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Title: So what didn't you get a chance to do during the MRF 2008 season?
Post by: Obadiah Jib on September 29, 2008, 10:50:45 PM
Every year I miss doing a few things.  Hard to believe but I get very busy and it is often a challenge just getting across the site.  I bet many of you wanted to partake in a few activities, try a few foods, stop by a few shops, and talk with a few friends and just didn't get the time.

I wanted to stop by Greymare and say thanks for the pirate flag they handed me during parade.

I wanted to check out the cool leather skull masks.

I wanted to eat a last ear of corn.

I never made it to get a single jack of mead (remember I'm not supposed to drink while at work... I know that I can stop by and drop off my jack for an after canon of mead but I was always too busy).

How about you?
Title: Re: So what didn't you get a chance to do during the MRF 2008 season?
Post by: Nikita on September 29, 2008, 10:52:23 PM
see more shows; spent a lot of time working this year and missed that a lot.
Title: Re: So what didn't you get a chance to do during the MRF 2008 season?
Post by: DeadBishop on September 29, 2008, 11:27:54 PM
Spent more days working that wandering, plus I missed a number of days of fest due to work (which has never happened up until NOW >:() so I missed a great deal of opportunities to shoot this year.  Never wandered down to the enchanted forest.  Did almost no shopping, yet probably spent more money on food and beverages than I ever have in a season before.  The only shows I actually got to sit down and watch were Terpsichory, Morris Dancers, and Vilification Tennis; I missed everything else I wanted to watch.
Title: Re: So what didn't you get a chance to do during the MRF 2008 season?
Post by: groomporter on September 30, 2008, 07:20:19 AM
Took hardly any pictures this year.
Title: Re: So what didn't you get a chance to do during the MRF 2008 season?
Post by: Noble Dreg on September 30, 2008, 07:38:50 AM
My camera never made it out once.   :'(

Had new garb for the whole family, no pics.

Onlyy saw Vil "Ping-Pong".  Bummer.


Still had a BLAST!
Title: Re: So what didn't you get a chance to do during the MRF 2008 season?
Post by: Charlotte Rowan on September 30, 2008, 08:44:24 AM
I really wanted to make it to Fest Friday, but maybe next year.
I wanted to listen to All the King's Men.
Title: Re: So what didn't you get a chance to do during the MRF 2008 season?
Post by: SleepyArcher on September 30, 2008, 08:47:44 AM
I was able to get everything I mostly wanted. I guess the thing I missed most was not being able to go every weekend and wear all my garb, I still had plenty to wear. (The wife keeps asking me why I STILL have so much and keep getting more).

I would have like to see J Pheonix's new shows, I did see the tortugas.

I wish I would have drank more Mead thru the run, I made up for it the last day  :P  Thanks to whoever told me about Egyptian and raspberry! (DB?) That was a treat.

I wish I could have hung more with people.

I wanted to do the smoker and the feast. Jenn and I are def. doing the feast next year.

Thanks to Toar for showing me those dragon flask fillers, I was able to pick up wine topper too. thanks to Jib for telling me where to get those round ball flask.
Title: Re: So what didn't you get a chance to do during the MRF 2008 season?
Post by: Marietta Graziella on September 30, 2008, 08:50:37 AM
We got to do everything we wanted.  It was just so good having VV here this year.  It's been too long since we strolled the grounds together.  Oh, and him in a kilt!   :P

We'd really like to do a group feast thing. (was that a "wench mouth"?) :o   I've never been, never really wanted to go but, if a bunch of us went it would probably be wacky big fun.   Anyone have thoughts about it?

Title: Re: So what didn't you get a chance to do during the MRF 2008 season?
Post by: William_MacKean on September 30, 2008, 08:52:13 AM
I worked cannon-to-cannon @ the mead booth.  I think I took ~ 3 half-hour breaks all year.  I was also busy breaking everyone else in my area and others.

Needless to say, I didn't see a single show or walk into a single shop.

Next year, things will be different.
Title: Re: So what didn't you get a chance to do during the MRF 2008 season?
Post by: Lady Figaro on September 30, 2008, 09:03:51 AM
Fig and I have never done Feast, either.  We really would like to.  If we are here next year, we'd definitely be up for a group feast!
Title: Re: So what didn't you get a chance to do during the MRF 2008 season?
Post by: Will Gamwell on September 30, 2008, 09:16:49 AM
1.  I missed meeting several of you in person. 
2.  I didn't get to purchase several items that I had planned to.
3.  I didn't get to try out any of my ideas for characters on street.
4.  I didn't get to learn to drum as fast as I had desired in order to participate in at least one drum jam.

