It was a week of peaks and valleys of emotions. We are doing final testing & tweaking of our OneontaOnTheMap website; we purchased the $50 gift certificates to Elena’s and Green Toad Books (for the April 15th give-away). Both venues are excited to be part of our “grand opening.”
We travelled to New York City and back on Wednesday — for a farewell luncheon for our ‘day job’ boss, who, get this —was recently laid off. The food at Acme restaurant on Great Jones St. was awesome (blackened catfish sandwiches) but the undertone of the mood was somber, as Marie has been the best person to work for and she will be so sorely missed, it can’t be put in words. She made the company a family, we’ll leave it at that. The company was recently purchased by private investors and between merging and integrating divisions and the downturn, our “family” was fractured. NYC itself seemed a bit somber; people dressed in heavy wintry dark colors and the stores a bit empty …
Good luck, Marie; we know you will be invaluable wherever you land!