jedishampoo | Various Fannish Gatherings Weekend

I had the pleasure of spending the weekend on the green, green East Coast with some of my fellow Star Wars ladies, joining a gathering to celebrate

slyvermont's 50th birthday (and Thursday was

dmlunsford's birthday, too)! I got to see

jedihealer,

dmlunsford,

maiasaura (our hostess),

cyndisuesue,

nanluz, and

econopodder!

Sadly,

cyndisuesue had to leave us on Friday morning because of her mom's illness-- we missed you dear, and I'm thinking about you. The gathering involved 12" boyz, squeeing over Indiana Jones, squeeing over Episode 1 Obi-Wan-ness, squeeing over baby!Mark Hamill in the Partridge Family, and a carousel ride, eating, a birthday party with Thai food and presents, mojitos (I liked them,

maiasaura!) shoe shopping, and a group pedicure! We also visited Steve and Barry's, where everything is $8.98 (wow) and I picked up some small items of clothing-- good thing I didn't bring my big suitcase, or I might have overbought. :)

I'm sorry I have no pictures-- visit

dmlunsford for some-- because I suck at photography. I think

slyvermont has my few photos. There was much happiness on my part because I got to see my womens after what, five years?

It's been dubbed "Tootsiecon." Awesome-- who came up with that one, anyway? It was also almost "Injurycon;"

jedihealer took a slide down the steps, and

maiasaura got a nasty knife-stab in the hand when cooking meals for Ghitsa. The emergency room saw a visit from her and she emerged with a few stitches and only ONE Vicodin from the cheap-ass, distrustful doctors. Thankfully there was wine available for just such an emergency. How's your hand doing, anyway,

maiasaura?

I had a great time and miss you all. Over the next few years we've got some milestone birthdays coming up (I'm not saying what mine is) so maybe we can do it again, soon? :)

I also got to meet

athena8, my fellow Saiyuki fangirl and 353er!

This was pure serendipity; I happened to comment on a post of hers that I was going to be in the area, and she just happened to live there! Awesome. We did some squeeing over Minekura-sensei's boys, had some more rational discussion of Minekura-sensei's boys, shopped in Bethesda a bit (I have several new manga) and had some coffee. (I need to read Wild Adapter-- I read Vampire Knight, and I like many of the male characters-- I LOVE the Headmaster-- but Yuki needs to stop being the blood bank, really. I mean, the boys are pretty but she's gonna run out of blood soon, heh!)

I love meeting such nice people-- I have been very lucky to meet several people in RL from my online fandoms.

And when I got back, Cho Melinda (

sharpeslass) had read all Saiyuki manga (and agrees that they're brilliant) and had written me a clever, funny, sexy Sanzo/Gojyo story! Squee! Read it here:

Food for Thought

I owe her a Weyoun het; I did write a short Hakkai HetOMG. I may post it, but I may be too afraid. Heh.

Have a lovely week, y'all!