Slow trickle and a fire hose

Here's the slow trickle part:
The orders for the Grocery Station have been super slow. Totalling only 3 now. I suppose I made the rookie mistake of thinking somehow my idea would be SO FANTASTIC that word would spread and I'd be overwhelmed with orders :) HAHA. Well...

We get about 5-12 new visitors at our website everyday that I can see. We have about 6 new customers signed up and we've totaled just 3 orders. What this tells me is we need to advertise more outside of just the Kroger and also we need to offer coupons off of orders. So here we go! I just look how far Paul has come with his client base and all that he's done to get there. We're just a few weeks in. This is going to take time. OK it's slower than I'd like but I also work full-time during the day and I have no budget to pay someone else to promote it. As such, we shall be grass roots! Besides I'm not sure I could handle an influx of crazy orders at this time. My head would very surely pop off.


The fire hose part:
My NASA ('real job") has been so fun and exciting still! I've been doing tons of speaking, and scaling back my travel too. Last week I got to speak at a leadership seminar of big wigs from Fortune 500 companies, which was so darned cool. I got to meet a CIA trainer, and leadership representatives from AT&T, Verizon, and Aetna, just to name a few. They all thought that I  was cool but I was keeping my own excitement down! My talk was at Space Center Houston, and afterwards I got to join them for dinner in the Starship Galaxy room. This is a neat room with stars on the ceiling and actual Apollo era artifacts. I'd been there just once as a visitor but I have to say it's the coolest place I've ever eaten dinner! Plus free wine :) WOO-HOO! I was invited by the coordinator to speak at a Women's Leadership conference in NYC in April. I hope it all holds because that would be amazing!

Tomorrow I give my first ever astronaut briefing to the Expedition 33/34 crew on ISS Science. Julie usually gives this and I have just observed but now she's out of town and so it's my turn! I'm totally game these days, feeling comfortable with the material, after having had to answer the oddest questions on all of my speaking events. One of the astronauts is a flight doc I worked with back when I was in Engineering, before he became an astronaut. So this is pretty neat.

Anna is hilarious these days. She does have her moments of whininess that we'd like to beat out of her but otherwise she's just growing up! She is giving us "Are you CRAZY" looks that I thought was funny and then I caught myself doing it at work today and realized then where she must have gotten it from. Yesterday in the car she asked what a "soul" is. And she is recognizing the sight words she's learning in class everywhere we go. She's excited to read whatever she can and that one caught me off guard!

Tonight is Trick Or Treating, SO FREAKING FUN! The weather should be rocking! Anna will be Dorothy and she's talked me and Paul into make-shift Good Witch and Scarecrow costumes. This will be half-assed rigged from the best products we could find last minute, but for me includes a blonde wig and a pink dress I wore at a wedding once (I was pleased to see that I fit into this pre-baby dress...SCORE!) Oh and Anna's princess crown. Stay tuned for rediculous pictures!