BS: Long weekend -

Subject: RE: BS: Long weekend -
From: alison
Date: 24 Mar 00 - 01:59 AM

good for you Lin, are you still in the big city? and if so which one?

slainte

alison (in Sydney)

Subject: RE: BS: Long weekend -
From: Lady McMoo
Date: 24 Mar 00 - 03:57 AM

Big Mick,

I'll be in Chicago (actually Deerfield) from 7 May leaving the evening of the 12 May. I'd love to meet you and any other 'Catters that might be around and will post another message about my visit nearer the time. I'll also send you a personal message.

Many thanks and best regards,

mcmoo

Subject: RE: BS: Long weekend -
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Mar 00 - 07:04 AM

Meebs, me old mate , I am glad you decided to go for it, when I was doing the last 4 months of my degree, I was holding down a full time job with 1 ,12 hour day a week at college, and studying evenings and w/es, I had to fix every 4th w/e off or I WOULD HAVE HAD A BREAKDOWN...I went climbing in Wales or the english lakes and worked better for it.
A word from the wise , don't let anyone put Woad (or pseudo Woad) on your person it took up to 2 weeks for it to wear off when I did it....

Subject: RE: BS: Long weekend -
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Mar 00 - 08:52 AM

Oh, that sounds so familiar, Lin. Good for you. I have friends, still, from a time like that over 20 years ago, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Long weekend -
From: Áine
Date: 24 Mar 00 - 09:26 AM

Dear Mbo,

I saw a Ziggy cartoon in the newspaper this morning that reminded me of you. Ziggy is sitting in his chair with a bandaged foot on a pillow and a crutch by his side. He says: "Not only did the parade of life pass me by . . . one of the elephants stepped on my foot!"

Don't let that happen to you, youngun!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: BS: Long weekend -
From: Mbo
Date: 24 Mar 00 - 10:05 AM

"The dawn is come and I now let's see
What this new world can do for me..."

--Jean Valjean, from Les Miserables

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Long weekend -
From: Pinetop Slim
Date: 24 Mar 00 - 10:42 AM

Mbo -- get exact street address for RenFair and do the MapQuest.Com thing. It'll plot every single turn for you, except the one out of your driveway.

Subject: RE: BS: Long weekend -
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 24 Mar 00 - 11:21 AM

Thanks,kat and Alison. Yeah, been there, done that, bought several damn T-shirts. (Alison, my "handle" is misleading. I'm actually in the USA, not Australia, although it's a place I've always wanted to visit and may yet one of these days. I grew to love the big city (Seattle) and was sorry when we had to move.)

Point of story was just this:

1. Everybody has hard times.
2. Life is not fair.
3. Deal with it.

You can't do it all alone, but the more you take care of on your own, the stronger it makes you.

One of the reasons those friends are still friends is that we have some absolutely GREAT stories to tell on each other about the "hard times." (Ah, the Infamous Thanksgiving Feast...remind me to share that one with you sometime...)

We survived and learned a whole bunch about coping along the way--wouldn't have missed it.

Mbo, RenFairs are a blast--go listen to the music, watch the pageantry, indulge in the fantasy for awhile. Take your sis for company, so you have someone to share the memories with. Wear your T-shirt and jeans; you're an audience this time, not a performer. Shake MMario's hand, and then give him a big hug from me.

If you're afraid you're going to get lost, even with a map, take a compass along, too (I'm serious--I've been lost more times than I can count [and incidentally discovered a lot of neat new places that way], so I have a compass mounted on my truck's dashboard--it's come in handy a bunch of times.) Remember that nothing in this life's free, but friendship is worth the price.

Go. Live life. Enjoy.

What everybody has been telling you--Ditto.

Sermon finished.

Lin

Subject: RE: BS: Long weekend -
From: Wavestar
Date: 24 Mar 00 - 11:23 AM

Hmm... okay, I withdraw, having said my piece, and apologise for being bitchy about it. I'm sorry, everyone. I still think, however, that Ren faires are great and Mbo should have a great time!

As an active SCAer and re-enacter, I'd say, if you don't have a tunic or anything, just wear a t-shirt that is larger than normal and a solid colour, and then try and borrow when you get there. Guitars aren't actually period, but people at Ren Faires don't tend to care. And just remember, don't get frustrated when you get lost, find it amusing! I always find that part easier with someone else in the car to laugh with... My brother and I ave a great time getting comepletely lost in the boonies.

-J

Subject: RE: BS: Long weekend -
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Mar 00 - 01:58 PM

Well, Lin, I can see why you'd want a compass in the flatlands of Oz...never know where the house is gonna land in a tornado, eh?**BG**

Good points, excellent advice, I think there's probably quite a few of us on here who've been there, done that, with or without the T-shirts!

