Comments on: advent-hannukah t-minus four: panic sets in http://thecalmbeforethestork.com/2009/12/08/advent-hannukah-t-minus-4-panic-sets-in/ Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:19:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: eva http://thecalmbeforethestork.com/2009/12/08/advent-hannukah-t-minus-4-panic-sets-in/comment-page-1/#comment-3109 eva Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:18:26 +0000 http://thecalmbeforethestork.com/2009/12/08/advent-hannukah-t-minus-4-panic-sets-in/#comment-3109 All I could think reading this was that YAY - I'm not a total loser! Other people have parties where everyone doesn't attend too!! Good luck:) <em>eva's last blog post..<a href='http://glickers.blogspot.com/2009/11/mine.html' rel="nofollow">MINE!</a></em> All I could think reading this was that YAY – I’m not a total loser! Other people have parties where everyone doesn’t attend too!!

Good luck:)

eva’s last blog post..MINE!

]]> By: John Ballard http://thecalmbeforethestork.com/2009/12/08/advent-hannukah-t-minus-4-panic-sets-in/comment-page-1/#comment-3108 John Ballard Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:04:23 +0000 http://thecalmbeforethestork.com/2009/12/08/advent-hannukah-t-minus-4-panic-sets-in/#comment-3108 <p>Not to worry. I expect you've done this before and it came off okay.<br /> Meantime, I'm a retired cafeteria manager and feeding fifty or a hundred people is no big deal.<br /> Email me the details and I will be glad to figure quantities and make suggestions. You need to remember two things:<br /> First, they aren't paying for it, you are. So anything they get (or don't) is no skin off their noses.<br /> Second, when the event is over, if there is nothing left, that doesn't mean you failed. It means you planned correctly not to waste a bunch of stuff. (Of course you don't want to run out in the middle of the event, but that's not a problem if you have Plan B for one or two items that can be tossed together at a moments notice and won't spoil if not used until another occasion. </p> <p>See? It's easier already.</p> <p><em>John Ballard's last blog post..<a href='http://newshoggers.typepad.com/blog/Hootsbuddyposts.html' rel="nofollow">Dr. Ann Dunham (1942-1995)</a></em></p> Not to worry. I expect you’ve done this before and it came off okay.
Meantime, I’m a retired cafeteria manager and feeding fifty or a hundred people is no big deal.
Email me the details and I will be glad to figure quantities and make suggestions. You need to remember two things:
First, they aren’t paying for it, you are. So anything they get (or don’t) is no skin off their noses.
Second, when the event is over, if there is nothing left, that doesn’t mean you failed. It means you planned correctly not to waste a bunch of stuff. (Of course you don’t want to run out in the middle of the event, but that’s not a problem if you have Plan B for one or two items that can be tossed together at a moments notice and won’t spoil if not used until another occasion.

See? It’s easier already.

John Ballard’s last blog post..Dr. Ann Dunham (1942-1995)

]]> By: leanne http://thecalmbeforethestork.com/2009/12/08/advent-hannukah-t-minus-4-panic-sets-in/comment-page-1/#comment-3104 leanne Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:51:27 +0000 http://thecalmbeforethestork.com/2009/12/08/advent-hannukah-t-minus-4-panic-sets-in/#comment-3104 Breathe in, breathe out. Repeat. Keep repeating. And you can soooo do this. And it will be fun. Really. And if things don't go quite right, well, then you'll have stories to share :) Breathe in, breathe out. Repeat. Keep repeating.

And you can soooo do this. And it will be fun. Really.

And if things don’t go quite right, well, then you’ll have stories to share :)

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