Crazy week!

Wow, what a wacky week this has been!

After the Tea on Monday, I was able to get a large collection of antique vacuum cleaners numbered and photographed so they could be put away. Don, one of my volunteers, had spent the past 6 weeks or so cataloging them. Steve had people on Monday who could lift them all (they are very heavy!!) and put them up in storage. So there I was, all dressed up in my skirt from giving the gallery tour, on the floor numbering vacuum cleaners.

We left work Monday knowing that a winter storm was coming. We all went home with phone numbers that we needed in case we had to close. We did close, and everyone enjoyed a nice day off.

Personally, I worked on designing a poster for Rita, who is directing Throughly Modern Millie at Tusky Valley High School. I do the program for her every year. I was shocked when I realized this is the fourth year I've done that! I also spent my snow day working on a cross stitch called Christmas C0ve (that is one of my favorite hobbies!).

We were totally not expecting the ice on Wednesday. We opened at noon, but we had a school coming from outside of Stark County, so Chris came into work in the morning anyway. Turns out, they weren't closed and still wanted to come! Chris called Hallie and Dave and they got everything worked out.

I was scheduled to do a program for Fine Arts at the Canton Museum of Art. But if they canceled their program, they wouldn't be able to call me because no one was at the museum to answer the phone and I was at home still. So Chris called me with the number for my contact. She called the president and reported back that they had wanted to cancel, but the caterer had already started the food, so they would have had to pay anyway! They decided to press on, and actually had quite a turn out. I did my "Accessorize!" program for them.

Then this morning Hallie, Chris, and I went to the Pro Football Hall of Fame for a marketing seminar sponsored by the CVB. Very interesting. The VP of Marketing for Lehman's Hardware spoke.

Tomorrow I am going to the First Christian Church to do "Meyers Lake Revisited." So we will end the week as busy as we began it!

On another personal note, my very first work of fiction was published through the Amazon Shorts program! It is a short story called "The Sugar House," and it takes place along the Erie Canal in Rome, NY, my hometown, in the 1840s.

Click here for more information about it!

I am just thrilled, because I have been trying to get up the courage to pursue fiction writing for quite some time now. It is another dream realized.

Oh, I almost forgot! HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!