All the Things
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tarotgalMore things in my life!
Friday: even though our Panera was closed,melydia and I had a lovely write-in at Potbelly instead. I didn't get any book reviews done, but I worked on two games for the next day's Harry Potter meetup. And her brave ordering of a milkshake made me splurge and try one as well. YUMMY. I went home and worked on the games some more, not finishing until close to 2 am. Then I couldn't shut my brain off and ended up getting out of bed and working on them a little more.
Saturday: Library volunteering in the morning followed by a half an hour cat nap (literally, Charlie was on top of me the whole time) and then prep for the Harry Potter Birthday Party. My stomach ended up being... awful... so I had to turn around after I left my neighborhood and go back for medicine. But I still got there a little bit before the event. I'd invested in two small lanterns, which turned out to be helpful. The first game we played (which was the last one I created) was so easy neither team missed a question! The second round was a little harder. And the third game resulted in a lot of laughter. So I condier it a success! And the whole party was fun, as always. Our cake artist made this amazing Monster Book of Monsters cake! I got home, exhausted, and worked a little on a scavenger hunt I'll be running in DC in September. I've got most of it worked out now, which is a relief.
Sunday: I did a little work on LEGO Mocs, but not nearly enough. The deadline for those is August 2 and the deadline for Camp NaNoWriMo was July 31. So I headed to Panera around 1, got some food, and edited the hell out of my project. A little before 3,cowboyguy arrived and we kept each other on task. (I also got to see the latest fic before it was posted; I love betaing ficd from my favorite writers! It's like getting an exclusive sneak peek!). I headed home at 6 to feed my girls and finished editing the rest. I manged to get through 86 pages in all yesterday and hit my 450 Camp NaNoWriMo goal! Win!
Monday: Woke up at 7:45 feeling like shit, and it only got worse as the morning went on. I battled through as best I could because today was the second busiest day of the year at work for me--the day we let 3,000 people know if their events were accepted for our next conference or not. We accept over 500 events but we get about three times that in proposals. So there's always some disappointed folks. It's also the day a lot of our systems (like conference registration) go online. And today we hit a few snags--some of which were easier to fix than others. But the basics were posted and working by 1pm, at which time I went upstairs, took migraine medicine, put another cold pack on my head, and curled up on the couch. Charlie joined me again, purring comfortingly. After half an hour, I was getting hungry. So I made lunch and went back to work. The migraine went away around 3pm and by 4pm it was entirely gone. But the medicine makes me SUPER dizzy, so I had to watch myself on the stairs. I was supposed to go over to my parents for dinner, but I had to ask someone to come pick me up because I was too dizzy to walk let alone drive. My sister and her husband are in town and so we had a belated birthday dinner for my sister then watched Game of Thrones at their request. It was interesting watching yesterday's episode having only seen season 1 and only read the first 2 books. I really don't care what happens on the show, so I didn't mind spoilers. Honestly, there wasn't much that surprised me. It was kind of funny watching my family all recoil in horror during an incest moment, though. During most of the episode I played around on my phone and read some gay hockey erotica, as you do. Then I came home and managed to make one LEGO thing. I still have 2 more I really want to get done before Wednesday and another 3 I'd like to finish if possible. Might not be possible though because I won't be getting home until 8 tomorrow night.
Am both excited and exhausted and the con hasn't even started yet!
Friday: even though our Panera was closed,
melydia and I had a lovely write-in at Potbelly instead. I didn't get any book reviews done, but I worked on two games for the next day's Harry Potter meetup. And her brave ordering of a milkshake made me splurge and try one as well. YUMMY. I went home and worked on the games some more, not finishing until close to 2 am. Then I couldn't shut my brain off and ended up getting out of bed and working on them a little more.Saturday: Library volunteering in the morning followed by a half an hour cat nap (literally, Charlie was on top of me the whole time) and then prep for the Harry Potter Birthday Party. My stomach ended up being... awful... so I had to turn around after I left my neighborhood and go back for medicine. But I still got there a little bit before the event. I'd invested in two small lanterns, which turned out to be helpful. The first game we played (which was the last one I created) was so easy neither team missed a question! The second round was a little harder. And the third game resulted in a lot of laughter. So I condier it a success! And the whole party was fun, as always. Our cake artist made this amazing Monster Book of Monsters cake! I got home, exhausted, and worked a little on a scavenger hunt I'll be running in DC in September. I've got most of it worked out now, which is a relief.
