I just got to have 10 days off to do absolutely nothing... I didn't go anywhere, I didn't work on anything and I barely went out... What did I do, I'm not really sure it's kind of a blur of awesome sleep, awesome food and getting my head together to do another year of grinding out crap. It takes a lot out of me, I basically have trained myself to do at least 11 hours of work a day... Between the world wide leader, painting, Timbers Army merch, I need about two to three vacations where I do absolutely nothing... Though, I've found out this past year that video games are really therapeutic, nothing that requires puzzling thought, aka FIFA 13. Anyways lets catch up the back end of 2012 and talk about 2013.
So I was so busy working at the Fanladen and with the TA webteam to blog over the past two months. We had to build a separate website for NoPity Originals so we could have complete control over the online store and work some new features to help us run it. That was a mind-fuck like no other. I had to learn stamps dot com, a new webstore plugin to wordpress, along with making sure the paypal was giving us the right info, align it with all the old orders from the previous site ... Then after we got everything figured out I had to teach the rest of the merch team, cause I'll be damned if I'm the only one running this mess (or even at all, may I remind myself that the season is in less than 3 months and we have a whole spring and summer apparel line to put out). The system works great, we have teams that go in and crank out shipping, keep the inventory right, and answer emails (well, we always answered emails but this time we actually know what we are talking about)
On Top of that we had a Black Friday (aka Green Weekend) sale and put out our winter lookbook
Fun story about the making of that lookbook, we literally got the last of the product the weekend that everything needed to go up (Had 3 days til shit went live)... Luckily I was prepared for all of it, and had a team of models (friends) lined up to be ready on a moments notice... We all met up at like 10am on that Saturday, to say we were hung over is an understatement. I was miserable the entire morning... We rushed up to forest park and shot the lookbook (the actual shoot was done within an hour, that's how good we've gotten at this shit), took naps then sat around doing product photos and building the lookbook and website store for the next two days. Everything was ready for a Monday release when a not-to-be-named British (hahaha) board member threw wrench after wrench at us, and delayed us to a Tuesday release... Worst part is that none of that we had to do for them was relevant when the problems started flowing in. I'll say this, we got threw it, we're better for it and I'm not going to relive it.
Other than that I helped out a buddy and made bowling shirts for his kids birthday party... It was too funny and took me like an hour to do a solid for him. Now he owes me one and he owns a pool, see what I did there.
I know I owe a review on the new Snuff album, I think it's actually out in America now, I've had a Japanese copy since the beginning of October. Anyways I'll get to it, I have a really fun story about them and when I first found out about those likely Ladds.
til then, listening to:
Drag the River - Get Drunk
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