Way To Insure Cheerful, Uncomplaining Wage Slavery In Perpetuo

[mallorys_camera]

Way to insure cheerful, uncomplaining wage slavery in perpetuo – my new boss just sent me an orchid. With a little appreciative note. Huh.

I do love orchids.

The little company is quite jolly, and the work is fun. I think I'm quite lucky to have landed this gig.

Speaking of companies, my own little company's January revenues were up 3% over January 2007. Which is not to say they aren't dismal and pathetic, but they've been more dismal and pathetic in the past. Progress? Of a sort.

On Wednesday I had exactly one person in the store all day – but this one person told me he'd driven all the way down from Modesto just to come to my store. I've got to think that's a recommendation of some sort.

"You know, we do have a website," I told him, smiling a huge, garish false smile.

"I know you do," he said. "In fact, I've ordered online. But your store is just so fun."

O-kay. But how do I get Chevron to split the gas take with me? I mean, he wouldn't be using their product were it not for my product.

Comments

[lacachet.livejournal.com]

What is the new job, if you don't mind talking about it?

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

Copy editing.

[blackhilllife.livejournal.com]

Wow. Nice.
I love my orchids.
The only place they thrive is in my master bath, which is not "master" at all, but a small box of a place with no room for orchids.
However...the orchids have a place, and we just have to fit in around them.

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

I may have to hit you up for advice on the care and feeding of orchids. I don't know anything about them. I suspect it doesn't like direct sun, so I have it in indirect northern light. The pot it's in looks really flimsy so I expect transplanting is in its future. Does it want plant food?

[blackhilllife.livejournal.com]

Indirect light, humidity, and a touch of Miracle Gro liquid Orchid Fertilizer when new flower shoots are coming up is all I do with mine, besides dust them occasionally.
IT seems like the less I tend them, the happier they are.
They seem to like being root bound best. I transplanted one of mine into a wooden orchid basket once, with orchid wood chips, following the dirctions carefully...and killed it.