Her Life is a WIP

Back from Asylum and from the UK, where I had the most amazing time! After talking with some girls at the con and scanning the flist when I was at yami_tai's I know that for many it was a bit of a/complete nightmare, but Tai and I were lucky to have a complete different experience so as far as I'm concerned, I had the best of time :-)

Registration on Friday took all of ten minutes for us and our packages were as they were supposed to be. Then again, we only had the autographs so it might have helped. Speaking of, overall I think we queued for a grand total of 1h30? Like, for both sessions. And because we didn't spend all our lives in the - endless - queues, we basically saw all the panels, minus one - and it was repeated on Sunday so technically we didn't miss it at all. We were also lucky to always have good seats in the panel's room, without ever queuing to get in. Seriously, everything ran smoothly for us ♥ ♥

And the panels! Omg, so good! I remember having a great time at Asylum1? But it doesn't even compare. Every single panel we went to was fantastic. Like, the one with Jared and Jensen was just perfect - I swear it was like watching all those con vids on YT! I was squeeing inside (and ok outside) the whole time. Misha was insane and insanely good (god that man is CRAZY! But in such a funny way). Fredric Lehne started his own panel with a folk song turned SPN song which set the tone, it was a delight. Richard Speight Jr was a lot of fun. Samantha Smith, Amy Gumenick and Matthew Cohen were adorable and so passionate about working on SPN.

And then! Omg, and then there was (Charles) Malik Whitfield and Gabriel Tigerman, who are my new favourite guests at Asylum! Ok, after J2 and Misha but they were so fantastic. If you ever have the opportunity to see them at a con? Run, do not walk, and buy the tickets! A) They have wonderful chemistry and b) they're absolutely hilarious. I was laughing so hard I was crying. I'm not exaggerating at all, btw. I had no idea what to expect with those two guys but that was the most delightful surprise of the con ♥ ♥

So, in conclusion, Asylum made me insanely happy. I still cannot believe I actually saw Jared and Jensen live! At the same time! And Misha! And now I can also say 'hee omg I saw Malik and Gabriel in the flesh too' *bounces*

Ok, I'll try to write a report later - though this time I'm not promising anything - but in the meantime, here're some pictures: ( ASYLUM YAY! aka How I Managed to Make a Selection of a Dozen Pics. )

Happy New Year, flist. Hope you had a nice NYE. Mine was spent in Normandie with the usual suspects - parental unit, teh esu, godfather, aunt, cousins. We left on Wednesday morning and I abandoned them all there today as I had to be back in Choisy.

I didn't get snow but we had some lovely cold weather - warmest tempeature being 0°C - and the landscape was gorgeous.

( Since I've been bitten by the picspam bug, here's another one )

As I said, no snow, but I still had some white :-) Actually, it might have been -4° when we got there which, fine, it's winter, it's supposed to be cold outside - I was beaming myself, if you want to know, I'm such a winter child! Even though I was born in May, that's not the point - only problem is, it was winter inside the house as well.

Temperature inside when we got in? 1°C. We kept gazillion layers in order not to turn into popsicles before the house got warm. Everyone was worried about Little Bit being cold but I think Chiara was the one who was the most comfortable among us. ( I just love that pic. )

We had a lovely NYE, good food, wonderful company, many hours spent playing boarding games. At midnight we added some more layers and went to the beach as BIL wanted to play with fireworks. Twas awesome.

On Thursday, we strolled along the - deserted - beach in the morning and went to Cabourg in the afternoon, where we ate at a gorgeous little coffee house. Rémi was like 'it's not a Starbucks, Alex, will you survive'? Which, fyi, yes I did!

( Some more pics - of Cabourg this time )

All in all, I had a fantastic couple of days away from Choisy ♥ ♥

And now I'm back home. My friendspage tells me that, should I want to catch up with it, I'd have to reach skip=350 which, uh, is a bit scary so I think I'm just going to give up before I try. I'm too lazy right now, anyway.

Despite work being a bit crazy - it was like Boss Man couldn't bear the thought of not seeing the lot of us for two weeks and wanted to keep us all as long as possible with him - I had a great week and I've been in a very Christmassy mood all along.

Cookie helped a lot cause we had ourselves some lovely and/or fannish and/or christmassy evenings as she spent three nights at my place. Or was that four? Anyway, she lived at my place more than at hers. Thus, I'm sure, convincing Nosy Coworker that we are, indeed, together, as she thought - never mind the fact that she doesn't even know Cookie's sexual orientation in the first place. But apparently being a friend of mine means you're automatically a lesbian by association. And if we're friendly? Then we're A Couple. QED.

