Don't be dark.

So I think some weekend recappage is in order.

Before we get to the good stuff (save the best for last, and all that)...

I actually got to hang out with Little Bros #1 and 2 WITHOUT Dad and Step-mom. Like whoa. (That has never happened before). 'Twas Little Bro #2's 17th birthday last week, so I offered to take both of them out at the restaurant of Bro #2's choice, and then a movie at the drive-in. We had a pretty awesome time at dinner, then at Bellvale Creamery eating tiramasu ice cream, then flooring it back to Warwick to the drive-in only to find a line of cars a mile down the road, at which point we floored it to the normal cinema in Chester to catch the 9.05 showing of the new X-Men movie (it was pretty good).

And then yesterday, Friend and I drove to Maryland for the Monstermania convention, to meet Lance. I needed someone to come with me in case I made a fool of myself (which I did [duh], but we'll get to that...).

It was a nice drive. Google maps said it would take about 4 hours, but Google maps does not have a lead foot, so it actually took 3 and a half hours. Friend and I did a spot of shopping while we were there. I got this awesome little grow-your-own giant redwood tree thing for my cousin, Patrick:

He's been after me to send him a giant redwood for years, so now he actually gets one.

And I got this EPIC clock:

 It makes a different bird sound every hour. So I can be a flailing nerd every hour, on the hour, as opposed to just sporadically at any given time throughout the day.

Monstermania, while not as huge as that convention I went to for Pinhead, had some fun vendors (although since this was LH we were going to see, it was about 10x more exciting than the last convention). I got a pretty brooch of a spider, and this fun badge thing:

...which now hangs from my rear view mirror.

AND THEN

Lance signed my Millennium photo:

I was all of a dither.

Although I did manage to give him the card I made with some of the best pics from the Millennium post without slurring. Lance had his photo taken with my copy of his book. I felt kind of bad for not having read it yet. IT'S THE NEXT BOOK ON MY READING PILE I SWEAR, and that's saying something as my reading pile is 3 feet tall and new books generally go on the bottom, unless they were written by John Connolly, so Not Bad For A Human is next in line (right after John Connolly's newest).

OMG:

 And right after that I tripped over the cable for the video camera.

::is blonde::

You can see the camera I nearly destroyed on the right. 

(Sometimes I think people like me should just not be allowed out in public, ever.)

Lance has some pretty wicked tattoos.

So all in all, 'twas a pretty awesome Sunday. Friend and I drove home, I was forced to listen to Kesha in the car, got to see Friend's mom (whom I haven't seen in way too long) and his Step-dad, and Friend's dog

... and then we all had a 45-minute debate concerning the release dates, titles, and actors who starred in all of the Alien movies.

Riveting conversation. 

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