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Chris and Amy's Wedding

Even though I have barely had time to post anything this year, I feel the need to post this:

I see LJ is taking lessons from Facebook.

I have work people on my Facebook. I do NOT want them to connect me to this LJ - if you crosspost anything connecting my LJ to Facebook and/or Twitter, not only will you be banned but I will delete this LJ and start fresh somewhere else and not bring you along for the ride. For fuck's sake, yo.

So I'm in Vancouver. My room is actually I think nicer than the one at the Sheraton last year, even if there are some things that bug me. Laptop is not working - I can't access Hotmail, for one thing; we'll see if I can post this using Logjam because while I can read LJ, nothing else seems to work. Facebook is a lost cause to me, but I was expecting that.

Met a couple nice people here so far. A couple of LJers, but I don't know their names or usernames. A lady from (I think) Germany is beside me, and she's nice but there's a language barrier (or maybe an accent one, at least on my end). I met another girl who is also here by herself but I'm a little worried because she didn't take a break to eat today and looked really sick when I saw her before she went off to a photo op.

I've gone spending crazy. I bought a couple t-shirts - one for me, one for jpublic, and truthfully I like his more, so... maybe 2 for me! I got the Dean 2011 calendar - they didn't have the one for the whole show, just the Sam or Dean ones. I got the mug (we all know about my addiction to mugs and magnets, right?) where the pentagram changes to the faces of the boys when hot liquid is in it. I got a few pictures, although I've decided to have pretty much everyone sign my copy of John Winchester's Journal instead.

I also bought 3 autographs that weren't included in the package, so tonight I have an Aldis Hodge auto, tomorrow I have a Fred Lehne one, and Sunday I have a Brock Kelly one. I bought some photo ops too! When I got my seat, I got a bunch of photo ops with it (Jensen, Jared and the Duo) adn since then I got one with Misha, one with Fred, and this afternoon I had my very first photo op ever, with Aldis! It was super-fast, but nice. I got a little extra squeeze from him at the end, even though the photographer was waving me away. About 5 minutes later I got a little shaky, but that was when I saw the other girl, and I kind of forgot about it when I was helping her find the photo op room for her picture with Richard Speight. It's an understatement to say I'm terrified of my Jensen photo op - for serious, I might pass out or puke, and if I have to pick one I'm praying for unconsciousness - and I'm terrified of my Misha one as well. Last year I was fine with everyone's autograph except Misha; I got so shaky afterward I had to sit down. I don't know why, because while I am endlessly amused by his Twitter and love his fundraising deal, I am not actually attracted to him nor do I think about him like, ever... so it was a mystery to me. And if I got visibly shaky after seeing Aldis? I might legit pass out after Misha. As for Jensen and Jared, well, everyone at work calls Jensen my celebrity husband, so I'm pretty sure I'll be like a deer in headlights and have zero recall of the photos.

I also bought extra Jared autographs. They opened up more photos and autographs a couple days before the con, so I bought 2. I think one will be a Christmas present for relevant, who I have a deal with - we kidnap the J's, and we each get one. ;) Then we have to go help xena_and_gabby get Renee O'Connor, so we're all happy. :D I bought a really cool photo of Sam doing something that looks like spellcasting or demon-killing or something and I thought it would be great to get it signed, then I have the book for Jensen and Jared to both sign.

It was uneventful getting here. I got checked in fine (except they took 3 tries to get my room card working), then went to a gastro-pub nearby. Relish does a delicious short rib shepherd's pie, for the record. Then I found the crepe place we liked last year, and went to the IGA down the street and bought some juice and a couple frozen things for quick lunches this weekend. Got registered for the con super-fast - the secret is to show up at about 11pm, it seems, because I was done in 20 minutes. Bought my photo and auto tickets, hit the vendor room, and was back here by midnight. Was in bed reading by 1:30 am, and had an okay sleep.

So far today, I got called because the person who was supposed to open the store while I'm here did not show up - awesome way to start vacation - so I was up at about 9:15 but behind schedule due to all the phoning around. I had complimentary breakfasts as part of my hotel deal (it's a 3-star hotel, and I got my room and the breakfasts for $149/night, and it is literally across the street from the Sheraton, between the church and the hospital) so I had a Belgian waffle with berries and fresh whipped cream, then cabbed out to Granville Island. I was ostensibly shopping for Christmas stuff, but bought mostly for me. I got some earrings, chocolates for Chris from the place in the Market, beeswax candles, a handmade glass ornament, and a little bear bank for nubby_1's imminent baby. It was pouring rain so at 12 I called it quits and made it back to the hotel with 20 minutes to spare for the first panel of the day.

So far today everyone was great. Katherine Boecher was really animated and quite funny. Matt Cohen is better looking live than on TV, and also fun. Aldis was great; about 2/3 of the questions were Leverage but at least I've seen the first season now, so... Richard Speight is a fabulous guest, and he had the most questions from the audience... he also spent time in the audience talking to people, then made us all sing happy birthday to someone. I missed most of Jason Manns because I went for my Aldis photo op, but that's okay as I don't actually listen to his music at all. In about 20 minutes they're going to start autographs, but I'm in row K (and this year they've added about 5 seats per row and they actually have rows I & J, unlike last year, so I'm no closer than I was before) so I figure I won't be called until 7:30 at the earliest. I might see about going and getting some food, but my bag is pretty heavy so I'm undecided about whether to wait or not, Hm. I do have some more stuff to do online and my paid time in the room expires in an hour, so maybe I'll just stay and do that.

So apparently I'm going to teh SPN Vancouver con again... I blame Priscilla (for doing the same thing with her Xena LA con... what can I say, I'm impressionable). I got a great deal on a ticket and three photo ops! Plus WestJet has cheap airfare, and I found a decent hotel if I can't find other roomies... I had $2000 of "fun money" saved up and this actually is costing far below that!

I really just need a weekend away from everything, some place to decompress and where I don't have to think about work. Even when I go home on vacation I spend a lot of time thinking about work... and lately I've been putting in 60 hour workweeks... I need to hire people... I'm super-stressed out so this looks like a great plan. All I need to do is hire someone so I can go! I think I can manage it, I just have to make a couple calls. I have 2 vacation days I pre-booked like, 4 months ago for that weekend, it's like a sign, right?

I was talking over the decision with Chris today and he already has plans for the weekend if I won the auction (we need the bathroom professionally sanded and repainted) and he was already talking like it was a done deal too. :)

I saw this in passing and I HAD to do it.

Go to Wikipedia (as the most convenient resource), and copy the list of movies that were released in the year when you were 12 years old. Mark in italics the movies that you've seen. (Not necessarily that year.) Mark in bold the movies that you own on video, DVD, Blu-Ray or whatever. If you're not sure if you've seen a movie, you haven't.


( 1992 )

In conclusion: I have seen WAY TOO MANY movies. Also, I need to stop watching crap on late-night tv, because that's where I saw a lot of this.

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