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We took over the space next door to house our growing inventory. We hope that it will help alleviate the daily shipping headaches we seem to be having. For instance, we just discovered that twenty seven orders were charged from last week, but did not get boxed and shipped. So, the only thing to do was to next day air a few hundred pounds…
It’s midnight and she’s still going strong. Junior year is turning out to be a tough load to carry. Brit starts school at 7am and ends at 2:30pm. She then has high school soccer practice until 5pm. And then there’s club practice from 7:30pm to 9pm on Tuesdays and Thursday. It’s been hard to fit in all of that homework. She also managed to…
No TV in the bedroom leads to more books read or more babies. I’m reading more books.
We’re officially drowning in production. #6 was officially knocked off a month or two ago, but now we’re forced to expand a little sooner than we would’ve liked.
Twenty trips to Home Depot later, we completed a few projects. We painted the front door a dark red. We Painted Before After. We opted for silver and grey/blue tones. We opened up the wall between the living room and dining room. Our biggest project outside of wiring the house for audio and video. It’s not the best before picture, but we opened it…
Who would have the gumption to host a party three days after they moved in?
Because we couldn’t just move in and enjoy the place for awhile, we decided to tackle a few projects right off the bat. The first was painting. The second and third more ambitious jobs were opening up the wall between the dining room and living room and wiring the house for rock stadium quality audio and video. We hired a guy our former landlord…
It’s been 8 Days, 3 hours, 5 minutes and 36 seconds without TV. Nevertheless, I’m not missing it. Although I did buy another TV today, so go figure. It’s 9pm and what is suppose to be the final install is not going so smoothly for the crew. Maybe I’ll get another twenty four without the boob tube.
It may be a bit of a disaster zone, but at least it’s our disaster zone. For the very first time, Sonia and I slept in our own bed in our own house.
Today was Brittany’s first day at her new school, Burroughs High in Burbank. Cue the marching band. Montclair didn’t have a drumstick, let alone a whole band. As far as public schools go, it’s highly rated in Southern California. Her high school class of 2013 went from 50 to about 750. It will be an interesting transition, but I still think she’ll be a…
Dallas is in the books and was our best show yet. Despite a terribly slow show (it’s the economy stupid), Basically Me has struck a chord in the South. Now all we need to do is produce and ship what we sold. Sigh.
Escaped the heat and caught Stevie Nicks in Dallas.
They do everything bigger in Texas, including roller skating cowboys like this guy. Our show coincides with the Western Wear show, so good people watching. The first two days of the show have been busy. In fact, we have quadrupled our New York show numbers and matched the last Dallas show with two days to go.
Surprised by some rare cloud cover, Dallas residents on Thursday fell a day short of tying their all-time record for consecutive days at 100 degrees or above.
Sean brought his crew to outfit the house with TVs and surround sound. Nothing like starting a big project hours before a business trip.
Sean came by and removed my TVs from their walls. They will remain lifeless until they are rehung in the new house next Monday. This separation will help me adjust to the fact that we have decided not to hang a TV in our bedroom.
Being that I’m a Francophile, I could’ve watched this movie without sound. I generally don’t like Woody Allen movies, but I enjoyed this one.
Wild applause all around……
We funded today, so escrow might actually close tomorrow. If that happens we get the keys on Monday, paint on Tuesday and leave for Dallas on Wednesday. When we move in is anyone’s guess. We had our final walk through last night, so here are way too many pictures if you’re interested. <a
NYC was as hot and humid as we’ve experienced there. The traffic also seems to have gotten worse. Still, you can’t beat the Big Apple. On the surface, the show was pretty bad. It’s nearly three times the expense of the Dallas and Atlanta shows and lacks our core customer. With that said, we wrote about the same amount as we did in Dallas…
I always make time to visit this Brooklyn steakhouse that was voted New York’s best steakhouse for 26 years in a row. The bacon is a must.
The first day wasn’t as bad as it seemed, but our target customer didn’t make the trip to NYC. Although we didn’t write the kind of orders we do in Dallas and Atlanta, we did manage to pick up a number of new stores in the North.
I made Sonia hike through Central Park in her heels, but number 50 took a tumble thanks to checking out this Egyptian marvel known as Cleopatra’s Needle. Here’s the scoop: The Obelisk, nicknamed Cleopatra’s Needle, is the oldest man-made object in Central Park. A pair of obelisks was commissioned for Heliopolis on the banks of the Nile in 1500 BC by an Egyptian pharaoh…
To NYC…
Since the last update, we added Utah, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois and New York.
Sonia, Brit and I caught a showing of, It Happened One Night with Clark Gabel at the Forever Cemetery in Hollywood. We enjoyed the classic movie surrounded by the eternal homes of many famous corpses including Douglas Fairbanks, Jane Mansfield and Bugsy Seigel.
Congrats to adding Fashion Designer to your resume in your 41st year. Like a fine wine, babe.
Toured Pearl Harbor. It was a bit eerie being there. Toro, Toro, Toro.
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