Pandora's Casket

This weekend is going to be a pretty nice one weather wise. I am really hoping that there are a few garage sales that will be open. We all love the season when it first opens up. You never know what you will find.

This year I am adding to my list of hopefully finding of some good looking office furniture for the office (duh!). Not that I will find it but you never know. I need another filing cabinet and a couple of shelving units.

Last year I saw those cabinets all over the place so this year there will be none out there at all!! But I added that to my list anyway!

This past Thursday or actually it was Friday morning around 1AM or so the weather here was wild!

I received a text around 1am stating that we were on a tornado watch for our area. OK, great I tossed my phone back on the table, turned over and started to go back to sleep. No sooner doing this Shay came up and said the sirens were going off. Now this is a bit more serious than a text. Not by much but you still listen and heed the warning.

I woke Nicky up telling him to get dressed and go down to the great room. Everyone started doing small things just in case something did happen. Jamie was tracking the storm on the map making sure he knew where it was and giving updates.

Trev was talking about his new radar thing that he bought and was giggling over Shay being so upset! haha Colton slept through the entire thing. Since he was already on the first floor there was no sense waking him up.

The storm was pretty wild but after having the alarm go off three times it ended well. No tornado and no damage. The worst part was trying to go back to sleep. I started to read one of my new books and that helped to pass the time.

One thing that I have begun to really push with new and return customers is that I offer a reward card towards their next purchase. Most of the customers are thrilled to see this as they figure every little bit adds up especially when their orders mount up to over $100.

Helping your repeat buyers save money on ordering through you brings them back. Each one will feel rewarded (excuse the pun there) by the reward card that you issue them.

I like to give my good and new customers a little something for all that they give me!

The witchcraft and other products that the store sells has been booming. My filing is now backed up and nearly hitting the top of the shelf. I am wondering how much more I can stack before it all falls down. haha

Orders are steady and keeping me more than busy. Of course a few of the orders have been a pain to do as I really dislike the sampler pack that I put out but hey its money, right?

Each night I run off the new sales for the next morning and wake to more. Am I complaining? No way! The only way that I would complain is if one of the family had to look for Lipovox and that is not happening at all!

All and all this month has been a healthy order month and it is not even half way through yet! Hope it continues that is for sure.

Monday Colton and his friends played in the schools dodge ball tournament. Each team had to play until they were eliminated. The names of the teams were pretty funny.

Colton and his friends name was the Krazy Knockout Krew. Which they went by the KKK. An African American boy on the team was one of the boys to think this name up. Oh yea there were a couple others that were just about as racist as that. haha All in good fun and the school went a long with it.

Colton and his team did not make the semi finals but made a good attempt at it.

Most of the kids were sitting around eating greasy foods and candy. Later on I bet they wonder is the best acne treatment there is to buy! All that junk food will end up on hips and faces

While it may be spring here in Indiana we receive the bulk of the rainy weather in the spring and summer. Our winds are howling and it is once again raining.

Of course it makes it great to water the lawns so we do not have to do that manually and pay for the water. A major plus there.

Since today is another of those chilly and wet days it makes it a great day to stay inside and actually do a little research on a epson receipt printer that I actually need for the store. Sure would make life a little simpler having one!

Tonight was Nicky's Spring Sing. They have this every year. Last year was very long, drug out and pretty good! So this year all that would be going had the thought that it would be another very long play or sing.

Not at all! The play started promptly at 6:30PM and ended at 6:55PM. Now that was wonderful!

All the kids did a wonderful job singing about the solar system. Although I was disappointed that they did not do more jokes about Uranus it was still a thrill to see Nicky up there singing and shaking around!