It made us smile to hear about the news and we're both playing it like we are indeed together that way. The secret is to keep a straight face - ha! - when we talk about 'romantic dinner' and stuff like that. It makes for a lot of fun :-)

Anyway, back to the Christmassy activities - in picspam, cause I love picspams.

First it was ( Christmas lunch at work )

Then we went to W&H Smith where I bought my - first - Christmas presents and we made a detour to see the ( the beautifully illuminated Galeries Lafayette. )

And there was one evening ( when we wrote our Christmas cards while watching Christmas films. )

All in all, it was great :-) Also, to keep with the theme and because babycakesin asked for a pic of my Christmas tree, here it goes: ( my tree and a bit of the decorations that go around it )

And since I was talking about cards - mine have been posted yesterday, btw \o/ - I received a bunch of them so a heartfelt thank you to : katikat, strippedhalo, turloughisere, babycakesin, moimoietmoi and yami_tai! Checking my mailbox is always so delightful this time of the year! ♥ Also, Tai! The pressie arrived at my parents', thank you again!!

Tomorrow is Last Big Top so, right this minute, I'm 98% on holidays for two weeks! Pure bliss :-)

I saw my mom today and she got me a pressie; some Home Stickers for my kitchen [damn link doesn't want to cooperate, my stickers are letters] I saw those stickers last week or so but was going to wait to buy them and, sneaky mommy that she is, she got them for me :-)

She made me laugh the first time she saw the stickers - we were together - because she was like 'you're not going to put 'ass' on your wall, are you?' Which I promised I wouldn't. My slashy fridge is enough, the rest of the kitchen will stay 'clean' ;-)

I can't write 'ass' anyway, there's no 'a' or 's'. I could write 'cock', though. Just an observation, is all.

Speaking of... okay, speaking of nothing, I'm not even sure why I thought about that, but I'm rethinking going to Asylum. I have some expenses that weren't planned for the flat - basically the sum I have to pay has sorta tripled - so I'm thinking I could try and save the money I haven't paid yet for the hotel room... Not that I wouldn't love to meet with the Wincon girls again or see some of my LJ buddies - technically that'd be the main event of the con right for me now - but I'm just trying to see how to proceed, exactly. I'll see.

On non-RL news, now; not that you'd know but this entry is basically a GIP in disguise. Because crazybutsound had made me tons of MCR icons and if I could I'd spam you with a list of what is in my fridge just so that I could show off my brand new icons :-)

Also, between the 600 MCR pics she gave me plus the 32 I found here and there, including at turps33's - from 0 to 632 in a couple of days, that's dedication - I've had the best of time ogling them. Some I love ( for obvious reasons. Well, obvious to me, at least )

And then there's pics like this one which I absolutely love too ( but couldn't exactly tell you why. I just do. Oh, Mikeyway! )

Which reminds me. I usually develop a new kink with each new fandom I fall in love with - the whole 'sniffing' with TS, car!sex with SPN - and MCR is all about Mikey's hips. Just one of those things *shrugs*

1. I'm not a Threadless virgin anymore! I just ordered two shirts. I guess I couldn't resist the back-to-school sales. I've been wanting to get a Threadless shirt for some time now and this was the perfect opportunity. Plus, after the day I had at work, it was only fair I treated myself with something nice *nods* I got that shirt and, after GD and Sam promised to protect me from having my head kicked by people, I decided to cave in and buy that one too. Apparenlty the French Posse is sponsorised by both Starbucks and Threadless from now on :-) [ETA: Erm, just in case? If you haven't read HP6, don't click on the second link, okay? Eeek omg see? I'm already paranoid about that shirt spoiling innocent people! Damn lol And, ok, so there're spoilers for many stuff on that shirt.]

2. It's been some time since I added a new not!motto to my List of Not!Motto but as of yesterday I have a new one and it's "I cannot physically open this window!" Just thinking about it makes me giggly *giggles* It'll go right next to "Hello, my name is Carlos. You make me so hot" "I can kill you with my brain" "Maybe he wanted to go camping" and "Don't talk with your aura" just to name a few.

3. Completely unrelated but angeliksmall wanted to see Dean and I realised I've never picspammed my computer, so ( This is Dean )

Dean and the computer desk that goes with it, aka my fandom shrine - there're some sketches you can't see, too bad cause one of them is a gorgeous Jim/Blair sketch ximeria made for me a couple of years ago.

Tis funny, the whole flat is actually pretty much fandom free but for that area.