Hi blog world! I'm sorry if you feel neglected. I've been trying to do better but some days are just to busy for me to stop and chat. I wrote the date today and can hardly believe January is almost over already! I also realized today I'm still having a hard time writing 2011, time just flies!
As most of you know, we are getting ready to remodel our store here very soon...as in...next week! I am so excited to see the changes! Even though time hasn't allowed for us to do everything that we wanted to do for the current round of remodeling it will be nice to see the changes and even the few things we are doing will make a big difference!
We are also very excited as next week we are having a Re-Grand Opening at the store and many faculty from Missouri Western will be in attendance...excited to see all that can come and will miss those who won't be able to make it this trip.
Getting a chocolate store ready for Valentine's Day is exhausting but oh sooo exciting! I love all of our heart boxed chocolates and decorating strawberries is probably one of my favorite things!
Okay, that's all for tonight, time to get some shut eye!
Friday, January 21, 2011
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Slow, slow Tuesday
Okay so I am writing this blog from work, yep, from work. Seems there aren't many shoppers out on this Tuesday evening. My wonderful husband did work a majority of the day, I can only imagine how much fun that was if it was as hoppin' as it is right now! So with a large part of my day "off", are there really days "off" anymore?!?....I....went grocery shopping, brought Rob lunch at the store, and cleaned house for our guests tonight! So my partial day off didn't really seem like much of a day off, actually....and obviously....I think I worked harder the rest of the day than I am currently while I'm at work.
Soo...our guests! Our 2 great friends Isaiah and David drove Rob's car the 26 hour drive from Missouri and arrived late this afternoon! We are so excited to see them and have them visiting for a couple of days. I'm looking forward for us getting a little "time-off" to spend a couple hours hanging out with them outside of the store. Also...their arrival gave me the much needed motivation to clean our very messy apartment! Now it looks awesome....if only it could stay that way forever....without me having to clean half of the day :). Don't worry, yes, I will keep dreamin! haha.
I don't know what it is about me but even though I have warm 75 degree, sunny Californian weather, I am still slightly jealous of all my friends in the Midwest who are having snow days from school and work! Ok, so even though getting out in the FREEZING cold and having to drive in the snow and having fingers so cold they would turn unnatural colors......I love snow days and the idea of being snowed in, cuddling up and watching a great movie or reading a great book all while sipping something warm....these things just sound cozy and wonderful right now! :) I'm sure all it would take is for me to step one foot in the current Midwest and I would quickly retreat back to my 75 degree, I could tan outside in January, weather. It is still very surprising to me just how quickly I can forget exactly what it feels like in negative temperatures and multiple inches of snow to make me miss these things currently.
So..new subject. I think I need a good book for all that "spare time" of mine! Any suggestions?
Soo...our guests! Our 2 great friends Isaiah and David drove Rob's car the 26 hour drive from Missouri and arrived late this afternoon! We are so excited to see them and have them visiting for a couple of days. I'm looking forward for us getting a little "time-off" to spend a couple hours hanging out with them outside of the store. Also...their arrival gave me the much needed motivation to clean our very messy apartment! Now it looks awesome....if only it could stay that way forever....without me having to clean half of the day :). Don't worry, yes, I will keep dreamin! haha.
I don't know what it is about me but even though I have warm 75 degree, sunny Californian weather, I am still slightly jealous of all my friends in the Midwest who are having snow days from school and work! Ok, so even though getting out in the FREEZING cold and having to drive in the snow and having fingers so cold they would turn unnatural colors......I love snow days and the idea of being snowed in, cuddling up and watching a great movie or reading a great book all while sipping something warm....these things just sound cozy and wonderful right now! :) I'm sure all it would take is for me to step one foot in the current Midwest and I would quickly retreat back to my 75 degree, I could tan outside in January, weather. It is still very surprising to me just how quickly I can forget exactly what it feels like in negative temperatures and multiple inches of snow to make me miss these things currently.
So..new subject. I think I need a good book for all that "spare time" of mine! Any suggestions?
Saturday, January 8, 2011
A Morning at Home
Well this morning I was able to be at home for a little time "off". It has been great but I honestly thought I would have gotten more done by now. You know how those mornings go, I have plans of relaxing a little bit and also having time to clean house, do laundry, and make lunch. Well...so far...haha!
In business news, we are working on getting everything together for our remodel. We've been looking at graphics, paint, lighting...it's going to look great and we can't wait to see the finished product. This week we were also able to hire another employee who starts on Monday! It is very exciting to see everything coming together and hopefully we will be super prepared for Valentine's Day coming up in a few short weeks.
That's all for now, I better start my "to-do" list!
In business news, we are working on getting everything together for our remodel. We've been looking at graphics, paint, lighting...it's going to look great and we can't wait to see the finished product. This week we were also able to hire another employee who starts on Monday! It is very exciting to see everything coming together and hopefully we will be super prepared for Valentine's Day coming up in a few short weeks.
That's all for now, I better start my "to-do" list!
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Happy New Year!
