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Susi Matthews ([personal profile] rowangolightly) wrote2008-09-03 06:07 pm

**taps*** Is this thing on?

*ahem*


SQUEEEEEEE!

I just signed the biggest contract of my entire life (excluding the purchase of a house, you understand) with the Sac-Fox Casino in Shawnee, OK to produce the first official event of "Faire a la Carte" which will be a Renaissance Festival on November 8 & 9, 2008.

Details to follow after I dutifully notify the board members and the performers. But I know that some of you were waiting on pins and needles for this news.

First order of business is to send out contracts (ok, FIRST is to assemble a few missing email addresses to which to send the contract) and then the second will be to hire an attorney to make this new business official. We already have the PO box and tomorrow I'll go open a bank account.

To say that I'm excited would be a vast understatement. I went into a room with the General Manager, the Director of Operations and their Marketing Director and kicked butt. After a bit of discussion, clarification and Q & A, the GM read completely through and signed the contract, a copy of which I have in my little pink hand.

Now I'm off to make broccoli beef...

[identity profile] softpaw.livejournal.com 2008-09-03 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
oh wow..bug big big congrats!!

[identity profile] rowangolightly.livejournal.com 2008-09-03 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks, hon! You'll have your very own contract and your very own paycheck as will Thad (haven't asked him yet if he's interested in the gig or can, for that matter though!)

The travel expense money will be included in Bob's check.

I be organized!

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[identity profile] rowangolightly.livejournal.com 2008-09-03 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
And thanks muchly for the lovely lunch!

[identity profile] apocalypticbob.livejournal.com 2008-09-03 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
WOO HOO!!!

I'm so excited!

I've heard back from two of the three ladies I invited to wench with me, with one positive and one regretful negative.

There is pubbing tonight at the Laughing Wench, and Smog and I are attending...any chance we will see you there, or will you be up to your elbows in contracts?

[identity profile] rowangolightly.livejournal.com 2008-09-03 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Bruce wasn't particularly wanting too, still tired from the weekend, and I am up to my armpits but I'm too excited at the moment to get to much of anything productive, so YES, we'll be there!

[identity profile] achan-hiarusa.livejournal.com 2008-09-03 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Awesome, I'll have to see about coming out.

[identity profile] rowangolightly.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
That would be awesome!

[identity profile] rhiannontherose.livejournal.com 2008-09-03 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
HUZZAH and congratulations! How thrilling, on so many levels! Wish I could be involved, but I guess I'll just live vicariously through your posts for a while. ;-)

[identity profile] rowangolightly.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks, sweetie! I look forward to a time when you can be involved!

[identity profile] mistresangelfur.livejournal.com 2008-09-03 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
congrats!!! There will be a place for games, yes?

[identity profile] ladyniniane.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
e-mail me - I don't have a good e-mail or snail mail address for you and I need one to add to my vendor packets list. Mistressniniane at Gmail

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[identity profile] joegoda.livejournal.com 2008-09-03 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Sooooo.... you had a good day, then?

[identity profile] rowangolightly.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
*chuckle* Yeah, you might say that...

[identity profile] ladyegreen.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
Oh wow, major congrats. I'm thrilled for you.

Much love and joy for you.

[identity profile] rowangolightly.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks honey! This has a feeling of RIGHTness about it that I've never quite experienced before!

[identity profile] ar-wahan.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
Well done! (Funny how both our self-employed "consultant" careers have taken off at 53! Must be a good year...)

[identity profile] rowangolightly.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
I think so too! Great to finally be able to do something that suits all my experience. Now to market the next ones...

[identity profile] greeneyedtengu.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
OOoo. That sounds like so much fun! I have a serious faire jones going on too! Blah!

[identity profile] rowangolightly.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I know, honey, but there'll be time; it isn't like this is going away any time soon!
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[personal profile] ericcoleman 2008-09-04 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
Congratulations ... makes me wish I had a Ren act ... oh well ... I do want to get down that way for a gig sometime though ...

[identity profile] rowangolightly.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

[identity profile] srgmatt.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
Wow! Yea, verily, thou rockest! Congrats, luv - I'm sure it'll be a great experience. Have fun!

[identity profile] rowangolightly.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you, dear! One of the acts is Cut, Thrust and Run...

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[identity profile] duane-kc.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
Conga-rats. Glad to hear this is taking off.

[identity profile] rowangolightly.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks, dear. And thank YOU for playing Devil's Advocate; that is VERY helpful. Eventually we'll get the Soup Kitchen there but this venue is TOO SMALL; we may not even end up with the Joust there this time due to space restrictions.

[identity profile] pms-inc.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
Luv to hear about your bubble over with joy success! Well done Ms. Thang! You brought it and they bought it- so go on girl! I'd like to plan a trip down to see this- looking forward to details as they come together~

[identity profile] rowangolightly.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks, hon! More details will definitely follow....and a web-site, and brochures and all that.

[identity profile] kauricat.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
Yay!!! I'm so happy for you!

[identity profile] rowangolightly.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

[identity profile] lys1022.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
Congrats :)

[identity profile] rowangolightly.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

[identity profile] bleuberi21.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
Yay!!! *nikki happy dance*

[identity profile] rowangolightly.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, and QG's price went up...

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[identity profile] smokin-man.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

Did you say broccoli-beef???

Yuummm

[identity profile] rowangolightly.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks! And yes, it turned out pretty good, especially for the first time try. Bruce gave it a 'thumbs up' but I know what I wanna do differently next time and there will be a next time.

[identity profile] cozit.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
Congrats! (And good luck!)

[identity profile] cltcmistress.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
YAY! Congrats!

[identity profile] rowangolightly.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!

[identity profile] butterflybill.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
What's the physical environment like? (It ain't gonna be a big echoey room, is it?)

[identity profile] rowangolightly.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
It's outside in the Heartland Amphitheatre which has a large professional stage at one end and is 5 acres enclosed with a nice wooden fence. It's a tiny, rectangular area next to the Casino in which to put on a whole faire, so we'll be shoe-horned in. And NO amplification will be allowed; otherwise the stages will blast each other out.

Pictures will follow once the web-site gets up and this thing starts being advertised properly.

[identity profile] kryspykitty.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
Wow....that sounds really exciting!!

Congrats!:)

[identity profile] rowangolightly.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh yeah! Thanks...

[identity profile] rogerbarnacle.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
Congrats to you, Susi! You know the Sea Dogges ar looking forward to it. And we'll have CDs by then!

[identity profile] rowangolightly.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks, dear! You guys will have a couple shows on a real, professional stage. No amplification though, even though the stage has it; just too small of an area for the stages to blast one another.

[identity profile] margotdevallier.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
That's awesome news dollygirl! YAY!

[identity profile] rowangolightly.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah! And more to follow, but this one first!

[identity profile] nottygypsy.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
Congrats to you, sounds like an exciting venue.

[identity profile] rowangolightly.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks hon! Well, you're going to see it since LMC is booked!

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