A Midsummer Night's Dream (Summer 2014 Secret Santa) Discussion

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Trying to brainstorm what to do next week when MUT is down....I guess I will use the time to clean the house, and switch my clothes in my closet from winter to spring (ha--it is snowing right now).  So, that should take care of the first day....  Waaaaaa! 
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Fairy godchild, since I guess we're going with fairy godmother for the senders?
Aww, I love that! 

 
Ahhh so that's what this thread is! I saw it a few times and thought it was a thread about the book! Lol!!! I'm so in!!!!! Glad we have more time to shop! My fairy name is Moth Vineshimmer lol!!!! She brings couples together. She lives close to caverns and stalactite grottoes. She can only be seen when the first flowers begin to blossom. She wears dresses stitched with crystals and has gentle green butterfly wings. Haha! The shimmer and dresses with crystals part is perfect for me, but no moths--they're scary---eeeekk!!

 
According to the fairy name generator the following is my official fairy name:

Hazel Goldspider; she likes to steal shiny coins and pretty trinkets. She lives in places hexed and tainted by black magic. She can only be seen when the dry seed cases pop. She wears black feathers and rose petals and has bright lemon coloured wings like a cicada.

That does explain me pretty well, I love the color black and black magic. I also really like rose petals and shiny stuff...

But I am sticking with Sookie Stackhouse as my fairy name, because I am stubborn like that. And I'd like to think that I could someday look like Anna Paquin.

 
This is so much fun even though I can't participate cus I'm new can't wait for SeSa but I'm excited to see the unwrappings! My fairy name is Chanter Icewand She protects the vulnerable and brings justice to the wronged. She lives in church yards and places of the dead. She can only be seen when the seeker holds a four-leafed clover. She wears silver skirts and white feather down and has icy blue butterfly wings.

 
Couldn't help myself- I totally just bought some *extras* for my fairy/fairygodchild or whatever we're calling it lol. It's gonna take ages to get here anyways, so it works out. (It doesn't count against your no-buy if it's for others, right? RIGHT?! hahaha)
 

 
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  Couldn't help myself- I totally just bought some *extras* for my fairy/fairygodchild or whatever we're calling it lol. It's gonna take ages to get here anyways, so it works out. (It doesn't count against your no-buy if it's for others, right? RIGHT?! hahaha)
 
How exciting!  Buying for your fairy god child is definitely an exception to a no-buy (in my head at least).  I can't wait to start shopping for someone else again
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I just saw this thread, definitely in when signups roll around!

My Fairy Name is:

Feather Windwand

She brings gentle breezes to change the weather. She lives in high places where the clouds meet the earth. She can only be seen when the seeker holds a four-leafed clover. She wears raven-black feathers and has silvery lilac butterfly wings.

 
In slumber party news, I don't know who owns it, but this car is currently parked on the street in front of my apartment:
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In slumber party news, I don't know who owns it, but this car is currently parked on the street in front of my apartment:

I enjoyed that way too much.  Thanks for sharing!

ETA: bizarre things seem to happen in/around your apartment.  Birds inside a few weeks ago, zombie hunters outside today.  My surroundings are pretty boring usually, however, one of my neighbors said he had a rabid raccoon on his lawn and now I'm afraid to go outside.

 
I enjoyed that way too much.  Thanks for sharing! ETA: bizarre things seem to happen in/around your apartment.  Birds inside a few weeks ago, zombie hunters outside today.  My surroundings are pretty boring usually, however, one of my neighbors said he had a rabid raccoon on his lawn and now I'm afraid to go outside.
I live in Portland. Southeast Portland, to be precise. This is pretty much the epicenter of weird. Did I ever tell the story about the woman walking the unusual-even-for-SE PDX a couple of years ago?
 
Even if you have, we'd love to hear it! It's an open discussion thread that is PERFECT for fun stories!!!!

 
ahahaha, this is such a great theme for a secret giftee swap!  Kudos to y'all for coming up with it!!  :D /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />  I had tons of fun in the nails SS swap, I should join this one too..

ok, so my fairy name would be:

Rain Willowfilter

She casts weird dreams. She lives near bubbling brooks where Lords and Ladies and cuckoo's pint grow. She can only be seen on midsummer's eve. She wears a dress made of deep blue petals and has delicate green coloured wings like a cicada.

Not bad, I have weird dreams all the time & love the idea of a dress made out of deep blue petals...  Cool!

 
The story:  So.  A couple of years ago right around this time of year, I was driving through SE Portland (it happened to be the street that passes the grocery store where the _Portlandia_ skit about bringing your own grocery bags was filmed, although that has nothing to do with this story).  I hit a red light (at the other end of the block from the grocery store, in fact), which is not unusual, but it's why I had time for the rest of this anecdote to get placed in my brain.  As I was sitting there waiting for the light to change, I noticed an older lady (probably in her mid-70s if not mid-80s) dressed to go out for a nice stroll on the lovely warm, sunny, spring day that it was.  She had a leash in her hand.  She was clearly talking to the animal at the end of the leash.  It was a thin, lightweight leash like you might use for an small elderly dog that just needs a gentle tug in order to stop wandering off.  I was curious to see what critter was on the other end of the leash (I was expecting an iguana, Gila monster, or Komodo dragon), so as I drove by, I looked down at her feet to observe…

A box turtle.  About six inches wide and probably eight inches long.  The leash was tied around its body.

