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lenora_rose(This is not all about the social. It starts there with self-promotion and good news and an invitation to come out, goes into happy, then into a 3 in a row of pissed pissed off. You have been warned.)
We have 32 raffle prizes for the social (Excluding the Door Prize). Not small ones, either.... Once it was all put together, my jaw kind of dropped at the number and the variety. No offence to Siegound and Rachelle, but except for their grand prize (We have none -- and no booze draw, either), I think we might have them beat.
And ticket sales have picked up, *and* a few people haven't bought who've promised to show up at the door if nothing else. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tiene?
And I asked for no profanity in the music,zandoria.
Tomorrow at 8:00.
Regent Park Hall, 701 Regent Ave. West.
And this will be the last of that except the review. Hurrah! My work calendar has my days off as follows:
March 10 - Off: Social
March 11 - Off: Exhausted
Next week, back to real wedding plans. I've still got a cake to order.
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I like my new boots. They're alright for pronating feet, they're thoroughly waterproof. They cling a bit hard to the ankle, which wasn't so good yesterday when the socks slipped below the top and let them rub a welt on the left, but helps the rest of the time.
Although they have less traction than they looked like.
Still, it says much about the state of the sidewalk between the buss top (10 minutes away) and my workplace when there's a path trodden almost to smoothness - on the top of the snowbank.
I really like having new boots right now.
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IJWTS that Richard Thompson's "Outside of the Inside" is a work of genius. RT and Elvis (?! don't ask) seem to have briefly taken over the majority of my playlist (Mom's borrowed CD of Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt comes in a slightly distant third). Alas, I'm still not sold on RT's Front Parlour Ballads. Usually with a relatively new album, it stays high in the playlist for 4 months or so. That one keeps dropping back out in favour of Amnesia, The Old Kit Bag, and Shoot Out the Lights (With Linda, of course).
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Yes, I have written some in here. Not as much as I wanted, and as soon as I finished writing one scene, I started a revised version that didn't thoroughly suck and actuallly allowed for some dialogue. (Have to keep reminding myself that in this setting, the damn ghosts get everywhere and aren't particularly remarkable for doing so.)
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Recent reading: All 6 Griffin & Sabine books. Liked the first 3 as a story, a bit more ambiguous about the second. All fabulous by way of art pieces.
Ended up falling back into Master & Commander about the same time I started an okay-seeming Fantasy world sea-voyage book. The Former has, naturally, completely taken over (I reach chapters 1-3 before Viable Paradise, set it down, and failed to pick it up rather too long.)
Also read right through Doonesbury from the first strip collected to 1980. I mostly needed the late 70's book (Iranian Hostage Crisis and Disco era.) Disturbing how many strips in certain areas (Feminism & other equal rights especially) feel current. Including ones that by in the late 90's would have been painfully dated. Especially the bits with Kissinger & Torture.
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I'm getting more and more pissed off at the current US approach to pharmaceuticals. Get this, people: NOT EVERYONE RESPONDS TO ALL MEDICINE THE SAME WAY. THE DRUG YOU ARE REMOVING MAY BE THE ONLY RECOURSE SOME PEOPLE HAVE BECAUSE THE OTHERS DON'T WORK RIGHT ON THEM.
Also, that in most cases, the side effects are worse in Aspirin or Tylenol.
And that's all I'll say right now. Canada seems to have a saner approach, sicne we have exemption laws for people to use banned drugs, but when the US stops making a drug outright, and they're our supplier, we get toasted along with.
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As for South Dakota and Georgia: Go Piss up a Rope.
Before anyone jumps on me, I respect (Though I disagree with) pro-lifers who made their choice in a sane and consistent way, who believe the life of the baby is equal to the life of the mother. This is not what these two States are doing. Georgia: Anti-CONTRACEPTIVE laws as well? That's not about saving babies. And just read the quote from the guy in South Dakota -- if you can't see something going on there above & beyond support for the life of a fetus, you're more oblivious than George W. Bush.
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One of the things that's throwing so many things on my desk from that of our Health & Safety co-ordinator is a serious attempt to comply with regulations that ensure our food is completely free of any allergens we can keep out. And much as I disagree with some of the applications of the regulations and the health system we're using, I approve of the purpose, which is A) making sure the food stays uncontaminated (Having recently had a screw from one of the machines get into a loaf, to our great embarrassment) and B) someone with an egg allergy or a soy allergy or a milk allergy knows it really is thoroughly safe, that we didn't poison them by ignorance of what other companies put into their food. (We can't guarantee nuts absolutely, sorry).
All our breads are Egg & Milk free, except the Paska, which has eggs. But there was a soy product where the company welling it to us happened not to mention it the first two times (Within a handful of months) we asked for theic complete ingredient breakdown. That lost us part of a Canada Safeway contract, people, so really, *thanks*.
So you can imagine what I think of this.
(And yes, someone did recently comment that, having read an article in the paper missing a pertinent piece of information, the reader went to Teresa's site to find out which of the commentors knew the answer).
We have 32 raffle prizes for the social (Excluding the Door Prize). Not small ones, either.... Once it was all put together, my jaw kind of dropped at the number and the variety. No offence to Siegound and Rachelle, but except for their grand prize (We have none -- and no booze draw, either), I think we might have them beat.
And ticket sales have picked up, *and* a few people haven't bought who've promised to show up at the door if nothing else. (
tiene?And I asked for no profanity in the music,
zandoria.Tomorrow at 8:00.
Regent Park Hall, 701 Regent Ave. West.
