Okay, so last night was Ladies Night Out with my twin club. Last month they went bowling, which I would never do in a million years, but this month they decided to do “Scrap Mania” at Archiver’s. It was fifteen bucks and was supposed to include “6 hours of crop time, dinner, 3 demonstrations, 1 make-and-take, a goodie bag, and door prizes!”

Well…I guess I shouldn’t bitch, because I did have a good time. I got nine pages done in my wedding album and had some nice conversation with two twin mamas that I really didn’t know very well before last night. But the whole thing seemed like such a huge waste of money. The food sucked. It was sandwiches from Blimpies, with puffed cheese balls, Cheez-It crackers, and bowls of Hot Tamales and peanut M&M’s. They had an ice bucket with styrofoam cups and 2-liter bottles of soda (no diet! For a huge room full of women!) I ended up having to pay for myself and RaeJean, who had a migraine and couldn’t make it, so it cost me $30. Even though they were full to capacity and turning people away. I have no doubt they sold the spot that I paid for. The giveaway thing was just a little kit for making a scrapbook page - it had, like, one or two sheets of cardstock, a couple of brads, some ribbon - ooooh. Glad I spent fifteen bucks on that! I did make them give me the kit RaeJean would have gotten, too. As far as demonstrations go - if you wanted to see how something was made, you had to leave the room and go to a little table across the store to look. The employee couldn’t just hold that shit up and show everyone in the room, apparently. I have no idea what a “make-and-take” even is, because it was never mentioned.

All in all, I did have a good time, I’m glad I went, but I would have been JUST as happy scrapbooking at someone’s house (for free!) and ordering pizza or something. I ended up spending way more money than I wanted to last night, and I’m feeling all bitter about it! Bah! Archiver’s can bite me!

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