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I have survived.
This will probably be in some type of shorthand cos I am tired. :-) And unco. :-) And my fingers are all cold.
Friday. I managed to fit four adults, (one of whom is a tall young male), bedding for three adults, clothing and bags of four adults, food for about 12 adults, plus many bottles of alcohol all into a 121. I'm proud of myself. :-) I had stuff under the front chairs, stuff under people's legs and more stuff on people's laps. That's why I drove, so I didn't have to be unpacked like every one did. :-) We ran into Alistair doing a final run of shopping, and he agreed to take that batch of shopping with him on the way, *and* I discovered he was supposed to be in our cottage which was a bit of a shock. I'd been trying to fill the cottage myself after all, so I could look after the food, so poor Alistair had *also* brought food, and of course I over catered as per usual, so we all stuffed ourselves stupid on yummy food and he had survival rations. He did join in the food after the friday night meal, which was cool. We had tacos on the friday, and as we left this afternoon people were having another attempt at eating the left overs. Have I mentioned I like to cook enough yet?
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strangedave, akira_yta, dragonchrome, cheshirenoir, Alistair, Tori, PRK, and Neil. I'd like to point out that Neil is .... ;-) ... cool. And interesting to talk to. But I should stop talking about that because he admitted he reads my journal. Upon occasion. Rarely. Every few months. :-p Friday night was a normal con type of night; got to bed at 4:00ish. However, I wasn't able to sleep, clung to Chesh like a limpet because I thought I was cold, and gritted my teeth all night long until I actually got to sleep sometime after the sun came up. I was sleeping with TWO HOT MEN!! Both nights! Yay me!!! LOL. No, I'm not going to explain this EVER. It would ruin my rep as a Sex Goddess. My jaw muscles are sore from the gritting. My cheeks are sore from the smiling. My stomach is sore from all the laughing. It was a good weekend. We wanted to play spotlight and aliens, but it was raining. We had a gas heater. :-( I played killer, but got killed Friday night. I knew I shouldn't walk up to strangers and introduce myself!! Mostly on Friday night there was opening ceremony, killer, lurked around the other huts for a bit. I ran off and played various drinking games with people on average ten years younger than me. One of them was kind of cute (but I did hear rumours he was going to sing Britney Spears in Polish as his Talent Quest show thingy, so I think that while it sounds funny, it disqualifies him from the cute thing). The word association game thingy was fun but silly, and after a bit I looked at my scotch, looked at my jacket, grabbed both and tried to bolt, but one of the guys was fast enough to catch me. I'm standing there smacking his hand with on hand, laughing myself silly as he goes on "No no, you can't leave, I want to know more about your word associations and debauchery!" But I ran off back to the Old People's Hut. (That's US! Old!!!) Back to our own hut and relaxing and drinking and silliness. Was a good night! last few hours spent just chatting with Neil. Have I mentioned that Neil is.... cool? :-!
Saturday morning... Ugh. Sunlight. The loos are OUTSIDE the cottages. This is one of the worst provisioned cottages I have ever stayed in, but we managed by Alistair running off and stealing pots from other cottages so I could cook Tacos for last night. I got up this morning to discover some lovely fairies had gone down to Harvey, and purchased a cloth to wipe up spilt booze, dishwashing liquid, and water. Have I mentioned that the tap water was bore water and it was deep dark brown. Like ... darker than ginger beer type dark brown. Almost Guinessy type brown. Our rainwater tank was broken, so we were running raids to fill the jug from any other rain tank. (One of the house rules was to keep the jug of rainwater full. Kind of sensible. Also kind of necessary!) And, as well as all the purchases, they had also CLEANED UP! Wow! The monster arisen, I stumbled to a chair and Chesh fed me coffee until I was compis mentis enough to notice that people were showering and it might be a good time for me to do so also. Note, the tap water and the shower water come from the same source. Scary, but cleaner than I felt after a night of tossing and turning and gritting my teeth! :-) We kind of skipped breakfast at that point, since the sausage sizzle/bbq was on in about 45 minutes by the time I crawled from the shower. This was also the morning where Cthulhu was telling stories about walking down streets in kent, and you'd never guess what happened.... Managed to miss almost every organized event except for the Quiz. Simon and Lisa rocked up during the day, and ended up being on our table for the quiz. This was amusing because between the lot of us, we ended up winning! It was a huge surprise. The prize was... MORE JUNK FOOD! We ended up just throwing handfuls of it to every one; we'd already been eating ourselves silly, plus snacking on maltesers, vienna peanuts, chocolate, salt and vinegar chips, lime and chilli chips, jam biscuits, other biscuits, coke.... see the problem yet??
