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agt_spookyHey guys!
I'm having the BEST time atwinchestmidwest! Though it started off rather bizarre...
I'd only been in my room for about a half hour when I heard two young girls trying to get in my room. I opened the door and scared the crap out of them. They literally jumped backwards! LOL! I told them this was my room and they apologized, said they weren't trying to break in (I knew that wasn't the case) then ran off down the hallway calling for "Dad". They never came back, but about 10 minutes later someone else was trying to get in! I threw open the door and this time scared the crap out of a hotel maintenance man! LOL! He apologized, said he was sent up here to change a lightbulb, and was told that the room was vacant. He left and I was about to go down to the front desk to ask what was going on when then my phone rang! It was the front desk! I'm like, "why are people trying to get in my room?" He apologized, asked for my last name and checked in the computer. Turns out the woman who checked me in never put in the computer that she'd put me in this room! When he asked me if I remembered who checked me in I described her and he's like "Oh, well that explains it." She's not the brightest employee they've got, apparently. [shakes head]
After that was taken care of I went to the restaurant to have dinner, where I met up with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
the_other_sandy. We hadn't been sitting there long when the fire alarm went off! Geez, what ELSE could happen?? We noticed not a single employee in the restaurant paid any attention to the alarm. Our waitress happened to come over and we're like "what's going on?" She just waived her hand and said, "Smoke in the kitchen. Happens all the time." The fire department showed up and my heart started beating a little faster, seeing as I've got a thing for those guys (Light My Fire, anyone?) and wished I'd had my camera to take a pic of them in their full turn-out gear. (turns out asyouleft is psychic and took a pic of the fire truck for me! *g*)
After dinner, Sandy and I went to registration, which was in full swing. We immediately got caught up in a fannish Bingo of sorts and I was ambushed byasyouleft, wilde_moon and alphabet26. :-)
anteka got us started with what was going to be happening tonight - first a trivia game, then outside to the parking lot (I'll get to that in a minute) and then movie night! A double feature of My Bloody Valentine and Friday the 13th. :-)
The trivia game was a hoot, and not very easy! We were supposed to do it individually, but since I had no pen,asyouleft and I decided to partner up. Well, that soon became most of us at the table "partnering up" and sharing answers. :-) We turned in our pages to anteka and then it was time to go outside.
See, turns out thatanteka knows a guy named John who owns - wait for it - a black, 1967 Chevy Impala. And he brought it to the con. SQUEE!! OH. MY. GOD, people. It was fantastic!! We got our picture taken with it, both inside and out (charityflint, wordsindreams and sn_24lover can attest to this, as I sent them my pic from my cell phone. HA!) AND - AND we got to go for a ride in it! It was so freakin' SWEET! Man, I can see why Dean loves that car. Best part was, John got us a bit lost and me and wilde_moon and alphabet26 got a lot longer ride than everyone else! All we needed was Back in Black blasting and it would've been PERFECT. What's cool was, now I've got up close and personal knowledge of the car so that I can make my fanfic stories even better. [snerk]
After everyone got a ride in the car, it was time to head inside for movie night. Now, I've never seen either MBV or F13 because blood and guts is so not my thing. Butasyouleft promised to hold her hands up when it got gross. :-) She failed miserably but that was okay, because I had the BEST time watching that movie! Yes, it was gross and disgusting beyond belief but about 2 minutes into the film, we all decided to do a Mystery Science Theater to it and I swear I haven't laughed that hard in ages! And I was making just as many comments as everyone else, because good LORD that movie was stupid! Jensen, I love you dearly, but please, next hiatus, pick your script a bit more carefully. :-) Anyway, it turned out to be a lot of fun, helped along by the bottle of hard cider I was drinking and the peanut M&M's, Twizzlers and popcorn (thank you asyouleft and wilde_moon!). Oh, but I have to admit the end of the movie was pretty cool. Crazy ass Jensen was awesome!
They're showing F13 right now, but sorry, Jared, I'd had enough blood for one night. :-)
So yeah, it's only been about five hours into the con but I'm having a blast and I'm looking forward to the panels tomorrow during the day then the ghost hunt tomorrow night with Weird Chicago. Cool!
Ok, time for bed. Geez, please don't let me dream about My Bloody Valentine! LOL!
