One Long Weekend

Today was just as bad as yesterday. We had a visitation from 2-6pm, so I figured I could show up about 11am and get the flowers situated and put the book out and be prepared. Well, it turns out we had two families scheduled to make arrangements from a couple of the calls I took yesterday. Last night, or god-awful early this morning (about 3am), however you want to look at it, we get another call. So I make the removal and call the family this morning. I scheduled them for noon, since we had a 9am and an 11am arrangement already scheduled. Right in the middle of the 11am arrangement we get a call from a family who lost someone late last night. So I get her information and have her come in at 1pm. So from 9am to 1pm we met with four families, and after each meeting the owner came out and had me type up the obituaries so the families could proof them before we send them in. In addition, I'm trying to enter the files into the computer so our secretary doesn't walk into Monday Morning Hell tomorrow. Right in the middle of working on the files the family for visitation shows up, so I show them in and make sure everything is to their satisfaction. While the visitation went on, I continued doing as much as I could with all of the files.

In summary, my weekend was: one removal Saturday morning at 7:30am, eight hours workday on the clock, including a two and a half hour roundtrip, a middle of the night removal, and another eight hour workday today. For the funeral home: five calls over the weekend, four arrangements in five hours, one visitation, two burials to arrange, a memorial service this weekend to plan for, and two direct cremations. I'm beat.