My Life in Pink & Green by Lisa Greenwald

Author:Lisa Greenwald [Greenwald, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780810983526
Publisher: Amulet Books
Published: 2009-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Business tip: Try to stay on the pulse of all

that’s happening in your field.

on the grant application?” I ask Claudia over the phone. I don’t mean to sound rude, but I’m not sure she’s taking this as seriously as she should.

“I told you, I have a ton going on right now, Lucy.” Claudia slurps her drink. “Did you even bother to read the last section of the application?”

“Ummm . . .” I don’t have it in front of me, so I don’t really know what she’s talking about. “Maybe?”

“We need to come up with a game plan for how we’d like to enhance our store,” she says. “It’s more than just a Going Green Grant. You know that, right?”

Suddenly I’m feeling nervous, like I never should have gotten excited about this and it’s all going to fall through. “What do you mean?”

“Okay, Lucy.” She pauses, like she’s trying to find words that I can understand. “Mayor Danes wants local businesses to go green but also to expand so that big chain stores don’t totally take over. But the thing is, I’m not sure we really want to expand. A pharmacy is a pharmacy, you know?”

“Yeah, Morrie said the same thing,” I tell Claudia. “That people like to get more than one type of item at a place. But all I could think of was the health food Mom wants to start selling and the DVD rentals, like at the grocery store.”

“Yeah . . . ,” Claudia says. “Those are kind of lame—no offense. If we’re doing this, we might as well do it. Dream big. Know what I mean?”

“Yeah,” I mumble.

Claudia tells me to hold on, and she yells out to a crowd of people that there’s some kind of party at a place called McSaddle’s and that they’re all going over there at nine.

Thinking about all of this, I realize that I’ve kind of expanded already without even knowing it. I mean, the Relaxation Room. The makeup. Helping Courtney Adner with her hair trauma.

Claudia gets back on the phone and says, “I gotta go in a sec, Luce. If we can’t think of anything, we’ll just do the health food thing. I’m sure we can always change it later, if we win.” She doesn’t say anything for a second. “Listen, I just want to tell you—I think it’s a long shot that we’re going to win. I don’t want to burst your bubble or anything, but I need to warn you.”

“Connecticut needs an eco-spa,” I say, out of the blue. Suddenly it seems like an idea that has been percolating in my brain for a while has finally come together. Finally I’ve figured out what to do with my love of makeovers! “Like the one you went to for your birthday.”

“Yeah, I know. Right? How awesome would that be?” Claudia says, like she’s forgotten what we were just talking about. She gets distracted very easily, especially since she’s been at college.

“No, I mean that’s what we’ll write. That’s our way to expand! That’s what we need to do to save the pharmacy.

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