I'm having the BEST time at
winchestmidwest! Though it started off rather bizarre...I'd only been in my room for about a half hour when I heard two young girls trying to get in my room. I opened the door and scared the crap out of them. They literally jumped backwards! LOL! I told them this was my room and they apologized, said they weren't trying to break in (I knew that wasn't the case) then ran off down the hallway calling for "Dad". They never came back, but about 10 minutes later someone else was trying to get in! I threw open the door and this time scared the crap out of a hotel maintenance man! LOL! He apologized, said he was sent up here to change a lightbulb, and was told that the room was vacant. He left and I was about to go down to the front desk to ask what was going on when then my phone rang! It was the front desk! I'm like, "why are people trying to get in my room?" He apologized, asked for my last name and checked in the computer. Turns out the woman who checked me in never put in the computer that she'd put me in this room! When he asked me if I remembered who checked me in I described her and he's like "Oh, well that explains it." She's not the brightest employee they've got, apparently. [shakes head]
After that was taken care of I went to the restaurant to have dinner, where I met up with
the_other_sandy. We hadn't been sitting there long when the fire alarm went off! Geez, what ELSE could happen?? We noticed not a single employee in the restaurant paid any attention to the alarm. Our waitress happened to come over and we're like "what's going on?" She just waived her hand and said, "Smoke in the kitchen. Happens all the time." The fire department showed up and my heart started beating a little faster, seeing as I've got a thing for those guys (Light My Fire, anyone?) and wished I'd had my camera to take a pic of them in their full turn-out gear. (turns out asyouleft is psychic and took a pic of the fire truck for me! *g*)After dinner, Sandy and I went to registration, which was in full swing. We immediately got caught up in a fannish Bingo of sorts and I was ambushed by
asyouleft, wilde_moon and alphabet26. :-)anteka got us started with what was going to be happening tonight - first a trivia game, then outside to the parking lot (I'll get to that in a minute) and then movie night! A double feature of My Bloody Valentine and Friday the 13th. :-)The trivia game was a hoot, and not very easy! We were supposed to do it individually, but since I had no pen,
asyouleft and I decided to partner up. Well, that soon became most of us at the table "partnering up" and sharing answers. :-) We turned in our pages to anteka and then it was time to go outside.See, turns out that
anteka knows a guy named John who owns - wait for it - a black, 1967 Chevy Impala. And he brought it to the con. SQUEE!! OH. MY. GOD, people. It was fantastic!! We got our picture taken with it, both inside and out (charityflint, wordsindreams and sn_24lover can attest to this, as I sent them my pic from my cell phone. HA!) AND - AND we got to go for a ride in it! It was so freakin' SWEET! Man, I can see why Dean loves that car. Best part was, John got us a bit lost and me and wilde_moon and alphabet26 got a lot longer ride than everyone else! All we needed was Back in Black blasting and it would've been PERFECT. What's cool was, now I've got up close and personal knowledge of the car so that I can make my fanfic stories even better. [snerk]After everyone got a ride in the car, it was time to head inside for movie night. Now, I've never seen either MBV or F13 because blood and guts is so not my thing. But
asyouleft promised to hold her hands up when it got gross. :-) She failed miserably but that was okay, because I had the BEST time watching that movie! Yes, it was gross and disgusting beyond belief but about 2 minutes into the film, we all decided to do a Mystery Science Theater to it and I swear I haven't laughed that hard in ages! And I was making just as many comments as everyone else, because good LORD that movie was stupid! Jensen, I love you dearly, but please, next hiatus, pick your script a bit more carefully. :-) Anyway, it turned out to be a lot of fun, helped along by the bottle of hard cider I was drinking and the peanut M&M's, Twizzlers and popcorn (thank you asyouleft and wilde_moon!). Oh, but I have to admit the end of the movie was pretty cool. Crazy ass Jensen was awesome!They're showing F13 right now, but sorry, Jared, I'd had enough blood for one night. :-)
So yeah, it's only been about five hours into the con but I'm having a blast and I'm looking forward to the panels tomorrow during the day then the ghost hunt tomorrow night with Weird Chicago. Cool!
Ok, time for bed. Geez, please don't let me dream about My Bloody Valentine! LOL!
