Family friendly

So, this arse that I work with (who will remain nameless to protect the innocent) believes that in order to have any fun, you need beer. He even put a note (or someone did, I actually have no proof that it was him) on a flyer that I put up on MY cubicle for an event I'm doing in NH that it "Needs Beer".

I not only crossed said comment out, I also added NO Alcohol, Family Friendly. Wow, this crowd is a tough one to work with.

But seriously, you don't need alcohol to have fun, and if you do, then you may have a problem. Seriously, I don't have the time, nor the monies to pay for an alchohol license. I don't have the money to pay for police detail, and seriously, if you are going to diss my fair, do it with just me, but don't say anything mean to my other coworkers. I mean that's just plain mean.

Jeez people.

Yours.

Winslowshire Festival for the Animals at Winslow Farm Animal Sanctuary

Huzzah! The second annual Winslowshire Festival for the Animals is back at The Winslow Farm Animal Sa

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Winslow updates

For a while now, we have been promoting Winslowshire (http://www.winslowshire.com) and I have been wanting to blog for a while, it's just called time...so sorry about not posting for a while.

Let me tell you some of the updates that we have so far.

We now have extra parking for Winslowshire at The New Testament Baptist Church in Taunton, MA www.newtestamentschool.org with extra busing from Bloom Charter Bus to and from the parking www.bloombus.com . Of course DH and I have paid the deposit for the busing, but we'll have to come up with some fundraising ideas (and I have a few good ones, but just need a place to do it at).

We now have almost 30 confirmed vendors. I know. I can't even believe it myself. I think that this is a fabulous opportunity for these vendors to show off their wares. Some of the vendors coming are: www.cloakmaker.com , www.fairetailor.com , www.hickoryarms.com , www.silvermane.com , www.goodquillhunting.com, www.ravensbeck.com , http://www.antikanueva.com/ , http://www.storiedthreads.com/index.htm, http://www.myspace.com/gargoylepete and more!

We even managed to find a vegetarian food vendor that happens to be a chef from a 4 star vegetarian restaurant in RI, and Kettle Korn (my personal favorite).

We now have 17 confirmed performers, including: Sir Robert of Artremis Glen http://cdbaby.com/all/minstrel7 , Rufus, Shakespeare, The Harper and The Minstrel http://www.theharperandtheminstrel.com/home , The Neville Companye http://www.rainasmind.com/neville/index.shtml and more!

I'm looking forward to a great new season!

Oh yes, and we will also be performing in May at the NH Renaissance Faire for more information on that, please see their website at www.nhrenfaire.com

Huzzah!

Aren't we all just strangers?

A few days ago, we took my son to his favorite breakfast food place. A bagel with lox spread. I know it sounds strange that my four year old likes lox, but he liked it since he was really little, and it's a treat if you have never tried it.

While we were waiting for our bagels, a very large guy (maybe 6'5 and 250 on a good day) came in to get his coffee/bagels. My son then turned around and said "Hey big guy!" in his little cute voice. The guy took it well, and I wanted to crawl under the table.

My son says hello to everyone. It doesn't matter who.

The reason I bring this all up, is this week, we had our IEP. For those of you who don't know what an IEP is, it's an Individual Education Plan. My son has been part of the IEP now since he was 3, since he was diagnosed with PDD, and mild autism. The teachers in the meeting (in one section) wrote and discussed my son's strengths and weaknesses, but one of the major issues they wanted to address was his awareness of his surroundings and safety, meaning strangers.

I have never been a big proponent of not being freindly to strangers. After all, how do you meet new people that could be potentially your friend, your neighbor, your boss, your husband/wife, your lover, your teachers. After all, isn't one of the main factors of life to meet new people?

Also, my husband and I do renaissance reenacting. Talk about strangers. That's what we are supposed to do. Interact with complete and utter strangers.

We are all okay about meeting people on line, on Facebook and on Twitter, but we aren't okay with meeting people in real life?

I mean, I know that there are certain people in this world that want to harm people. I watch the news, I worked at the Courthouse in Cambridge, I understand all that...but at the same time, if I'm with my son, or know that he's with a responsible adult, we should be able to determine who is dangerous and who is not.

In fact, one of my favorite pasttimes is to just do small talk with someone I've never met, after all, you never know who you might become friends with.

Tweet this

Hey gang,

Not sure if you are aware of Twitter (http://twitter.com) but I seem to be addicted by it. It sure is a great marketing tool (and free I might add). I know everyone is talking about it, and now here I am blogging about it.

I think I may have mentioned it before, but I will again today, because one of my twitter pals (http://twitter.com/MomsWhoSave) is giving away a beautiful amethyst bracelet. Her website is http://www.momswhosave.com and by the way, great site for coupons. Yes, coupons...you know the ones we all used to cut out from the Sunday papers (which by the way is getting lesser and lesser), now all you need to do is go to her coupon page and boom there you are, coupons...cool right? Just print them out, and off you go and save some money (needed now right, 'cause after all we aren't part of the major stimulous plan)...

So go and tweet this if you like, and you can follow me too at http://twitter.com/giazzpet

Family stuff

I don't talk much about my family here on my blog. Maybe it's because my dysfunctional family isn't much for me to talk about. I've learned to deal with parents being divorced, how to deal with one parent or in my case three seperate families. Yes, that's right. Three. My father got married three times.

Let's hope certain people don't read my blog, or else they might figure out who I am, and who my father is. Let's just say that my father is a pretty public figure in Massachusetts, although now he is retired.

I also want to point out that I now have my own family. It is a difficult concept for me, since I really didn't have a starting point, but found what I was looking for.

So, I guess my point is that if you are going through a rough time or your parents are having a rough time, just know that I have been through alot.

That being said, there are different families in my life. I read in a book a long time ago (and I'm sorry if I can't remember the name of it at this point, but I think the title was Wild Women Stories), but basically there were stories in it and it related to real true life.

What I learned from that is you can make anyone into your family, it doesn't have to be your blood parents. In my case, I had the Spaghetti House gang as my family for a while, and now I have the Renaissance Faire family as well.

So here's hugs to all of my families, and of course to my own.