So, here I am at WenchCon 3, with very little sleep. My plane got in an hour late, at 12 Midnight. I wasn't picked up until 2 AM. Then I got some milk chugs from McDonalds. And when I got to the hotel, KetchupQueen was starting improv games.
Will write more after breakfast. Am fiending for breakfast.
Posted by kwsni (Member # 1831) on :
::misses the wenches::
Ni!
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
tis a long breakfast, I'd say.
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
Miss you guys. Have fun, sweetie. Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Stab people for me! Or flip them off. Same thing. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Late-breaking update from Wench Central:
The wenches are gathered in headquarters, primping for our fancy-dress night, lounging, and awwing over baby clothes.
The atmosphere is excited but relaxed, despite a minor stabbing incident earlier. (Our beloved Olivia says, "It's just a flesh wound!")
Movies have been going on all morning; we are now breaking for refreshments. (Pizza is much cheaper when you split it 8 or 10 ways!)
There have been no personality conflicts this morning, even any involving Ketchup Princess. (She asked for Ben by name and demanded he hold her on his lap, then played with Trevor for a while.)
The man-servants are keeping occupied attending the Wenches and their needs, and have thoroughly enjoyed themselves. However, there is room for improvement; the Head Wench says they did better last year.
Our den of iniquity is decorated with goodies supplied by Knee-Bytr, our vendor. (We've had ever so much fun playing with them; unfortunately, the sword used in the previously mentioned stabbing incident was his. )
More updates when more happens!
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
Someone needs to scream "Avengers Assemble!" really loud for me. It would be best if done in the middle of a large crowd of people you don't know. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Most of the wenches (and some of their escorts) are out carousing and painting the town red; most of the others are sensibly asleep. I, of course, couldn't go out, but can't sleep, so what am I doing?
Posting on Hatrack. At a Hatrack Con.
(On my roomie's computer. In the bathroom, so as not to wake Kechup Princess.)
We went out to the Macaroni Grill for dinner in costume; got some very strange looks. Lindsey and I were walking Ketchup Princess back up the hill to get cleaned up and ready for bed, and some teenagers drove by and yelled at us. They're just jealous because they don't have cool cloaks. I'm sure.
Costume play was fun today. The two most photorgraphed people, I believe, were Frodo and Gollum. Any guesses why? That's right-- they were the cutest. (Okay, maybe I'm biased about Gollum. But Ketchup Princess made an awfully cute Gollum.) Fun was had by all, and so was Papa John's. I locked myself out of my room-- three times. (Nowhere near a record for me, unfortunately.) And we have all learned that once you get me really tired, my mental dirty barriers come down, and everything becomes dirty. And stays that way for a long, long time. (If you want to hear something really awful, ask me about charades...)
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
*stabs wenches at wenchcon in jest cuz they're having fun and she can't be there*
Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
Quick update from WenchCon.
We went out for dancing. JaneX is 19, and we wanted to try an all-ages club she could go to with us. The first one was a bust, it had a high school battle of the bands. Ugh, pass, we decided.
So we went in search of another all-ages club. We found a free newspaper that Treveor and I thought would have a listing for one. Nope. Strike 2.
Then we saw a internet cafe, which drew us in with a mysterious yet irresistable force. Frisco immediately scored with an "Atlanta Dance Forum." I called one club, they wanted $20 or more per head. Too pricy. Another wanted me to leave a message. Strike 3, and we almost gave up.
I had a vague idea of a club that was next to another club that had shut down, so we drove over there. While en route, Lucky (who had forgotten her ID) said "it will be 1000-1 odds if we find an all-ages dance club that will let me in", so I bet her a dollar I could find one. It counts if you think it, right?
Moments later we pulled into an all ages dance club, no cover except for JaneX, and Lucky (the lurker) got in w/o ID. But she wouldn't pay up my grand! She just made my list!
I only danced to one song with a salsa beat that would make a statue tap it's toes, but JaneX (her 1st time clubbing), her mother Ela, Jenny Gardner (head wench), Olivetta, Ben, Frisco, and Lucky (the welsher!) had fun dancing. Trevor was there too, not sure if he danced much.
A fun time was had by all. conga line-->
[ March 13, 2005, 03:53 AM: Message edited by: Mormo ]
Posted by Mean Old Frisco (Member # 6666) on :
Also, I deflowered Jenny.
Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
quote: The man-servants are keeping occupied attending the Wenches and their needs, and have thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
KQ, Ummm, I enjoyed myself tremendously, but never "attended" any wenches. Nor did any of the other males there, except for Ben who is, let's face it, whipped. Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
Here we are at the end of WenchCon 3! Lime and Vana left early this morning; Olivia, Frisco, Ben, and Ophelia are taking Jenny Gardener to the airport, and Ela, Trevor, JaneX, Ketchupqueen, KetchupPrincess, and Lucky4 are all hanging out in the hotel lobby. We all say hi!
Speaking of Lucky4, we're going to be starting the official "Harass Lucky4 into posting thread" in just a moment. Feel free to harass at will!
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
So . . . pictures? Particularly of clubbing?
Posted by JaneX (Member # 2026) on :
This is JaneX, reporting in from the aforementioned hotel hobby. I have slept a grand total of seven hours in the past three days...so I'll just tell one story, which is about all I have the energy and mental capacity for right now.
Last night at the club, Olivet and I were waiting in line for the bathroom (this was our third attempt to get into the bathroom - the lines were horrible). Some weirdo got in line behind us and started chatting at us about how long the line was. His conclusion was that "they should just let us all go in there together!"
So Olivet's response was to slip her arm around me and say, "You know, I think we might do that." Amd we grinned at each other and then started giggling.
The guy disappeared almost immediately. Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
He disappeared? You've got to be kidding. I'm surprised he didn't start drooling.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
'Specially 'cause you guys looked all sexy.
