Hobby Swap

[cjsmith]

Here's a swap meet I'd love to go to. Hobby swap! Bring your old hobbies and go home with secondhand hobbies you get from someone else!

I'll probably never make candles again, so I'd bring my books and molds and paraffin and colors. I'll bring my rollerblades with elbow and knee pads. I'll bring my cake decorating books and my collection of fancy icing tips. I might go home with pliers & dowel & a bunch of thick wire to turn into chain mail, or perhaps a power sander, or a beginner's archery bow and arm guard.

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[jcgbigler.livejournal.com]

The secret to a gathering with food is to realize that not everybody will be able to eat everything, and to just make sure that everybody can eat at least one or two things. Having been one of the "can't eat anything that other people would want to bring" people, I always brought something I could eat. I always appreciated it when there were other things I could eat, and I never whined when there wasn't. And most importantly, I didn't begrudge other people the things they could have that I couldn't.

If your guests don't behave reasonably, I'd suggest that you need to edit the guest list rather than the menu.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Hihihihihi long time no see how are you! :-) Did I not know you were on LJ or did I miss a journal name change or something? (...going off to edit friends list)

I always appreciated it when there were other things I could eat, and I never whined when there wasn't.

I respect this. rfrench is also like this. From what I have seen and heard, the social assumption in this area of the country is that it's very much the host's problem.

Pot luck is a reasonable approach. I could go for that. People tend to bring things they themselves can eat.

In a way, I guess I've preemptively edited the guest list -- I don't host much! But maybe I could come out of my comfort zone shell a little.

[jcgbigler.livejournal.com]

> Did I not know you were on LJ or did I miss a journal name change or something?

You probably didn't know I was on LJ--it's a recent thing.

I signed on first to MySpace, mostly because several students at my school are on MySpace, and are putting things on the web that they don't intend people other than their friends to see. I want them to run across their teachers often enough to think twice about what they say in a public forum--it may save their sorry butts later in life. :-)

I signed on to LJ because it's not much more effort to keep up with 2 blog sites than one, and a lot more of my friends are here than there.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Welcome! Holler if Nancy comes over to the dark si... I mean LiveJournal too.

may save their sorry butts later in life

*amusement*