take your he!!spawn to work day
Sandra
whole day of activities planned for the sproggen, everything from
videoconferencing to interviews...........arrrrrrrrrrrgghhhhhhhhh
only 2 of the moos in my "team" are participating (and I am thankful for
that) and my manager just happens to be coordinator for our location,
she's declared tomorrow is a day for ALL of us and we can ALL
particiate....double arrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhh.
Please spare a thought or 2 tomorrow for a mid-west CF'er
--
Sandra
longtime lurker, occasional poster.
Owned by 3 cats.
IleneB
<sandra...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> well, my company is doing it tomorrow.
For once, a good reason for me to appreciate that I worked the night
shift on locked psychiatric units.
Ilene B
Sandra
started most of the noise and mess was gone.
Noelle
news:3sHhc.1125$KG2....@reggie.win.bright.net...
> Please spare a thought or 2 tomorrow for a mid-west CF'er
I have to admit, I offered my skills as a face-painter for my business
unit's Free Babysitting, er, TYKTW Day. I got to go out and buy art supplies
for which the company reimbursed me, I got half a day away from my usual
work, and I had much more minimal interaction with the kids than some of the
volunteers.
Most of the kids were pretty cool and nonobnoxious. However, there was
Princess Butterfly. She was the daughter of one of our high muckety-mucks,
and oh my goodness, was she imperious. She wanted a butterfly painted on her
face, and I had gone out and gathered JPGs of face-painting designs on the
Internet and printed them out in color for the kiddos to choose from (most
popular designs: Spiderman mask; butterfly; and tiger stripes).
PB talked to me, or rather at me, constantly as I was painting her face. "I
want RED instead of ORANGE. Have you painted the pink part yet? Are you SURE
you're doing it just like the picture?" Then, I later heard, she went into
the bathroom to see herself in the mirror, and declared that it wasn't what
she had wanted at all. And, I didn't stick a rhinestone to her forehead as I
did with some of the other little girls who asked for butterflies and who
were polite and patient. She wasn't happy about that, either. I guess her
daddy never told her that you don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Overall, not that bad an experience, but I felt after 4 hours like I'd just
worked two shifts straight through. And I sat back and sighed my relief that
they got to go home with someone ELSE.
--
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
--Sarah Williams
Sulpicia
> "Sandra" <sandra...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:3sHhc.1125$KG2....@reggie.win.bright.net...
>
> > Please spare a thought or 2 tomorrow for a mid-west CF'er
>
> I have to admit, I offered my skills as a face-painter for my business
> unit's Free Babysitting, er, TYKTW Day. I got to go out and buy art supplies
> for which the company reimbursed me, I got half a day away from my usual
> work, and I had much more minimal interaction with the kids than some of the
> volunteers.
>
Okay, could someone please explain this face-painting thing to me? It
seems to have sprung up when I wasn't looking, and now every event
that wants to appeal to kids seems to have it. Where did it come
from? What's the appeal? I don't get it -- do I want to?
Sulpicia
Cheryl Greer
sulpi...@yahoo.ca (Sulpicia) wrote:
>
> Okay, could someone please explain this face-painting thing to me? It
> seems to have sprung up when I wasn't looking, and now every event
> that wants to appeal to kids seems to have it. Where did it come
> from? What's the appeal? I don't get it -- do I want to?
Sure, it's easy. Decorating one's body is kinda fun and cool. Same
principle behind getting a tattoo, but since sproggen are too little for
tats, they have to settle for face paint. But if you don't see the
appeal of a tatoo, then I can't explain it to ya. :)
I just bought a set of 'tattoo markers.' I guess some of us never
grow out of liking to draw on ourselves.
Cheryl
--
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"I think it's high time America admitted that it has no value to add to
Earth anymore." -- Citzen Ted
Sklenge
> seems to have sprung up when I wasn't looking, and now every event
> that wants to appeal to kids seems to have it. Where did it come
> from? What's the appeal? I don't get it -- do I want to?
> Sulpicia
It's a way of forcing a child to sit still for about ten minutes so that
their parent can go off and take a leak in peace or 'have a fag' (UK term
there, try and guess what that means!)
At least, if the face painter is any good, the resultant child can end up
looking like a tiger, or fried egg, or something and all the nose goo can be
camouflaged.
