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I arrived back in Sydney yesterday (Friday) morning. It was my last visit to Iraq. I accompanied my boss and his boss and THE Boss. We had stop-overs in London and other places I can't mention. Travelling transport aircraft always puts my back out which leaves me in a pissy mood.
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animator's Christmas Party at work. This party is legendary. I napped all afternoon to be ready, I ate plenty of pasta to ready the stomach for the alcohol assault to follow, I made sure I was wearing clean underwear and had a calling card in my pocket in case I forgot who I was or where I lived. It's THAT kinda party. This years theme was in aid of HIV awareness and you had to wear pink. Not wearing pink left you open to a $100 donation to HIV research. I wore pure silk hot-pink boxers and a blue sports coat with a pink and blue striped lining.
A sound stage was converted into a marquee where food and drink was served and on the periphery was a number of sports cages, a golfing drive, baseball batting cage, tennis volley and football throwing (yankee style) cage. There was even a dance floor and a mini dance competition. There was also an auction to raise more funds. Some items were donated by personalities, actors, studios all in the name of a good cause.mr_spunk who organised the catering this year instead of doing it raised $3000 by auctioning off his services for a dinner party for 6 to the highest bidder. animator raised $5000 by auctioning a flight to Uluru (yank=Ayers Rock), to be on location for a two day shoot next February. All up over $30000 was raised.
The food on offer was Turkish and Greek all served in two bite pieces. It was very tasty, colourful and there was plenty of it. Some served hot and others cold. Everything was arranged on platters-for-one, with an entree, mains and dessert platter for everyone. Oh and did I mention an open bar (nothing to do with lawyers), that served lots of pink drinks.
I managed to keep my pants on basically because mum was home baby sitting and I didn't want to arrive home sans pants like last year. I did have to prove several times I was wearing pink especially after I took my jacket off during the night.
I did arrive back in time for
animator's Christmas Party at work. This party is legendary. I napped all afternoon to be ready, I ate plenty of pasta to ready the stomach for the alcohol assault to follow, I made sure I was wearing clean underwear and had a calling card in my pocket in case I forgot who I was or where I lived. It's THAT kinda party. This years theme was in aid of HIV awareness and you had to wear pink. Not wearing pink left you open to a $100 donation to HIV research. I wore pure silk hot-pink boxers and a blue sports coat with a pink and blue striped lining.A sound stage was converted into a marquee where food and drink was served and on the periphery was a number of sports cages, a golfing drive, baseball batting cage, tennis volley and football throwing (yankee style) cage. There was even a dance floor and a mini dance competition. There was also an auction to raise more funds. Some items were donated by personalities, actors, studios all in the name of a good cause.
mr_spunk who organised the catering this year instead of doing it raised $3000 by auctioning off his services for a dinner party for 6 to the highest bidder. animator raised $5000 by auctioning a flight to Uluru (yank=Ayers Rock), to be on location for a two day shoot next February. All up over $30000 was raised.The food on offer was Turkish and Greek all served in two bite pieces. It was very tasty, colourful and there was plenty of it. Some served hot and others cold. Everything was arranged on platters-for-one, with an entree, mains and dessert platter for everyone. Oh and did I mention an open bar (nothing to do with lawyers), that served lots of pink drinks.
I managed to keep my pants on basically because mum was home baby sitting and I didn't want to arrive home sans pants like last year. I did have to prove several times I was wearing pink especially after I took my jacket off during the night.
