Highlights from the week of May 11th

i learned how to make an astro blast balloon bouquet. it takes like 30-45 minutes to make.

i was delivering to madison jr. high, and i had never been there before so i didn't know where to park. i was going the wrong way in the parking lot. i find a place that i could get a ticket in if i wasn't fast. i go up the steps that looks like the way to the main office. and...the doors were locked. this was at like 10:30 in the morning. so school was in session. i was so confused. i grabbed them and started shaking them back and forth like a crazy person. if someone would've seen me, they probably would've thought i was a child killer or molester or something trying to break into the school. yikes. then a car pulled up and they were dropping off their kid after a dentist's appt. or something. so i just follow him because i knew he would have to check in at the front office which is where i needed to go. i follow him and find my way in. but it was just funny.

i was vacuuming the front of the shop and i hit a piller thing that had a ceramic pot on it and it fell over and broke and so did the pillar and the vacuum which was still running. gaye comes over and looks and just laughs and walks away. she thought the pot was ugly anyway. haha kinda embarassing.

when i can't hear the customers or understand what they are saying i say, "huh?" and gaye makes fun of me.

everyone at the shop has tv and they are addicted to it and talk about american idol, oprah and other shows. so i go online and look at highlights or articles about what happened in that episode so i can understand their conversations. i looked up who was kicked off american idol and now we are down to the top 2. i think they are both amazing. i want kris to win, but i think adam will. anyway...

gaye asked marianne where we get the paper mache containers and i could tell them it was western pulp. thank you advanced design journal!! :)

i made two happy birthday arrangments that look like cakes or presents. that was really fun. i really like trying to imitate the teleflora pictures. we should've practiced that more in flower center. actually making the arrangements not, just looking at them. also, practicing bows more would've helped since i have to make a bow for almost every arrangment. jared and michelle had their baby and i got to make a baby boy arrangment for them. it was so cute! it was all white with some blue in a light blue container. :D
that's all for now.

5/14/2009

yesterday was a good day. i did a little of everything. i delivered, made arrangments and cleaned and organized for memorial day. it seems like they are trusting me a little more each day and that feels nice. i've been left alone at the shop a couple of times and once for 2.5 hours all by myself.
so these ladies came in and they wanted to give their friend a nice gift. their friends had a still born a year ago and it would've been her 1st birthday so they wanted cute little things to put on her headstone for her birthday and they wanted it fast. they wanted one big one and two little ones. i was going to have bruce help me but he was bookkeeping and i decided to just do them and do them fast. the big one took me 10 minutes from when i started greening until i was done. the other two took 15-20 minutes each. after they were done, i added ribbon and stuff to make them cute and tie in to each other a little. they ended up so cute! i just loved them! it was sad to see them go when they came to pick them up. i remembered when bro. romney had said that doing funeral work or work for the dead was a very spiritual experience. he said that sometimes he prayed for the spirit to inspire him as to what they would enjoy and how it would best help the family. i said a little prayer and received help by being able to have them done within an hour. about 5 minutes after i finished they came in. and they were so happy and kept saying how cute and perfect they were. it made it all worth it. they were kinda picky and so i was worried they wouldn't like them but they were better than what they had asked for. on one of them they wanted a banner that read 'happy birthday' but i thought that would be weird and it would've costed them $10 more. i just used polka dot ribbon to make it look babyish and partyish. :) i wish i could upload those pictures but maybe i'll just have to post them on facebook since these pictures aren't working.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2125803&id=193307924&l=6698bddca4
you can see the pictures here.
i organized all the paper mache for the gravesites for memorial day. it will be nuts next week.
i delivered 3 arrangments and it took me an hour because one of them was on the salem hwy and first of all, i didn't know where it was; second of all, it was in fremont county. then i had to come all the way back into rexburg and go to cougar court on trejo. and then back. anyway, i now know a lot more of the town! :D