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Jun. 30th, 2010 10:45 pm( This part was all written late last night )
Aaron's birthday was Sunday. He wanted a monarch butterfly and caterpillar cake. It was rather last minute, hence the swanky serving trays.
I think they came out pretty ok for being freehand and just using rectangular cakes (and cupcakes, obviously)
He wanted to light his own candles.
And after we ate, there came an untimely cake demise.
Finally, by popular demand, helping links:
With Andrea, I am not sure what the best way to go about this is. I am not in a positin to organize and order and ship packages right now, I have a dozen balls in the air. I am willing to help publicize it and willing to contribute a small amount of money along with ideas. I was going to link you all to the paypal through which some ladies from one of Andrea's communities had been gathering funds for a big package, but they had a lot of trouble with international paypal and some disagreements I know nothing about, and everyone is being refunded :/ So, if you are willing to spearhead the effort, let me know and I am more than willing to post about it. For now, unfortunately, the link I had is no longer a good one :/
If you would like to help Aaron get to NYC and compete at JUMP you can go here to do so - https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=4QA2UV3HF79XY
To the person who dug through my entries to find my email address after it was referenced in comments and did it the hard way, thanks ...and I'm sorry I hadn't posted something more clearly. This will be on my userinfo for the next couple of weeks.
To the people who've messaged (and commented) encouraging this and saying you want to help, you guys are so awesome <3
To the trolls asking Grant if he's ashamed of me for "begging" on formspring, really? Come on. It's not designer shoes, and I'm not up in your face. It's fundraising for my son's dance trip, and you don't have to read or donate! Honestly, now that I think about it, I can't imagine minding if someone put up a donate button for some designer shoes they wanted (so long as they were honest).
As it stands the B&B guy I referenced called me back today - the apartment we wanted IS taken, but he has another one available. It's not as nice and is in a slightly shakier (but not bad, really) neighborhood. So I think that is going to be what we go with. The transit to the convention is quick and simple. It's still just about a grand ($980 instead of $1012 for the half a hotel room). This is good as it means the immediate crisis of losing roommate is past!
I keep finding out about (small, but accumulating) additional costs that are really irritating me. For instance, heightened airport security means that I can't take shampoo, conditioner, Noxzema, moisturizer, body spray, toothpaste, etc from home like I did as a teen flying. I have to go buy a bunch of stupid little travel sizes or get stuff up there and then leave it, which is REALLY annoying for someone who usually only buys massive economy sizes from a warehouse store. Moreso, though, we're also going to have pay some bs fee of $25 per checked bag - meaning, $100 total roundtrip for Aaron and I to both bring a suitcase? I mean, WHAT? Grant was saying it's probably cheaper to freaking ship things to ourselves :p I am hoping our yard sale and the three usborne shows I have scheduled before we leave rake in more than I'm really expecting. And, with an apartment I think we can save some on cooking and eating in rather than always going out... If you think of something I am not thinking of, price-wise, feel free to let me know. I'm researching subway and taxi (for late nights) costs to try to get an estimate, tonight, because that's not really a number we've tried to get a figure for thus far.
If by some miracle I get to the point through our own local work (Grant is even secret shopping on the weekends) and donations that I have more than we NEED, I will take him out and do some awesome stuff in NCY and post lots of pics (Statue of Liberty, museum, whatevs). If I reach that point before we leave, I'll take the button down (AND CELEBRATE WILDLY WITH MUCH JOY!!!). If you don't send any money - that's what I was expecting towards this from the internet, I still love you! Well, not YOU...
Ok fine you too.
I gotta go cook.
Aaron's birthday was Sunday. He wanted a monarch butterfly and caterpillar cake. It was rather last minute, hence the swanky serving trays.
I think they came out pretty ok for being freehand and just using rectangular cakes (and cupcakes, obviously)
He wanted to light his own candles.
And after we ate, there came an untimely cake demise.
Finally, by popular demand, helping links:
With Andrea, I am not sure what the best way to go about this is. I am not in a positin to organize and order and ship packages right now, I have a dozen balls in the air. I am willing to help publicize it and willing to contribute a small amount of money along with ideas. I was going to link you all to the paypal through which some ladies from one of Andrea's communities had been gathering funds for a big package, but they had a lot of trouble with international paypal and some disagreements I know nothing about, and everyone is being refunded :/ So, if you are willing to spearhead the effort, let me know and I am more than willing to post about it. For now, unfortunately, the link I had is no longer a good one :/
If you would like to help Aaron get to NYC and compete at JUMP you can go here to do so - https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=4QA2UV3HF79XY
To the person who dug through my entries to find my email address after it was referenced in comments and did it the hard way, thanks ...and I'm sorry I hadn't posted something more clearly. This will be on my userinfo for the next couple of weeks.
To the people who've messaged (and commented) encouraging this and saying you want to help, you guys are so awesome <3
To the trolls asking Grant if he's ashamed of me for "begging" on formspring, really? Come on. It's not designer shoes, and I'm not up in your face. It's fundraising for my son's dance trip, and you don't have to read or donate! Honestly, now that I think about it, I can't imagine minding if someone put up a donate button for some designer shoes they wanted (so long as they were honest).
As it stands the B&B guy I referenced called me back today - the apartment we wanted IS taken, but he has another one available. It's not as nice and is in a slightly shakier (but not bad, really) neighborhood. So I think that is going to be what we go with. The transit to the convention is quick and simple. It's still just about a grand ($980 instead of $1012 for the half a hotel room). This is good as it means the immediate crisis of losing roommate is past!
I keep finding out about (small, but accumulating) additional costs that are really irritating me. For instance, heightened airport security means that I can't take shampoo, conditioner, Noxzema, moisturizer, body spray, toothpaste, etc from home like I did as a teen flying. I have to go buy a bunch of stupid little travel sizes or get stuff up there and then leave it, which is REALLY annoying for someone who usually only buys massive economy sizes from a warehouse store. Moreso, though, we're also going to have pay some bs fee of $25 per checked bag - meaning, $100 total roundtrip for Aaron and I to both bring a suitcase? I mean, WHAT? Grant was saying it's probably cheaper to freaking ship things to ourselves :p I am hoping our yard sale and the three usborne shows I have scheduled before we leave rake in more than I'm really expecting. And, with an apartment I think we can save some on cooking and eating in rather than always going out... If you think of something I am not thinking of, price-wise, feel free to let me know. I'm researching subway and taxi (for late nights) costs to try to get an estimate, tonight, because that's not really a number we've tried to get a figure for thus far.
If by some miracle I get to the point through our own local work (Grant is even secret shopping on the weekends) and donations that I have more than we NEED, I will take him out and do some awesome stuff in NCY and post lots of pics (Statue of Liberty, museum, whatevs). If I reach that point before we leave, I'll take the button down (AND CELEBRATE WILDLY WITH MUCH JOY!!!). If you don't send any money - that's what I was expecting towards this from the internet, I still love you! Well, not YOU...
Ok fine you too.
I gotta go cook.