So is everyone having a great 2011 so far? I hope so! The ringing in of the new year brought 3 consecutive nights of closing the store at 7pm! Woohoo! For New Year's Eve, since we're still new to the area and aren't sure what to do or where, we decided to have a date night! It was GREAT! We drove to Temecula, CA (about 20 min) and had dinner at P F Changs...one of my favorites! After dinner we came back home to watch a movie and of course I fell asleep at 11:30...Happy New Year! haha! But in my defense, I made it to midnight and rang in the new year Central Time Zone! :)
Yesterday we decided to do inventory at the store and got probably 3/4 done. It's quite the process, having to weigh out each individual assortment in our cases and back room. We were fairly efficient for our first time but I think the next time we do inventory it will go a lot quicker now that we've got a "system". I also realized yesterday that I lost my phone somewhere, turns out I left it at the restaurant in Temecula. So, after work on our way to pick up my phone, we decided to also stop by and see our friend and co-franchise who owns the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory in Temecula. Her store looks great! It's exciting to see what our store will look like in just a short couple of weeks with the remodel.
This morning I am so excited because we are going to church! It has been a couple weeks and since we haven't had employees to watch the store, we've been there every Sunday so far. But this Sunday, we're having our one and only (so far) employee man the store so we can finally go to church again! I'm excited! :)
We are also getting our Rocky Mountain shipment today, which is exciting as our shelves are mostly bare of boxed chocolates after the Christmas shoppers concluded. Now...on to Valentines Day!
We are very excited for 2011 and so excited for all of our friends and family that are getting married this year! With the close of 2010 I was reflecting the other day about what has happened in the past year. In 2010 I graduated college with a Bachelor of Science in Communication Studies, emphasis in Public Relations, and a Minor in Spanish, married my best friend and the most amazing guy I know, and moved half way across the country! Not to mention...becoming a business owner! 2010 was definitely full of exciting and very life changing moments all so very exciting!! Definitely excited for 2011 and all that it will bring. Oh, another thing I forgot to mention, in 2010 I also won (through Lake Elsinore Outlets and Christmas Tree Lane) 7 nights trip to Cabo San Lucas! That will be our much needed vacation and sounds like a great spot to spend our anniversary in June!
Hope you all have a wonderful and blessed 2011!
P.S. We're starting out the new year on the front page (above the fold!) of the Press Enterprise! Rob was excited that his picture and article are both larger than the article on the side of the page with a much smaller picture of Mr. Arnold Schwartzenegger himself! We had fun driving around town last night buying all the newspapers we could find! Who knows when the next time our faces will be on the front page of a big Californian newspaper! Check it out....http://www.pe.com/localnews/lakeelsinore/stories/PE_News_Local_D_rocky01.a88051.html
Happy New Year!
Yesterday we decided to do inventory at the store and got probably 3/4 done. It's quite the process, having to weigh out each individual assortment in our cases and back room. We were fairly efficient for our first time but I think the next time we do inventory it will go a lot quicker now that we've got a "system". I also realized yesterday that I lost my phone somewhere, turns out I left it at the restaurant in Temecula. So, after work on our way to pick up my phone, we decided to also stop by and see our friend and co-franchise who owns the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory in Temecula. Her store looks great! It's exciting to see what our store will look like in just a short couple of weeks with the remodel.
This morning I am so excited because we are going to church! It has been a couple weeks and since we haven't had employees to watch the store, we've been there every Sunday so far. But this Sunday, we're having our one and only (so far) employee man the store so we can finally go to church again! I'm excited! :)
We are also getting our Rocky Mountain shipment today, which is exciting as our shelves are mostly bare of boxed chocolates after the Christmas shoppers concluded. Now...on to Valentines Day!
We are very excited for 2011 and so excited for all of our friends and family that are getting married this year! With the close of 2010 I was reflecting the other day about what has happened in the past year. In 2010 I graduated college with a Bachelor of Science in Communication Studies, emphasis in Public Relations, and a Minor in Spanish, married my best friend and the most amazing guy I know, and moved half way across the country! Not to mention...becoming a business owner! 2010 was definitely full of exciting and very life changing moments all so very exciting!! Definitely excited for 2011 and all that it will bring. Oh, another thing I forgot to mention, in 2010 I also won (through Lake Elsinore Outlets and Christmas Tree Lane) 7 nights trip to Cabo San Lucas! That will be our much needed vacation and sounds like a great spot to spend our anniversary in June!
Hope you all have a wonderful and blessed 2011!
P.S. We're starting out the new year on the front page (above the fold!) of the Press Enterprise! Rob was excited that his picture and article are both larger than the article on the side of the page with a much smaller picture of Mr. Arnold Schwartzenegger himself! We had fun driving around town last night buying all the newspapers we could find! Who knows when the next time our faces will be on the front page of a big Californian newspaper! Check it out....http://www.pe.com/localnews/lakeelsinore/stories/PE_News_Local_D_rocky01.a88051.html
Happy New Year!
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