I avoid anywhere that offers face painting because it's going to be
encouraging parents/kids to be in attendance. Similarly I avoid (ie never go
in or near) pubs that advertise they have: karaoke, or sky football, or are
'family friendly'.
Beth Cole
I've had my face painted a couple times. Both were when I was a part of
a "Medieval Mardi Gras" celebration as cast at a renaissance festival
(as a Foole/clown). The first time was using the colors in my hair &
eyes to create a very glittery cat. The second time, they used yellows
& greens for a spring willow tree effect, based on the colors of the
clothes I was wearing at the time.
It's fun, if you have the patience to sit still and have it done well.
I don't understand pushing little kids to do it, though. They don't
tend to be able to sit long enough for anything elaborate (like my cat
and willow tree) so they end up with hearts and stuff on their cheeks.
Beth
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DConnolly001
>From: Sklenge skl...@yahoo.co.uk
>Date: 4/23/2004 10:31 AM Eastern Daylight Time
>Message-id: <BCAEE758.819D%skl...@yahoo.co.uk>
>
>
>It's a way of forcing a child to sit still for about ten minutes so that
>their parent can go off and take a leak in peace or 'have a fag' (UK term
>there, try and guess what that means!)
>
Smoke a cigarette.
Veronique
> At least, if the face painter is any good, the resultant child can end up
I will never look at a painted face the same way again.
V.
--
Veronique Chez Sheep
Sulpicia
> > Okay, could someone please explain this face-painting thing to me? It
> > seems to have sprung up when I wasn't looking, and now every event
> > that wants to appeal to kids seems to have it. Where did it come
> > from? What's the appeal? I don't get it -- do I want to?
> > Sulpicia
>
> It's a way of forcing a child to sit still for about ten minutes so that
> their parent can go off and take a leak in peace or 'have a fag' (UK term
> there, try and guess what that means!)
>
Grab a smoke, of course!
Sulpicia
Erosion
wrote:
>I have to admit, I offered my skills as a face-painter for my business
>unit's Free Babysitting, er, TYKTW Day.
Now, see, this is what confuses me. At one time, the idea was to give
girls the idea that they could have careers that were off-script. How
we got from that to having face-painting for kids at their parents'
workplace boggles me.
Unless....
Say, Noelle, is free face painting one of the perks of your job?
("Watch out for Hank today; he has his tiger face on, and that's never
a good sign!")
Veronique
> On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 21:44:38 -0500, "Noelle" <gno...@charter.net>
> wrote:
> >I have to admit, I offered my skills as a face-painter for my business
> >unit's Free Babysitting, er, TYKTW Day.
>
> Now, see, this is what confuses me. At one time, the idea was to give
> girls the idea that they could have careers that were off-script. How
> we got from that to having face-painting for kids at their parents'
> workplace boggles me.
Exactly. The idea was to broaden life choices for girls beyond
motherhood, nursing or teaching. If TYCTWD requires an entire separate
agenda and activities, there's no point, really (except to disrupt the
workplace and bug the CF, but what else is new?)
Noelle
> wrote:
> >I have to admit, I offered my skills as a face-painter for my business
> >unit's Free Babysitting, er, TYKTW Day.
>
> Now, see, this is what confuses me. At one time, the idea was to give
> girls the idea that they could have careers that were off-script. How
> we got from that to having face-painting for kids at their parents'
> workplace boggles me.
Last year (I wasn't there that day, something that would come back to haunt
me), I understand that the activities were shall we say, dry. And the kids
were bored. So they wanted to come up with more "fun" things this year. The
employee networks, one of which I belong to, came up with the face-painting
idea. It was actually quite popular.
In the room where I was doing the face-painting, there was some sort of
simulated labwork going on, where the kids got to draw "specimens" from soda
bottles filled with red and yellow colored water, and pipette, and other
stuff like that (I didn't get a close look at what they were doing, as I was
busy). And the kids did get a tour of the facilities, including the lab
downstairs, and I heard them talking about getting to go to Anatomic
Pathology and see specimens. But honestly, I agree. The face-painting was
there for pure entertainment value.
> Unless....
>
> Say, Noelle, is free face painting one of the perks of your job?
>
> ("Watch out for Hank today; he has his tiger face on, and that's never
> a good sign!")
*snerk* If only we got such clear indications of coworkers' moods and whims.
There are some days I'd go to work in Kabuki paint.