Capital City Toastmasters

Green people, green shamrocks, green cookies, and green SALSA!! Take that, Ireland! We know how to do St. Patrick’s Day right here!! I’d love to take credit for it all but lucky for me… Maria, Amy and Wendy were the laboring lasses!

Even without her lucky speaking shoes, Amy rocked as table topics master. She can’t be blamed for Eric’s “charming” answer… apparently the ladies are always after his lucky charm. Leeanne was a lucky kindergartener, and guest David Jorgensen always makes sure his daughters’ boyfriends are NOT so lucky.

Jason cracked us up with some stories from this past week that can be summed up with the true meaning of DST: “Daylight Screw-with-my-life! Time”. Then Maria shocked us with tales from her vacation to Honduras: she snorkeled with that fish that killed the crocodile guy, AND almost got arrested in the ocean!!!!! Finally, we met Jalapeno Taco Gal (Wendy Fisher to us) who gave a fantasmic, fully stocked, entertaining cooking demo for making salsa verde! Not only is jalapeno taco gal a really cool nickname that Wendy will never live down, it’s also an acronym for all the ingredients in the salsa — simply amazing.

In the evaluations, Drew kept the theme going strong with a reference to a pot of gold that you just had to be there to hear. Rey, Louis, and Patrick always give insightful evaluations – always, and they did again this week. They’re like the MVE’s of capital city.

Finally, I’d just like to thank everyone who wore GREEN, even those who meant to, but forgot in the morning because daylight saving time screwed you up once again: Leeanne, Bert, Amy, Jason, Wendy, Sandra, Albert (McCarthy) Cantara, and you know who the rest of you were!

WINNERS:

Best Speaker: Jalapeno Taco Gal, aka Wendy O’Fisher
Best Table Topic: David O’Jorgensen (Guest)
Best Evaluator: Louis O’Burns
Best Humor: Jenny O’Brookover
Most Enthusiasm: Jason O’Callender!!