Excerpt from an email because my life is crazy

The following is an excerpt from an email to the FrisbeeJuggler:

well, things are better than they sound. the fondu dinner WAS amazing! life has been NUTs, and i mean nuts. thank god we got out early today. we were going to go up to maine tonight, but it's just not a good idea. daN is kind of ill, and i am exhausted. i went to bed at 11:45 on wed night, and that's been the earliest all week. the rest has been around 2, getting up at 6. getting ready for christmas. it's been hard, but enjoyable... and hard. but the hard part is only really between 11:30 and 2 when i wish i were sleeping.

in other exciting news, kathy gave me an ipod shuffle for christmas! she didn't go off on the economic deep end -- she aparently won it this summer and has been saving it for me ever since! isn't that so sweet! it's amazing how much better life is with music. particulary work. man, let me tell ya, i LOVE my job now that i have something to listen to all day! i just sit there with my headphones on doing what i always do, and somehow, it makes everything better. who knew that's all it would take?

speaking of the job, things have been going really well, there. i'm apparently scoring a lot of points recently. getting a lot of compliments, and am starting to turn some heads. someone even told me they wished i were the admin for business development rather than the admin for some segments within. it came from fairly high up, so i was flattered. otherwise, the days have been going by, i tell them what time i take off, and it's no big deal. i'm more involved than i used to be, which is also good, including some product design meetings, which is always fun.

Stats:
i made family traditional holiday candies all weekend -- including but not limited to chocolate dipped peanut butter creams, needhams, and cream cheese mints in lemon, almond, coconut, and peppermint. we spent a total of $75 on raw goods, not including what we already had, and i put a total of 19 hours into it, not counting the help i had from daN and the bogs with cutting the candy and rolling them out. we calculated that if we were going to sell these, to break even, we would have to charge about $10/lb, however, typical mark-up is around 50%-100% to make a profit. To break things down even further, it cost about $0.43 per candy to make, once again making each piece worth near $1 on the market. Fun to think about, especially when i think about how much work went into them. it's all worth it though. the best part is the look on people's faces when they try them and can't believe that _i_ made that. yeah, that was me :)