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[quidditchgrrl]

Dude, suckage.

Again, you Ohioans who are HP fans, join the hp_ohio community! We'd like to have a meetup in each quadrant of the state, maybe plan a fun outing this summer. We like HP, we're not psychopaths. The first outing was quite nice, with hastyent and 1anonymous1 in Dayton, where we discussed Ron and whether or not Ron/Draco was even possible.



Today we instituted our pledge group. Rainbow, for those of you who've braved the cut tag but are unfamiliar with the organization, is made up of girls from 11-20. Some areas have Pledge Groups, which are girls from 8-11, sort of like Daisy Girl Scouts.

Membership in Rainbow is declining for a number of reasons. Here, I think it's a combination of suburbanite slobbery (they won't drive more than five minutes from home for anything) and tons of extra-curricular activites. Kids get involved with things at a much younger age, and by the time they reach 11, they don't have time to add in another activity. So, we have pledge groups to get the girls into Rainbow-related activities, introduce them to other girls, and they pledge to join Rainbow when they turn 11. (This is different than the baby pledging, since I don't believe that you should promise your child to anything when they have absolutely no say in the matter. When you're 8, you can grasp whether you like something or not, you know?)

Those little girls were cuter than cute, with their little-girl dresses and tights on. They were also terrified of the ceremony and everyone watching them (and most of the adults were rather weepy, thinking about their time or their kids' time in Rainbow when they were that age). Our girls are so good with them, though, the Pledges I mean. We did a quick walk-through on Wednesday and did the ceremonies today, with nary a hitch. Great, all told, since we'd never seen a pledge service and were going from paperwork with no floorwork instruction. *dead from stress* The great thing about the little ones is that two of them are Rainbow age, and will age right into the Assembly this spring. Yay us - it took a lot of work (not on my part, really) but it's so going to be worth it! The parents are also all involved in Masonry/Rainbow, so they will be able to spread the word to other parents. :-D

I think my biggest fear, aside from being exposed as a fraud, was to be the Mother Advisor in office if/when an Assembly closed. Last term we didn't have a quorum (7 girls) of regular members. That terrified me. In a metropolian area of more than 1 million people and close to thirty lodges, we couldn't attract enough young women to have a meeting. I'm much more hopeful now that we have pledges and a little more certainty that our organization will continue to change this corner of the world for the better.

We also had Installation Saturday afternoon. Our WA-elect was like, "I spent two and a half years to get to this point, can I do this next week instead?" Installation is the worst thing for me, I think, just because of the fact that I'm close to the girls, and the girls in the line now I am especially close to. Every time I turned to our new WA, we both got verklempt and couldn't look at each other. It didn't help that I paged through the program halfway through the Installation and read:

To my Mother Advisor: Donna, you have been there for me most of all. You walked me through every step of getting ready for my term. You answered every question I asked, some before I could ask them. You drove me and the rest of the girls to any place we wanted to go. You are the main pillar that holds up this Assembly and I thank you for it.

Okay, I can quit now. I think I've redeemed myself. *happy tears*



Am still taking my insulin like a good girl. Whether this continues is subject to how much money I have when I run out of Lantus, since that stuff runs $20 a vial. The other insulins I use run that much a vial too. I spend about $120 on meds alone every month; that doesn't encompass needles, test strips, or the other accoutrments of the diabetic. Or I would, if I could afford it. *smites shitty insurance co-pays*

Am also still gaining weight back. :-(( That is an even bigger factor in whether or not I take my meds. Damn it sucks to lose weight, then start gaining it back, all the while being completely deprived of refined sugar and carbs. WAH.

Can anyone tell me how to do multiple cuts in an entry? I try and they keep defaulting back to the top of the first one. *is not LJ savvy*

Wrote a grand total of 250 words on A Night in Paris. I suck at non-smut writing. Plot? What plot?

Comments

[saskia-rose.livejournal.com]

D00d, just do standard LJ-cuts, put the closing tag in, and there you go.

I can't think of why they would all go back to the first one- unless you're just leaving them say "Read More..." like on the default message. *shrugs*

Just add text="Whatever you want the text to be" after the "lj-cut" bit. :) Should work.
:)

[badonkatonks.livejournal.com]

I got teary-eyed reading this...you are so wonderful...those girls are so lucky to have you in their lives!

And thank you so much for all your advice last night! (You set me straight too!)

Much loff...have a lazy SB Sunday!