Awwwwww, thanks you guys!!! I have missed you all too! (((((hugs)))))
In fact, I barely recognize this place anymore, there are so many new people and so many threads - I just can't keep up! I bet 3/4 of this forum doesn't even know who I am to have missed me!
LOL!!!
My life has been incredibly hectic lately, and I must apologize profusely to Miss Zooropa for taking so long with her story (and as a subsequent result, everyone else's!), but I am working on it.
First there was Vegas, then my mom's Bday getaway, and then a four day fundraising conference. Scattered in there have been a series of boring campaign "crises" that I've had to deal with at work.
I've also had loads to do around the house. Tonight was supposed to be a peaceful night at home, but it turns out that I have to make a presentation to the Medical Association at the Hospital!
Not only have I been busy in terms of general life (I've even been too busy to go to dance classes, but not too busy to stuff my face whenever possible, am starting to get really doughy!!!), but I am also going through some serious soul searching about my future and what exactly I am going to do with myself (I am now forced to confront this stuff now that the distraction of U2 has dissippated!)ie, I have to pay off my excessive debts, decide if I am ever going to have children, decide if I want to continue in my job or change careers entirely (like get into forensics!), etc. Lots of nagging worry.
But on a lighter note (I bet you're sorry you asked where I was!), at the conference there was a total Edge type, except that he had thick, greying hair and small, round glasses. Other than that, he was Edge in a suit, complete with goatee and eyes. He sat by himself most of the time, looking very neat and shy, but did I go and talk to him? NO!!! But I did think a lot of inappropriate thoughts during the lectures! Bwaahahaha!
I also met a very elegant, attractive British man in his 50s, who runs is own consulting business and flys betw. London and Toronto every month. We got to talking and somehow we got onto the topic of U2 (I wonder who started THAT conversation), and my stories. Turns out, this mild mannered, very proper man writes smut of his own for his "close acquaintances"!!! I have sent him several of the Pleba stories, and he is enjoying himself immensely. Now that's what I call networking!
Ooooh, there were so many talented, charismatic British fundraisers there. I am having serious Bridgette Jones type fantasies of starting my own consulting firm and travelling to and fro from the UK myself.
One of these British fundraisers owns his own international firm based in Spain and was in charge of raising funds for Nelson Mandela's Presidential Campaign! He also worked for Greenpeace, and all kinds of South and Central American countries. He even married a Turkish woman who had been tortured and raped and was about to be deported back to Turkey if he hadn't married her. It was powerful stuff!
The whole conference reminded me how many fundraisers there are, and how many charities, and how much need and how much competition for charitable $. It was quite depressing!!!!
Anyway, enough of my rambling. I promise to be back soon with more stories and more blathering. And Edgelettes, start thinking about when might be good for another Orgasmatron chat!
TTYS!
