Yes, it's true! Shortcake is back! She spent 2017 traveling around the country - what country, you ask? Why the country of the United States of America. She worked in San Diego and Baltimore and Indiana and Chicago. She flew from St. Louis (Which, you are correct, was not listed in the above list. Look, Shortcake went other places too.) to NYC for preseason (We've been over this. Only Santa gets to use the sleigh. Everyone else has to fly commercial airlines.) and ran into Whimsy in the airport! All the elves are converging on Macy's Herald Square for the season.
Shortcake & Whimsy in the bathroom of LaGuardia airport. Because even elves have to use the, ahem, facilities.
ANYWAY. Cider, Blissful and Shortcake all met at Macy's bright and early Monday morning to do... stuff. Conveniently, Shortcake had made a preseason checklist last season, and Cider expanded it to have something to reference for this season. (Cider actually started his own checklist, and Shortcake just kept saying "I made one. It's on Google Drive. I shared it with you. I made one. It's on Google Drive. You have access to it." This is why Cider is the President of the strawbosses, and Shortcake is the Secretary.) (Blissful is the Vice President.)
New development this year: Strawbosses have a computer! So exciting! This year the binder, in which we keep all important strawboss things like the schedule and events and the calendar and contact info and stuff, is digital. Okay, yes, we still have the actual binder, but most of the stuff is on the computer. Which is also super helpful year after year. This way if, for some reason, Shortcake decides not to return to Santaland (sometimes she misses the North Pole, you guys) Cider and Blissful will still have access to the paperwork - like the checklist!
Cider working hard at the computer
Cider working hard with Santa's water tubs in the background. Yes, Santa drinks a lot of water.
Here's Shortcake working at the computer. With the calendar in the background. Shortcake made that calendar. And then she let Cider put it together. This was a big deal for her. She was - what's the word - delegating.
Google celebrated the invention of the hole punch! Shortcake was very excited.
And this is Shortcake working on the actual, non-digital binder.
Being a strawboss is hard work, you guys.
Patches, head of Santaland Herald Square, kindly provided seasonal mugs for the strawbosses.
Awwwwwwwwwwww
Oh! Exciting news! Cider and Ruby had a baby elf! His name is Shenanigans!
Ruby holding wee babe Shenanigans. He's so tiny!
Who's ready for the season to begin?
Santa is!
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