I don’t care that you normally go to Burning Man. It’s too big and commercial these days anyway. You want to stay here in the bay. Or better yet, you want to fly from across the country. This Labor Day… imagine a festive get away in the bay area. I want to have a huge birthday party and god damnit people you had better come. I’m only turning 30 once. I’m reserving Labor Day weekend. 😛
To follow up on the previous drinking post… we are trying to consolidate our alcohol. This means we should probably reduce the number of bottles we own. So, would anyone like to come drink with us tonight? 😀
Apparently we will be in SF from 4-6 on Sunday. Would anyone like to get together before or after that? Cause it’s a lot of driving for just two hours. We would also cheerfully meet up with folks on the upper peninsula or Oakland.
This is really not normally my speed. Most of the time my attitude is, “What a complete and total waste of money.” But uhm this pregnancy I seem to be feeling differently. I think that at least part of my change in attitude right this moment is I now understand just how little time and energy I will have after the baby arrives. And I have very little physical ability to do some of this right now. Oy.
So! I am thinking about doing a spa day. It makes me cringe thinking about how expensive it will be. Yet, I’m going to do it. Uhm, if anyone doesn’t want to hear about it don’t open the cut. Continue reading
I have a rather spectacular amount of work I need to do and very little motivation/energy to do it. There are a few problems that are intersecting here to make this situation harder. Shanna is… even more festive than she was for interfering in my working. Woo toddlerhood! I am an extrovert so I really thrive on being around people, but the physical load involved in going out somewhere and managing Shanna kind of eliminates the benefit of being around people. This blows.
So I would really love it if someone would come over and talk to me while I do work in my house. I feel way more motivated to work that way. I don’t particularly need help, although there are particular chores I wouldn’t turn down help with, but mostly I would just love the adult company. 🙂
Oh, and dear god I need to get some of that meat out of my freezer. Please contact me if you have any interest in the grass fed beef. Laura isn’t so thrilled about storing my 1/4 until this 1/4 is sold. (I don’t blame her in the slightest but I really max out at 1/2 a cow in my freezer.)
So I’m kind of generically energetic and social feeling today. So I figured it was worth putting out to the interwebs that it would be awesome to have people come over tonight. I don’t know for sure what we would do and I really haven’t figured out what to feed people (take out probably..) but! I’m a sparkling conversationalist and all. 😀
So come over! I don’t have a set time on this but keep in mind that I’m not a real late night person. 🙂
We are staying home on NYE. If anyone would like to come over for a very mellow sort of night that would be great. We might play games. We have alcohol and sparkling cider and pretty glasses to drink both in. 🙂
We are of course very kid friendly. We even have a guest bed if a kidlet needs to pass out and you want to stay later.
My darling husband has agreed to giving me the afternoon off so that I can go up to Folsom. I was hoping to maybe find some folks to go and be adventurous with. 🙂
Anyone interested?
I decided today that I want to have a little bit of excitement for my birthday. So, is anyone available to come over tonight for a little party? I think it will be pretty small given as it is a Thursday and extremely last minute. 🙂 I think that all food stuffs will be a variety of take out because that sounds kind of fun to me.
So uhm… can anyone come? Feel free to call/text me if you can come or leave a message here. I would love it if people aimed to arrive sometime around six but I understand if you will be a bit later than that due to work stuff.
We are thinking about going to the Hoes Down (http://www.hoesdown.org/) hosted by the farm we get our CSA from. It looks like a lot of fun. It’s a drive up on Saturday drive back on Sunday sort of event. It would be a lot of fun to go with other folks. It is the weekend of October 3-4. We have a HUGE tent that could easily hold another two to four people in addition to us depending on how cozy we want to get. We could potentially take one more person up with us if we pack pretty light. 🙂 I’m always up for that sort of challenge.
Would anyone be interested in this?
Hey ya’ll! So Noah will be working all weekend. @#($)@ job. This means that Shanna and I will have an extra two days this week where we will be entertaining one another. This means I am soliciting livejournal at large saying, “Please God people someone must be available.” For fair warning: Shanna is teething and therefore clingy and somewhat whiny. As long as she is held constantly it’s not too bad, but uhm it’s a lot of contact.
Would anyone like to do anything? 🙂
So! Is anyone interested in dim sum today? I was thinking probably in the neighborhood of 11am. There is a good place near us in Milpitas but I am potentially flexible on both time and location if you contact me quickly enough.
Party! (Before you get lost in details: remember that I ALWAYS APPRECIATE RSVP’S!!!! Yes, I’m yelling that.)
What: Holidaze party. You will probably already be in a daze by then, so what’s one more party?
When: Sunday, December 21st from ~1pm-7pm. If you are having a mandatory shut down the week after we can discuss staying later and drinking more seriously.
