Sweet Charity
Jul. 24th, 2011 04:52 pmI've been a season ticket holder at the Willows Theatre for a long time now, though I am currently subscribed under my mother's ticket package because that was easiest for all of us this season. Yesterday was a fund-raiser: dinner, silent auction, live auction, and a performance. Before the fact there was not much information about it, except that it started at 4:30, so I made sure to get there before then, just in case.
I ended up buying a couple of pieces of art at the silent action. I didn't exactly mean to - no one was bidding on them and I felt sorry for their empty bidding sheets and thought maybe if I put in the minimum bid that that might make someone want to outbid me, but no one did. So I have a biggish watercolor of sunflowers and a, hm, I think acrylic titled Earthquake that I plan to hang near the crack in my living room (that is from an earthquake, you see, this is what passes for a decorative sensibility in my head). And a bottle of 2009 Coppola Diamond Collection Black Label Pavilion - no idea what to expect from that but some guy standing behind me when I won it at the wine pull commented that it was a good bottle, so we'll see.
Anyway, the whole thing was pretty okay - dinner was tasty and the entertainment was entertaining (though also confusing, for me, it was a bunch of songs but with choreography and stage business but without intervening dialog and it almost seemed like there was a story behind it all but I couldn't quite piece it together. Possibly I was overthinking it) and funds were raised without me accidentally spending hundreds of dollars on a cake or thousands on an Executive Producer credit (the guy sitting next to me accidentally bid $400 for something when he waved at a friend, which was hilarious since he did get outdbid). Unfortunately I couldn't collect my stuff and go until after eleven, which was about two hours after I wanted to leave. That's like a full workday of being out of the house and sociable! Too much.
Fortunately I could spend today in my bathrobe reading murder mysteries and turning a chicken carcass into stock. Still in progress, but I think this is an excellent use of the induction cooker, especially in the summertime. It has the option of setting a target temperature (well, selecting from several potential target temperatures) and holding that temperature for a set period of time, and so far it seems to be doing that without heating up the kitchen nearly as much as the oven or stove would (not to mention that getting the stove to produce the temperature I want is tricksy). Winning.
I ended up buying a couple of pieces of art at the silent action. I didn't exactly mean to - no one was bidding on them and I felt sorry for their empty bidding sheets and thought maybe if I put in the minimum bid that that might make someone want to outbid me, but no one did. So I have a biggish watercolor of sunflowers and a, hm, I think acrylic titled Earthquake that I plan to hang near the crack in my living room (that is from an earthquake, you see, this is what passes for a decorative sensibility in my head). And a bottle of 2009 Coppola Diamond Collection Black Label Pavilion - no idea what to expect from that but some guy standing behind me when I won it at the wine pull commented that it was a good bottle, so we'll see.
Anyway, the whole thing was pretty okay - dinner was tasty and the entertainment was entertaining (though also confusing, for me, it was a bunch of songs but with choreography and stage business but without intervening dialog and it almost seemed like there was a story behind it all but I couldn't quite piece it together. Possibly I was overthinking it) and funds were raised without me accidentally spending hundreds of dollars on a cake or thousands on an Executive Producer credit (the guy sitting next to me accidentally bid $400 for something when he waved at a friend, which was hilarious since he did get outdbid). Unfortunately I couldn't collect my stuff and go until after eleven, which was about two hours after I wanted to leave. That's like a full workday of being out of the house and sociable! Too much.
Fortunately I could spend today in my bathrobe reading murder mysteries and turning a chicken carcass into stock. Still in progress, but I think this is an excellent use of the induction cooker, especially in the summertime. It has the option of setting a target temperature (well, selecting from several potential target temperatures) and holding that temperature for a set period of time, and so far it seems to be doing that without heating up the kitchen nearly as much as the oven or stove would (not to mention that getting the stove to produce the temperature I want is tricksy). Winning.