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tielan declared March letter writing month, and I love the idea of writing letters outside of the holiday season, so I'm in. I have all sorts of fun stationary and I used to have so many pen pals back in elementary and high school and that has totally fallen to the wayside.

So! If you want to get a letter or postcard from me in the next month or so - leave you address in the comments. I also have so many post cards left over from my travels in college, I might bust out and send some of those!

Just leave you address in the comments - all are screened - and I will send you something in the mail!

I am having a WONDERFUL weekend with omglawdork, wojelah, and smittywing in Ocean City! The weather has been amazing.

We have watched SGA (Siege Parts 1 - 3, Intruder), Merlin, a hilariously bad avengers children cartoon movie, did various spa related things, saw the ponies on Assateague, got yummy cakes and popcorn and various snacks! YUM. The other ladies also ate crabs last night and I got some awesome fried chicken.

Woohoo! What a fantastic way to spend the weekend.

(in other news, work has been insane and I am so behind on TV but I am loving Pan Am and Unforgettable).

I had a fantastic weekend! wojelah and I met up in St. Michaels, Maryland and did a girls night out! We hit a spa yesterday, and then watch a bunch of How I Met Your Mother and SG1 last night! Today we went to the Waterfowl Festival in Easton, Maryland. It was GREAT. They had retriever demonstrations, and Dock Dogs and decoy carving! We just had a really great time - there was fun food, and lots of fun little stations.

It was a little chilly - but totally worth it. And the drive down and back was quite pretty!

I got home around 4 today, and we went to B&N and the grocery store, and then I made Sloppy Joes and Smashed Potatos and we watching SNL! All in all - EXCELLENT weekend!

A retriever - RETRIEVING! (okay, Sam retrievs, and brings it back, and can actually find it if she loses it, but she's my first retriever to do that.)


( More Pictures!! )

Met up with friends at Shore-Leave. It was FUN. I got to haz an omglawdork, smittywing, and wojelah AND Andy came along too! And I got to see triciabyrne1978 which was just a total bonus!

Favorite quote of the weekend (from a woman dressed in a neat old school Romulan costume talking about the masquerade contest) "I'm tired of cry-baby storm troopers." :-)

Saw David Hewlett, Jewel Straite (who is OMG adorable), Kate Hewlett, Malcolm McDowell, George Takei (who is also OMG adorable), W. Morgan Shepard, and Mark Shepard.

All in all? It was a really great time. I will probably not make conventions a regular part of my repertoire, but this one was a lot of fun. I took some pictures at the talks, but none came out that great.

I really enjoyed all of the talks, but George Takei talking about wedding planning and his honeymoon was just pretty much made of win. He was SO exited! And Brad was there and came out onto stage and it was just really great.

AND? There were only a few questions that made me cringe! I was pleasantly surprised. :-)

OH OH OH! Other adorable thing - Morgan Sheppard said his agent send him "a piece of the internet" and it was SO CUTE. (also, this morning, both Mark Sheppard and Malcolm McDowell were in sweat pants and that was also adorable).

But the best part of the weekend was spending time with omglawdork, wojelah, and smittywing (and having omg and woj finally meet Andy) and just having fun with my friends! It was great to have a girls (+ Andy) weekend! :-)

My new Teddybear! (and while I'm not an autograph collector AT ALL, DH's was free, so I got my DVD signed.)


( The only three even remotely decent pictures of David Hewlet, Malcolm McDowell, and Jewel Staite I took. )

Can I just say I have the best friends ever?

On Friday, I got home to a GIANT box from Williams-Sonoma sitting on my front porch. So of course I ran inside an opened it, and there were three beautifully wrapped packages and a card from smittywing, omglawdork, and wojelah wishing me a happy birthday. (yay early birthday presents!) My lovely friends got me:

(1) Mechanical Pastry Bag
(2) Circus Wagon Cookie Jar
(3) Circus Cookie Cutters

All of which are made of awesome! I am going to make chocolate circus cookies and I cannot wait to see what I can do with a real pastry bag thing, instead of the plastic bags and cheap tips I currently use.

AND? The best part of the night? - they were ALL ONLINE on friday night and we had a really long group chat where wojelah and I played on www.etsy.com and picked out some really fun stuff. I LOVE playing Etsy with Woj! And we talked crafts and omglawdork and I horrified smittywing. Without SGA on, we haven't all been making it online for Friday Night Chat's and this Friday's reminded me just how much I missed them. (granted, I get daily email chats, but STILL.)

AND BEST YET? I get to see them ALL at Shore-Leave in a few weeks!

::hugs and snuggles the caucus::

Today I learned that deejay435, who has been fighting cancer for years left the hospital and moved to hospice. She posted about it, and I am happy that she is happy and at peace and that I got a chance to say goodbye, but I am also very sad.

Cancer always makes me feel so helpless. tigersvoice reminded me that there was something I could do - She made a post about not waiting until cancer touches your life to do something about it - both Dee and my Grandma were treated at the University of Michigan Cancer Center, so I made a donation in their honor tonight.

I love wojelah VERY much. She is one of the best friends I have ever had.

This post in response to some asshole in Mississippi is made of awesome.

It's witty and intelligent and perfect.

A highlight:

I am imperfect. I am fucking awesome. I have untold possibilities living inside of me. So does every person, and it doesn't matter what they look like or where they come from or how they got to where they find themselves. Yes, the world has problems. Yes, there are things to be fixed. But any solution that achieves its goal - any goal - by making someone - anyone, for whatever reason - feel like less than what they could be is no kind of solution at all.

(1) reccea!!! I got the chocolates today. YUM.

(2) amykay73 - thank you for the gingerbread man and the card! He's so cute!

(3) My assistant got me a digital picture key chain (which is SO COOL) and fudge for the holidays!

(4) Satch and Sam are having a really good night. So long as Satch doesn't howl at 3:40, 4:30, 5:30, and 6:00 - 6:50 again this morning, we'll be all good!

(5) I get vacation after tomorrow!

-- Went to dinner with witchofthedogs tonight. It was fun! I got really lost going there, and *really* lost coming home. (I really did think I knew where I was going, it was dark, and there was construction.) Let's just say I ended up taking a rather significant detour though a rather disreputable part of town. I always knew where I was, because I could see downtown, I just kept missing turns to get where I needed to be.

-- We talked about some new training techniques for Sam. I'm hoping we can get them to work. She just lost leash free after dark out door time. Barking at the door to go outside, and then chewing a stick isn't gonna fly anymore.

-- I missed the American Idol results show, but I read some reviews. I'm rather meh about the contestants right now.

-- I got more of my Farscape DVD's today!! I got Starbursts 2.2, 3.1, and 3.2. 2.3 and 3.3 shipped yesterday. YAY!

-- And now I'm watching Grey's Anatomy! Yay.