Oh, for everyone who has a signed t-shirt: instructions for setting the color and washing. To set, either iron on the reverse side, no steam, highest heat, for 4 minutes, or throw in the dryer on the highest heat for 30 minutes. If you use the dryer, don't put the t-shirt in with anything else, 'cause it'll rub off. After setting, the first three times you wash it, you should wash it seperately in cold water so it doesn't bleed. After the third time, you should be good (although I wouldn't wash it in hot water by any means; this is a Crayola product we're talking about. )
Lucky4 and I went to church this morning. She was there for the first time Emma said "baby" (over and over again). It was pretty cool; she even knew several of the hymns. Mapquest's directions to the church were horrible, though.
Now we're trying to decide what to do for lunch.
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
you did take pictures, right?
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
Yes, we took pictures...mine are even digital! But we're about to go to lunch, so can't post em now. Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
meanie.
Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
Fugu, there were at least half a dozen cameras clicking away, but none were mine so I have nothing to upload.
There should be a picture or two of me pointing at Judy's (Olivia's cool sister) chainmail crotch protecter, during our team's presentation in the Dwarven Wench chainmail contest.
And there are two pictures of the wenches who went clubbing. Two because my first photo may have missed the Sexy Boots(tm).
No actions shots at the clubs, though, ASFAIK.
[ March 13, 2005, 01:00 PM: Message edited by: Mormo ]
Posted by Myr (Member # 5956) on :
Ooooo, so jealous. Can't wait to live vicariously through the pictures!
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
*feels derelict in her duty*
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Ugh.
Updating WenchCon III.
Ben, Ophelia, Luck4, Ela, Jane-X and Morbo (Marmo - that funny M-person) are all in town doing something this afternoon. [Edit: And Frisco - who does a mean Strider impersonation]
Otherwise, Ketchup Queen and her adorable Princess should be, as of this writing, on the plane to whisk them back home.
Megan has been returned safely to her house and is basking in her much-delayed quality time with her folks and family.
Olivia should be home, enjoying much-needed quality time with her family and generally unwinding from the controlled chaos that is WenchCon.
Many thinaks go to Olivia for having the drive and energy to start this as well as the position of designated worrier. Thanks to her worrying, we had a fun-filled weekend with our most difficult delimma being the dinner selection from the Macaroni Grill.
WenchCon would not have been nearly as much fun if not for Jenny Gardner applying the direction, coordination and overall enthusiasm to pull it off. Thanks for all your effort - we do appreciate it.
And for those of you who don't know, Jenny makes for a terminally cute Frodo. I might have to cut Sam some slack.
As Megan noted, there were multiple cameras, so a small flood of pictures should be inbound in the nearish future.
-Trevor
[ March 13, 2005, 04:43 PM: Message edited by: TMedina ]
Posted by JaneX (Member # 2026) on :
quote:No actions shots at the clubs, though, ASFAIK.
I snapped a few at the club. Don't know if they came out, though - the lighting wasn't too good in there.
~Jane~
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
Darn, if you'd only used a pronoun, it would have been a decent OOC.
quote:[It] would not have been nearly as much fun if not for Jenny Gardner applying the direction, coordination and overall enthusiasm to pull it off.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Yes, mostly of Jenny in front of the fish tank.
-Trevor
Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
Actually, we got ketchup to the airport too late to catch her flight, and we're all sorry about that, kq.
She found a later flight for a small extra fee.
And ketchupqueen and I came up with a new saying: "It takes a global village to raise a child, or at least tote her baby stuff and keep her amused in airports."
She told me about an Afghani (I think he was Afghani) and another guy who helped her lug her child seat at the airport when she came out, and some nice girls helped me entertain ketchupprincess while mommy freshened up before the flight. She left kp with me, and after peek-a-boo I was out of games (Morbo doesn't know any toddlers.) The women, complete strangers, helped me keep kp occupied till kq came back. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I think he was Lebanese. And Morbo, you proved today that you make an excellent attendant. (He came all the way to the gate with me-- they apparently can give a special pass for that-- and was so, so chivalrous and helpful!)
Thank you also to poor Lucky4, who . circled the airport indefinitely...
I just got home, which is much cleaner than I left it thanks to my wonderful, wonderful husband, and smells great because he cooked dinner for me. (Awwwww! He also brought me Penguins at the airport and ran up as soon as I got to baggage claim to kiss us-- but me first.)
I am happy to be home, but I already miss the wenches (and the manservants)... Ketchup Princess is happy to be with her real Abba (although Ben does make a good substitute in a pinch, apparently), and I think she was telling him about the weekend on the car ride home. At least, I heard a couple of "Beh"s and "Abby"s in amongst the general babble.
I hope you guys are all safe and well! And that no more of you lose your voices.
[ March 13, 2005, 10:34 PM: Message edited by: ketchupqueen ]
Posted by Lucky4 (Member # 1420) on :
Well, I've also made it safely home! Just wanted to thank everyone for an absolutely wonderful weekend; it completely exceeded my expectations!
Thanks again goes out to Olivetta, she did an absolutely beautiful job! Also to KQ and Megan for putting up with me as a roommate, you guys are awesome! If I start thanking everyone individually, I will fall asleep sitting up. So I'll just say, thanks to everyone for being so friendly, generous (it amazed me how at all times, it seemed everyone was focused on making sure that everyone else was having fun), and most of all super cool/neat, in an I-want-to-be-IRL-friends-with-all-of-you type of way.
I'll try to post more details later when I've gotten a bit of sleep. But really, I can't say enough how much I appreciate everyone who went! I had the best time!
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Oh, and I'm about to [that would be upload-- 7 1/2 hours sleep in the past 2 days] my (80 mb worth of) pictures and look at them. What should I do with them when I'm done? Anyone want to coordinate the influx of pictures that will arrive shortly? And I'm trying to figure out what to do about captioning them; it's a lot of pictures (stretching from me preparing for WenchCon with duct tape to us having our lunch today). *is ignorant*
[ March 13, 2005, 10:59 PM: Message edited by: ketchupqueen ]
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
*grins* You can email them to me if you like - or Mac might be interested since she couldn't make the trip.
