So for Saturday the 9th (today, as I write this)...
Started out the morning, up around 9ish. Took the dogs out, gave Kailey her meds and both the dogs a can of food.
Checked emails, my 10 am appointment emailed saying they were going to be 15 minutes late, so I sat down and actually answered a few emails, then went downstairs. Filled up the water filter, and took the water that was already filtered and put it in a jug (so it doesn't overflow, since the top was filled). Used that water to refill some of the water bottles that were getting low.
I already knew which chin these people were getting, since they put down a deposit, so I wrote out their adoption paperwork ahead of time. I get that done, and so I get their bag of food that comes with the chin ready, as well as the kit bag (chews / munchies that are age appropriate and go home with the babies).
Still waiting for them to get here, so I go upstairs and wash some dishes. Doorbell rings, they're here. I ask them to go around the side, they do. This is about 10:30. They spend some time looking at the various chins, and then ask where theirs is. I show them, and they're holding her and loving on her, and they mention they need all sorts of supplies. So I tell them, we'll go down the list. So, we start with the cage, and they pick out a cage, and we go over the list of everything else as well. By the time I've gotten their supplies together, they've paid and packed the car, it's almost noon.
I go to sit back down and look at emails, and I see I have a message from someone who dropped off a bag they wanted filled with hay, a few days ago, when I wasn't home. I had filled it yesterday, informed them it'd be $4, and they were messaging asking about what time they could pick it up today. We settled on 1 pm.
Between 12 and 1, I listed two chins, the blue diamond female and the predominantly white mosaic male. While still waiting for the hay people to come, I figured I would work on orders for a bit. Went downstairs to start packaging up stuff. Realized, I am still out of gallon-size ziploc bags, as I have been for two days. Darn it, they didn't magically materialize as I'd been hoping. Went back upstairs.
About that time, I get a message that the people for the hay are on their way, so I go downstairs and grab some copies of my invoice paper, so I can write out the orders that are new, while waiting. While down there, I replenish the copies needed (of all the adoption paperwork pages) in my folder that I keep out (I have a stash of copies elsewhere), and then put that away. I get upstairs with the copies of the blank invoices, and the hay people show up.
The guy brought one of his kids along, who wanted to see the chins. I said sure, but let's please make it quick, as I have somewhere to go. You know where this is going. I stayed upstairs with the guy, the kid went downstairs, and later came up and informed me that she was opening the cages and petting the chins. Do kids not ask before they do anything anymore? Guess not. So I'm talking with the dad, and he's waiting on the kid to come back upstairs. She eventually comes back up, asks for water, so I get her water. She asks to take it with, sure, whatever, I gave it to her in a taco bell cup so it doesn't matter. So it was around 2 pm when they left.
Even though I really needed to leave to go get those gallon-size bags (so I could do orders), I sat down at the kitchen table and figured, first I would write out the orders, so they'd be ready to take downstairs and get the items together and all that, when I got back. Couldn't have been sitting 5 minutes, I get a call from the people who were just here, the kid needs to use the bathroom. So she comes back in, pets the dog, goes potty, pets the dog again, and leaves.
I finish filling out the invoices, and then leave for Meijer. Even though the ziploc bags are at the back of the grocery side, I park on the general merchandise side, cause apparently I'm stupid like that and don't know how to keep a cheap shopping trip from turning into an expensive one, if my life depended on it. So, I walk in the door -- school supplies! Well, elmer's glue is only 50 cents, limit 10, so I have to get 10. I start walking past the office supplies section, and realize, I'm almost out of packaging tape. So I get two packs of that. Then I realize, the last time I printed, it said I was almost out of ink, so back to electronics to get the ink. From there, I ALMOST make it to the ziploc bags, but get sidetracked by toilet wipes, that are in the same aisle, and I'm also, almost out of. Then to the ziploc bags. I usually get 4 boxes of the gallon size meijer ziploc bags, but I seem to be going through them like water, and there's only like 38 to a pack, so I decide to get 8 this time, almost clearing off the shelf, while the lady next to me surely wonders what in the world I need that many for. I don't go shopping that often, so I better grab them while I'm out, because I hate to make a trip for one thing. Then to checkout, and back to the car. While needing a few packs of $4ish gallon size bags, I left with $100ish worth of stuff.
