Im enjoying the last bits of my day off with a pumpkin spice bagel (you thought I was gonna say latte didn’t you?) with hazelnut cream cheese (reduced fat, gotta love that). I never thought to find fall in the form of a bagel but hey, Im not complaining. Though I am ruining it a bit with an iced green tea, very un-fall of me to drink. I might have to go back and get a bowl of soup and a hot drink if Im here long to make up for it. I’ve grown to really love Panera a lot, though my friends out west here don’t appreciate it much. Most of them haven’t stepped foot inside of a Panera (I know!) let alone know what one is. What other place can you enjoy bread and free internet? This girls dream come true.

Well my store opened yesterday. It was a great open, the neighborhood loved us (wow that was such a You Got Mail quote without me even knowing it). Saying how they had needed one for years. Never mind there is another Starbuck the next off ramp off the freeway from us or anything. A good handful of the regulars from my old store came in. Along with a lot of the staff from church (did I mention is in the same shopping center as my church?), it was nice to see a lot of familiar faces on opening day. The staff worked together really this past week putting the store together. But it was a very different story once the doors opened for business. Not in a bad way, we all just don’t know where everyone is at in their Starbucks journey so it’s harder to run a floor not knowing. It will just take sometime getting to know everyone’s strengths (and weakness) and a lot of patience. But thus far, we seem to have a great team that gets along well which is a great bases for everything else to fall into place.