The winery's Christmas party for some of their wine club members is this Saturday, which means ALL employees must work. There will be about 400 guests coming, and hopefully going, between 11am and 4pm. I, of course put in a good few hours work on either end of those times. My mission yesterday, as I chose to accept it, was to assemble 30 cases with a seemingly random selection of wine and gifts, re-secure them, and then wrap them ( you heard right) in holiday wrapping paper. The grand finale was to stack all 30 of these cases into a pyramid against the back wall of the tasting room. A little Christmas tree of alcohol, if you will.
After 7 hrs, 90 reps of lifting a case of wine, a pulled back muscle, and a condolence from my manager in the form of a nice glass of Shiraz - this was the end result.
Needless to say, a job of this sort tends to bring one closer and closer to the brink of insanity. I was no exception. By the time there were only 5 cases remaining, I had run out of two of the three patterns of paper I had been using. Damned if I was going to break the pattern, I succumbed to a level of commitment (a.k.a clinical psychosis) that I would wish upon no one - I began "sewing" the left-over scraps of paper together so that the pattern could remain consistent. Yes, I know, insanity. The following photo is an example of said insanity....
Yes, that would be a case of wine wrapped in a combination of all three types of paper that had been used. I think it is b-e-a-utiful. My manager does as well, so I'm standing by that, and the rest of my artistic, holiday work that has been done in the tasting room these last few days. If you care to take in some of this creativity and holiday festiveness (is that a word??), please stop by....most of it will be gone by Saturday morning, so just think of this as something is the same range as a solar eclipse, or the grunion run.
Needless to say, a job of this sort tends to bring one closer and closer to the brink of insanity. I was no exception. By the time there were only 5 cases remaining, I had run out of two of the three patterns of paper I had been using. Damned if I was going to break the pattern, I succumbed to a level of commitment (a.k.a clinical psychosis) that I would wish upon no one - I began "sewing" the left-over scraps of paper together so that the pattern could remain consistent. Yes, I know, insanity. The following photo is an example of said insanity....
Yes, that would be a case of wine wrapped in a combination of all three types of paper that had been used. I think it is b-e-a-utiful. My manager does as well, so I'm standing by that, and the rest of my artistic, holiday work that has been done in the tasting room these last few days. If you care to take in some of this creativity and holiday festiveness (is that a word??), please stop by....most of it will be gone by Saturday morning, so just think of this as something is the same range as a solar eclipse, or the grunion run.
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