I must be tired, even writing this it sounds so much more boring than what actually happened! Like the moment when we realised that one of the cartoon names was Beavis and Butthead and we were so amazed that we'd been missing that, that we drowned out the rest of the room in our sounds of disbelief! The last round of questions was cool - popular choice. Guess an answer and the majority of answers given wins. Highly amusing as the last question was "who do you think will win?" Meryki told us all that the correct answer was "The team with the highest points" however she gave a half point to Team Cthulhu (us) because we wrote "OURS!" and the actual most popular answer had been "Team Cthulhu!" We weren't drinking at this stage; it would have been a good time for my bottle of wine, however it didn't occur to me at that point.
After that, we hit our cottage again and started some drinking games. We played the hands game, which is always fun, and involves more thumping the table than anything else. We also played Pig, which is a lot like spoons but with much less diving across tables and wrestling for cutlery. It did, however, managed to involve even MORE thumping of the table than the hands game did, which is quite a feat. Key words: "After that, there are no rules." *evil grin* Dragonchrome managed to fail admirably at pretty much all the drinking games. I ended up filling her shot glasses with just Coke in the end, because I was just not mean enough to make her keep drinking punishments shots. Chesh mentioned animal noises, and before he could finish his sentence Neil was off like a flash and brought in a game called Snorta or Snorter, where every one gets an animal noise they own, and there's these cards and it's all cool and it involves people pointing at each other, almost sobbing whilst they cycle through names/animal noises/sobbing while one of them tries to remember the other's animal noise. :-)
A few people in our cottage faded away. We decide it's time to start the real games, so we get settled for a game of Truth Dare or Torture, which SUCKs but we were out of options because I'd left the disc game at home. We get through about two people, and then it's my turn. It's a truth question. I open my mouth. The door opens. Suddenly, there are 12 under-20 year olds in the room checking out the party. I shut my mouth and have a drink. Some one in our group reminds me about an answer. I open my mouth. The door opens again, and another SIX people enter the room, most of whom look to be virgins. *sigh* We did try to keep playing with everyone, but the babies were all loud and people who were sleeping got annoyed and them someone one remarked that THEIR cottage was totally empty, I encouraged them to go to it, and said we'd be along as soon as we'd sorted out the alcohol, and then locked the door behind them. *grin* I unlocked it later though. Evan stayed with us and learned more and probably did more than he ever has in his entire life. We were doing B52's, I'd managed to purchase 36 shot glasses from harvey. They all got used. *grin* Spirits is a funny thing though; I feel drunk but still in control. I think I should have brought some champagne; to lower my control a bit. After all, we were there to relax. :-) And, I think I tend to get more evil on champagne/wine. Will have to think about this some more. :-) We eventually got found again (I think; I'm not 100% sure) but the end result being that we moved to the Hall so there was more room, whereby I looked at the people who were playing, thought about the possible outcomes, and decided that this was NOT a good use of my time, and left them to it. Neil joined me, and we drank lots of water and chatted until Dave and Tori and PRK came back to the hut, and then we chatted more lots and quietly until it got to about ten past four and then we went to bed. We'd found alistair setting up to play shots chess earlier in the night; we figured after 16 shots of alcohol he'd be dead somewhere. Tori ended up locking the door not realising he was still out there, and eventually when he came back the door was locked, and he had to jump UP the balconey to get in through the other door. Oops, sorry honey! *giggle* Oh, and imagine our disappointment in Alistair as we learnt that they were doing shots of JOLT COLA! Without anything in it at all! His cred dropped back to where it had been after that!! :-)
Got up bright and early this morning, to bacon, eggs, fruit toast and coffee. Aki has an instant invite to any of my weekends away sheerly for her ability to do breakfast and be chirpy about it the entire time. The fact that she volunteered and can make pancakes suzette for 20 in no way biases this opinion. This was one of my more expensive weekends away in some ways, in that at $80a head in the end, I usuall work it out at $75 for a Fairbridge. However, this did include Sunday night's accomodation, which we skipped on due to worky worky. And Fairbridges usually only cover 2 nights, and dinner on the saturday is usually a cooking all day type of affair, as opposed to redwine and barley beef stew. But anyways, I've digressed.....
