Pride and all that jazz...
Jun. 20th, 2005 12:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
savage25Last Thursday evening, Barry and I went to "Beer Bellies" for some drinks with his coworkers. "Some drinks" turned into "many pitchers of beer"... It was a good time though (even though felt like crap all day Friday). I even did some "drunk dialing" (you know, where you call someone to tell them your drunk or something random and stupid, but then don't remember making the call the next day). Too bad I didn't call and leave a drunk LJ posting.
Friday I worked a half-day at home. Then Barry and I ran some errands and went up to camp. The theme this weekend was "Leather Weekend" -- which means that they had the "Dungeon" setup (or playroom where anything goes, as long as you do it naked or with leather). It was a fun weekend... I didn't drink much on Friday due to being hung-over... Saturday, Ken and I discussed and planned the show for July 4th weekend. So far we have 12 acts lined-up and things are looking really good. The stage is going to be incredible this year -- they are installing a lighting bar out in-front of the stage so that we can have actual all-weather theatre lights installed and pointed at the stage... I can't wait, it should be awesome! I HAVE to get working on the costumes now... and we need to come up with a good ending... that's the only thing that's worrying me right now... we must work on the finale as right now it seems pretty lame.
Sunday was Allentown Pride. The Woods had a huge float (actually two floats) in the parade and they did a wonderful job working on them. They did "The Woods: Then and Now"... it was supposed to be a spoof on how disgusting the camp was before it became gay, and how exquisite the camp is now that the gay people have moved in. I didn't really care for the idea of them having this "redneck type float" where they were basically making fun of the straight camp... I mean, isn't that really reverse discrimination -- doing to the straight people the same thing we get so upset about them doing to us? A week or so ago, they asked me to be the "straight girl" on the float and dress in really bad drag... Barry and I already had other plans for Sunday, so I couldn't be in the float... which I gladly used as an excuse not to be on the float. All-in-all, I believe the float was received well and wasn't as "bad" as I had feared it might be... time will tell I guess... but they did win "Most Creative Float" for the second year in a row. (They should have won best-of-parade, but the Diamonz "float" [people standing on a truck-bed] won probably for the sympathy-vote because it was "in-memory" of someone -- and also probably political reasons, like the amount of sponsorship and such that Diamonz does for the day.) Anyway... Barry and I went home and watched some TV... we ended up being late getting home and not able to go to the "Star of Bethlehem" concert like we had planned, but just as well, since neither of us felt that much like doing anything. We stopped by the Pride festival around 4... caught a little bit of the end of "Amber" concert... and walked around and visited with some people that we knew.
Then we came home and relaxed on the couch watching a movie and some TV. The movie was "Uptown Girls"... a cute movie, made me cry... too cute... I cried way more than I should have for such a silly, cutesy movie... but guess I had been needing "a good tear-jerker" for a while... LOL
I'm working at home today... just too lazy to go in to the office. The more I work at home, the more used-to-it I get. I'm getting spoiled... I find want to go in to the office less and less.
Friday I worked a half-day at home. Then Barry and I ran some errands and went up to camp. The theme this weekend was "Leather Weekend" -- which means that they had the "Dungeon" setup (or playroom where anything goes, as long as you do it naked or with leather). It was a fun weekend... I didn't drink much on Friday due to being hung-over... Saturday, Ken and I discussed and planned the show for July 4th weekend. So far we have 12 acts lined-up and things are looking really good. The stage is going to be incredible this year -- they are installing a lighting bar out in-front of the stage so that we can have actual all-weather theatre lights installed and pointed at the stage... I can't wait, it should be awesome! I HAVE to get working on the costumes now... and we need to come up with a good ending... that's the only thing that's worrying me right now... we must work on the finale as right now it seems pretty lame.
Sunday was Allentown Pride. The Woods had a huge float (actually two floats) in the parade and they did a wonderful job working on them. They did "The Woods: Then and Now"... it was supposed to be a spoof on how disgusting the camp was before it became gay, and how exquisite the camp is now that the gay people have moved in. I didn't really care for the idea of them having this "redneck type float" where they were basically making fun of the straight camp... I mean, isn't that really reverse discrimination -- doing to the straight people the same thing we get so upset about them doing to us? A week or so ago, they asked me to be the "straight girl" on the float and dress in really bad drag... Barry and I already had other plans for Sunday, so I couldn't be in the float... which I gladly used as an excuse not to be on the float. All-in-all, I believe the float was received well and wasn't as "bad" as I had feared it might be... time will tell I guess... but they did win "Most Creative Float" for the second year in a row. (They should have won best-of-parade, but the Diamonz "float" [people standing on a truck-bed] won probably for the sympathy-vote because it was "in-memory" of someone -- and also probably political reasons, like the amount of sponsorship and such that Diamonz does for the day.) Anyway... Barry and I went home and watched some TV... we ended up being late getting home and not able to go to the "Star of Bethlehem" concert like we had planned, but just as well, since neither of us felt that much like doing anything. We stopped by the Pride festival around 4... caught a little bit of the end of "Amber" concert... and walked around and visited with some people that we knew.
Then we came home and relaxed on the couch watching a movie and some TV. The movie was "Uptown Girls"... a cute movie, made me cry... too cute... I cried way more than I should have for such a silly, cutesy movie... but guess I had been needing "a good tear-jerker" for a while... LOL
I'm working at home today... just too lazy to go in to the office. The more I work at home, the more used-to-it I get. I'm getting spoiled... I find want to go in to the office less and less.
