Wednesday the slow day

Well, kids.  Shortcake finally felt better on Wednesday.  She had energy, which was good since she covered most of Blissful's shift and her own shift.  She was at Santaland from 11am-9:45pm.  It was almost like Christmas Eve.  Except not.

Also, while Shortcake was feeling better, many other people got sick.  Two people called out, and Ruby, poor Ruby, the mom of a 4 week old baby, had a fever.  Of course she reached out to her fellow stylists: Gingersnap, Tumbleweed and Peppercorn.  Apparently Peppercorn exclaimed this out loud while going undercover at her other job:  "Ruby has a fever, and Gingersnap can only come in for a half hour, and Tumbleweed can only stay until 5pm, and I just need to call Shortcake!"

This is funnier if you think about Peppercorn sitting in a normal office while uttering it.

The NYFD visited Santaland.  Shortcake followed them around because they wanted to make sure all emergency exits were clear.  And there's this one exit that the strawbosses put wrapping paper over the opening between doors because people can peek through the gap and see Santa when he's on break.  And even Santa needs some privacy.  The NYFD was all "this needs to go" and Shortcake got all "not unless you give me a weather strip."  The nice Macy's maintenance man offered to get a weather strip, which seemed to mollify NYFD.  Shortcake is not the best at being deferential to government entities just because they are government entities.  When Shortcake left on Wednesday, no weather strip had been installed, and the wallpaper stayed.  The rest of the area was cleaned out, per NYFD's request.

Santa went on an event.  Snowball was his elf, and he was super excited to go on his first event.  Snowball has been with Santa for nine years and finally got to go on an event.  She talked him through getting into the car, what supplies he needed, what elevator to take...  Snowball did a good job.  

Two people lost stuff.  One woman claimed there was a boot in her stroller when she came into Santaland.  The stroller fell over, and the elves helped her clean it up, and they swear there was only one boot.  The woman claimed there were two, and then she demanded compensation for the missing boot. Shortcake kicked that complaint over to the white flowers.  And then later another man came back looking for a blue notebook.  Shortcake checked the house over and over again, and no notebook was found.

The best part of the day was watching the elves play with the guests.  Glitz had a jump party in the register room with some kids, and another elf played hide and seek with two other kids.  

And then there's elves at rest: Dumpling and Little Star

And here's Shortcake in front of a tree.  Just because.