Chronicling Vday: All over. One more time.

Official Countdown: Done. The end.
Official Weather Occurrence: Despite freezing fog in the state that caused major traffic problems in the city, we were great and already had a trucks going out as soon as they were loaded. Awesome. 

Hm.... do you remember our rose cooler at the beginning?

By the end of today, it looked like this: 

This is actually the best we've ever done on roses - we were sold out of red by...11:00? Certainly by noon. In fact, we almost completely sold out of roses entirely by the end of the day.

And this isn't only the best we've ever done on roses. Somehow, all deliveries except one were made (and that one was made and they just weren't home) which is a new record beating last year's two. That's really outstanding.
And we were still taking in-town deliveries up until 3:00 which is also unheard of for us. Until that point, we never cut them off once. (Sometimes we're overloaded and have to stop accepting them for awhile and can do more once that's been lessened.) And it certainly wasn't because we sold less. We checked the numbers and they came out the same as last year. So who knows why it all went so well - maybe this year it just all fell into place, maybe we were somehow more organized, maybe it was all the early orders, maybe God was just gracious, etc. 

Of course, we'll know more tomorrow when the aftermath hits. That's the day you know how well you did. People call in with complaints, concerns, etc. You live in terror of answering the phone. You take a few normal phone calls, feel safe and then one hits you sideways. And its okay because we really do want to fix it, and things will happen when you have that many go out. We do want to know and solve the problem. But its still hard. The day after is just as much a part of the whole experience as the whole week.

But....I'm off tomorrow.




Did you hear it? The Hallelujah chorus? The heavens opening?

I told my boss today that I'm actually glad this didn't happen my first or second VDay because I certainly wouldn't have appreciated it like I do now. This is the best possible Valentine's gift.

Also, according to the News Star website tonight, the Sports Park proposition was soundly voted down with not any of the possibilities even reaching a 25% yes. Considering I still believe it was too inflated and ridiculously large & expensive for our town I'm glad. I'm sure they'll try again, but maybe - just maybe - they'll have taken another look at it and made it more feasible.

Eh. Or probably not. But we'll see.