On Thursday, July 8, we came to a fairly monumental decision, at least for all of us. Troy got into a confrontation with another board member over something that he shouldn’t have had to fight about. The other board member wasn’t really willing to give even an inch & then later came to me saying some particularly rude things. I went back into the booth, Jason strolled over & Dawn, Jason & I sat down to talk. In the course of that conversation, we all discovered that none of us was having any fun anymore. When we first started doing the faire together, we all agreed that when it wasn’t fun anymore, we would quit. So, we did. I called Troy over & we told him our decision and the reasons behind it & then Troy & I went to tell the other two board members that we were done.

I’m not sure they really believe that we won’t be back next year to help build the stage & set everything up. When we quit, we took our entire guild with us, and they are (and have been for 10 years) the people who build the faire. I don’t know what they’ll do & honestly, I don’t really care, but maybe they’ll have learned a lesson in how to treat people from this. I hope so, at any rate.

As for me, I gave up the booth, since we definitely can’t afford to vend at that faire anymore, especially if we aren’t on the board anymore, so we split the money down the middle & divided our stock & called it good. I’ll go back to diets that work better than stress & continue my own journey, by myself again, which is fine with me, I do okay alone.

We have no second guessing & no regrets, so at least I know I made the right choice for me.