Friday, September 23, 2005
1833 fillmore st #101
the address for the new store is 1833 fillmore #101 between bush and sutter. it has been bitter-sweet. i often think of life as bitter and sweet. it is always a little of both. the first store i opened on fillmore 5 years ago, my best friend lily, her husband and her 3 year old daughter isabella, helped me set up the shop. the store on 16th street, lily also helped me open that shop. the last three days i have been working day and night setting up the new space, tired and worn out and thinking, i don't think i can keep doing this, my age is catching up with me. lily would have been there for me, as she always has and will be, but she and her family moved to japan for two years. it was always so much fun to have a partner in crime, someone to share in all the misery and fun, and then have a fanatastic dinner at the end of it. but then there it was, just me, and i realized that in the end there is only just you. i am so grateful to be opening this new space and moving forward. there were more problems in opening this store than the other two stores, but in the end it was also the most rewarding, because it was so challenging.
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