Between weddings, peanut butter and family life there’s never a dull moment in Rosey Lelo’s day. Rosey has become a familiar face in Nelson having been a celebrant for over 300 couples as well as retail manager and tour guide at Pic’s Peanut Butter World. Rosey shares with us her typical Wednesday.
5.30am - My day begins at 5:30am with the alarm. My body is so used to waking at this time, I am often awake before it. As today is a Wednesday I get into my workout gear in preparation for the gym at 7am. For breakfast eggs are on the menu. I like to enjoy breakfast and a coffee with my husband before the hustle of the day begins. It’s also when I look through my emails. I make it a priority to read the emails that come to my business, I’m a celebrant, before my work at Pic’s begins.
6.30am - My youngest daughter, Jane (seven), is up and starts to enquire about breakfast. I have made enough scrambled eggs for everyone. Now to rouse Eve, who is nine. For her waking up isn’t as easy as it is for Jane, but we get there.
6.45am - A kiss for my husband and girls before I head to CLM gym for my workout. Today is an arms day. My husband Adam is in charge of getting the girls to my mum’s house just down the road by 7:30. We’re lucky to have her so close and she takes them to school and picks them up too.
8.30am - I finish up at the gym and head to work where I shower and get ready for my role as the retail manager of Pic’s Peanut Butter World.
9.00am - The high season has wound up, we’ve reduced our four free tours a day down to our standard three. I manage this on a week by week basis to ensure we can accommodate our customers. I’m hosting one tour today, and my team, Rachel and Claudia, will cover the other two.
10.00am - We’ve checked everyone in for the 10am tour, I do a really big shout out for everyone to join me on the tour, then we ascend the stairs. I spend the next 45 minutes chatting about peanuts and trying to come up with new witty puns, aka dad jokes, about peanuts.
10.45am - The tour is finished. There have been some great chats with my tour group about the amazing things we do at Pic’s. At the end of the tour we clean up and head back downstairs to sell some peanut butter.
12.30pm - Lunch. Today is some almond butter on a sliced up apple and some leftover homemade pizza. Then I go for a quick walk in the last 15 minutes of my break, down the railway reserve.
1.00pm - The afternoon is spent by me taking care of administrative and operational tasks, all while serving our customers and supporting the tour team in their daily tasks too.
3.00pm - Wednesdays are a short day for me at Pic’s Peanut Butter World. Every second Wednesday I help teach a children’s New Zealand Sign Language class. My two girls meet me at the lesson.
5.00pm - Home to whip up some dinner. Something easy that pleases everyone, spaghetti bolognese. We get some homework done with the girls and then I run off to another session at the gym, this time it’s boxing. I love this class. Good for the brain, the body and the heart.
9.30pm - Home and showered, ready for bed and to hit play again in the morning.
