Hmmm *sigh* What a day. Just like all the other days. I swear I can live an entire lifetime in a day.
I started my day with area mom, Heather, and her daughter, Fiona. They came by to discuss the logistics of providing (the most perfect, heaven-sent, and genius) bread to WeatherVane for our grilled cheese. We spoke of commercial grade kitchens and 40lb bags of bread flour and about how things would work when she would need some time off to give birth to Fiona’s new little sister this Summer! And Fiona was very pleased to get a taste of Castle Rock’s Sweet Cream ice cream. I have to say that I really LOVE to give children ice cream. They just light up.
Then I had a call with Jeanne who writes the Cheese Underground Blog (http://cheeseunderground.blogspot.com/). I hunted her down via LinkedIn after I read about her blog in the Master Cheesemakers of Wisconsin book a few months ago. Jeanne and I have never met in person but I think it is fair to say that we have a fledgling friendship. Jeanne has been so generous with information and today we were discussing my press release. She offered to share some regional and national contacts that she has been collecting over the years. Well, not 45 minutes later I had a phone call from a freelance writer in New Jersey that pitches stories to many well-known national trade and consumer magazines. He wanted the exclusive rights to my story! I have to tell you that nothing screams “Shit is blowing up!” than a phone call from someone with an East Coast accent saying the words “exclusive rights”. And that shit is blowing up in a good way, I assure you. The Stillwater Gazette (http://www.stillwatergazette.com) called shortly after and said they are running a story on me tomorrow and I am going to go over there next week to talk more.
Lunch was with “The Sign Guy” David. His logo design won WeatherVane’s logo contest a few weeks back and we had to go over some revisions. He is going to mock up some different color schemes and I am excited over what we came up with: an antique green dragon, cream colored sun (an element we took from one of the other logos in the contest), and antique red for the lettering. It was almost an afterthought that the dragon and sun are Green Bay Packer colors and the lettering Badger colors. Almost.
Then I had my phone blitz appointment with my friend, Christian. Oh how to characterize my friendship with Christian? I think our nickname “The WonderTwins” captures it pretty well. The other day I was having a meltdown and feeling like the clock of the campaign was ticking. I was hyperventilating even. Well, anyway, I called Christian and asked him if he would join me in a friendly phone competition of raising funds. He was so happy to do it and even offered to do it twice this week! The game is for Christian to call our mutual friends in Portland while I make my own calls urging people to contribute. The national media is watching after all! We need to give them something to look at. Towards the end of the night, I was a little nervous about Portland outdoing the Midwest on that competition but we rebounded and secured our position in the end. And I have to admit, I played a little dirty as we were getting close to the midnight deadline. Our next competition is Thursday. I will try to keep it clean.
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