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selkie at 06:00pm on 12/03/2006
selkie at 06:00pm on 12/03/2006My six-month charity auction thing is over!
Preliminary figures suggest we raised over $30,000 for Doorways .
It was a lovely event, in spite of having to hammer in tacks with the bottom of my shoe. Everyone swanned around drinking bellinis and kir royales and mimosas and bidding and spending money, which was the point. Several coworkers were there, including![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chickwriter, Greyhound Project Manager, Gets Weird Catalogues Project Manager, my boss and our CEO.
It was nice to feel like I'd genuinely helped make something happen.
My wife looked beautiful, and we had fun bidding on some Asian prints, some WPAS tickets, and a Japanese cooking basket. We had fun, and we lost!
We took home a certificate for a month's free martial arts classes fordarthrami and two beautiful, down-filled sofa pillows in a lovely glossy coral-cream-and-blue stripe. We paid about a tenth of the listed retail value, and I still can't figure that out. Maybe it's my reward for the months of hard work -- decent, classy, grown-up fittings for the living room.
*pauses to preemptively declaw all cats with a steak knife before setting the pillows on the sofa*
Many of the things I solicited went for twice their retail listing and more, and I'm immensely proud of that. Stay tuned for the list of Northern Virginia vendors to boycott because they didn't give us shit.
I have only one complaint about the entire event, and that's that they stopped filling the water-glasses at 3:15, and the event ran on until 5:00.
...Maybe I'll do it next year.
ETA: And then we got home and there was no water in the building, andla_rainette had decided to take an LJ hiatus. Sigh. Further proof that tomorrow will, in fact, be Monday.
Preliminary figures suggest we raised over $30,000 for Doorways .
It was a lovely event, in spite of having to hammer in tacks with the bottom of my shoe. Everyone swanned around drinking bellinis and kir royales and mimosas and bidding and spending money, which was the point. Several coworkers were there, including
chickwriter, Greyhound Project Manager, Gets Weird Catalogues Project Manager, my boss and our CEO. It was nice to feel like I'd genuinely helped make something happen.
My wife looked beautiful, and we had fun bidding on some Asian prints, some WPAS tickets, and a Japanese cooking basket. We had fun, and we lost!
We took home a certificate for a month's free martial arts classes for
darthrami and two beautiful, down-filled sofa pillows in a lovely glossy coral-cream-and-blue stripe. We paid about a tenth of the listed retail value, and I still can't figure that out. Maybe it's my reward for the months of hard work -- decent, classy, grown-up fittings for the living room.*pauses to preemptively declaw all cats with a steak knife before setting the pillows on the sofa*
Many of the things I solicited went for twice their retail listing and more, and I'm immensely proud of that.
I have only one complaint about the entire event, and that's that they stopped filling the water-glasses at 3:15, and the event ran on until 5:00.
...Maybe I'll do it next year.
ETA: And then we got home and there was no water in the building, and
la_rainette had decided to take an LJ hiatus. Sigh. Further proof that tomorrow will, in fact, be Monday.
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