However, this is probably the first time I have ever not lost money on organising one of these weekends away. Wow. I'm certainly in awe, having done them for quite a few years now that I look back.
Hint for new drinkers: chartreuse should NOT be the first thing you ever try. One day you might want to taste your food again after all. :-)
I know I've missed stacks, and probably some of this is not in chronological order, but hey, you get that. It was a great weekend, but if we don't get enough oldies for a second cottage, then I might not bother going again next year. The age difference was kind of... obvious. And while some males like the innocent wide eyed "whatzat?" thing, it can drive me batty. :-) I got to relax. I got to chat to people who I have wanted to see more of and never found time between their lives and mine. I got to think some more about some issues about relationships I'm currently in. I got to see Chesh relaxing and having a good time., He apologized later for being a bit... catty was the word he used, but it wasn't a hass, and it wasn't bitchy enough for me to worry about. :-) He was just ... on the ball more than I was in his turns of phrase. I think that explains what I'm trying to say - those of you who have encountered conversations with Chesh and I when we're on a roll should know what we're like... It's not that he was truly being catty at all. :-)
I donated a big pot and a tiny chopping board to the cottage. I thought about leaving some shot glasses behind, but in the end I donated all of them to the Box. I was always going to donate a few of them, but I think 36 is a good number because that should mean I never miss out on a shot at a Box ever again! :-)
I'm expecting some very interesting icons from akira_yta about this weekend. Cthulhu was a God. He rocked hard, and Team Cthulhu sure brought home the goods. I know it's a good weekend away when people start demanding when the next one will be. :-)
So, who wants to be up for a trip to Fairbridge? I definately want to get at least 12 people, AND we need to play games like Killer and aliens. Anyone? Anyone? If there's enough interest I'll organize one in spring..... ;-)
My fave quote for the weekend was definately when Aki was going home and ended up creating the idea of Cthalli. *giggle* So, from being a Tsunami Sarah, tidal wave of natural forces which happen to other people, now I'm a tentacled energy monster which may or not be related to Urotskudoji and who's tentacles just seem to have lives of their own.... Should I be impressed, people? ;->
Anyway, glad I'm home, *hugs* to every one. Normal transmissions will resume......
Later.
This will probably be in some type of shorthand cos I am tired. :-) And unco. :-) And my fingers are all cold.
Friday. I managed to fit four adults, (one of whom is a tall young male), bedding for three adults, clothing and bags of four adults, food for about 12 adults, plus many bottles of alcohol all into a 121. I'm proud of myself. :-) I had stuff under the front chairs, stuff under people's legs and more stuff on people's laps. That's why I drove, so I didn't have to be unpacked like every one did. :-) We ran into Alistair doing a final run of shopping, and he agreed to take that batch of shopping with him on the way, *and* I discovered he was supposed to be in our cottage which was a bit of a shock. I'd been trying to fill the cottage myself after all, so I could look after the food, so poor Alistair had *also* brought food, and of course I over catered as per usual, so we all stuffed ourselves stupid on yummy food and he had survival rations. He did join in the food after the friday night meal, which was cool. We had tacos on the friday, and as we left this afternoon people were having another attempt at eating the left overs. Have I mentioned I like to cook enough yet?
