| Every Monday I come inside my shop, turn off the alarm and turn on the light and walk to the back and turn on my computer.I sit and get my voicemails and emails and then I sit back with doubt clouding my mind.I sit here biting my nails to the quick..Wondering if I'm going to make my cake quota for the week.?Am I in the right business??Should I be more versitile in what I do??blah, blah, blah freakin' blah...Monday is a HORRIBLE day for me. Filled with self doubt, panic and spiritual beatings.I barely drag myslef out of the shop on Monday afternoons...I go home and just put my big girl panties on,and decide to just stand it for another week.Tuesday I come in...not much happier, but with a more grin and bear it face on..after all, my customers deserve my full attention when they call or come in and they do NOT want to do business with someone full of self doubt.and...the calls start to come in...Hesitant at first..like a little baby DEER, they call to find out where I'm located, and what are my prices and can I do such and such and whatever other questions they have...I try to answer as politely as I can and try to give them a little customer service and also without giving them too much information I try to get them to come into the shop and talk to me face to face.?( a new policy that seems to be working!!)Wednesday and Thursday seem to be the days where the orders start to drop in, sometimes 3 other times 5 but always large enough that I'm starting to get over the Monday Doubts and begin to say "This is a piece of cake!!"I start to get all happy and stuff!heheeh...then realize that "Crap!?The fridge needs to be cleaned out, the doors wiped down.?I have to mop the floors and that makes my arm sore for days!?I have to finish my display cakes, the Power bill has to be paid oh yeah and the rent is due and the NEW TIMES ad didn't take their money out on the day they were supposed to and made your SYSCO check NSF and and and....the coffee guy is trying to upgrade your espresso machine and the edible printer has no pink and the phone is ringing again with another stupid person wasting your time with questions and OH FUCKLE FUDGE you have to make the board and build the boxes and give UPS your signature and IS THAT MY THIRD POT OF COFFEE!!???!OMFG it's only WEDNESDAY!!Thursday hits and it's a tornado...of activity...Yeah, that's me, a Goddess, bwaaaaaahahah..Then I find this:?"Throughout the ages, the multi-armed Hindu Goddess Durga has exemplified the talent of multi-tasking.Unfortunately, few of us have ten arms and three eyes.Perhaps this is why a British study conducted at King's College London University found that multi-tasking, such as allowing frequent interruptions as you work at your desk, can reduce IQ by 10 points.This is equivalent to the negative effects of sleep deprivation after heaving an all-nighter.And it's more than double the 4-point decrease recorded in subjects after they smoked marijuana.Researchers consider just a couple of IQ points to be a significant shift.Ten points is an enormous swing.Huge, actually.Just 20 points lower and you'd be considered mentally handicapped."Doing more than one thing at a time makes you dummer!?and I thought it was just a symptom of ADD!UGH...So, I start to mix and bake and put cakes on boards and then wrap in seran wrap, make the icing, color my fondants and answer the phones and so forth and so on and and and...lift that bale and tote the barge..Friday I am totally delirious and hysterical...in my Cake Frenzy..Saturday:
Bent over in pain, feet hurt, back hurts arm feel like it's going to fall off.?Need to file the bills and file the orders, Make the list for shopping, check the bank balance and cry like baby.Sort the bakery, throw out the garbage, wipe down the surfaces , mop the floors, ...AWE FUCK IT, just go home!Oh yeah, I'm going to go to the movies, get my hair done, maybe an mani and pedi oh I want a facial and let me go check out that new cake decorating book at Barnes and Noble and I should take a ride to the cake supply store and see what new cake toys I can find, oh...I need to go to Michaels and pick up some styrofoam because I want to play with making some centerpieces and go to the Produce Market and get those apples and yeah pick up that pretty paper to make the candy wrappers that I've been meaning to make and photo and update the website and, and oh yeah make time for the family, ...hey..anyone here?and then...I just roll over in bed, grab the remove and do not move all of Sunday except to check MYSPACE...bwaaaaahahahOMFG it's Monday Morning again...I drive to the shop, and I come inside my shop, turn off the alarm and turn on the light and walk to the back and turn on my computer.I sit and get my voicemails and emails and then I sit back with doubt clouding my mind.... |
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