Spring has Sprung

Brian H was the Toastmaster of the day, whose theme was spring fever. He lamented though that spring has come and gone, with yesterday's 67 degree and sunny weather. As he was giving facts, Brian talked about how he was seeing evidence of spring as some of the plants that he and his wife had bought last year were finally showing signs of life. Brian H was evaluated by Brian N, who said he did a great job on introducing the players of the meeting. One suggestion he had for Brian is to make sure to hand off the lectern, and not leave it empty.
The first speaker of the day, Julia, talked about social security for her research speech in presentation masteries. She said there are many different things that can contribute to our decision about when to take social security, such as spousal benefits, medical and monetary concerns, and life expectancy. As an example, she said that Brian has a social security benefit of 1,000. If he waited until 70, his social security will increase to around 1,300. A man who is 65 years old today is expected to live until 84.3 years old, and a woman lives until 86.6 years old. With all of this taken in consideration, there are a lot of factors to consider when deciding on social security, and a financial advisor can help. Svetlana was Julia's evaluator, who said that she did a good job engaging the audience, especially by bringing a member into the speech. She also liked how Julia turned he lectern so that she could include the entire audience. One suggestion that was given is that she use less notes so that she doesn't say as many umms.
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Christa was the second speaker of the day, who gave her speech "Making them laugh" from the entertaining manual. Her speech was tales from the sea, a female perspective. Coming in full gear, she talked about how she could be the only female on the ship, and how crew members she had never even talked to could mistake her everyday behavior as flirting. One man said that she had been flirting with him by how she was handling the fish. Christa then demonstrated how she had been flinging the fish, then showed us "what he saw". Dramatically, Christa flings off her hat, shakes out her hair and flirtatiously winks as she grabs an invisible fish, kissing the air. Lauralee was her evaluator, who said this would be a great competition speech. Obviously, Christa's stories of getting slapped by a halibut and how sexy a life vest and jumpsuit are were funny. One suggestion that Lauralee had for Christa was to watch her pacing as she checks in on her notes.
Lakota was the table topics master of the day. He asked Lauralee how she experiences wanderlust. She talked about going down the coast and taking pictures of what would not be considered beautiful to others, but is to her, like a mossy tree, a stormy beach and an up close of a spider. Dave was asked what he loves about spring. He said he loves the flowers on the coast, and how scotchbroom starts to bloom even though it is a menace for it's pollen. Brian was asked what makes his heart beat faster, to which he joked riding bikes and walking on a treadmill does. In all honesty, Brian said that his wife, Donna, even though they have almost been married 35 years, she still makes his heart flutter. Brian was the table topics winner of the day.
Dave was the grammarian of the day, whose word of the day was whatchamacallit. Kristina was the timer of the day.