Good Thing
Just a few hours ago, our 2021 Thanksgiving pre-order window officially closed. We ended at just a bit over 2,500 orders, making this our biggest Thanksgiving to date. We have 4,000 tarts due later this week, so I can’t even start to super worry about next week just yet.
Here’s what else is going on:
For starters, Jeanne has pneumonia. She started feel terrible on Friday and this morning our friends at Big Tree Medical proclaimed her COVID free, but pneumonia ridden. GOODNESS. I’m so hopeful that her medicine helps and she’s feeling much better soon. We have a lot going on and I need her wise input.
She did buy some nice scissors to cut the 4,000 pieces of ribbon we need and she is obsessed with Team PJP using the nice scissors on non-ribbon cutting tasks. She did feel good enough this morning to ask me on the phone about the status of the scissors, so I’ll take that as a good sign.
Our sign has been installed at PJP West Side. I went over and was able to see it on the truck, but I haven’t even seen it on the building yet. And that should tell you about how busy we are at PJP Nifong right now.
As the trucks with the sign pulled up, our neighbors at Buff City Soaps were having their grand opening. There were 100 or more people in line to have the chance to win free soap for a year. So that was an awkward introduction as we blocked off the front parking lot for a few hours to install the front sign while people anxiously waited for soap.
I spent seven hours at PJP Nifong yesterday working on a big project. My only take away is this: don’t be alone and put 40 cups of sugar and 100 eggs in the mixer and then be surprised when you can’t raise the lever on the commercial mixer because it is too heavy. I’ve been frustrated a time or two in the last eight years, but yesterday may have been one of the most frustrating ever. I thought maybe I would get mad enough to force the level up, but in the end I just had to scoop a bunch out and make a big mess. Oddly I feel like the whole thing would have gone down about the same if Jeanne would have been there with me. Except she probably would have gone outside and flagged down a strong looking stranger and demanded help. Good thing the soap place wasn’t having a grand opening next to PJP Nifong…