Who did we have.... We had
strangedave, akira_yta, dragonchrome, cheshirenoir, Alistair, Tori, PRK, and Neil. I'd like to point out that Neil is .... ;-) ... cool. And interesting to talk to. But I should stop talking about that because he admitted he reads my journal. Upon occasion. Rarely. Every few months. :-p Friday night was a normal con type of night; got to bed at 4:00ish. However, I wasn't able to sleep, clung to Chesh like a limpet because I thought I was cold, and gritted my teeth all night long until I actually got to sleep sometime after the sun came up. I was sleeping with TWO HOT MEN!! Both nights! Yay me!!! LOL. No, I'm not going to explain this EVER. It would ruin my rep as a Sex Goddess. My jaw muscles are sore from the gritting. My cheeks are sore from the smiling. My stomach is sore from all the laughing. It was a good weekend. We wanted to play spotlight and aliens, but it was raining. We had a gas heater. :-( I played killer, but got killed Friday night. I knew I shouldn't walk up to strangers and introduce myself!! Mostly on Friday night there was opening ceremony, killer, lurked around the other huts for a bit. I ran off and played various drinking games with people on average ten years younger than me. One of them was kind of cute (but I did hear rumours he was going to sing Britney Spears in Polish as his Talent Quest show thingy, so I think that while it sounds funny, it disqualifies him from the cute thing). The word association game thingy was fun but silly, and after a bit I looked at my scotch, looked at my jacket, grabbed both and tried to bolt, but one of the guys was fast enough to catch me. I'm standing there smacking his hand with on hand, laughing myself silly as he goes on "No no, you can't leave, I want to know more about your word associations and debauchery!" But I ran off back to the Old People's Hut. (That's US! Old!!!) Back to our own hut and relaxing and drinking and silliness. Was a good night! last few hours spent just chatting with Neil. Have I mentioned that Neil is.... cool? :-!Saturday morning... Ugh. Sunlight. The loos are OUTSIDE the cottages. This is one of the worst provisioned cottages I have ever stayed in, but we managed by Alistair running off and stealing pots from other cottages so I could cook Tacos for last night. I got up this morning to discover some lovely fairies had gone down to Harvey, and purchased a cloth to wipe up spilt booze, dishwashing liquid, and water. Have I mentioned that the tap water was bore water and it was deep dark brown. Like ... darker than ginger beer type dark brown. Almost Guinessy type brown. Our rainwater tank was broken, so we were running raids to fill the jug from any other rain tank. (One of the house rules was to keep the jug of rainwater full. Kind of sensible. Also kind of necessary!) And, as well as all the purchases, they had also CLEANED UP! Wow! The monster arisen, I stumbled to a chair and Chesh fed me coffee until I was compis mentis enough to notice that people were showering and it might be a good time for me to do so also. Note, the tap water and the shower water come from the same source. Scary, but cleaner than I felt after a night of tossing and turning and gritting my teeth! :-) We kind of skipped breakfast at that point, since the sausage sizzle/bbq was on in about 45 minutes by the time I crawled from the shower. This was also the morning where Cthulhu was telling stories about walking down streets in kent, and you'd never guess what happened.... Managed to miss almost every organized event except for the Quiz. Simon and Lisa rocked up during the day, and ended up being on our table for the quiz. This was amusing because between the lot of us, we ended up winning! It was a huge surprise. The prize was... MORE JUNK FOOD! We ended up just throwing handfuls of it to every one; we'd already been eating ourselves silly, plus snacking on maltesers, vienna peanuts, chocolate, salt and vinegar chips, lime and chilli chips, jam biscuits, other biscuits, coke.... see the problem yet??
I must be tired, even writing this it sounds so much more boring than what actually happened! Like the moment when we realised that one of the cartoon names was Beavis and Butthead and we were so amazed that we'd been missing that, that we drowned out the rest of the room in our sounds of disbelief! The last round of questions was cool - popular choice. Guess an answer and the majority of answers given wins. Highly amusing as the last question was "who do you think will win?" Meryki told us all that the correct answer was "The team with the highest points" however she gave a half point to Team Cthulhu (us) because we wrote "OURS!" and the actual most popular answer had been "Team Cthulhu!" We weren't drinking at this stage; it would have been a good time for my bottle of wine, however it didn't occur to me at that point.
