Marginal Choices
I just wasted an hour and a half of my life watching the Supermarket Sweep and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire reboots. I am 100% not here for the Supermarket Sweep, mainly because every contestant made marginal choices and I can’t get behind loading your cart with boxes of candy when there are wheels of cheese and 20 pound turkeys to be had in the deli section. DID NONE OF THEM WATCH THE ORIGINAL VERSION?
When I wasn’t wasting my time on vacuous entertainment, here’s our news for the week:
We’ve recently moved from a 12-week to an eight-week schedule for the pumping out of our grease trap because we are busy and we make a lot of sludge that needs to be pumped out and trucked out to wherever grease trap contents go. And my only point here is that Coronavirus aside, having a mask on makes the smell of the open grease trap much more tolerable.
Jeanne counted Thanksgiving orders today and then we all guessed at the final number. Proving once and for all that I would slay on the game show circuit, I won by guessing 331 and we actually have 340 orders as of noon today. That is pretty solid and expected for this point in October.
We finished out ticket sales today for 100 tickets to Thursday’s Thanksgiving Preview Epic Pie Tasting. Never did I imagine we would entertain a 100 ticket pie tasting event, but I also never considered a pandemic. So here we are.
We received a huge shipment of fall and Christmas merchandise today. Most of it we ordered way back in January at the Atlanta Gift Mart, so opening each box was a true surprise. And as we stood in the center of all that mess, the Christmas Tree we ordered on Prime Day arrived. I remember looking at the empty Orange Leaf before signing the lease on PJP Nifong and worrying we could never fill it up. Ridiculous.
And finally, one of our employees who worked with us for over four years visited us on Saturday on her first trip back to Missouri after moving to Arizona. It was a delight to hear all of her adventures and share with her all of our antics since we last saw her. We are the luckiest to still be a part of the lives of so many kids from Team PJP who have moved to different states and different jobs. Sydney did mention she will be back in Missouri for Thanksgiving. We immediately booked her availability for the week and I hope she is whisking a lot at home in training for the big event.
