Category: Diary

Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

It’s a Sunday!!!

Umm.. just a Sunday, I guess.

So the sermon this morning at church was about Christmas.  I guess it’s supposed to celebrate the birth of that Jesus guy.  Well…  that’s good, I guess.  You can’t have a Jesus if he’s not born, right?  They said he was born to a virgin, which… ummm.. worries me a bit?  I asked Sabby, she said it was a special case.  Whatever that means.  She said I’m not to have any “virgin births”! Hahaha!…  well…  maybe not so funny.

But they talk about peace on earth, good will towards men…  not a bad thing, particularly in these times.  Right?

After church, Dave grilled!  Yum!!! I love it when Dave grills!!! This time he made steaks!  Thick, delicious steaks!!!  OMG!!!

And after that, well…  we just kind of rested.  Hopefully next week won’t be too adventurous!!!

Aww, I hope I didn’t jinx myself.

Anyway,

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HI! It’s me! Lily!!!

And we had the holiday party for all the folks at the shop today!!!

It wasn’t a huuuuuge deal, but Sabby had some fun games, and some prizes.  They weren’t huge prizes, but they were something.  Everyone got a gift card and a regular holiday card too, and we met their families.  Cat-girl’s parents seem nice, I’m surprised she doesn’t have a boyfriend!  She’s really pretty!  But she had a catered meal and everyone ate and drank (alcohol-free) egg nog and had a pretty okay time.

I asked cat-girl if she liked her job, and she said heck yeah!  All she has to do is cosplay as a maid-cat or something, stand outside, wave a sign around and jiggle a bit, and get paid!  What’s not to like?  Well, except for when it’s raining.  She’s a little less happy then, but still.  I don’t know if we’ll ever be friends, but she seems nice enough.  And she’s really cheerful, a lot like me!

One of our dooters seemed a bit depressed though.  Aww.  I’ll have to ask her what’s going on.

Some of the girls came over tonight and we’re playing games and making a girl-pile!!!  Crystal seems better.  Maybe her medication is helping.

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Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

Christmas is fun!!!

Well… it’s not Christmas yet, but it’s still fun!!!

Sabby told me to stay away from the shop today.  She said she didn’t care what I did, but this is Christmas vacation, and I was supposed to have SOME days where I just have fun.  She told me to take tomorrow too.  So…  I got Beth, and we did just that.  I need to spend more time with my sister anyway.

We went to San Antonio and took a walk on the riverwalk!!!  And went shopping!!!

I told Beth it was my treat, that would be her Christmas present.

And, well, she took me up on it!!!  Haha!!!

We went from shop to shop and she was chittering and chattering and buying stuff and trying on stuff and I was just amused.  Is this what Jack feels like when he goes shopping with me?  haha!!!  But then she had her fill of buying stuff and we had a late lunch, and we just talked.

We haven’t done that for a while.

She’s still sad about Crystal but happy that she survived and she’s starting to get over it, finally.  her therapist is helping, and I’m glad about that.  I wish I had better things to tell her but at least she’s feeling a bit better.

She told me I’m the best big sister ever.

I cried a little.

When we drove the 70 or so miles back, she fell asleep and was snoring in the passenger seat.  Haha!!!

But it was fun.  We need to do that kind of thing more often.

I went to the shop to see how Sabby was doing, and it was busy as usual.  I think we’ll be okay.

I think we’ll all be okay.

I’m planning on spending tomorrow with Jack.  And Beth’s going to spend all day with the girls.  Liz just wants to sleep.  Haha!!

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Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

Who knew a vacation could be so much work!!!

I’ve been helping Sabby at the shop almost full-time, and it’s still hopping.  The dooter, thankfully, is taking care of most of the dooting, so I can concentrate on making chocolate (I’m getting good at it!), making some candy (that’s a little harder but I’ve got a little bowl up front with my candy in it and people can take a piece), and doing back office stuff like scheduling and payroll and stuff.  Sabby’s happy to leave that to me because she and her baker have their hands full!!!

The baker is making snowballs!  So many snowballs!  And it seems as fast as she makes them they go out the door!!!  Sabby’s been talking about opening a webpage to ship cross country, but I told her if we’re having this hard a time keeping stuff on the shelves, how are we going to do fulfillment for a website?  She sighed and went back to baking.  She’s baking all of her traditional Christmas cookies.  You know, gingerbread, chocolate, double chocolate, santa-shaped, elf-shaped, that kinda thing.  Between the two of them, they’re keeping up, but barely.

