My store is sold!  I got my huge check yesterday!  I'm rich!!!  (Well, I'm rich for about a week until I pay off all my loans)  I was going to go deposit it today, but the idea of having the first day in a month where I don't go to Encinitas seemed more appealing!  (Yes, I could deposit it at a branch closer to my apartment, but I want to deposit ( Read more... )

I love kids!  They say the best things!  :-)

Two examples from Princess Ballerina Story Times yesterday (where all the little girls come dressed up as a princess or ballerina, have snacks, color, and I dress up in my huge pink tutu and read them stories)...

-I always try to involve the little girls in the stories by asking them questions and getting ( Read more... )

So I was fitting a customer for pointe shoes today.  The mom and daughter have been in here a lot - the daughter can't seem to find pointe shoes that she loves.  So we were trying out yet another type of shoe for her, which actually looks really good on her feet and she thought they felt better than her previous shoes.  And the mom says, "What ( Read more... )

You have your way.  I have my way.  As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I need to remember this as I move forward with the sale of Applause.  The new buyers and I decided on a sale price last Sunday, and we're opening escrow and starting to figure out the new lease and all that stuff, so ( Read more... )

So a few days ago, a couple sent me an offer to buy my store!!! :-) They already own two stores in LA/Orange County, and they want to buy a third. They came down to see the store last Saturday (right in the middle of Story Times, so I was in my tutu), and they must have liked what they saw! They're offering slightly less than I was hoping for, ( Read more... )