You may or may not know this, but I have an extremely long finger. I have used it for a variety of things in my life thus far. All of those dull things I can’t work up the enthusiasm for? I just put them on the long finger. My life plan? It’s there too. My short-, mid- and long-term goals? Oh yes, they’re mostly housed on the long finger too. My argument is that I prefer life when it’s less goal oriented and more impulsively going with the flow, but I sometimes do wonder how I get any work done at all.
I don’t mind telling you it hasn’t been easy working with the same long finger since I decided to take on Project Kilimanjaro. I mean if I’d been blessed with long legs for example, that would have been one thing. I could’ve taken on Kilimanjaro in a few strides and be back down in time for tea. But nope, instead I’ve been given distinctively average length legs, and just one dratted long finger.
So now I’ve filled you in on that, I hope you’re impressed when I reveal this week’s news: I have arranged my first fundraiser! And as a bonus I’ve even started thinking about a second one (although that’s mostly because someone called me about it and started putting ideas in my head, so I haven’t had to do much actual work on it so far).
But back to FUNDRAISER 1! It’s all happening in the big smoke (not far away from you wherever you’re reading this now what with all the lovely M roads the European Union helped us with over the last decade or so) on Friday, June 11. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you…Italia ‘90!
The whole 90’s night seed was sown when I was in Galway for the weekend with Ruth O’Brien, another ex-Offaly Indo staffer. Holding out for as long as we could before going out (the wallets wouldn’t have it any other way), for some random reason a 90’s song was dug out of the Internet archives. As far as I can remember it was Snow’s “Informer” and it lit up candles none of us were really aware we held for crap 90’s tunes. But requests came faster than we could play the songs and we all threw ourselves into the music. I haven’t seen any of us look as unashamedly ridiculous dancing before or since.
From that second it was decided there was nothing for it but to have a 90’s night for my first fundraiser.
And so, some organisation later here it is! Everything is happening in the Sugar Club on Leeson Street in Dublin on Friday, June 11 – get there before 11pm and the €10 cover charge goes to my charities. (Get there after 11pm and I’ll be giving you the evil eye all night because my charities won’t get a penny!) All the best 90’s tunes will be played by live band “Pump Up the Jam”.
Any soccer fans out there will know that June 11 is also the start of the World Cup. Which World Cup do we all love to remember here in Ireland? Italia ’90 of course! So come along in your Kappa zip-up tops, your tracksuits with popper fastening down the sides, your Spice Girl boots, your hair in a pony tail on the side of your head, your old Italia ’90 gear – let’s all look tragic and have an excellent night!
Sensei Michael says: “Techno, techno, techno, techno!”
Sing it Michael!
Until next week,
Lollipop
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