Today, I feel like I had a quintessential fortysomething PDXer day.  I went to Music Millennium (local fairly legendary independent record store) to pick up The Both's cd (Aimee Mann!  Ted Leo!), and there was some sort of indie probably-Kickstarter-funded video shoot going on.  The Both went directly into xAavier's (yes, my car is named after Professor X) cd player and remained there on repeat until I got home (and now I have it ripped to my hard drive and on shuffle), and I already have some songs memorized for singing-along purposes.  Best $10.99 spent this year, and there was a coupon in the RSD swag bag for 20% at the Doc Martens store, so I'll have to remember to get there this week.  I actually do have a new pair of Docs on my shopping list, but they have been on there for a few years at this point.  I just keep putting them off.  I stopped by Burgerville (local sustainable fast food chain) to get a turkey burger, and then I made the rounds of several Fred Meyers to try to find the essence Bloom Me Up collection in untouched condition (and then I realized after I got home that someone had used the shimmer powder.  I put some rubbing alcohol on it to sanitize it).  EVERY SINGLE PARKING SPACE at a couple of them were full.  It was worse than Christmas Eve.  Then I hit Trader Joe's (the only non-Portland/Pacific Northwest place I went today, now that I think about it.  Okay, Freddy's is now a Kroger company, but it was totally PNW when I was growing up) to get some stuff to heat and eat for dinner because this is going to be another stress week at work, and I got the last parking space there, too!  Crazy.

I had originally planned on staying home all day cleaning, but then I found out about The Both and the fact that it was Record Store Day, and plans changed mid-week.  Oh, well.  I can clean tomorrow.  My apartment will still be messy.  Until hell freezes over, my apartment will be messy. And tomorrow night, _Game of Thrones_ at my aunt's!  Who's still celebrating last Sunday's episode, bummed it wasn't more violent, and anxiously awaiting the fallout?

(And tonight is what I usually do when it's Saturday night and I'm stressed out/overworked/tired:  Horror movies, most likely on Netflix, and snacks.  I'm not feeling up to even nuking something more solid for dinner.  On the up side, seven hours of overtime on my next paycheck, and we get a helper bee temp this week to do all of the time-consuming stuff that anyone can do with no specialized training or system access.  I have a sizable collating project that I am very much looking forward to handing over to someone so I can concentrate on posting payments.  It took me half an hour on Friday just to print the files out, and it will take a hell of a lot longer to match all of the pieces, and I just don't have the time to do it right now.)

(So who is going to post a story next so this is no longer a Meagan's-exhausted-ramblings thread?)

 
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  The story:  So.  A couple of years ago right around this time of year, I was driving through SE Portland (it happened to be the street that passes the grocery store where the _Portlandia_ skit about bringing your own grocery bags was filmed, although that has nothing to do with this story).  I hit a red light (at the other end of the block from the grocery store, in fact), which is not unusual, but it's why I had time for the rest of this anecdote to get placed in my brain.  As I was sitting there waiting for the light to change, I noticed an older lady (probably in her mid-70s if not mid-80s) dressed to go out for a nice stroll on the lovely warm, sunny, spring day that it was.  She had a leash in her hand.  She was clearly talking to the animal at the end of the leash.  It was a thin, lightweight leash like you might use for an small elderly dog that just needs a gentle tug in order to stop wandering off.  I was curious to see what critter was on the other end of the leash (I was expecting an iguana, Gila monster, or Komodo dragon), so as I drove by, I looked down at her feet to observe…

A box turtle.  About six inches wide and probably eight inches long.  The leash was tied around its body.

I had a feeling you were going to say it was a turtle! I had something similar happen on one of my first times visiting NYC as a kid. I was walking with my family somewhere on 5th Ave and then had to do a double take at the person walking the person walking a turtle with some light rope tied around the middle of his shell. I can't remember if it was a man or a woman, but the turtle always sticks in my mind.

Another odd one I've seen was in Japan. I don't know if the young man did it because he was fishing for attention or just really loved his pet, but he would harness up and take his bunny for walks at various festivals. He always had young women fawning over the bunny whenever you came across them. My husband and I thought it was a rather clever pick-up technique.

 
Ok, your wish is my command your majesty!

So my junior year of college I studied abroad in England and the University had purchased a number of tickets for a two week trip to Venice in December--unfortunately for them, they purchased more tickets than they ended up needing, so they ended up offering places on the trip for VERY little--I think around 150 British pounds for airfare and two weeks of hotel--needless to say, I jumped at the chance.

Our hotel was near the train station--read away from everything interesting in Venice, but cheap, and we were packed in four to five to a room, but we were young.  Anyway, my roommates were a gay couple, one from England and one from Spain, a former Italian model, and a British girl who was dating a Italian restaurant owner in England.  They were all in the class that was on the trip for a real purpose, whereas I was just there for fun.  Most nights everyone was together and we would go to clubs or just have fun--the former model was always a hoot because she would get so wasted that she would end up sleeping with one of the other guys on the trip each night and then complain that he was looking at her strangely during the day.  Anyway, one night they were all away on a trip and I went off to St. Mark's Square for dinner.  I had a great meal and was walking back to the hotel in the dark when I heard footsteps behind me.  When I sped up, they sped up, when I turned, they turned.  I started outright running and turning down alleys, and ducking in doorways.  It was something right out of a movie.  I just kept looking for signs for the train station knowing that I could find my way back to my hotel from there, and that there would be light at the train station.  Eventually, I found a bar that was open and amazingly, there was a group of the people from my trip gathered around one of the tables.  I ducked in and squeezed between two of the guys.  A moment later, two guys walked in and I noticed that they had been at the restaurant with me--oh my goodness, they had found me.  They walked right up to me and said something in Italian--and held up my purse.  My roommates then took me back to the hotel where we ate Baci chocolate, drank Heniken and watched German porn dubbed in Italian--life was good again!

 

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