Day 22-27

Sorry I have been a bad blogger, writing doesn't come naturally to me and as the flow of work has increased the words have ebbed. I can already tell that my blog will be directly affected by when sleep takes place and along with the duration. If we are opening the shop then we are waking up at times roughly lining up when the bars are closing in Portland, (with the time change considered of course) and we are going to bed when stump town is coming home from work. So adjustments are needed in watching the sun set in winter and thinking that we need to be laying our heads down in an hour or so.
So far our schedules have not been sinking up to the best of our liking but we are still managing to figure it out, it is nice to actually work for a company that has HR where we can have them try and sort it out for us.
On the sales floor Steph and I are slowly figuring out. Between the two of us we have sold around $37,000 in the last week. We are both really happy with that, it is a weird draw of luck kind of environment. It just depends on who walks through the door when you are at the front of the line. The big sales will always add to your totals but we need to learn how to make the small sales frequent and bountiful.
The most difficult part of our jobs is the abuse our feet are taking. We are on our feet for at least 9 hours a day on hard tile floors. Today we were standing for at least 10, I know some theories of Chinese Iron Body training will began to kick in over time and we will won't feel the pain anymore, but for now the bottoms of our feet beg to be elevated and pampered by the end of the night. As the day comes to a close I beg for a customer not for the commission but just so I have somebody to take my mind off how loud my dogs are barking. We have both noticed some healthy weight loss in this first week in response to our highly mobile status in the work place.

Christmas was un-Christmasy but we enjoyed ourselves none the less. After dinner we had many choices for entertaining ourselves out and about on the town but our neighbors impromptu pizza and beer social hour on the roof won out on our socializing priorities list. A highlight as always was the calls home to the parents.
Food: Thursday we went out for lunch at a 'restaurant' a half a block from us, I use quotations in describing it as a 'restaurant' because it also is somebody's home. Not in the way that there are two parts to the house but that in the evening when they close up shop their dining room / living room is their domicile again and not the place you had lunch a few hours previous. They have a beautiful backyard though so you can escape the the portraits of relatives in which you have no relationship with beyond you both know someone who cooks up some really amazing Mexican food. For about $5 a piece we had a bowl of  chicken and rice soup and a well proportioned plate of our choice of protein with beans rice and veggies, and tortillas. I was in heaven.
Friday was my first big sale so we went to celebrate and had dinner at Le Chef again, and again it was delicious, Del Surs was closed.
For Christmas I made paella with chorizo, clams, and crab. Considering I made it on a hot plate it came out amazing.
Sunday we tried El Foco, a taco joint that is down the street, tasty!
Tonight I had a tuna sandwich, yes as we work more the delicacies will become less interesting.