I’m not even sure where all the people are coming from!!!  I mean, cat-girl is helping, but I guess her cookies are so good that it’s just word of mouth!  I set up delivery of some juices in the mornings too, which is nice.  Those are selling briskly, people like juice and milk with cookies.  We’ve gotten a lot of food delivery service orders too!!!

So, we’re doing well.

I told Sabby her cookies were that good!!!

I think we need to hire another baker, though, believe it or not.  I really want to set up that website, but we can’t do it with just Sabby and her baker.  I guess it’s time to start interviewing again.  We’re not even a month old and we’ve already got… counting on fingers…  four employees!!!  Wow!!!

This weekend we’re going to throw a Christmas party for our employees.  We’re still new so nothing fancy, but they’re doing a pretty good job for us.  I hope we don’t get a stinker.  I know we will.

Oh did I tell you we had a couple karens?  But Sabby and I know how to deal with them.  The dooter calls me over when they start with their “I want to speak to your manager!” line, I say “can I help you?”, they say “you’re too young to be a manager!”, and I say “you’re right, I’m an owner.  How can I help you?”

Then I listen politely, tell them they’re full of crap, and show them the door.

Feels good!!!

Oh and we’ve been sending the owner of the shop I worked at some stock too!  He says it can’t stay on the shelves!!!

Otherwise, it’s been quiet.  Ai is really bouncing around!!! She wants to come to Texas!!!  I’m sure she’ll have a good time.  Jack’s on vacation too and he’s been coming around the shop, but I told him I need to work and can’t spend time with him.  He just sits there and looks at me adoringly.  It’s distracting!  He says business me is sexy.

Awwww.

But I think he thinks anything me is sexy.

He didn’t disagree with that.

Awwwww.

He’s not upset about the occasional free cookie either.

Occasional.  Boy would eat me out of business.  Haha!!!

Okay!  Bedtime!!!

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Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

I’m taking a break from posting today.

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Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

I went back on TWITTER!!!

Well… I hadn’t posted for a while.  Twitter was kind of boring.  Everyone just talked about politics and got banned and all sorts of stuff.  I posted a little bit and just moved on.

But Dave told me that an Elon guy bought Twitter and it became fun again!!!  Hahaha!!!

I don’t know about all that.  But it does seem a little more lively, I guess.  So I dusted off my old account and I’m tweeting again!

Tweety tweet!!!

He says he’s going to make the size limit of tweets 4,000 instead of 280, and if he does, I’ll post these diary entries there too!!!  It’ll be fun!!!

Maybe.

I’m not interested in politics but I do like free speech, and Dave told me that the Elon guy likes free speech too, and says that if we want to support him with what he’s doing to make Twitter full of free speech, the best thing to do is say stuff there!!!  So I will!!!

Dave says he doesn’t like everything the Elon guy says or does, but he likes that he likes free speech, so yay!!!

I need to learn a little about politics though.  It’s not interesting really, but Sabby tells me I can read people really well, so maybe I can learn something.  Maybe.

I’ll be voting next year, and, well…  Dave says voting randomly is worse than not voting at all.

So… what else did I do today?

I went to help Sabby at the shop!!!

Well, kind of.  What I actually did was started working on advertising.  Christmas is coming and we need to advertise for Christmas!!!  And I asked Sabby to make Christmas stuff!!! Santa cookies!  Reindeer cookies!  Tree cookies!  She grumbled a little, but she did well, and the baker had some fun ideas too.  She made a snowball!!!  OMG it was good!!!  It was a chocolate ball stuffed with creme and covered with confectioner’s sugar!!!  She made a couple and had us try them.  Sabby gave her a bonus on the spot in exchange for exclusive rights to the recipe, and told her to bake as many as she could.  We’re keeping that baker!!!  I mean, seriously!!!

So she baked a lot of those, people came in, tried one…  and then bought a whole box and took it back to the office or home or whatever.  And people kept coming in saying “my coworker brought one of these to the office, and give me more!!!”

We even changed the cat-girl’s sign to “Try our snowballs!!!”  She’s doing really well too.  She’s not out all day, but she’s out around lunch, and she really is great at driving traffic.  We pay her well for the hours she works.  She’s a college student and could use the money.

Okay, that’s enough for tonight!!!  Marie is whining!!!

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Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

It’s Sunday!!!

Well… it’s Sunday.

This morning, of course, I went to church.  I was talking to Allison a bit ago and she asked me why I go to church when I don’t really like it.  I told her it’s because even though I don’t understand it and it can be boring, I owe them a lot and they seem to love me there.  And who knows, maybe someday I’ll find something useful out of it.

