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Mar. 29th, 2009 11:50 amWento to our building's Earth Hour party last night, which involved considerably less darkness than I'd expected (I think the logic was "we're actually not allowed to turn the lobby lights off, but we can get everyone to turn off their unit lights and then hang out together in the lobby"). I got another grocery tote bag out of it. There are just a couple of people I usually end up talking to at building events, so I spent most of it with Diana and Wanna.
Diana is getting married in September, and her family apparently have numerous wedding traditions, including one where several guys dance around the reception with a suckling pig, collecting money from the guests, which then goes to the bride and groom. I'd never thought of it, but wedding-hall owners have to know all wedding traditions: as soon as they heard her family are Macedonian, they asked if she'd be needing a suckling pig for the reception.
Also her fiance used to be musical director for the (Garland Bros?) circus, and was given a trained poodle, who he gave to his parents to keep on their farm - now whenever she visits her future in-laws, she says, she has to wear braids and shut the door to the guest bedroom at night, or she wakes up to find that Russian-circus-farm-poodles have tangled themselves in her hair during the night.
Diana is getting married in September, and her family apparently have numerous wedding traditions, including one where several guys dance around the reception with a suckling pig, collecting money from the guests, which then goes to the bride and groom. I'd never thought of it, but wedding-hall owners have to know all wedding traditions: as soon as they heard her family are Macedonian, they asked if she'd be needing a suckling pig for the reception.
Also her fiance used to be musical director for the (Garland Bros?) circus, and was given a trained poodle, who he gave to his parents to keep on their farm - now whenever she visits her future in-laws, she says, she has to wear braids and shut the door to the guest bedroom at night, or she wakes up to find that Russian-circus-farm-poodles have tangled themselves in her hair during the night.
