Busy Busy Busy

Here are some photos from work I thought I would share...

Lots of macaroons in their trays... just waiting to be boxed up!

Holiday macaroons get festive packaging.

This picture does no justice for the number of packages we have been sending out recently. It took the UPS driver an hour to load everything this evening.

A macaroon "tree" made by the kitchen. They make these with all combinations of macaroon flavors/colors.

Libation Chocolate Collections. Magnolia, Port, Grand Coeur, Absinthe & Rum Raisin...for the lushes out there!!

What's My Name Again?

At work I have plenty of time to "zone out" and during this time my mind wanders to many strange places. The other day I was thinking about people's names which led to nicknames which led to people who change their names altogether. How strange would it be to one day say "I am no longer Katie Smith, don't call me by that name, I am now Camila Anderson." Weird right? Celebrities do this all the time! Here are some examples of name switch-a-roos:

Ringo Starr -- Richard Starkey
Alice Cooper -- Vincent Damon Furnier
Elvis Costello -- Declan Patrick MacManus
Billie Holiday -- Eleanora Fagan
Bo Derek -- Mary Cathleen Collins
Whoopi Goldberg -- Caryn Johnson
Elton John -- Reginald Kenneth Dwight
Rodney Dangerfield -- Jacob Cohen
Marilyn Monroe -- Norma Jean Mortensen

Who suggested these new aliases? Are/were their careers more lucrative due to the change? Were their mothers offended by their choice to change their given names? Did they change their social security cards, driver's licenses, and other forms of identification? There are so many questions!

I think I'll stick with Katie :)

New Look!

If you are reading this then I am sure you noticed I changed the look of my blog! I thought it was time to freshen it up a bit, and in all honesty I am procrastinating. That huge "to do" list is staring at me from my night stand, but I am ignoring it and pretending it does not exist. Unfortunately, I know that it is not going to go away on its own, so I suppose it is time to get up and start crossing some items off! First up: finish licking Christmas card envelopes. Oh joy.

Lose One Gain One

Nick has departed for New York for a few days to visit family and friends, so it would seem that where there had been four, there would now be only three. That is not the case however. Good buddy AV had a little mishap with a chimney fire at his place and thus has been crashing at our house. He has set up residency in the dinning room, creating a cot of sorts to sleep on and he and I are sharing a bathroom. Everyone is on such opposite schedules though, no one really sees each other much these days, so his presence has not been a problem at all. I believe the unofficial motto of our house is "the more the merrier"!!

Time Is A Tickin'

Twelve days until I fly into Virginia on a big metal bird! Twelve days to cross off every bullet on my extremely lengthy "to do" list. Twelve days. *sigh* I have things to purchase, packing to do, errands to run, things to clean, hair to pull out! There just aren't enough hours in the day.

Sucre's Little Elves

Whew! We are in full swing at Sucre now! Mondays are the worst because we have not shipped anything out since the previous Thursday, therefore we have four days worth of orders to process! There are lots of holiday workers assisting in the chaos, but none-the-less it is still crazy in the shipping & packaging department. A lot of folks and businesses seem to be purchasing edible delites for numerous people; so there can be one person making ten separate orders.

But, hey, I try to look at it as job security ;)

This is our "Mint to Be" Collection. It includes Holiday Macaroons, Peppermint Chocolate Bark, Peppermint Cocoa, and Marshmallows. Very popular.

Large boxes of the Holiday Macaroons get special packaging! The brown is Double Dark Chocolate & red is Peppermint Candy Cane.

One of the many chocolate collections. Yum :)

Joseph Street Obsession

It all started when Brie bought an iPad the other week. It is so thin and light and fun and cool--we all had to play with it! So instead of everyone sitting around in the living room waiting for their turn to play on the new toy, she bought the Sporcle app. This has changed all of our lives! It is a trivia game/quiz of sorts with a bunch of categories ranging from history to television to religion to literature. For the past week if you were to walk into our house you would find Brie, AV, Nick and me all huddled around the small touchscreen testing our knowledge of movie taglines and Greek gods. It has been tons of fun! Good thing that iPad has a long battery life :)