back to normal

[pensnest]

I drove 588 miles this weekend. I dunno if that seems a lot to those of you who live in BIG countries, but it seems like quite a lot to me!

Was good, though. There are worse things than driving an air-conditioned car full of friends on a nice sunny day. Bun, nopseud and I arrived chez turps33 (and her sweetheart James and her adorable Corey) at about teatime, ephemera_pop and msktrnanny were already there, so yay! I have another face to put to a name on my flist. We had giggles, and hugs, and footage (the BSB round-the-world tour is a real eye-opener), including The Cooler, and added Pirates (Saturday night, cinema, yes we did stay to applaud the end of the credits) and brief beach scene (seaside *so pretty* in the 8pm sunlight, if I'd had my camera I could have made icons that would have people saying 'How did you get that colouring?'), also the joy of Justin in The Observer, and nopseud's evil cackles of joy over the reactions on LJ. And, on the way home, listening to Justin's Radio 1 interview/session and - heh! - howls of delighted horror from the back seat when he confessed himself "frightened" by what he found when he Googled his own name... In between, quite a lot of nattering, with msktrnanny giving us her US perspective on stuff like The Superbowl Incident and how to tell that Merchandising was written by a Briton. We failed, alas, to read badfic in the middle of the night. :-(

I am sorry to relate, though, that we all wimped out of trying the transparent tequila lolly with a humungous WORM in it. My Bun is still traumatised from the sight of it. (Heh!)

Oh, it's nice to get together with you guys! Thank you, turps33 for luring us all northwards!

I should probably get back to normal life now. Hmm.

Comments

[ravenbat.livejournal.com]

I'm so happy that you had such a lovely weekend. :)


and I wouldn't have touched that lolly either.

[pensnest]

I should have taken a photo of it... it was, um... Hmm. Cunningly, I left it for turps33 to dispose of!

[ravenbat.livejournal.com]

I've seen them before. There's also some with crickets and scorpions in them. *gags* I'll pass.

[turloughishere.livejournal.com]

Welcome home! Nice to hear that you had a great weekend.

PS Just your description of that lolly makes me traumatised!

[pensnest]

:-D There was also a vodka lolly with a teeny tiny scorpion thingy in, and a clotted-blood coloured snake venom lolly. Also a rather tasteful champagne one with gold flakes... But somehow, these things are better contemplated than eaten.

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

It sounds as though you all had a wonderful time :) Yay! (even if there was no midnight bad-fic reading ;)) Wish I could've been there with you. *sniffs*

And having done rather a lot of driving about in your country, I will say that 588 miles on your roads is about equal to my driving to Florida and back (which is 950 each way *g*). So yeah, that's a lot of driving for y'all :)

*hugs* (also? LOVE your lj layout!)

[pensnest]

Hee - I'm probably allowed to drive a lot faster, though! And it isn't really a hardship with nopseud and ephemera_pop in the back seat, discussing WIPs.

I wish you could have been there too, though. *sniffs*

Layout's gorgeous, isn't it! turloughishere made it for me. I adapted my default userpiccie in order to blend better!

[raynedanser.livejournal.com]

I am so glad you guys all had so much fun! :D

And serves him right! Stay away from the Google, Timberlake!! :D

[pensnest]

Wouldn't it be interesting to be able to go back in time to whenever it was Justin hit that search engine, and see what he found?

[raynedanser.livejournal.com]

*cackles with glee*

Oh man! and the expression when he found it. Then the phone calls...

"JC! Dude! You should SEE what they're writing about us, man!!!! *thinks* We should try it...."

[http://users.livejournal.com/_ducks/]

when he confessed himself "frightened" by what he found when he Googled his own name

I have to admit I did cackle a little at that. Famous people should just stay off the internet! It isn't for them! They should get their own internet!

Except Lance, he can stay on our internet.

[pensnest]

A small but select company of fans across the country must have cackled at that very moment, I think! And you're right, the internet wouldn't be quite such a sparkly place without Lance.

[vaudevilles.livejournal.com]

Sounds like an utterly fabulous weekend. I am carefully not turning green with envy or disgust (at that lolly - eurgh!)

[pensnest]

I love our sparkly get-togethers, with added fun when we get to meet popslashers from afar.

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

t'was grand to see you and the bun again - and to soften reentry to reality by the ride back in such good company.

[this is on the second page of google results - I looked. Maybe we can not be guilty? http://www.newgrounds.com/assassin/justin/]

[pensnest]

Hahahahaha! (I like the comment about the pants!)

[turps33.livejournal.com]

It was so great to see you all again. The house seemed quite empty when everyone had gone.