Monday, June 1, 2009

Working Hard For The Money

This weekend was spent moving Dom's office to a new location. Now this might seem like a simple task but seriously, it was one of the most intense weekends ever, at least work wise. He owns a Jewelry repair shop with his family and he runs it. His office includes all of the jewelers equipment and work benches, large gas and air tanks, tons of different jewelry repair machines that are made out of heavy metal and a thousand pound safe, not to mention all of the normal office stuff you would think of.

The safe was the hardest part and the most scary. People's lives were in danger including my husband's which made me quite nervous. Did I mention that his office was upstairs? Yeah, this definitely complicated things. Taking the safe down the stairs on this power dolly thing took the might of 5 men and even after that they were all exhausted. One more thing to mention was the safe has a piece of glass in it and if you break it the entire safe is unusable, it's a safety mechanism installed to protect it from thieves but it just sucks when you're moving and can't jostle it too much. We did eventually get the thing moved but man oh man it was hard.

Moving day was Friday, Saturday and Sunday were spent setting up the shop for work on Monday. It is difficult to set up equipment you don't know how to use and I ended up being a little work mule and runner. Any errands to go do I was the person to do it. Dom's whole family was there to help with everything too but this Parisi couple put in a few more hours since it is his shop. All in all, tough weekend but a lot was accomplished.

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