You Know You're a True Rennie if...

[Celtic_Fae]

Instead of planning a big clubbing bash for your 21st birthday, you're planning on going to your first Pennsic where you can finally join in on all the fun (not that I really drink at all anyway, but some event do have age limits that I would have otherwise been able to go to had I been of age).

[tamsentmk]

When you're contemplating actual eye surgery (as opposed to contacts) since your spectacles dont match your garb.

[GirlChris]

When you get some very peculiar tan lines-
1)square around the neck from bodice neckline
2)ovals on your shoulders from that little space between your off the shoulder chemise and your bodice straps
3)most of your hands, except for the parts of your fingers that don't get sun from being against a mug all day

[Capt Robertsgrave Thighbiter]

When you get some very peculiar tan lines-
1)square around the neck from bodice neckline
2)ovals on your shoulders from that little space between your off the shoulder chemise and your bodice straps
3)most of your hands, except for the parts of your fingers that don't get sun from being against a mug all day

Our CD girl ( aka the ships purser) usualy either puts a Brigands tattoo on or I stamp her with the P branding iron, on her chest.   By the end of the weekend, she is red and or brown, with a white emblem on her chest! 

[Var Greyshadow]

You tell people, "I'm staying with my aunt and uncle when I go out to MDRF (for RenDezvous)," not "I'm going to visit my aunt and uncle over Labor Day weekend and go to the festival while I'm out there."  My boss gave me a good-natured ribbing about it because he knows I'm a rennie.  Aunt and uncle just asked for one extra day in the trip to visit THEM.  Small price to pay for my lodgings!

[Dinobabe]

You know that you and your family are true Rennies if...

...the only time you see your grandparents is at faire because they own a booth and you spend two weeks on site with them every year.

...you drag your high school boyfriend to faire from Memphis, TN to Bristol, WI to spend a week on site with your grandparents.

...you tell your fiance that a requirement for marrying you is to go to faire and stay on site.
(He refused to wear garb the first day, loved it so much borrowed garb from grandpa, I made garb for the next trip up; this time we were married!) 

[tigerlilly]

You have some very scary medical things going on, and one of your first thoughts after "holy crap, am i gonna die?" and "who'll take care of my family if I'm laid up?" is "will this interfere with Faire???"

[Bonny Pearl]

you tell your doctor the only time open for surgery is Now b/c you want to have enough recovery time before faire.

*recovering comforably lol!  *

[LadyElizabeth]

You plan your whole new tattoo time around when it needs to be healed so you can wear a corset at fair!!

(This will be fully colored in, so it's only 1/3 done thus far)

[Tammy]

That's GORGEOUS!!

[tigerlilly]

Glad to hear you're recovering, Bonny!

I totally understand about the surgery date.  My hope is that this'll all get resolved quickly (preferably without major surgery, or minor surgery for that matter) and I won't have to miss faire because of it or try to find a way to hide a portable EKG under my garb (Ooooh!  A partlet might work!).  I may go in 'danes ... just as a last resort. 

I love the wings, LadyElizabeth.  Be sure to post pics when they're all done.

[Bonny Pearl]

Glad to hear you're recovering, Bonny!

I totally understand about the surgery date.  My hope is that this'll all get resolved quickly (preferably without major surgery, or minor surgery for that matter) and I won't have to miss faire because of it or try to find a way to hide a portable EKG under my garb (Ooooh!  A partlet might work!).  I may go in 'danes ... just as a last resort. 

I love the wings, LadyElizabeth.  Be sure to post pics when they're all done.

Thank you Tigerlilly!  I am recorving well, just bored to tears, lol.

I hope that your situation is resolved soon and if surgery of any kind is necessary, that it goes well for you. *Hugs*  If anything we are resourceful in how to wear our garb lol!  You could go as I call it 'garb lite' when I don't want to be trussed up like Thanksiving Dinner , lol and just wear a light skirt, top and be 'free and breezy' lol.  It's great to do that in the early part of TRF as it is sometimes just too darn hot anyway, lol!

[bellevivre]

...you get frisky at that very FIRST hint of Autumn in the morning air, and it immediately makes you crave hot spiced wine, Iris & Rose, and to be wearing GARB instead of these stupid office clothes

[Lady Neysa]

You find out you won 2 tickets to MDRF in a contest, and you jump up and down like a little girl as if just won the lottery. Then you do it all over again when the tickets arrive in the mail!

[Lady Neysa]

When you are able to get complete strangers interested in attending faire...Yesterday while at a birthday party for my boss, I was joking with her that I missed opening day of MDRF for her.  Another person heard what I said and asked about it, how long was the faire running,etc. She said she's heard of it but never gone so she says to her husband that they should take the kids and go next weekend.  I was telling her all about it, when another person  came along and asked what we were talking about.
So I continue my commentary and by now I'm starting to build up and really ramble about faire, and I noticed that at least a half dozen people within earshot were looking at me and listening.  I don't know if they were listening with rapt interest, or if their eyes were glazing over trying to figure out who "the nut job" was, but I think I convinced at least one couple and maybe 1 or 2 others to go!