Load the car, then to the ATM. See, I went to the ATM by my house a few days ago, to get money to pay the fence guy, but there's something wrong with that ATM, and it'll allow you to do the entire transaction, but then when it is ready to give you your money, it comes up with some error. That's the second time that's happened with that ATM, but Meijer is by another of my bank locations, so I go there and withdraw the money for the fence guy.
Get home, unload the car. Realize that if I'm going to pay the fence guy, I need to find my invoice for the fence, so he can mark that payment, paid. Go find the invoice. It's now about 4:30. Called the fence guy, he came over and I paid him. Now 5 pm.
Moving along, I sat and went over quite a few emails, until about 6ish. Went downstairs and gave more chins water from the filter, and added more water to the filter. Jim called, so I talked with him while taking pics of some rescue chins (their previous home wanted to know how they were doing) and moving around cages. Got the two newest rescues settled in, one being a female named Fluffy from Evanston Animal Shelter. Got off the phone, went upstairs to have a bit to eat. Heated up some leftover pizza, and a friend called. Talked with her while eating dinner. By the time I got off the phone, 9 pm.
Back to the phone, went through the pics taken of the rescue chins, so I could send the actually clear ones to the family. Got that done around 9:20ish, sent them over, along with an email on how things are going with the chins.
Went through a few more emails, noticed I had one asking about if I had any double cages for sale. I figured they meant ferret nation / critter nation cages, and I currently have a FN 142 in the garage. They wanted a pic texted to them, so out to the garage, open the garage door so I have enough room to step back for the pic, take the pic, close the door, back in the house, send pic.
Decided to take a break from all the chin stuff and work on the gecko care packet for a bit. Can't re-home the geckos without it! So... I started editing. Usually when I do care packets, if it's just an update, I'll go over the whole thing once. If I'm writing one from scratch, it takes multiple revisions. Many of the early revisions are moving things around to find where I like them, re-wording things, and so on....and catching oddball things that should have been taken out long ago. For example, here's a screenshot from part of my gecko packet:
Let's play... which of these is not like the other...ooooh yeah the guinea pig water part in the middle of the gecko care packet. Truth be told -- it's easiest to start with an existing care packet, and use it as a template to make another packet, as the general "sections" are the same, with some tweaking.
So I went through and edited the entire packet once, and then created a coverpage. 10:20 pm.
Then, yesterday, I did hammock inventory. Hammock inventory is where I go hammock by hammock and mark down how many of each I have. I use these numbers to then later update the listings on the webstore, as these items are set to only show a certain number available. So yesterday, I wrote down which ones were still available, and how many. Today, I went and edited those. Out of all the hammocks available, I only am sold out of Taco Dog and Donuts, so those were removed. The other hammocks, all 21+ of them, were edited and amount in stock corrected. Now, it is 10:56.
Among doing the hammocks, I'm texting back and forth with a potential adopter about when they're looking to pick up their chins. While doing that, I figured I'd work on the adoption form for the crested geckos, as oddly enough, the adoption forms are not all that difficult to work on, and I get that done while still texting with the potential adopter. By 11:20ish, I have a deposit down for 2 chins, set for pickup at the next expo, and the adoption form done for crested geckos. Maybe the care packet will get done tomorrow, and then I can actually list the geckos. I technically could list early, but I know that if I list now, without it ready, someone will pounce and I'll have to scramble for it. Naturally, if I wait to have it ready, no one will be interested... but at least I'll be ready!
So, in cleaning off my desk to find a piece of paper I was looking for (that I did not find), I found the little rebate slips that needed to be sent in for Menards' most recent 11% rebate. With the last day for mailing approaching, I got everything together for mine and Jim's (he forgot his receipts for Menards here) and got those ready for mailing. 11:38.
Checked back into emails... that was a mistake. Lots of quick-to-answer emails... but lots of them. Answered a few of them quickly, and was going to work on getting some orders together, but kept getting side tracked with people emailing and facebook messages from people with chin questions, so I decided to stay upstairs and clean, so I could answer those and still be productive. And that was my Saturday.
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