Grande Gala Night, and Wanting Something Happy to Talk About
So it's Friday and it's going to be a beautiful Saturday per the forecast. That's good, right? Yet at work today I found myself sad, distracted, yapping negative yap on the inside. You see, tonight is Grande Gala for CommonBond, the annual fundraising event for the Advantage Services Department, which assists our residents in affordable housing. It's the supportive services arm of CommonBond. It's huge. People come and buy stuff at silent and not silent auctions. My first one was in April 2014. Brian and I volunteered for set up of the event and then attended as guests in the evening. The next one, in 2015 we just attended and bought a few small things. In 2016 Brian and I attended and stayed at the Hilton,where the event was held and just had the best time. It was such a nice night. The dinner was good, we saw some cool cars on the floor because part of the auction was "drive this for a weekend", we stayed in the nicest room. It was on April 1st ...