So far, not.

Except for good core exercise as I stand up and sit down.

This afternoon, Dave grilled!!! We invited Liz and her family, and Jack and his family over, and Grace and Lily came along too!!! The dogs had loads of fun!  We would have invited the other girls, but they had plans too – after all, it’s Sunday!  It was cool and pretty cloudy, which was nice.  We ate and played outdoor games.

Turns out Lily likes to chase frisbees.  I mean really, really likes to chase frisbees.  She’s not very good at it, but I guess that doesn’t matter to a dog.

Okay, it was a boring Sunday, I guess.  But it was nice spending time with everyone.

School’s out until after New Years!!!  So…  I don’t know what I’ll do this week.  I’m sure I’ll think of something.

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Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

Today is Sabby’s birthday!!!

She won’t tell us how old she is, but it’s probably early 40s.

So she left the store to the baker and the dooters today, and apparently things ran pretty smoothly.  We told them it was Sabby’s birthday, and the baker made her a cake!!! That was nice of her!!!  Even though it was with shop resources, we didn’t care.  We’ll write it off.  It was worth it.  Sabby was a mite bit sore, but I told her to shut up and enjoy the cake.

So remember last week I wrote her a letter?  That was nice and she loved it, but Beth and David were a little but upset with me, and truthfully, maybe I deserved it a bit.  They got her trinkets and I got her a heartfelt letter.  They weren’t too upset, but this year I thought maybe they should be included as well.

But a letter’s been done already, so…  it was kinda hard to figure out what to do.  So…  we sang her a song.

Well, we tried, anyway.

Beth sang, I played piano, and, well, David did some kind of interpretive dance that we’re still recovering from.

We sang “wind beneath my wings”, and at the end, Sabby was crying.  Aww.  But I’m not sure it if was because we were good, or because we were really bad.  Haha!!!  Actually, Beth isn’t too bad a singer.  She surprised me.

We gave her all her gifts (I got her a plush from the Japanese bookstore), gave her a big hug, and then we had cake.

OMG was it a good cake!!!

The baker told me she even used some of that chocolate I made!  Normally I’d be mad, but it was a perfect use for it, so I’m not upset.  I can make more.

She’s happy.  Now she’s up with Dave taking a bath.  Hahaha!!!!  You go girl!!!

Okay!  Marie needs walked!!!

Goodnight!!!

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Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

So…  neither Sabby nor I expected this, but…  the baker is better than Sabby.  Oh, the baker thought Sabby’s plenty good, but it’s kind of the difference between a film score composer and Mozart.  Once she learned how to make all the stuff, she had a few minor changes to suggest… and the cookies got BETTER.  Can you believe it?  Sabby says she’s worth everything we’re paying her… and it’s a lot.

Something like a specific way to prepare the butter, and mix the flour… the stuff only someone really good could know.

So we’ve got a couple of dooters and a baker, so Sabby can spend a little time away from the shop now.  She’s still there most of the time, but I guess it’s nice not to be stuck there.

Every time the cat girl (or Beth) goes outside to smile and wave the sign and, well, let’s be honest, jiggle a little, sales go up ten percent.  So she’s worth it too.

After the last final (yay!) we went home and I changed into something nice, and Jack picked me up!  But he wouldn’t tell me where we’re going.  And…  HE FOUND A SUSHI PLACE!!!

How did I not know about that sushi place???

It wasn’t just any sushi place.  It was a place with a rotating sushi track and touch screens… just like in Japan!!!

I stuffed myself!!! I mean there may as well have been a track from the actual track right to my mouth, because it went in!!! Even Jack was amused!!!  I do love sushi!!! And this was good sushi!!!

You pick up the plate from the track, eat the fishy goodness on it, then stick the plate in a slot.  It can tell how much to charge you from how many plates you stick in the slot.  Fun!!!

And afterwards… there’s a Japanese bookstore next door!!!

Jack bought me a stuffed Japanese plush!!!

That was fun!!!

And I bought a couple Japanese books, because you can never have enough Japanese books.

So we came back after that, and Jack’s family and I watched a movie.  We didn’t get much time alone, but that’s okay, we still cuddled, and it was nice.  Grace then climbed up on us, and so did Lily, and basically Jack and I were cuddled up with a five year old sprawled across us and a dog trying to get what space was left.  It was cute!

But I’m home now.  Tomorrow’s Sabby’s birthday!!! Oh, I got her something at the Japanese bookstore too!!!

But don’t tell her.  SSSSSHHHHH

Hahah!!

Love you all!!! ❤