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Dec. 11th, 2008 07:04 amlast night i started my holiday cookie-baking... i wanted to give my teammates at work something for xmas, so i bought each of them a nice small platter and will load them up with cookies. the ones i baked last night looked awesome in the recipe (i'd ripped it out of a martha stewart magazine last year)... they came out awful. they were supposed to be "bourbon pecan chews", instead they were "bourbon pecan cookie sheet full of chewy stuff that's going in the trash". i guess i didn't chill the dough enough, so everything melted together in the oven into one giant cookie-sheet-sized mess of goo. sigh.
my building is already getting quieter. there are some people who didn't have a chance to take vacation time this year, so they have 3 weeks off in december so they don't lose it. whoa. one of my current project's deadlines got extended by a couple of weeks (yay), so i can actually take my time at the end of this year and not feel so stressed. that makes me so insanely happy.
speaking of the holidays... philly peeps, who's off during the week at the end of the year? if anyone wants to go to a weekday matinee movie or anything, let me know.
hoop orders have picked up a teeny bit in the last couple of days... funny thing is, i'm not sure which new advertising attempt is bringing them in. is it my banner ad on hooping.org? is it my google adwords? hrm. i'm updating the site this weekend with some of the suggestions you guys made the other day (thanks!) so we'll see if that continues to help. and i'm thinking that i'm going to have to raise the cost of my glow-in-the-dark hoop after the holidays... the glow tape is so expensive, i barely break even on those hoops (and they're my most popular). so if you want a glowy hoop, get it now.
my building is already getting quieter. there are some people who didn't have a chance to take vacation time this year, so they have 3 weeks off in december so they don't lose it. whoa. one of my current project's deadlines got extended by a couple of weeks (yay), so i can actually take my time at the end of this year and not feel so stressed. that makes me so insanely happy.
speaking of the holidays... philly peeps, who's off during the week at the end of the year? if anyone wants to go to a weekday matinee movie or anything, let me know.
hoop orders have picked up a teeny bit in the last couple of days... funny thing is, i'm not sure which new advertising attempt is bringing them in. is it my banner ad on hooping.org? is it my google adwords? hrm. i'm updating the site this weekend with some of the suggestions you guys made the other day (thanks!) so we'll see if that continues to help. and i'm thinking that i'm going to have to raise the cost of my glow-in-the-dark hoop after the holidays... the glow tape is so expensive, i barely break even on those hoops (and they're my most popular). so if you want a glowy hoop, get it now.