After that, we hit our cottage again and started some drinking games. We played the hands game, which is always fun, and involves more thumping the table than anything else. We also played Pig, which is a lot like spoons but with much less diving across tables and wrestling for cutlery. It did, however, managed to involve even MORE thumping of the table than the hands game did, which is quite a feat. Key words: "After that, there are no rules." *evil grin* Dragonchrome managed to fail admirably at pretty much all the drinking games. I ended up filling her shot glasses with just Coke in the end, because I was just not mean enough to make her keep drinking punishments shots. Chesh mentioned animal noises, and before he could finish his sentence Neil was off like a flash and brought in a game called Snorta or Snorter, where every one gets an animal noise they own, and there's these cards and it's all cool and it involves people pointing at each other, almost sobbing whilst they cycle through names/animal noises/sobbing while one of them tries to remember the other's animal noise. :-)
A few people in our cottage faded away. We decide it's time to start the real games, so we get settled for a game of Truth Dare or Torture, which SUCKs but we were out of options because I'd left the disc game at home. We get through about two people, and then it's my turn. It's a truth question. I open my mouth. The door opens. Suddenly, there are 12 under-20 year olds in the room checking out the party. I shut my mouth and have a drink. Some one in our group reminds me about an answer. I open my mouth. The door opens again, and another SIX people enter the room, most of whom look to be virgins. *sigh* We did try to keep playing with everyone, but the babies were all loud and people who were sleeping got annoyed and them someone one remarked that THEIR cottage was totally empty, I encouraged them to go to it, and said we'd be along as soon as we'd sorted out the alcohol, and then locked the door behind them. *grin* I unlocked it later though. Evan stayed with us and learned more and probably did more than he ever has in his entire life. We were doing B52's, I'd managed to purchase 36 shot glasses from harvey. They all got used. *grin* Spirits is a funny thing though; I feel drunk but still in control. I think I should have brought some champagne; to lower my control a bit. After all, we were there to relax. :-) And, I think I tend to get more evil on champagne/wine. Will have to think about this some more. :-) We eventually got found again (I think; I'm not 100% sure) but the end result being that we moved to the Hall so there was more room, whereby I looked at the people who were playing, thought about the possible outcomes, and decided that this was NOT a good use of my time, and left them to it. Neil joined me, and we drank lots of water and chatted until Dave and Tori and PRK came back to the hut, and then we chatted more lots and quietly until it got to about ten past four and then we went to bed. We'd found alistair setting up to play shots chess earlier in the night; we figured after 16 shots of alcohol he'd be dead somewhere. Tori ended up locking the door not realising he was still out there, and eventually when he came back the door was locked, and he had to jump UP the balconey to get in through the other door. Oops, sorry honey! *giggle* Oh, and imagine our disappointment in Alistair as we learnt that they were doing shots of JOLT COLA! Without anything in it at all! His cred dropped back to where it had been after that!! :-)
Got up bright and early this morning, to bacon, eggs, fruit toast and coffee. Aki has an instant invite to any of my weekends away sheerly for her ability to do breakfast and be chirpy about it the entire time. The fact that she volunteered and can make pancakes suzette for 20 in no way biases this opinion. This was one of my more expensive weekends away in some ways, in that at $80a head in the end, I usuall work it out at $75 for a Fairbridge. However, this did include Sunday night's accomodation, which we skipped on due to worky worky. And Fairbridges usually only cover 2 nights, and dinner on the saturday is usually a cooking all day type of affair, as opposed to redwine and barley beef stew. But anyways, I've digressed.....
However, this is probably the first time I have ever not lost money on organising one of these weekends away. Wow. I'm certainly in awe, having done them for quite a few years now that I look back.
Hint for new drinkers: chartreuse should NOT be the first thing you ever try. One day you might want to taste your food again after all. :-)
I know I've missed stacks, and probably some of this is not in chronological order, but hey, you get that. It was a great weekend, but if we don't get enough oldies for a second cottage, then I might not bother going again next year. The age difference was kind of... obvious. And while some males like the innocent wide eyed "whatzat?" thing, it can drive me batty. :-) I got to relax. I got to chat to people who I have wanted to see more of and never found time between their lives and mine. I got to think some more about some issues about relationships I'm currently in. I got to see Chesh relaxing and having a good time., He apologized later for being a bit... catty was the word he used, but it wasn't a hass, and it wasn't bitchy enough for me to worry about. :-) He was just ... on the ball more than I was in his turns of phrase. I think that explains what I'm trying to say - those of you who have encountered conversations with Chesh and I when we're on a roll should know what we're like... It's not that he was truly being catty at all. :-)
I donated a big pot and a tiny chopping board to the cottage. I thought about leaving some shot glasses behind, but in the end I donated all of them to the Box. I was always going to donate a few of them, but I think 36 is a good number because that should mean I never miss out on a shot at a Box ever again! :-)
I'm expecting some very interesting icons from akira_yta about this weekend. Cthulhu was a God. He rocked hard, and Team Cthulhu sure brought home the goods. I know it's a good weekend away when people start demanding when the next one will be. :-)
So, who wants to be up for a trip to Fairbridge? I definately want to get at least 12 people, AND we need to play games like Killer and aliens. Anyone? Anyone? If there's enough interest I'll organize one in spring..... ;-)
My fave quote for the weekend was definately when Aki was going home and ended up creating the idea of Cthalli. *giggle* So, from being a Tsunami Sarah, tidal wave of natural forces which happen to other people, now I'm a tentacled energy monster which may or not be related to Urotskudoji and who's tentacles just seem to have lives of their own.... Should I be impressed, people? ;->
Anyway, glad I'm home, *hugs* to every one. Normal transmissions will resume......
