Thursday, June 16, 2005

Bah. Bug-diggedy-hum.
I had a pretty good post written partially up, only I never got around to posting it. So now I can't remember what I did tell you and what I didn't. :p You'll just all have to cope, I guess.

Hmmmm. you kno what? The partial post isn't really all that time-sensitive. *copies*

*pastes*

*edits*
The Parish festival went from last Thursday to Sunday. It was an absolute blast, let me tell you. It's been a while since I've enjoyed myself to that degree.

There were various rides that the parish had rented from a (what else?) ride company, plus games, and a craft fair, and a yard sale, and a silent auction, and food, and live entertainment, and...um.....something to do with a quasi-bake sale/raffle.

Not to be sappy or anything, but the best part about it all was that I was with my friends for almost four days straight. *grin*

Thursday night was the opening, and they had a special ride-dealy thing where you bought a bracelet that got you unlimited rides for the night. My mom bought me and my siblings a bracelet each, insisted we eat dinner together there, and then let us run free, basically.

I found my friends, and we tried out all the rides. =D

Me, Christina, Victoria, Andrew, Jake, and Melina pretty much made up the core of our group, with one or two people drifting off every now and then; we'd occasionally pick up a few hangers-on as well.

Friday I spent the morning helping out my dad at his new workplace. He's the "Steward" at the Groton Elks Club, one of those manly brotherhood sorts of things. He's just a couple weeks out of surgery, though, and can't really do a lot of lifting. So he brought me down to handle that sort of thing, and, you know, to show me off. =p

As the Steward he arranges and contracts different sorts of receptions and parties and the like to be held at the Elks Club. They have a couple of different rooms they have to rent out, of different sizes and furnishing. And if the people renting don't have any catering, he also offers that as well. And I'll bet that he could do it better than most other people they'd come across. He's spent years putting together good food for large numbers of people at a time. So, anyway, I was down at the Elks Club helping him.

***Funny instance***
My dad and I went out to the dumpsters to dispose of some expired foods leftover from his predecessor. The bags were fairly heavy, and my dad obviously cold not lift them to get them into the dumpster. So it fell to me to get them in. I took a few experimental swings with the bag in my hand, trying to get the right amount of force into the right angle of swing and....you know. I was trying to swing it in the best way to get it into the dumpster. It just wasn't happening.

So, I put the bag down on a smaller overturned trash can, and I helped my dad lift up and tip his bag into the dumpster. Not a difficult thing. Then I had to return to the issue of getting my bag into the dumpster. My wrist has not been feeling all that great when I twist it (maybe as a result of fencing) and it just hadn't seemed like I could swing the bag in before. Abandoning all pretense of finesse or intellectual advancement, I walked over to the bag and grabbed it from underneath with both of my arms, turned, and launched it into the dumpster.

"Screw physics."
***End funny instance***

I spent most of the rest of Friday down at the festival helping out in the Yard Sale tent. I missed out on the White Tiger Zord that was there the previous day. I hesitated only briefly, and it was gone from me forever. U_U But, I was not to leave empty-handed!

I grabbed the original Megazord. =p



I got that, a nifty book of euphamisms and doubletalk, a couple of old cartoon makers to play with on my computer, and......THE ULTIMATE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY COLLECTION! Five stories, in one book. If only I had the time to read it all.....

Saturday I worked at the Pasta Supper at the festival, pouring drinks most of the night. I actually came to be pretty good at it, and I had three people working under me. ^_^

Under...as in, I could tell them what to do, not....you know....

Shush.

After that I headed out to the actual festival area, and watched enviously as Christina, Andrew, Jake, and Victoria danced to swing music. Jake and Andrew kind of knew what they were doing; they'd been to swing dancing lessons. Lessons that I could have gone to, but declined. Who'd have thought it'd be so much fun to do? Not me. =(

Fortunately, I got over it. I no longer have malicious feelings toward Andrew or Jake, and I'm planning on going to the next swing dancing lesson. It ought to be fun. =)

Ummm....yeah. More time spent at the festival hanging out and having fun up through Sunday. Then Andrew, my mom, brother, sister, Christina, and I all went bowling. My mom and Andrew did fairly well the first game. Between the two games we played, my combined score didn't break 100. XD I definitely should never pretend to be a decent bowler. So, I won't.

This week has been mostly just work, sleep, eat, repeat. (Ha, rhyme!) Pretty dull, especially after the festival. I need to get off my arse and do something. =/

Like....take a driving class, or something.

Speaking of ignorance of basic driving tactics, my sister is coming to pick me up soon to go to work. I must be going. So, good bye, good morning, and I'll stop by again soon.

*smooch*
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