Where: Our house. Duh. (If you don’t know where we live let me know and I’ll send you the address.)
Why: Because parties are fun. I will be free of all school obligations and feeling celebratory. Because I will have cookies and cinnamon rolls and brownies and crumbles and all sorts of other stuff for folks to eat. [I will have gluten free stuff (I’ve already figured out what I’m doing), There will be dairy free stuff. And I’m going to try to have some diabetic friendly deserty something as well on principle. If you fall into one of these groups here is your social pressure to show up and appreciate my efforts. 🙂 ]
Who: Lots of folks I like and Noah likes. Which includes you, so you should come. 🙂
FAQs:
Should I bring anything? Only if you want to. Things that would be the most appreciated would be food of the savory nature. Dear God don’t bring sweets. If you want to bring alcohol make sure it is really really nice alcohol. We got rid of all the cheap shit and we don’t have any desire to replace it.
Can I bring anyone? Of course your SO is invited. If you want to bring several of your friends please check with me first. This is a fairly large invite list and this is NOT A DHP. So please don’t post this to everyone you know. 🙂 If it looks like only ten people are showing up I will probably say, “Sure–the more the merrier.” If it looks like 50+ people I will say, “Uhhh… well… uhhhhmmmm how strongly do you feel about them coming?” Mostly I just want to have a vague idea of how many people to prepare for at the event.
Will the party be kid friendly? I bloody well hope so because I have no where to hide my kid. I will point out that if you are the sort to have a mandatory shut down the next week and you want to hang out later drinking and you do something in the garage it would probably be fine.
Should I bring you a present? I love presents! I love presents so much that here is a link to my wishlist. But no, you don’t have to bring me a present. 🙂 Or Noah. Or even Shanna. 🙂
Whether I pass or not I will at least be on hiatus from studying for a while and that pleases me. I would like to celebrate.
Are you a parent who feels like your friends group doesn’t quite know what to do with you now? Do you feel out of place at most parenting groups? Are you trying to figure out how to meet people outside of the parties you used to attend?
For the purposes of this invitation freak is defined as: genderqueer, kinky, poly, pagan, burner, goth, punk, trans, queer, bisexual, industrial, hippy, AP, or if you just feel like you don’t quite fit in at the local mommy group. You can be any of the above or none of the above. If you think you qualify as a freak, come on down.
It doesn’t matter if your kids are 6 months old, 6 years old, or 16 years old. You are welcome if you want to meet other freaks who can empathize with how being a parent has changed your life. You can be a bio-parent, adoptive parent, or an honorary parent. If you spend a noticeable chunk of your life parenting a child you consider yours, then you count as a breeder in my book. If you choose to reject the label of breeder, that’s fine too.
Come meet other freak breeders at the Oakland Zoo on Saturday November 15th. I will be arriving at 9:30 am. I will hang out outside of the gate till 10. If you would like to go I would love an RSVP so that I know approximately how many to expect: krissy AT bigrock it’s a dot com sort of address. If you RSVP I will also send you my cell phone number so that you can potentially join up with the group in the zoo if you are running a little late.
Please pass this on! Send it to your friends! Put it on your blog! Put it on mailing lists! I hope to meet a great many new freaks in addition to seeing the ones I already know.
We are going to go have dim sum this morning. The plan is 10:30 at ABC Seafood in Milpitas. Would anyone care to join us? Give me a call (or Noah) so that I can put in for the correct table size. We are going to hit the farmer’s market before hand so I won’t be sitting at the computer. 🙂
P.S. I love my new food icon. 🙂
So I think it would be fun to have folks come over for lunch/dinner and board games. Noah got a new game and he hasn’t gotten to try it out yet. (It’s this one: http://www.daysofwonder.com/mysteryoftheabbey/en/) Friday night or Saturday afternoon-ish would be great.
Anyone interested?
I ended up with more produce than I know what to do with. (Much thanks to angelkatharine and polkamadness and I suppose by extension ef2p and cortneyofeden.)
So, would anyone like to come over to dinner tonight? I’m not sure what I will cook yet because it will depend on if there is one person coming or more.
So! You are semi-officially invited to come meet Shanna. (It can’t really be official cause this is freakin lj.) She’s getting pretty settled in and handles people without much trouble. In my ideal world the way this will work is that folks will come over for dinner and maybe a game. Then in between turns we can pass around the gorgeous Shanna. 🙂 Sound interesting? You can comment or email me with date suggestions. I’m not emailing people an offering particular dates because I figure I have the least full calendar of anyone I know right now. 🙂
If you are interested in the baby shower, today is the last day to send Sarah an email. If you do not send Sarah an email today you will not be attending.
(Sarah AT techbrat DOT com)