Lucky, I'm glad you made it back safely.
-Trevor
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
'kay, I'll do that. There are lots of you, though, make sure they don't get "lost"...
And what do you think about captions? The pictures come out numbered; I can make a list of numbers with captions for the ones I want to caption, but that might be too much work for you?
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
It'll give me something to do after hours in the office.
-Trevor
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Okay, I'll get started. I can probably only send a few at a time; how much can your inbox handle? Should I resize before I send, or do you want the originals?
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
My hotmail account can take 250 meg, so fire at will.
-Trevor
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Cool. Because of the slowness of the loading and the driving me crazy, though, you will probably get 5 pics at a time. I'll tell you when you've got them all.
I just realized I forgot to get Ems a shot glass or mini mug! I was so tired at the airport, I was not up to shopping. Plus, it was Sunday. Also, I didn't think of it. Now there will be a gap in her collection. So sad. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Also, I'm completely tired, and my husband wants me for... something. So e-mail me tomorrow and remind me that I need to send you pics, okay? You're awesome, Trevor. Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Will do.
I trust you'll forgive me if I don't indulge the condiment jokes.
-Trevor
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Hey, I have my own email server and my own site (madowl) and I can take all the pics from folks from W3 and put them in a nice gallery folder right next to the W2 pics.
Hey, I couldn't make it, but Trevor is right, at least I can do SOMEthing.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
You can do a lot of things, but I thought you'd enjoy a chance to putter with the pictures first.
If you want to send your contact information to KQ, she can decide which would be easier for her.
-Trevor
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Done and done.
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
Hey! Have slept now, but still feel a bit off. Voice down to a whisper (How about you, ketchupqueen?) All those who went dancing are doomed-- we shared a comunal icewater On the dance floor (Maybe Trevor and Morbo escaped harm, as they were not usually mashed into the gyrating mass of Hatrackian booty.)
Major events as I remember them...
Kq saving my sanity by making me a fantasti-wonnerful omlette around 1:30 on Friday when I was stressing and had had nothing but a coffee smoothie all day. This is one wonderful lady. We are both talkers, and had heard prettymuch each other's life stories before bedtime on Thursday. I'm glad you made it home okay!
Friday evening, I had a margarita. I don't usually drink, which should be obvious considering what happened after. I let Trevor leave without eating dinner to get Jenny Gardener (Ben was planning to go, but he was eating and having a good time and Trevor is just the kind of guy to always do the Thing that Needs Doing when the rest of us get distracted. (oooh! Shiny!)
I let him go without flight or airline info (didn't have it on me anyway, but didn't even THINK of it) THen my phone was left in the meeting room while a bunch of us went to the Hot tub. Long story short, both he and Jenny waited atthe airport much longer than they should have had to (him before she was there, and her waiting for the second wave to come get her). Oy.
Trever was cool about about it, because Trevor is kind and forgiving, and totally selfless. We all made shameless use of him this weekend, and it took two days for us ueven to get him to let us cover a meal or something. I amd SO going to make it up to him somehow next time. Somehow. I can be sneaky, when I wanna.
Jenny, on the other hand, stabbed me. Kneebyter had some real swords and other blades, most of them edged. He let us handle them, but asked that we wipe off our fingerprints after. Jenny was scary trying to wipe off a sword on her clothes, so she tried using my sweatered armpit, which I went along with, because I'm easily led and have no healthy sense of self-preservation.
I have forgiven her for the minor flesh wound (properly photographed and soon to be documented ), but after the tetanus shot, she'll owe me one. *truly evil, shifty-eyed grin).
Two hours sleep (maybe) two nights running. wow. Jenny woke us all up by swinging her wet, showered hair at our faces. I fell asleep again, and this time woke up with straddling me. I opened bleary eyes to a cheerful "Good Morning!" Heh. Jenny also says "Oh, yeah. Grrrr" a lot when trying to motivate herself in the morning. And, honest before God, talks of the Shire in her sleep.
More later.
Posted by Lady Jane (Member # 7249) on :
I got to be part of WenchCon 3. Jenny had a three hour layover in Dallas on her way home on Sunday, so I met her at the airport and we chatted for an hour and a half or so. I got to see some lovely pictures and Jenny in her cloak. It was fabulous. Posted by Lime (Member # 1707) on :
We got home in one piece, tired beyond reason, last night at 11:15. Other than watching the car's thermometer drop from 75 (!!!) back to 23, it was a great trip back. Topped off the camera's 128M Flashcard with random scenery pictures. Will post pics from the actual Con sometime today.
I just wanted to thank everyone for such a great Con. I was a little wary of the whole dress up thing to start with but once Jenny nailed me down as Legolas and added my "otherworldly Elvin glow" I was in. Let's just say it ended with a aluminum foil bikini top and skirt and let the forthcoming pictures tell the rest of the sordid tale.
Thanks to Olivia and Andrea for putting the whole thing together, and Ben and Lindsay for being the best roommates (that we had) at the Con!
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
quote: Let's just say it ended with a aluminum foil bikini top and skirt and let the forthcoming pictures tell the rest of the sordid tale.
...except that the outfit also included a chain, held by Ben. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
And I am so, so sorry you lost your voice, Olivia.
Mine is almost back. Thanks, I believe, to the blessing I recieved after church yesterday morning (that my voice would function at a bare minimum well enough that I could do what I needed to and get safely home) I functioned at about half my normal voice capacity, with a little hoarseness, until I hit the back seat of the car and got the baby buckled in. Then I lost it completely, but a good night's sleep seems to have healed many wounds. I think it'll be back by tomorrow.
Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
I'm glad you got to see the Head Wench, Lady Jane, we missed you this year.
