Hiccups – bumps in the road of a perfectly laid plan. The latest, after weeks and weeks of Michael working on the plans and finishing the drawings this weekend (with an awesome rendering of the front space) today we find out the owner of the building is putting a 3 ft. entry way into our space. This, in our current plan would make our clients shimmy past the front desk into the space – terribly amusing for Candid Camera but not nice for clients. So, it’s literally back to the drawing board.

 Does holding your breath help?

Cool rendering of the front of the space.

Before that there was the issue of where to put the scale. We originally settled for it being a few feet inside the front door – recessed in the floor and covered with a rug (this plan would now put it in the entry – outside the hospital door!).  One day when I was visiting the space to look at colors with our interior designer, I heard the guys talking about cutting the concrete in the front of the space. I casually mentioned this to Michael who then found out that they are putting in a 1:12 inch slope in the first 8 feet of our space. Can’t weigh animals on a slope – scales don’t work that way. Luckily we have relocated the scale (because of the slope issue!) so the new door issue does not affect it directly but there are a host of new issues like where to arrange things around this new door location…sigh.

Scaring us is not working – we’ve been pretty frightened and the hiccups persist.

I have our kennels on order – I was originally told the only ship date was mid February but then got a small bank of kennels to be shipped earlier – whew – hiccup averted. Then I get a call from Michael today and he tells me the kennel dimensions for isolation are too big and we need to shrink them!! Yikes – I had to sign off on all kinds of papers to get those ordered and verify the order was correct. Luckily Paul at Snyder Manufacturing was great and so helpful – no problem. 

Does eating a spoonful of sugar help?

There was the hiccup with the code for usage in our backspace that I already mentioned – another worry, another headache. Some research and expert letter writing on Michael’s part got us our variance for that space – whew. 

Has anyone tried drinking backwards?

I am so sure there are more hiccups in our future – if anyone has any cure all remedies, I’d love to hear them. Even if we could shorten the severity I’d take it. For now I’ll take some deep breaths….