Miscellanea: Wedding, Work, & Wadorf Harvest Faire
This might be jumbled. Be warned.
Brian and Heather’s wedding was super fun, beautiful, and a pleasure to attend and participate in. I’m so happy they asked me and Ian to officiate. Congratulations you two lovebirds! I enjoyed meeting some new people and getting to hang out with a few Seattleites more than ever before. Ian and I received lots of compliments on the ceremony, for which Ian and Heather and Brian get the credit. I didn’t write any of it. It came off just about perfectly, I think, with delightful weather to boot.
Work is kinda stressy. I’m trying to get set up with a new client, which is actually a network of editors. The network does all the marketing and theoretically, I get the work. I will pay a commission. If it turns out to work well for me, then great. If not, I’ll dump them. An editor friend says it can be lucrative to be in the network, and I hate marketing, so I’m giving it a whirl. Anyway, there’s lots of paperwork to complete before I’m a functioning member of the network, though. And I procrastinate like hell when it comes to paperwork. Ugh. I’m trying to gather a handful of testimonials, too.
At the magazine, shipout was kinda slow earlier this month. Instead of coming in to find stacks of stories for me to proof ASAP, I arrived each day to find nothing ready for me. Essentially, there was fun chatting time, fun writing time, and boring waiting-around-trying-to-look-busy time. One day, I arrive to find every single person in editorial at a meeting for 45 minutes. The place was completely empty and I had nothing to do. Let’s just say, I’m glad I bill hourly. It’s their problem if they’re not ready for me.
This past weekend was the Sac Waldorf School Harvest Faire. All families were required to donate, buy, and participate in a variety of FUNdraising activities. I think I get a C for my efforts. Lucas and I managed to collect 30 sticks for the fairy wands, we donated 10 spools of ribbon, I attended the work party and made little dried-flower bouquets to go on the end of the wands, we donated seashells to the Children’s Store (where only kids can buy things, grown-ups not allowed in), and we went to the Faire and spent plenty of money. However, I didn’t donate 10(!) items to be sold at the Country Store (they were supposed to be hand-made, homemade, hippy-Waldorfy things like jam, bath salts, soaps, hats, scarves, socks, etc. I just don’t really make stuff like that). I didn’t manage to make a baked good for the Café Waldorf, either, nor did I work a booth
🙁 Maybe I’ll do better next year.
Anyway, the Faire was cool. Lucas enjoyed the fishing booth especially (pay a $1 ticket for the privilege of fishing for a junky toy). He bought all kinds of goodies at the Children’s Store including a placemat, a bag of plastic bugs, a beanbag, a woooden box with a bath salt cube inside, etc. I eyed the Waldorfy toys/books the vendors were selling, but didn’t purchase anything. My parents came for a little while, and so did Ian’s mom and sister. We invited them so they can hopefully come to appreciate the school and what it offers, instead of just being mystified about why we’ve chosen such a weird private school.
Oh! And I got to see a beautiful marrionette show of the Michaelmas story Lucas heard so much over the last few weeks—George and the Dragon. It was awesome! I got to watch Lucas be captivated and enraptured by the story. It fed my not-so-secret desire to be IN Lucas’s Red Rose kindergarten, rather than merely a parent of a child in kindergarten.