It's funny, toasting Jenny and Olivetta was a team effort. Saturday night we went to Macaroni Grill in costume. I thought they deserved a toast for all their hard work, but the table was long and the restaurant loud. I knew Ben's booming voice would carry to both ends of the table (and into the parking lot), so I told him. Ketchupqueen immediately starting dinging her glass for the toast.
Thanks to both the Head Wench Jenny and Olivetta for organizing a great weekend. We all had a great time, several of us thought it was even more fun than last year. Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
Actually, my voice is somewhat better. It wasn't first thing in the morning, but that seems to have changed. *hugs*
I'm working on the pictures now, and Gollum is so cute!
Should I slap them up on Photobucket or send 'em to somebody?
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
Thanks, Morbo! It was fun.
I just saw off the last of the WenchCon-ers (JaneX and Ela left for Jacksonville about noon). It was sad to see them go. We did get some last minute pictures, and even a snappy of Kelly at the hotel (the wonnerful lady who took care of the meeting room arrangements).
Did anybody get a picture of Tina, the Desk Clerk who helped us so much on Friday?
Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
Hope you feel better, ketchupqueen and Olivetta.
quote: And Morbo, you proved today that you make an excellent attendant.
Hey! You tricked me into escorting you to the gate, just so you could post that. I volunteered? Well, I was duped into volunteering.
Tricksy Mormon Wenches! Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
Best WenchconIII humor or one liners:
We played Flux Friday night, an odd card game where the rules can change with every hand. "Just like arguing with aspectre," I said.
During the costume photo sessions, Frodo (Jenny) held Gollum(Ketchupprincess) above Sam (JaneX). Jenny or someone said "now, Gollum, kick Sam." And she did, twice at least. We all laughed and said she can take direction. That kid's gonna be a star, I tell ya!
Sunday afternoon Schlomo was on the phone ( he couldn't come to WenchCon) and we were passing it around so he could talk to everyone. I talked to him for a minute, then said,"Do you want to get Lucky?" and handed the phone to Lucky. Sure, it's obvious, but I waited all weekend for the right time.
We passed around Olivetta's delicious peanut butter pie, and we all just dug into the pie-pan. I said, "First we had the Book Exchange, now comes the Germ Exchange." Too true, sadly.
When the RotK DVD got to the end at the part where the soldiers under Aragorn and Gandalf get to the gates of Mordor, the Teeth of Mordor I think they're called, Olivia's friend Kneebyter said, "the Dark Lord is not in right now, please leave a message at the beep." Well, we thought it was funny, after very little sleep.
There are others, but I'm brain-dead.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I actually was amazed that Trevor controlled himself as well as he did on Sunday, we were all so tired we were apparently saying hilarious things; in fact, I think one of the first things I said to him that morning was that our room dried us all out, but we felt better after it got all nice and steamy in the bathroom. Then Lucky started in on the unintentional double entendres, and you could visibly see him biting his tounge. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Oh, and I hope Megan's bruises are healing. She sustained injuries during our game of "Freeze" while pretending to try to "fly" out of a window.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Ketchup Princess and I are wearing signed t-shirts today (since I threw them in the dryer to set them before going to bed last night). I'm a little curious, though, as to why Ben signed my t-shirt "Ben (your face)" right over the, ah, bustal area of my t-shirt.
It was truly amusing the things that came out of that man's mouth while he was wearing t-shirts with scriptures and other Christian slogans on them. Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
Oooh, I had forgotten about freeze, that was fun.
Megan really got into that role, she just lept onto the floor. I hope she wasn't hurt to badly.
Thanks to Jenny for not freaking out when I suggested "scooch back, I saw this in a Thai video" in that Freeze game. "Not on a first date, eh?" I said when she just whirled around and looked at me with wide eyes. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Oh, my gosh, yes, that was so hilarious... And then Lucky4 running away when I started dancing with her and then asked if she really thought a gay bar was the place to pick up guys... Posted by Lime (Member # 1707) on :
quote:...except that the outfit also included a chain, held by Ben. [Laugh]
Yes. Well. *cough*
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I've sent the first 20 pictures (and captions) to Trevor. Will get lunch and do more; bikini pictures coming up soon. Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
So, did the chocolates ever surface? Or did JaneX eat them all on the plane?
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
They were out to share for a while, but JaneX finished the last of them before I had any. Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
Yes, they were around, I had several. Thanks, Elizabeth.
Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
I'm soooooo tired. I had to get up at 6AM to go help babysit a friend's sick child. Will post more when recovered.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Ben also missed out on the chocolates, but Jane-X was very good about not eating them on the plane.
Of course, we almost didn't make it to the WenchCon because Janey was afraid she'd burst into flame so she reached across me to yank down my sun visor. While doing 60+. On the freeway. In a merge lane.
Glad to hear you and Vana made it home intact, Limey. Oh and I feel for Limey - Vana has a seriously strong arm for an aluminum foil football.
Unfortunately I missed most of the fun Friday night since I passed out and remained comatose in the corner until sometime Saturday morning. Hibernation is important.
Poor Jenny the Gelfling was stuck at Hartsfield airport due to some minor miscommunications. Not a fun place to be at 02:00 in the morning. However, about 01:00, people don't look at you oddly when you spend half an hour rolling around in an abandoned wheel chair.
Lucky was a very cool looking Gandalf person. As we were leaving the Macaroni Grill, an older fellow flagged her down and said, I quote, "you have some balls to go out dressed up like that."
And ladies, Frisco is the very image of Strider. I have it on good authority that he is a "very attractive man." Even without the velvet red dress.
-Trevor
Edit: Gelfling! Glad you made it back safely.
[ March 14, 2005, 04:28 PM: Message edited by: TMedina ]
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
quote: Unfortunately I missed most of the fun Friday night since I passed out and remained comatose in the corner until sometime Saturday morning.