Sunday: I did a little work on LEGO Mocs, but not nearly enough. The deadline for those is August 2 and the deadline for Camp NaNoWriMo was July 31. So I headed to Panera around 1, got some food, and edited the hell out of my project. A little before 3,
cowboyguy arrived and we kept each other on task. (I also got to see the latest fic before it was posted; I love betaing ficd from my favorite writers! It's like getting an exclusive sneak peek!). I headed home at 6 to feed my girls and finished editing the rest. I manged to get through 86 pages in all yesterday and hit my 450 Camp NaNoWriMo goal! Win!Monday: Woke up at 7:45 feeling like shit, and it only got worse as the morning went on. I battled through as best I could because today was the second busiest day of the year at work for me--the day we let 3,000 people know if their events were accepted for our next conference or not. We accept over 500 events but we get about three times that in proposals. So there's always some disappointed folks. It's also the day a lot of our systems (like conference registration) go online. And today we hit a few snags--some of which were easier to fix than others. But the basics were posted and working by 1pm, at which time I went upstairs, took migraine medicine, put another cold pack on my head, and curled up on the couch. Charlie joined me again, purring comfortingly. After half an hour, I was getting hungry. So I made lunch and went back to work. The migraine went away around 3pm and by 4pm it was entirely gone. But the medicine makes me SUPER dizzy, so I had to watch myself on the stairs. I was supposed to go over to my parents for dinner, but I had to ask someone to come pick me up because I was too dizzy to walk let alone drive. My sister and her husband are in town and so we had a belated birthday dinner for my sister then watched Game of Thrones at their request. It was interesting watching yesterday's episode having only seen season 1 and only read the first 2 books. I really don't care what happens on the show, so I didn't mind spoilers. Honestly, there wasn't much that surprised me. It was kind of funny watching my family all recoil in horror during an incest moment, though. During most of the episode I played around on my phone and read some gay hockey erotica, as you do. Then I came home and managed to make one LEGO thing. I still have 2 more I really want to get done before Wednesday and another 3 I'd like to finish if possible. Might not be possible though because I won't be getting home until 8 tomorrow night.
Am both excited and exhausted and the con hasn't even started yet!
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Date: 2017-08-07 10:01 pm (UTC)Apparently my officemate was on GoT last night - they did a Comic Con pan and she was front and center.
How was Brick Fair?!
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Date: 2017-08-08 04:11 am (UTC)That's so cool! My mom told me that they were showing footage in the after show from Comic Con. She must have seen your officemate!
BrickFair was glorious. After 9 years, I'm starting to really find my groove there and feel comfortable and relaxed and myself. I attended some good panels and ended up getting home after 1am every night then staying up building until 2 or 3 before crashing and waking up at 7:30 or 8 to head back there again. My feet hurt from so much walking, but I got to spend 5 days seeing really neat LEGO creations, so it was all worth it. And my mom came for the last hour on the last day, and I gave her a quick highlights tour of my faves. I got to meet a few Hufflepuffs, was AMAZED at the number of young boys ages 7 through 11 who immediately recognized and fanboyed Hamilton, and got to SQUEEEEE with the one and only person who recognized and loved my Yuri on Ice MOC. That was definitely the highlight of public hours.
We ended up having 13 different people build in our collaboration and we had 60 (technically 59, but one of my Hamilton MOCs was a double-wide) habitat MOCs. We had two Mr. Tumnus by the Lampposts and two Bob Rosses. But that was fine, because it was neat to see the different ways people created the same thing (and who says no to more Bob Ross?). I even made 5 naughty MOCs and displayed them Saturday night during Adult Swim. They amused and horrified people, including one poor, innocent security guard who came by to see what was going on. LEGO glory holes are not something easily forgotten. LOL
Today I went to Walmart and bought a new small organizing bin that I'm going to start keeping my convention stuff in: bricks/tiles for my name badge, the pins for each year, and some supplies for making little trophies I want to give out next year. For a while now, I've been leaving little notes at people's MOCs when I really love them. And a couple other people leave little things at people's MOCs--like my theme leader this year has a thing for snails so she puts tiny LEGO snails in MOCs that could just use some adorable snails. So I'm going to do something like that next year but still leave a note as well :-) This year I left notes for a miniscale White House in pride flag colors (like the way it was lit up when gay marriage became legal), an amazing recreation of the Battle of Osgiliath (complete with Nazgul), a beautiful version of the outside of Kings Cross Train Station with the Weasley's car flying away... with the station platform actually built out on the other side as well in a transparent dome so you could see it, and a bunch of buildings and characters in the Isle of Berk from How to Train Your Dragon (Toothless was especially perfect and adorable).
Today I meant to do a LOT of cleaning and organizing and catching up... but didn't. I mostly just relaxed at home with my kitties :-)