Later.
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Date: 2004-07-04 08:35 am (UTC)From:\i may be able to fix that tho ;)
take two
Date: 2004-07-04 08:45 am (UTC)From:Re: take two
Date: 2004-07-04 06:39 pm (UTC)From::-)
Re: take two
Date: 2004-07-04 10:47 pm (UTC)From:Re: take two
Date: 2004-07-04 10:49 pm (UTC)From:so how much did you sell for?? And to whom??
*rubs hands together and she rustles together a chocolate bribe*
Re: take two
Date: 2004-07-04 10:54 pm (UTC)From:That'll need to be one big bribe.
(Also, will email you about selling chocolates eventually.)
Re: take two
Date: 2004-07-04 10:57 pm (UTC)From::-)
Obviously, I should have!
Now I'm trying to imagine explaining this to my mother....
"Yeah. John gave me $50 so I could buy myself a nubile young man."
"Oh? What for?"
"Er..... yeah..... washing the dishes, I think. Maybe some light gardening duties too.... and coffee. I believe there might have been a lot of coffee involved."
Re: take two
Date: 2004-07-04 10:59 pm (UTC)From:Re: take two
Date: 2004-07-05 09:16 pm (UTC)From:You going to come to fairbridge in October? 27/28th is looking like the stars might be moving again.....
Calli
Re: take two
Date: 2004-07-05 09:18 pm (UTC)From:Re: take two
Date: 2004-07-05 09:30 pm (UTC)From:*points* STUDENT.
:-)
It can be negotiable or even paid in part payments for the rest of your ife. Doomed doomed doomed....
and sometimes we can make special allowances if people volunteer to be coffee bitches. :-P
Re: take two
Date: 2004-07-05 09:32 pm (UTC)From:It's not so much the student issue, I have a full time job.
It's more the 'I crashed my car' issue. Damn excess.
Re: take two
Date: 2004-07-05 09:37 pm (UTC)From::-)
That's why it's only the friday and saturday night. You could come for just the sat night but then you miss half the fun!
no subject
Date: 2004-07-04 05:06 pm (UTC)From:I spent my weekend just South of Harvey.(Camp Mornington)
I....uh...I'm sure it wasn't me
Date: 2004-07-04 07:47 pm (UTC)From::-)
The funniest bit was on Sunday morning, we're doing brekkie, and the door opens. A chick walks in.
"Um, do you know where the UnisFANs are?"
"We *are* unisfans."
"No, the young ones." We threw her out and managed to stop Cthulhu from taking his toll......
One of the other ch*cks graciously told us that unlike every one else, she didn't call our hut the old hut, she called it the scary hut. Scary was fine by us, it implies a certain level of respect....
:-)
Amazement
Date: 2004-07-04 10:18 pm (UTC)From:And people have been reading ALL THE WAY THROUGH IT??!!
I salute you, my faithful readers!!
Calli
no subject
Date: 2004-07-04 10:31 pm (UTC)From:Cthulhu is God
Date: 2004-07-05 03:01 am (UTC)From:Re: Cthulhu is God
Date: 2004-07-05 05:21 am (UTC)From:How on earth did you swing that?
Cthulhu is God
Date: 2004-07-05 06:36 am (UTC)From:The stars are right.