Goals for next year:
Meet those that I missed.
Save up & purchase desired items by next season.
Work on my characters in the off-season in order to be better prepared for next season.
Learn to drum!
Title: Re: So what didn't you get a chance to do during the MRF 2008 season?
Post by: Muffin on September 30, 2008, 09:45:29 AM
Right now it feels like I missed seeing and doing everything... LOL! but I know that is not true... Would have liked to have seen a few more shows and maybe done a little more shopping, felt like the shopping part was always rushed..

Was a fabulous season, and I will miss all of you that I won't have the chance to see again until next season!!!!

xoxoxo
:-*

Title: Re: So what didn't you get a chance to do during the MRF 2008 season?
Post by: TheFerret on September 30, 2008, 11:25:27 AM
I didn't get to be as social as I would have liked to though I was more social than last season.

I didn't get to play with Terpsicory as much as I wanted to but I did get to play with them which was awesome.

I wasn't out everyday but I got to work two really cool shows at work.

I'm not allowed to drink at the moment so there was no mead for me and that made me sad.

While I did see Zlich and Vilification, I never had the attention span for any musical groups so I completely missed hearing D&D perform one last time.
Title: Re: So what didn't you get a chance to do during the MRF 2008 season?
Post by: Ferret on September 30, 2008, 01:20:17 PM
Go often enough. Budget didn't allow more visits this year.
Maybe next year !
Ferret
Title: Re: So what didn't you get a chance to do during the MRF 2008 season?
Post by: MissBubu on September 30, 2008, 01:32:34 PM
I didn't get to play with the Peasants as much as I wanted to. But I did get to play my new drum for the Peasant Dance this past weekend!
Title: Re: So what didn't you get a chance to do during the MRF 2008 season?
Post by: Lord Figaro on September 30, 2008, 03:28:03 PM
I didn't get to hug those I won't get to see for quite some time.
Title: Re: So what didn't you get a chance to do during the MRF 2008 season?
Post by: Kiss-me-Kate on September 30, 2008, 10:23:14 PM
Quote from: Lord Figaro on September 30, 2008, 03:28:03 PM
I didn't get to hug those I won't get to see for quite some time.
Me neither.   :(

I missed all the foreclosure/eviction signs on the Fairy houses in the enchanted forrest.
Title: Re: So what didn't you get a chance to do during the MRF 2008 season?
Post by: Random Girl on September 30, 2008, 10:32:43 PM
Hang out with anyone. 

Sorry guys!!
Title: Re: So what didn't you get a chance to do during the MRF 2008 season?
Post by: Killian on September 30, 2008, 10:49:33 PM
I didn't get to go 6 of 7 weekends... I missed catching a Tortuga Twins show... I wanted to do the Feast but was short on cash... Wanted to ride the elephants but didn't make time to do it...

Guess I gotta make up for it next year!
Title: Re: So what didn't you get a chance to do during the MRF 2008 season?
Post by: Storm on October 01, 2008, 05:53:58 AM
Every year there are things I want to do that I just don't get done. I think that because I am out there every weekend I keep putting things off. I always figure that I can do it next weekend. But, before I know it 'fest is over and I never did what I wanted too.

This year I wanted to see more shows. That didn't happen. I think I saw 4 shows the entire run and 3 of them were on the last Saturday! I only saw those because I was guiding my sister and law and her family around that afternoon and they wanted to see some shows. I never would have gone to any of them had they not been there.

I only caught the Dregs twice.

I also wanted to try more foods this year. But, as usual, I found a few I liked and stuck with them through the whole run and never really tried anything different.

Didn't make it to a smoker or feast of fantasy.

Didn't make it to Figs after 'fest once this year either.
Title: Re: So what didn't you get a chance to do during the MRF 2008 season?
Post by: Escarlata on October 01, 2008, 07:46:35 AM
Spend as much time with new/old friends as I would have liked
Meet the Baron and Baroness
See as much music as I had hoped to
Title: Re: So what didn't you get a chance to do during the MRF 2008 season?
Post by: renren on October 01, 2008, 12:56:13 PM
Would like to have visited more, of course!
And, would like to meet those I haven't met yet!
Didn't get to the Queen's Tea, either! Well, there's always next year!