I find myself twitching a little bit when I walk into stores surrounding me with back to school supplies. The sun JUST came out and we already have to start thinking about sending our cherubs back to school? I love summers with my kids. Water play, relaxing, everything just seems a little slower and easier - even while running an event company! Abacus is insanely busy these days and we are turning away business right and left. We keep scratching our heads - how are we ever going to keep up with the demand? Even the largest event companies assure us we will always turn away business. A good problem to have? Definitely. A problem? Most certainly.
Pauline and I continue to grow closer and closer each year as friends, as dreamers, as business colleagues. I am fascinated at how our friendship and admiration for one another never seems to diminish. Rarely do you find someone you can spend as much time with as we do with one another and come out still smiling on the other side of every project. Do we have moments where we are frustrated and irritated? Absolutely. I am quite sure I frustrate and irritate Pauline more than she does me - I love her so much for putting up with me! We admit when we are wrong, we laugh when we are idiots, we cry out in pain when we can't move our muscles, and we genuinely know that there is no walking away.
Like the school supplies, I am never quite ready for school to begin and I am never quite ready for the event season to end. It's a ton of work, but it's exciting and I get to hang out with my best friend every single day. Once the season is over it always feels strange to go a few days without chatting. We find ourselves calling and talking about our dreams for the next summer season. What marketing are we going to do? What do we need to purchase? What networking worked and didn't work and where do we invest next year? I hope that just like a new school season, and children dreaming we continue to have this dream and vision and continue to love the pain it brings and the rewards we can almost taste!
