Can't complain
Dec. 15th, 2020 11:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
offcntrI expected a quiet day, yesterday. Restock the van while the sun was out, bike down to the bank. Someone was coming to pick up pots at 11, so I had to get some cat-pattern soup bowls out. Easy.
Okay, I admit, I've been sleeping late. It's hard getting up before the sun does. But an 8:30 call doesn't find me at my most coherent even in summer, even talking to a customer who wants to pick up a bunch of plates. But I manage to write up the list, take their credit card number, catch my math mistake, and tell them I'll leave their plates in a bag on the porch.
And then I get an email from someone else who wanted three fox bowls and two dessert plates sent to New Mexico, and did I have them in stock? I happen to know this person is fussy about matching their existing set, so I had to pull my four remaining fox bowls from shed and van, take a photo and email it back to them.
Customer picking up bowls is easy, picks two and has exact cash; customer picking up plates off the porch knocks on the door, so I scramble for a mask. They say they forget a plate, do I have an elephant? As it happens, I have two, a baby and a mama and baby, and they take the latter. Ask if I can just add it to their credit card transaction? Can't actually; Square lets you go in and issue refunds, but I don't know of a way to add to the sale. Fortunately, they've got cash and I've got change, so we're both happy.
Check my email, and learn that fox person misspoke, wanted stew mugs, not bowls, which happens to be great, as I have six of them in the shed, so I wind up adding packing those to ship and swinging by UPS on my--much delayed--trip to the bank.
Finally finished everything around 4:30, and I was ready for bed. Thank goodness there's leftovers for supper, as I don't think I could've stood up long enough to cook something.
I'd blocked off today for Christmas projects--decorating the tree, working on some sewing. 7:30 my tablet goes blerp, a direct message on Instagram from a past customer in Texas, wanting to know what I have in bowls and coffee cups just now.
I can't complain, really I can't, but I'm so tired.
ETA: After three emails and some confusion about where my In Stock list was, Texas eventually decided on eight painted mugs, two tall mugs, three stew mugs, and a small batter bowl. By the time I got everything pulled, bubble-wrapped and boxed, it was 4:30, so I wimped out and drove to the UPS Store rather than biking it. But the whole order, with shipping, was just under $400. Tired again, but I really can't complain, can I?
Okay, I admit, I've been sleeping late. It's hard getting up before the sun does. But an 8:30 call doesn't find me at my most coherent even in summer, even talking to a customer who wants to pick up a bunch of plates. But I manage to write up the list, take their credit card number, catch my math mistake, and tell them I'll leave their plates in a bag on the porch.
And then I get an email from someone else who wanted three fox bowls and two dessert plates sent to New Mexico, and did I have them in stock? I happen to know this person is fussy about matching their existing set, so I had to pull my four remaining fox bowls from shed and van, take a photo and email it back to them.
Customer picking up bowls is easy, picks two and has exact cash; customer picking up plates off the porch knocks on the door, so I scramble for a mask. They say they forget a plate, do I have an elephant? As it happens, I have two, a baby and a mama and baby, and they take the latter. Ask if I can just add it to their credit card transaction? Can't actually; Square lets you go in and issue refunds, but I don't know of a way to add to the sale. Fortunately, they've got cash and I've got change, so we're both happy.
Check my email, and learn that fox person misspoke, wanted stew mugs, not bowls, which happens to be great, as I have six of them in the shed, so I wind up adding packing those to ship and swinging by UPS on my--much delayed--trip to the bank.
Finally finished everything around 4:30, and I was ready for bed. Thank goodness there's leftovers for supper, as I don't think I could've stood up long enough to cook something.
I'd blocked off today for Christmas projects--decorating the tree, working on some sewing. 7:30 my tablet goes blerp, a direct message on Instagram from a past customer in Texas, wanting to know what I have in bowls and coffee cups just now.
I can't complain, really I can't, but I'm so tired.
ETA: After three emails and some confusion about where my In Stock list was, Texas eventually decided on eight painted mugs, two tall mugs, three stew mugs, and a small batter bowl. By the time I got everything pulled, bubble-wrapped and boxed, it was 4:30, so I wimped out and drove to the UPS Store rather than biking it. But the whole order, with shipping, was just under $400. Tired again, but I really can't complain, can I?
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Date: 2020-12-16 01:01 am (UTC)