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Long weekend -
From: Caitrin
Date: 24 Mar 00 - 04:07 PM

I love Medieval/Renaissance stuff...I even have a few dresses! (Comes from having parents who are both Medieval/Rennaissance lit. experts.) I feel sure you'll have a blast, Mbo! So will I, if I can get my English project done.

Subject: RE: BS: Long weekend -
From: Mbo
Date: 24 Mar 00 - 04:12 PM

I'M GOING! I'M GOING!

HOORAY!!!!!!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Long weekend -
From: Cara
Date: 24 Mar 00 - 04:18 PM

yay for you, Mbo. I was nervous when I went to meet Catters at the Getaway too but it was great. My lunch with Spaw&Co was on my home turf so I wasn't so nervous there, and both turned out to be wonderful. Have fun!!

Subject: RE: BS: Long weekend -
From: Mbo
Date: 24 Mar 00 - 05:20 PM

Heu folks...check this for more info on the NC Renfaire!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Long weekend -
From: GUEST,Bill in Alabama
Date: 24 Mar 00 - 05:27 PM

Mbo--I'm proud of you! I fully expected that you'd find some excuse to stay home. Congratulations! Hope you have a fantastic time.

Subject: RE: BS: Long weekend -
From: Sorcha
Date: 24 Mar 00 - 05:34 PM

SUPER!!! Say hi to MMario for all of us! Don't stop now, kiddo! You're on a roll!

Subject: RE: BS: Long weekend -
From: Mbo
Date: 24 Mar 00 - 05:41 PM

Wow, my very first road trip! Cool!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Long weekend -
From: alison
Date: 24 Mar 00 - 10:38 PM

good for you Mbo, enjoy it....

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: BS: Long weekend -
From: MMario
Date: 27 Mar 00 - 11:38 PM

He came, he saw, he GOT WENCHED!!!!!

about 25 of the members of the wench guild....lipstick all over him! I SWEAR, some was in his ear canal!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Long weekend -
From: Mbo
Date: 27 Mar 00 - 11:40 PM

WELCOME BACK MARIO!!!!!

Good to see you again man!

--mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Long weekend -
From: catspaw49
Date: 27 Mar 00 - 11:45 PM

Nice to see you back Mario......As you can see, it took a bit to get the kid off his ass, but we are also anxious now to hear your side of the story. I assume you may have been a bit surprised? How was the fair? How was the great Mario?

Glad you're back........Say, can I interest you in an "Amish-Australian Pitchfork Moustache Tuner?"

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Long weekend -
From: Mbo
Date: 27 Mar 00 - 11:50 PM

MArio, we're gonna "rogue" Spaw! HA HA HA!!!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Long weekend -
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Mar 00 - 11:56 PM

MMario, when you get rested, we gotta hear your side! Lpistick in his ear canal? For a guy who's never been kissed? Tell All!! And i'm gonna message you about protocols for RenFaires.

Subject: RE: BS: Long weekend -
From: MMario
Date: 28 Mar 00 - 12:06 AM

just a quick synopsis, as I REALLY need some sack time. I have an interview with a consultant in the am....

I was on the road going down from 4:30 thursday until 1:30 pm friday...we ran out of gas at 2 am, and had to wait 4 hours for the gas station to open. Lovely start....Luckily the director excused me from the 1:30 cast call - said she would prefer I be awake for the faire. *grin* did hit the 6:00 pm cast call to get my pass and say hi to a few friends before going back to the hotel for pool time and SLEEP!!!. At the faire site at 8:30 saturday morning...cast call, last minute instructions and then down to the gate to mmet and greet at 9:30. 9:45 gate show, Evil sheriff overthrows his identical twin brother the good sheriff and threatens to ruin festival, Marion Hood and her Merry Wenches vow to foil him. Gates open. Meet and greet until 11:00 when the Queen arrives and I and rest of peasants demonstrate how to grovel. Another hour of meet and greet while listening to hammered dulcimer from Kat Fairbanks of the Pyrates Royale. wandered through the shire being dumb and caught comedia show. back to gate and sat on the wall and sang. wandered off again and ran into Mbo! Immedietly went in search of a Wench Guild member, pointed Mbo out to her and then lost track of him. Located more wenches, explained my plan to them, eventually finding Mbo and getting him well Wenched.We did meet up later and I did sing "The Mother's Kiss" for him. I probably spent 4 hours singing for people entering the shire....on saturday. it hit 79 degrees, there wasn't great amounts of breeze, and MY FEET HURT!!!! Sunday was even better. more later...