Oh, just because you weren't awake doesn't mean you didn't participate. Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Yes, I was wondering why Mormo kept trying to buy me dinner later.
Anyone have the number to a good therapist? Preferably one with fetish boots.
-Trevor
Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
Umm, Trev, you did participate, but not with me. Just FYI , the wenches did naughty things to you while you were passed out. With photos. I tried to stop them, but wenches never listen to me. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
It's true, he did try to stop us. I was reminded of O Brother-- "Oh, George, not the livestock." Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
I am glad the chocolate made it. The truth is, a few pieces almost didn;t make it into Sarah's luggage, because I almost ate them as i was walking back to the car. "They won't notice if I eat just one. Or two..."
Glad they were enjoyed by almost all.
Posted by Ophelia (Member # 653) on :
Ben did get a chocolate. I remember him breaking off part of it for me to try to figure out what it was.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
My husband was just reading names off my t-shirt. He said, "Megan", but pronounced it wrong, and I said "Megan", correcting him, when Emma pipes up with "Me-guh". (The correct pronunciation, of course.) It was so cute! I just had to share. Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
ooooh, Hooray! KetchupPrincess knows my name!!! and here I thought that all that torturing her to get her into her Gollum role would scar her for life against me! Oh, that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy!
And to all who asked, the bruises are healed. I'm a quick healer.
Oh, I forgot all about Trevor's "participation" on Friday night.
And, let me add my thanks to the others for Olivetta and Jenny...it was lots and lots of fun!
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
Well, our adventures came to an end today around 2:00. We unpacked the car and just got the last pieces in about ten minutes ago.
I have to say I had the best time this weekend. Every hatracker who attended was great. Now comes sappy shoutouts from Ben:
Anne - I had a blast picking on you half the weekend. I anticipated friction and confrontation, instead i got a funloving Anne with an Emma that likes to kick people on command. And i must say you had the dirtiest mind of anybody in the room. It was an absolute pleasure meeting you. Oh...and thanks for letting a trouble maker like me play with your kid and encourage her to be mean and strike out to others
Judie - Always a pleasure. It was great seeing you and talking about life in general followed by being able to cut loose with you downtown at the club.
Megan - It was great meeting you, soon to be Professor Megan. Hey, when you wear your t-shirt, everybody will think your name is Ben. How cool is that?! I hope the rest of your Atlanta visit is enjoyable.
Sarah - I was honored to contribute to your corruption and being there to help introduce you to the dance club scene of Atlanta. Hopefully the evening and experience (complete with weird creeps in the bathroom line) was a memorable experience.
Abby - I have a present for you. You were my second noseblow victim of hatrack, and you are a better person for it. Don't let anybody tell you otherwise. So Lindsay and i challenge you to buy and read Perks of Being a Wallflower by the end of the month. It's a book you can read in a few hours. So yea, No excuses. We expect you to AIM us (Decon1313 and Darlingviolenta) with your progress, and any recommendations for books or music since we gave you our suggestions. Hmm...well, I leave you with this.
...man i'm a jerk...
Eddie - It was a blast getting to know you this weekend. I envy your ability to travel and your discipline in saving money in order to do so. On another note, who knew foil could work so well as a dodgeball? Hey, AIM me at Decon1313 and give me the info to tap into your entertainment selections. Also, we need to talk about getting some gold chains, then making some serious moolah.
Lindsay - ...Screw this, you are ten feet away. I love you though dummyhead.
Dan & Julie - It was great meeting you guys. We lucked out in the roommate department (ask Eddie) by pairing up with you. Hope the travels go well for you two.
Trevor - Sorry schedules got messed up. I appreciate you going out to pick up Andrea for me during dinner nonetheless. Maybe next time it won't be in vain. You were a champ when it came to pitching in to make things go smooth and i know that we appreciated it.
Alan - I'm glad I got to know you better this year. Since you are in the area you should work on getting up to Athens and visiting us. It's only an hour or something. You can do it.
Olivia - Thanks for hosting us this morning and for putting this whole damn thing together. On the whole everything went smoothly and we know that you are greatly responsible for that. You were wasted when we left you last night to take Eddie, and I was glad to see you were in better shape today. You deserved the good night's sleep. Thanks for the peanut butter pie this weekend too. REMEMBER THE ALAMO!
Andrea - You too put alot into making this weekend happen. Thanks. Sorry you were stranded Friday night, but hey, at least you got chugs. You even got me to wear a cloak for a few minutes. I consider that an accomplishment. Not that it will happen again. It was a blast seeing you off at the airport too. So yea, thanks for everything.
Pictures will be uploaded soon.
that is all.
[ March 14, 2005, 08:27 PM: Message edited by: Ben ]
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Ben, I'd still like an explaination of what you wrote across the bustal area of my shirt. Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
Friday
mid-evening. I'm sitting in the Detroit airport, on a long layover. Found a sushi restaurant, which sounds healthy and adventurous. I order miso soup and tako su, which is octopus with seaweed and cucumbers in a light vinegar sauce. Lovely. I have a conversation with a Japanese woman sitting next to me. Her husband travels, and she wishes she were back in Japan. She wistfully tells me that she will miss the cherry blossoms this spring.
11PM. I am due at the airport, but I'm just now flying to Atlanta. The plane got stuck on the runway for about an hour. But I did get to see the de-icing, which was interesting. As we fly, the land sparkles below with the lights of cities. I see cloud whales sporting about.
12PM. Finally, I arrive in Atlanta. I go find my bags, wondering if any Hatrackers are there to pick me up. I figure they'll see me first, since I am the only person I've seen all day wearing a cloak. No one shows. I use my last 50 cents to call Olivia's cell phone. I get the voice mail. I think, what the heck? But I leave a brief message and wait for a while.
I wait for a long while. I decide to call again, find out the status. I have to buy a phone card to do so. Again, a message. I'm feeling nervous. I leave the following message: "I'm tired, and I'm lonely. I'm having low blood sugar, so I'm a little depressed, too." I know this will cause Olivia just enough guilt to make sure I get picked up.