And this will be the last of that except the review. Hurrah! My work calendar has my days off as follows:
March 10 - Off: Social
March 11 - Off: Exhausted
Next week, back to real wedding plans. I've still got a cake to order.
______________________________________________
I like my new boots. They're alright for pronating feet, they're thoroughly waterproof. They cling a bit hard to the ankle, which wasn't so good yesterday when the socks slipped below the top and let them rub a welt on the left, but helps the rest of the time.
Although they have less traction than they looked like.
Still, it says much about the state of the sidewalk between the buss top (10 minutes away) and my workplace when there's a path trodden almost to smoothness - on the top of the snowbank.
I really like having new boots right now.
______________________________________________
IJWTS that Richard Thompson's "Outside of the Inside" is a work of genius. RT and Elvis (?! don't ask) seem to have briefly taken over the majority of my playlist (Mom's borrowed CD of Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt comes in a slightly distant third). Alas, I'm still not sold on RT's Front Parlour Ballads. Usually with a relatively new album, it stays high in the playlist for 4 months or so. That one keeps dropping back out in favour of Amnesia, The Old Kit Bag, and Shoot Out the Lights (With Linda, of course).
______________________________________________
Yes, I have written some in here. Not as much as I wanted, and as soon as I finished writing one scene, I started a revised version that didn't thoroughly suck and actuallly allowed for some dialogue. (Have to keep reminding myself that in this setting, the damn ghosts get everywhere and aren't particularly remarkable for doing so.)
______________________________________________
Recent reading: All 6 Griffin & Sabine books. Liked the first 3 as a story, a bit more ambiguous about the second. All fabulous by way of art pieces.
Ended up falling back into Master & Commander about the same time I started an okay-seeming Fantasy world sea-voyage book. The Former has, naturally, completely taken over (I reach chapters 1-3 before Viable Paradise, set it down, and failed to pick it up rather too long.)
Also read right through Doonesbury from the first strip collected to 1980. I mostly needed the late 70's book (Iranian Hostage Crisis and Disco era.) Disturbing how many strips in certain areas (Feminism & other equal rights especially) feel current. Including ones that by in the late 90's would have been painfully dated. Especially the bits with Kissinger & Torture.
______________________________________________
I'm getting more and more pissed off at the current US approach to pharmaceuticals. Get this, people: NOT EVERYONE RESPONDS TO ALL MEDICINE THE SAME WAY. THE DRUG YOU ARE REMOVING MAY BE THE ONLY RECOURSE SOME PEOPLE HAVE BECAUSE THE OTHERS DON'T WORK RIGHT ON THEM.
Also, that in most cases, the side effects are worse in Aspirin or Tylenol.
And that's all I'll say right now. Canada seems to have a saner approach, sicne we have exemption laws for people to use banned drugs, but when the US stops making a drug outright, and they're our supplier, we get toasted along with.
______________________________________________
As for South Dakota and Georgia: Go Piss up a Rope.
Before anyone jumps on me, I respect (Though I disagree with) pro-lifers who made their choice in a sane and consistent way, who believe the life of the baby is equal to the life of the mother. This is not what these two States are doing. Georgia: Anti-CONTRACEPTIVE laws as well? That's not about saving babies. And just read the quote from the guy in South Dakota -- if you can't see something going on there above & beyond support for the life of a fetus, you're more oblivious than George W. Bush.
______________________________________________
One of the things that's throwing so many things on my desk from that of our Health & Safety co-ordinator is a serious attempt to comply with regulations that ensure our food is completely free of any allergens we can keep out. And much as I disagree with some of the applications of the regulations and the health system we're using, I approve of the purpose, which is A) making sure the food stays uncontaminated (Having recently had a screw from one of the machines get into a loaf, to our great embarrassment) and B) someone with an egg allergy or a soy allergy or a milk allergy knows it really is thoroughly safe, that we didn't poison them by ignorance of what other companies put into their food. (We can't guarantee nuts absolutely, sorry).
All our breads are Egg & Milk free, except the Paska, which has eggs. But there was a soy product where the company welling it to us happened not to mention it the first two times (Within a handful of months) we asked for theic complete ingredient breakdown. That lost us part of a Canada Safeway contract, people, so really, *thanks*.
So you can imagine what I think of this.
(And yes, someone did recently comment that, having read an article in the paper missing a pertinent piece of information, the reader went to Teresa's site to find out which of the commentors knew the answer).
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Date: 2006-03-10 12:53 am (UTC)p.s. Congratulations on pulling everything together -- don't forget to have fun. If you need to decompress next week I'd love to get together again.
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Date: 2006-03-10 02:15 am (UTC)Next week maybe, if I can dig up an evening. The weekend's out, though; Marriage Seminar that our Minister wanted us to attend (She seemed to be saying that while it wasn't absolutely required to get married, she considered it a bad idea not to go).
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Date: 2006-03-10 05:07 am (UTC)Keith and I should be there ^.^
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Date: 2006-03-10 05:47 am (UTC)There will be booty shaking music. I can pretty much guarantee that, although we did mostly leave the hall DJs to their own devices.
We made only three requests:
- No rap
- No profanity (including no Mony Mony)
- No James Blunt (I cannot possibly describe to you how much I loathe "You're Beautiful"
I did add in two demi-Bollywood things, and a certain Piratical song that will make Keith happy to hear.
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Date: 2006-03-10 05:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-10 05:48 am (UTC)On the other hand, I rather wish I didn't have to say so at all....