes of jars four doors down to our friends at the UPS store. That’s pretty glamorous.
And speaking of neighbors, one of our restaurant neighbors sent us a letter suggesting we get our own dumpster because they don’t like to share with us because we create a lot of trash. Bwahahahahhahahahaha. SAME. The letter actually suggested we share with another tenant. Sadly, we spend $138.01 a month on dumpster fees and the city really doesn’t care if we are all making a lot of trash. It has been a long time since someone wrote me a letter and mailed it, so I’ll take that as the bright spot of that whole ridiculous tussle.
We ordered an entire pallet of sugar and it arrived on Monday. I’m just going to mark “be a woman that orders sugar by the pallet” right off my list.
The parking lot in front of our old store on Buttonwood has been demolished, presumably to repair the craters that contributed to Lake PJP. And even though we’ve been gone a year, I felt physically ill to even think about what that construction would have meant for us during our busiest season. Gah.
