Oh. Ahem.
Well, goodness, today was one of historic proportions at PJP Nifong as we worked to ship out over ONE THOUSAND jelly jar pies for a client based in Las Vegas. We baked, stickered, packaged, and delivered just under 100 packs to UPS today and tomorrow, we will take a deep dive into the next 100. And then on Wednesday, we will round the corner to our final 1/3, plus all the regular shipping for the store that comes in via our website.
Oh, and hey, maybe you noticed that Thanksgiving is next week? Jeanne didn’t. She spent most of the day not understanding why I’m so stressed out that I might fall apart and then we both realized that she thought we were TWO WEEKS out from Thanksgiving. GULP. So one week out, Jeanne, here are some updates:
I placed three separate food orders for delivery today for a cumulative total of just over $4,000 to get us through the next six days alone. In the earliest days of PJP, I would have a meltdown if we spent $600 on groceries. Those were halcyon days.
I’m slowly becoming Jeanne because while we worked so hard to make all of the pies today for shipping, orders, and the storefront, I kept giving a side eye to our floor and thinking about how much it needed to be swept so I could relax about it. Gah.
At least four people expressed disappointment with me that they couldn’t order a baby pie for next week because it is just the two of them for Thanksgiving and how could I expect them to eat a 9-inch pie with just two people??? Oh. Ahem. Honestly, I could probably eat a 9-inch White Chocolate Strawberry BY MYSELF, but I didn’t volunteer that.
We tried to figure out how many eggs we would need next week for our baking list. Final determination: we can’t do that sort of math and who cares, because we don’t have that sort of refrigeration for one order anyway.
And I spent a good hour of my life explaining away why we can’t offer meringues next week, with the appeal to emotion that egg whites are persnickety and we are already a group of people on the hinge so persnickety egg whites can’t be a thing for us at this time of year.
Our online order system closed at 6 pm this evening. If you heard a large exhale, that was just Team PJP with relief that our next set of data coming from Behind-The-Scenes Jason is final and once we ship our final jars out, we can start to build a plan for Thanksgiving 2020. Or it was just Jeanne sighing because she thought she had an extra week to kill before the big event.
