TAN #66: Get your kicks on TAN-66 (Page 22)

Aikidoman - 2009-02-10 11:32 AM So I saw a 'race' advertised last night.  It's a race to the top of the Stratospher hotel via the stairs...  Me thinks I will do it...  I might talk the better half to do it to.  Issue a challange (not to race, but just for her to do it).

Aikidoman - 2009-02-10 11:45 AM

OK, serious question.  If I race in the fundraiser, would some of you pledge?  It doesn't have to be much.  I only need $250 bucks, so 25 people giving 10 bucks, simple...  It can be done online and it's for the lung associates...

I think I want to get a 'feel' for the response before I sign up.  It's next friday, but pledges are due before March 1.

Aikidoman - 2009-02-10 12:45 PM

OK, serious question.  If I race in the fundraiser, would some of you pledge?  It doesn't have to be much.  I only need $250 bucks, so 25 people giving 10 bucks, simple...  It can be done online and it's for the lung associates...

I think I want to get a 'feel' for the response before I sign up.  It's next friday, but pledges are due before March 1.

Aikidoman - 2009-02-10 12:45 PM

OK, serious question.  If I race in the fundraiser, would some of you pledge?  It doesn't have to be much.  I only need $250 bucks, so 25 people giving 10 bucks, simple...  It can be done online and it's for the lung associates...

I think I want to get a 'feel' for the response before I sign up.  It's next friday, but pledges are due before March 1.

1stTimeTri - 2009-02-10 9:48 AM

How does one give you the $10?

wurkit_gurl - 2009-02-10 9:52 AM

Sure, I can donate a little bit. Just promise if I ever fundraise for anything, that you'll donate to me I wish I'd been in TAN when I was fundraising for the century ride that I did last spring...

Aikidoman - 2009-02-10 12:55 PM

Pretty slick.  They give me a link to a website.  I give that to people and they pay by CC under my name...

They take cash, but prefer the web.  I think I will sign up, so I will send out info.

I think with work friends, BT/TAN people, and the fact that the wife knows half of Las Vegas, I will have it covered...

I wish I had more time, cuz if you raise over $1000, you get a free night at the hotel.  However, it IS the stratosphere, so that's not saying much.  But $10,000 got you a high roller suite.  That could have been cool...

1stTimeTri - 2009-02-10 1:13 PM

Wurkit - you need your very own "b!tch here" thread.  You're throwing out some aggression the last coupla days.

wurkit_gurl - 2009-02-10 1:21 PM

Valentine's Day makes me angry...

ex_rower - 2009-02-10 1:22 PM single awareness day.

wurkit_gurl - 2009-02-10 12:23 PM

Seriously. I don't need every tv ad, radio commercial and storefront telling me "You're single and ALONE!!! What is wrong with you??? You cannot be happy because you're ALONE"...

Arg...

wurkit_gurl - 2009-02-10 12:23 PM

Seriously. I don't need every tv ad, radio commercial and storefront telling me "You're single and ALONE!!! What is wrong with you??? You cannot be happy because you're ALONE"...

Arg...

Sprint_DA - 2009-02-10 1:31 PM

Wait, you can't be happy alone?  What have I been doing for the last 26 years?  I don't give a sheot about valentines day, just another day.  If Hallmark didn't make cards for it, it never would have happened.

wurkit_gurl - 2009-02-10 12:23 PM

Seriously. I don't need every tv ad, radio commercial and storefront telling me "You're single and ALONE!!! What is wrong with you??? You cannot be happy because you're ALONE"...

Arg...

ATXtri - 2009-02-10 12:41 PM I HEART being alone!!

Sprint_DA - 2009-02-10 12:42 PM

But I thought we were dating.

ATXtri - 2009-02-10 12:43 PM Ok gots to run to yoga. see y'all in a bit.

lisac957 - 2009-02-10 12:45 PM

Ooh V-Day conversation.

The radio show I listen to (semi-syndicated) keeps talking about V-Day and how you HAVE to get your significant other something nice, and you HAVE to be romatic becuase it's just expected, etc. This PISSES me off! Says who??

All you have to do is communicate with your SO. Last year, I bluntly said to Tom "Hey let's not celebrate V-Day... cool?" and all of his friends were like "you didn't really fall for that, did you?"

Which made me mad, because I was completely serious. I wasn't playing a game, or trying to trick him, or secretly planning a gift or something. Nope. I just think it's a stupid holiday and a big waste of money. I mean, if you want to get me something, why use some made-up holiday as an excuse? And I sure as hell don't EXPECT someone to buy me something. And in our financial situation it would actually be pretty dumb to spend lots of money like most people do (much like Christmas!).

So we don't celebrate - simple as that. It is not the big deal people make it out to be, in a relationship or not.

 

lisac957 - 2009-02-10 1:45 PM

Ooh V-Day conversation.

The radio show I listen to (semi-syndicated) keeps talking about V-Day and how you HAVE to get your significant other something nice, and you HAVE to be romatic becuase it's just expected, etc. This PISSES me off! Says who??

All you have to do is communicate with your SO. Last year, I bluntly said to Tom "Hey let's not celebrate V-Day... cool?" and all of his friends were like "you didn't really fall for that, did you?"

Which made me mad, because I was completely serious. I wasn't playing a game, or trying to trick him, or secretly planning a gift or something. Nope. I just think it's a stupid holiday and a big waste of money. I mean, if you want to get me something, why use some made-up holiday as an excuse? And I sure as hell don't EXPECT someone to buy me something. And in our financial situation it would actually be pretty dumb to spend lots of money like most people do (much like Christmas!).

So we don't celebrate - simple as that. It is not the big deal people make it out to be, in a relationship or not.

 

wurkit_gurl - 2009-02-10 12:50 PM

I've spent Valentine's Day with someone exactly 3 times. The first time was the first "official" date with my first boyfriend. He picked the day, I did not. Second time, was actually a "singles" party that was hosted by my boyfriend - we'd just gotten together, but he didn't want to cancel the party, so he opened it up to couples. The third time, I didn't mention V-Day but he was planning the entire time to make me dinner, which he did, obviously, and of course I let him. I know how much it spooks men, so I never bring it up.