Saturday
2 AM. Still at the airport. Ready to cry. An airport employee is trying to be helpful, but I just want him to go away. I can't remember the name of the hotel, so I can't call there or get a taxi. I decide to call Olivia one last time. I'm mad and I'm composing something I know will bring her guilt. This is very evil of me.
But she answers!! I feel less evil now. They're on the way!
Early in the AM. Ben, Lindsey, and Olivia are my rescuers. I grump about in the car. Ben pulls up to a McDonald's and gets me chugs. I become a two-fisted drinker. We go into the hotel, where mostly everyone is still up, playing theatre games. KetchupQueen, a lovely woman, is incredibly animated. Trevor is a rug. People are starting to get tired. I help KQ get "Freeze" started, because I've played it before. But I notice that I'm uncharacteristically slow at the imagination.
Olivia lets us watch footage of last year's WenchCon. Lo and behold, the action figures are caught on film! And no, it WILL NOT soon be released to a lingerie store near you.
Eventually, people head off to bed. I let Eddie handle my chugs. Then they become Eddie's chugs, and I help him adjust himself.
I go upstairs to share a bed with Olivia. Sara and Judy are my cool roommates.
(Day 2 to follow)
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
quote: I let Eddie handle my chugs. Then they become Eddie's chugs, and I help him adjust himself.
This is why I had such a great weekend; the innuendo never stopped. Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
"Your Face" is just something i say...it has no real meaning or suggestion behind it.
[ March 14, 2005, 08:07 PM: Message edited by: Ben ]
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Heh, it just seems kind of inappropriate where it ended up written... But then, you're not big on appropriate, are you?
(Hey, Lindsay-- remember to spank him for me, okay?)
[ March 14, 2005, 08:04 PM: Message edited by: ketchupqueen ]
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
i wasn't paying attention to where i signed it. It really wasn't intentional. I hope this doesn't deter you from wearing your shirt.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Oh, no. I'm wearing it right now. My husband just wanted to know what exactly you meant by that, so he knows whether or not to punch you out when he sees you. (Not that he probably could.) Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
bring it on. i'm a toughie.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
And a pacifist, if I remember correctly.
-Trevor
Posted by CalvinMaker (Member # 2032) on :
No one went to walmart??
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
But the next time we see you may be your wedding... You don't want to get married with a shiner, do you? Nah, I'll just tell him it's innocent. Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
quote:No one went to walmart??
Hrm....Wal-Mart, or hot tub full of Wenches?
Wal-Mart...hot tub full of Wenches...
Nope. Didn't go to Wal-Mart.
Posted by CalvinMaker (Member # 2032) on :
Dude, you're missing the key point. You do both.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Wal-Mart...less time with a tub of hot Wenches...
Sorry, gotta go with Frisco on this one.
And next time, I might even think to bring a pair of trunks.
-Trevor
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
My husband and I were just talking about how, apparently, the people at his work think he looks like Napoleon Dynamite ( ), and I remembered that waiter at On The Border who really did look like Napoleon Dynamite. Who else saw that? I remember pointing him out, but I don't remember who to (except Morbo).
Posted by Lime (Member # 1707) on :
Wenchcon 2005 presented in full technicolor-doused glory.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Ben gave another noseblow!?
Posted by Lucky4 (Member # 1420) on :
Unfortunately, yes he did. And I have only one thing to say to him about it: --I--.
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
Lime, those are great!
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Gollum has never looked cuter!
Lime, silver is definitely your color.
Gandalf...wow, cute hip action.
Eek, the orc needs to lose a few pounds.
Death to the Witch-King!
-Trevor
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Those are great! I'm sure curious to see what I actually looked like in all that aluminum foil; I have pics of the other two, but, for obvious reasons, not of myself. Hee, hee, I love the ones of Gandalf. Lucky, you should grow a beard full-time, it's your look. Posted by JaneX (Member # 2026) on :
quote:During the costume photo sessions, Frodo (Jenny) held Gollum(Ketchupprincess) above Sam (JaneX). Jenny or someone said "now, Gollum, kick Sam." And she did, twice at least. We all laughed and said she can take direction. That kid's gonna be a star, I tell ya!
It wasn't me she kicked! I don't remember at the moment who it was, but it wasn't me.
~Jane~
[ March 15, 2005, 12:19 AM: Message edited by: JaneX ]
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Glad to see you and Ela made it back safely, Janey.
-Trevor
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
JaneX, it wasn't you; I don't remember who it was, but he was wearing the suffocation mask, and Ben was holding her. I have a picture of it. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Because, you know, I'm all for her abusing men, but I draw the line at harming a sister. Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
I thought it was you, Jane. Details, details--I'm a big-picture guy. Besides, it fits the LotR theme better: years from now everyone will rememember my version.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
...except for my picture of her kicking whoever it was in the head. Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
On the way home from work tonight, I remembered one of my favorite parts of this year's Wench Con: Olivetta's Operetta, a sordid tale of The Boy She Didn't Like (Much). Friday night she had had a skinful (which for Olivetta is apparently one margarita!) and while hot-tubbing regaled us with a rambling yarn about a persistent but rather rude suitor who pursued her from grade school until her junior year of college, when she finally gave the cad his comeuppance.
Before the epic was over, Olivetta had brought into the plot a Beamer ( or was it two Beamers? Apparently, though frightfully rude, her suitor was well-to-do), a loyal girl friend who pretended to be susceptible to carsickness so Olivetta could scatter McDonald's french fries in the back seat of the bounder's Beamer during a non-date, her parrot, a sympathetic priest and his cleaning lady, roommates, teachers, a lawyer who ran off with the family jewels, and a disreputable highway man with a heart of gold.
