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:
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:
::is blonde::
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| 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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