13 December 2008

Just a quick update...

We've finished painting the new side and have started slowly painting the original side. I've got about 1/3 of the ceiling done. It's tedious because I have to use a brush so that I can jam paint into all the little holes in the ceiling tile because that's how the original dark purple paint was applied. They sure rammed it in there...

We also, for some bizarre reason, decided to start painting just the front wall by the windows. Wasn't really planned. It's hard to explain and I blame overwork mixed with paint fumes.

Anyway, long story short: the store is a bit of mess, quite disorganized, and everyone is a little shell shocked from the speed of change.

Also, apparently, the staff has decided that the very back office space on the new side is "icky". Energetically, I guess, because physically it's a whole lot less gross since we reboarded the walls. I should say "since Cam Marshall reboarded the walls" because he's done the bulk of that work and a whole lot of other stuff. For free. Out of the goodness of his heart. I can't thank him enough.

But the energetic fug in the back office space - I honestly don't feel it. If anything, the space feels revitalized by the removal of the dank carpet, rotting walls, flickery-dead fluorescent lights and the (you guessed it: dusty rose) plastic tablecloth that was screwed over the window.

It's already so bright in there during the day that a couple of times I went to switch the light off and realized it was just natural daylight coming in through the window. And it's December!

I think once it's properly painted, the new floor is in, and there's nice curtains hiding the forbidding array of metal mesh, welded security bars, and the glass break detector hardware on the glass, it will be quite a nice space. I'm putting a lot of energy into this particular space because I know it's where I'm going to be spending the bulk of my time.

That being said, we're still going to do a proper cleansing of the entire place just to remove anything that might be hanging around...well, except for the strange but friendly little creature I've been seeing ever since we took over the space a couple of weeks ago. Of course, that could just be entirely a by-product of my lack of sleep...