RETIRED: Marlboro Outwit the West Funny Farm

Congratulations - where did you win it? I just won the Smirnoff t-shirt. So exciting - at least I am reassured that all my entries are going through correctly.

Just a heads up! I found the secret panel to get out of the basement! We are all good!!

Check and see if it's PINK. We'll bid on it for him

I ammmmmmmmmmm.. hence.. I didnt post the av size!!!

Actually, it's not awesome of me. I wouldn't do it if I didn't enjoy it. But the funniest part of his whole thing is how shocked new employees and clients are when they find out I'm not Jewish.

At least 50% of our clients are Holocaust survivors and the majority of our other clients are Jewish. I mean, the Center is in the largest Jewish area in Los Angeles, so that's to be expected. Most of the social workers in the building are also Jewish because they speak Yiddish and Russian and Polish, etc. Even after two years volunteering there, I'll still meet clients who ask if my parents were survivors or which temple I belong to, those sorts of questions. I just tell them up front that I'm not Jewish and they're shocked. They see me at the Center 5 days a week, 6 hours a day, and it makes no sense to them.

But they're funny about it and decide that if I want to be the craft lady and the popcorn lady (which I make for the days we show movies) and the computer lady (because I help out in the lab) and the flyer and calendar lady (I do the graphics for special events and the monthly calendar of events) and whatever else they know me for, then hey, that's fine with them. They just don't understand it.

I just do it because I enjoy it, I love the people I "work" with, and I get to do all sorts of different things. Plus, and this is important to my sister, it keeps me off the streets and out of trouble.

here.. use this one.. shhhh dont tell him it was me

A Mans Work Is Never Done!

Congratulations - where did you win it? I just won the Smirnoff t-shirt. So exciting - at least I am reassured that all my entries are going through correctly.

Congrats on the t-shirt!! Hooked another one,too!!

Actually, it's not awesome of me. I wouldn't do it if I didn't enjoy it. But the funniest part of his whole thing is how shocked new employees and clients are when they find out I'm not Jewish.

At least 50% of our clients are Holocaust survivors and the majority of our other clients are Jewish. I mean, the Center is in the largest Jewish area in Los Angeles, so that's to be expected. Most of the social workers in the building are also Jewish because they speak Yiddish and Russian and Polish, etc. Even after two years volunteering there, I'll still meet clients who ask if my parents were survivors or which temple I belong to, those sorts of questions. I just tell them up front that I'm not Jewish and they're shocked. They see me at the Center 5 days a week, 6 hours a day, and it makes no sense to them.

But they're funny about it and decide that if I want to be the craft lady and the popcorn lady (which I make for the days we show movies) and the computer lady (because I help out in the lab) and the flyer and calendar lady (I do the graphics for special events and the monthly calendar of events) and whatever else they know me for, then hey, that's fine with them. They just don't understand it.

I just do it because I enjoy it, I love the people I "work" with, and I get to do all sorts of different things. Plus, and this is important to my sister, it keeps me off the streets and out of trouble.

Aren't you the won that gotton it 3 weeks now?. Big congrats to ya either way.

Thanks!! No, I've only got two, won last week too.

Are you entering daily or just once a week?

Okay, I haven't been ignoring you lately. You were all so supportive during my trials and tribulations with the butt ugly purse and I do appreciate all your help and warped senses of humor. But I've been busy.

WE GOT OUR GAME TABLE AND BENCHES APPROVAL.

I volunteer at a non-profit multipurpose senior center. Nobody lives there, but people from the area come in for classes, lectures, exercises, trips, my craft classes, to use computers we have for emailing and internet use and we have a huge TV we use for movies.

Every piece of equipment we have was purchased from funds donated by individuals and companies and government agencies. We also have money set aside in Funds for things like parties, the weekly Shabbat celebration, etc.

My "boss" is a wonderful woman who can get money from the proverbial stone. She convinced a woman she knows to fund my craft classes, for example. Well, she found out about a foundation that was looking to donate money to help seniors retain memory, brain function, stuff like that.

She decided we should start gaming clubs. We have a bridge club that meets once a week, but they're shoved into a room slightly larger than a closet. They don't care because they have a good time, chatting and laughing and spending an hour or two with old friends. But my boss wants a chess club and a backgammon club and even a checkers club because it would good for the clients. So I spent about 3 days about 2 months ago, researching game tables and chairs and benches where people could watch and/or wait for their turns to play.

I needed three options for everything, knowing we'd go with the cheapest, so even that one had to be at least decent. I finally found one that had a backgammon surface, a separate chess/checkers surface and a dining table type surface for bridge. I also found decent arm chairs in the right color and benches to match. My boss prepared the proposal, submitted it, and then we waited. We found out on Monday that we'd be getting the money.

I went back on line to prepare the orders, and guess what. The perfect table I'd found is no longer made. They have none in storage, it's gone. Nothing on eBay or Amazon or resellers. Gone.

Sooooo…..I've spent another three days trying to find another table that would meet our needs, new chairs and benches (the new table can't be used with arm chairs so I had to find chairs without arms and benches to match them).

I was even doing research at night, at home, trying to find something that would work for us. It finally came together this afternoon; I dumped all the information on my boss's desk and told her I was going home to collapse.

However…..much to my surprise…..I got ronluvsleather's postal money order in the mail. Forget collapsing, I was dancing. It will be out of my life tomorrow morning ! ! ! !

A table, four chairs, three benches AND the money order all in one day. Ain't life grand??????

Yeah.....well......guilty as charged! But, in my defense, I always kinda' liked him in pink. Couldn't see the harm in getting the avatar all fixed up & ready to use....just in case he's looking for another poke in the eye from you.