So sorry I haven't been able to update! Let me try to summarize. Last week we got the electric and the gas turned on. The water is there but we don't know what switch actually turns it on to our store. The person that was supposed to be fixing the floors and such at the store hasn't been able to do anything yet. We have been assured it will be finished by this weekend. The floor tiles are coming up in the back from water or condensation. This has dried since we have had the heat on, but we need the tiles replaced. There are some other things that still need to be finished.
We finalized the signs. They were supposed to be up by now but we had a couple wet days. Hopefully they will be up this weekend. We are supposed to get rain again today though. We also ordered business cards and a parking sign. I want it to say Parking for A Darn Good Gift Shoppe, Violators will be Fed to the Dragon. hehe!
Tuesday Alan and I went to Dallas. We only got to one store. We had a borrowed truck (Thanks Julie!) but we bought more than we could fit into it. We packed the truck full and had them set aside the other half of what we picked out. We still have more to pick out and a couple more stores to visit down there. I rented a cargo van for this Tuesday.
Friday we received three deliveries for product, incense, oils, and oriental. Greg is working on the new POS systems, trying to learn it and trying to check the product in. He has been there all day and will be this weekend. Meanwhile, Janna and I and Kyleigh are working the closing store trying to sell all our display items for 25% off. Today is Janna's birthday so she isn't too happy about having to work. But she is going to spend the night at her sisters.
So, all week long we have been packing up my Honda Civic and Alan's Ford Contour. We fill them up as much as we can, drive them to the new store, unload, and come back for more! This is very exhausting and I've found muscles that have been inactive a long time. I also am not eating much, or well, so I hope I am at least losing a few pounds through all this!
Some nights I can't sleep at all and some nights I drop into bed and forget about everything. The nights I don't sleep I'm planning how to organize the store, or how to paint the pegboard... the mind just won't quit! You should see all of us at the end of the day, we look like zombies!
So we think we have been busy this week, I have until Thursday to get things somewhat organized. Monday we have the phone/Internet hookup, and security, and maybe the insurance man coming out. Tuesday I go to Dallas. Wednesday we get the display cases and the rest of everything left out of the old store and move it to the new store. Thursday we open the new store. Grand Opening won't be until May 1, but we will be open for business before then.
Writing this while hopping up and down to wait on customers has been fun! At least we are selling! yeah!
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