I confess, I nodded off a bit in Act IV, but was later told I missed a duel, the stampede, several tavern brawls, and the naval battle. I cannot confirm this as I dropped my libretto in the hot-tub.
But some helpful wench elbowed me awake for the climax: the bounder had finally pushed our Olivetta too far! He set upon her in the library and asked her for a stick of gum. Olivetta rolled her eyes (she's quite good at that) and said, "I don't have any with me, but I have some in my room," hoping he would Take A Hint. But if scattered fries on leather seats didn't do it, this hint surely wouldn't suffice for a fop as dense as this. And it didn't. The villain demanded, "Well, go back to your room and get the gum!" The audience in the theatre-in-the-round-wetness gasped at his impertinence and breathlessly awaited our heroine's response. And we weren't disappointed! She went back to her room with him, got the pack of gum, and boldly told him, "If I give you this gum, will you please leave me alone, please??"
Finally, finally he Took A Hint. Heartbroken, he forswore our shores forevermore and was last seen boarding a tramp steamer for the Orient, where rumour has it he was set upon by Gypsies then, penniless, was eaten by one of the last bears in Far Samarkand.
All of us to a wench or attendant gave Olivetta an enthusiastic standing ovation for her rollicking tale, except for one wench who had lost her bikini bottom and (for some reason) remained seated.
Parts of this tale were shortened for the Made-for-Hatrack version.
If anyone else had told such a rambling tale, I'm sure I would have been begging for those minutes back on my death-bed, or for one of Dave Chappelle's Wrap-it-up boxes. But Olivia told it so charmingly and wittily that I couldn't resist aggrandizing it here. Morbo
[ March 16, 2005, 01:34 AM: Message edited by: Mormo ]
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
Oh, Good Lord. I don't usually drink, which is why 8oz of a weak margarita turned me into Grandpa Simpson.
"I was wearing an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. YOu couldn't get white onions, because of the war..."
O the shame!
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
I'm at work and don't want to be. Can i go back to nerdfest? please?
oh and Olivia, i cannot remember what i told Ron.
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
Yeah, so last night I told him I had a margarita with dinner on Friday, since we walked to the restaurant. He says, "Oh, was that what they menat when they said you got drunk and nibbled Eddie's ear?"
But I never nibbled anybody's anything, and you were the only person I could think of cheeky enough to try to get me in trouble. Didn't work, of course, since Ron is the coolest guy in the universe, but it left ME speechless for a second(hard to do).
Come to think of it, it may have just been Ron teasing me. He knows that whatever I may be, I'm not the dirty old woman who molests younger men (no matter how delectable they may be ).
It certainly didn't bother him that Jenny Gardener smooched me on the lips, though. *gloats*
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Which left the rest of us speechless.
-Trevor
Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
Don't be ashamed, Olivia, we all mightily enjoyed your story, honestly.
I hope you liked my spoof, it was fun writing it.
Some people get mean or depressed when they drink-- you become engagingly entertaing and desultorily droll. This is a good thing.
But I am afraid I let the cat out of the bag: the real reason why Jenny missed her pickkup was The Show Must Go On! Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
I had a good night's sleep, but I am still a little brain-dead, so I won't post a full summary of events right now.
I think I may have the dreaded Wenchcon Plague.
Plus, JaneX and I had a very long day yesterday - 6 hours of me driving to the airport in Jacksonville while she kept me awake by feeding CD's of J-pop, oldies, and Israeli dance music into the CD player. We got to the airport way too early, returned the rental car, had dinner, and went shopping (I almost bought some flamingo stuff for my sister, but decided it was too tacky and overpriced). Our flight left at 9:05 for a quick (one-hour) flight to Ft Lauderdale, where we were left wating at the curb till 10:30 while my husband and Shlomo watched the latest episode of 24.
Some comments on others' summary of events thus far:
quote:We all made shameless use of [Trevor] this weekend, and it took two days for us even to get him to let us cover a meal or something.
Yes, I stole his tab right from under his nose, while he was busy talking.
After about 5 minutes, he looked at me and asked, "Did you take my tab?" Me: "Yes." Trevor: "May I have it back?" Me: "Nooo." I then got everyone to chip in to pay for Trevor's lunch - which was really inadequate thanks for all he did this weekend.
quote:It was truly amusing the things that came out of that man's mouth while he was wearing t-shirts with scriptures and other Christian slogans on them.
Look who's talking, KQ! I will never again believe you are a sweet, innocent Mormon girl!
quote:Now comes sappy shoutouts from Ben
Ben, you are such a nerd.
It was great seeing everyone I knew from before and meeting new Hatrack faces. (Previous Wenchcon particpants were missed.)
In closing, I just want to say the following:
JaneX and I had the best room, rooming with the Head Wench Jenny and Hobbit Wench Olivetta. Others,apparently, agreed - our room became the "hang-out" spot.
Jenny and Olivet, You ladies are awesome!!!
That is all.
...for now, anyway.
Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
Wow, sorry to hear you got sick, Ela. If it's still in the early phases, take a hot shower, hot as you can stand it, and let the hot water beat down on your throat, face, and chest. Then gargle with mouthwash when you get out. Sometimes this cuts back a sore throat before it gets bad.
Feel better!
[ March 15, 2005, 12:14 PM: Message edited by: Mormo ]
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
I find your lack of pictures disturbing.
*clinches fist around everyone's throat besides Lime's*
Hobbes Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
Even the wenches with sore throats? Hobbes, dude, what happened to you, man? You used to be cool...
We missed you this year, Hobbes. I wanted to see you again, we didn't have enough time to talk last time.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
I know.
While you guys were partying down and so forth I was on a plane flying home for spring break. :-|
Hobbes Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Megan should be uploading her photos sometime Tuesday or Wednesday.
KQ is in the process of sending her files to me, but Hotmail, like many of Gates' unholy spawn, is being problematic.
JaneX has to develop her film, so her photos may take a few days.
-Trevor
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
I may not actually be that sick. I feel a bit better after having some hot liquids and breakfast.
Oh, I forgot to mention. While JaneX and I were having breakfast in the hotel lobby yesterday, we saw the hotel staff cleaning out the meeting room that we had used all weekend. It looked like they were setting up for a "serious" meeting.
When the staff walked off and left the meeting room door open, Jane snuck in and opened the white board cover to see if the nonsense we had written on it was still there.
It was.
So, when the serious meeting presenter opens the white board to use it, they will see the following profound messages:
Hatrack was here All your foil are belong to us and Ben is a whipped sugar butt
Wish I could be there to see their faces. Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Which reminds me - I'm sorry I couldn't stop by to see you and Janey off.
The lure of a hot shower was too much to pass up.
-Trevor
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
We'll forgive you.
...for now. Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Hey, Nathan and I are going to be in Hotlanta this weekend, from friday morning till monday night (I mean night, 'cause our flight doesn't leave till 9:30 pm). We're crashing with Ben and Lindsay, per no noseblows because I'd have to hurt Ben and it would be very sad.
The reason we're there is a wedding of a best friend from my childhood (I'm IN it) on Saturday. So we'll be really busy from Friday night (rehearsal) till Saturday (wedding, reception, whee!). But we've got all day/night Sunday and all day/evening on Monday. We've got a rental car (it was cheaper, oddly, to get a package deal with tix and car than to get them separately. We even got better flights on a better airline!).
This is part of what caused us not to be able to attend W3. I had had all of this week off (spring break) but then my research job got a focus group with some active drug users on the 15th (oh, today's the Ides of March!), which meant I had to return to NH between weekends. We couldn't afford the cost of TWO trips, and my friend's wedding won out 'cause 1. it's a very important event in her life and 2. she'd kill my ass dead if I didn't show. Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Are you two in Athens or Atlanta for the weekend?
Atlanta defined as being within half an hour's drive of I-285.
-Trevor
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
KQ, if you email ludosti, she can give you a Foobonic account that you can upload pictures to.
And Olivia, if by "got drunk and nibbled Eddie's ear" Ron meant "were repeatedly pelted with a ball of foil the size of a human skull by Eddie", I think I remember that. Have you no shame, woman?!?!
So I think it's getting old, me going to Hatrack gatherings only to find out that all of you are awesome. It's hurting my image, coming back with only nice things to say about you people.
But I guess while there were no painful personalities, there were painful moments.
Lindsay whapped me with a plastic sword and left a welt, which hasd since turned into a festering bruise (do bruises fester?); ketchupprincess cried every time I tried to pick her up, without fail (they're learning younger!); Jenny laid me on her bed and had her way with me, resulting in fake bruises, which were nearly replaced with real ones when I slung her over my shoulder in the Macaroni Grill parking lot; Jane shot me a look that I swear took five years off my life when she saw me giving Ela a backrub (isn't that what I was supposed to be doing?); my sandaled toes were trodden upon by numerous pairs of Sexy Boots at the club. Anne, Abby, Me-Gun, Vana, Melody, Judies...you were all very nice...didn't abuse me at all. Try harder next year, or else the Man-Wenches will become lazy and untamed. Fear will keep us at your beck and call.
Because of our collected fear, I think, the Man-Wenches were the best company (okay, I'm lying, but only partly). Once I got over Morbo's Georgia accent (he didn't call me a Puny Human! once), he was a great guy (and the only reason I saw anything historical in Atlanta). Ben, despite what probably everyone on Hatrack believes from reading his posts, is really cool (don't let me forget to send the tape of our foil hurling to Guinness). Trevor, though he doesn't dance, is, too, and took a lot more abuse from the Wenches than I did with less whining. Lime...well, Lime is just about the hottest man I've ever seen wear a foil bra. For reals. Like, it's not even a contest.
Okay, so...same place and time next week?
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
Oh, and I was only kidding about the bruise, Lindsay.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I remembered another amusing exchange between me and Ben earlier. The day before, we had worked on the number one rule of baby safety: if the baby's mother says not to do it, don't do it. He was doing pretty well with that, but on our way to lunch Sunday, we finally wrestled the car seat into the back of his car, and were all getting in, when he began to drive off without the baby buckled in!
Quoth I: "Ben, it's usually not reccommended that you drive off without the baby buckled in to the baby seat."
Ben (slamming on breaks): "I'm sorry!" (short pause) "Usually not recommended as in you're telling me not to?"
Me: "Yes, usually not recommended as in the baby's mother will kill you if you do it."
Well, it amused me. Also, we thought it was adorable that Emma loved whatever the crazy music was that Ben had on and was kicking to it and grinning.
I'm sorry now that I missed most of the saga of The Boy Who Wouldn't Leave Olivia Alone. I'm glad she stood up to him in the end, though. It's always best to stand up to boys, you know. *looks solemn*
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
quote: KQ, if you email ludosti, she can give you a Foobonic account that you can upload pictures to.
D'oh! See, I'm stupid and uneducated... Didn't even think of that! *goes to look up ludosti's e-mail* Trevor, you've done enough; I'll get an account and post my pictures on Foobonic.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Ya know, it's all good.
I'm on the clock for another...eight hours.
My only reservation - the photos haven't arrived yet.
If you're insanely bored, go for it - otherwise if you don't mind waiting a day, I'll be able to upload them on a t1 line.
-Trevor
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Well, we'll see what happens. If you don't get them by tonight, I'll do it myself, okay? Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Done and done.
-Trevor
Edit: Lucky's made me promise to post the most embarassing photo of her I could find, so I have ulterior motives for volunteering.
[ March 15, 2005, 01:48 PM: Message edited by: TMedina ]
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Um, Athens AND Atlanta?
We're staying in Athens with the wonderful Ben and Lindsay, visiting the fantastic Fowlers in Woodstock, the wedding is in Stratham ( I think that's the name of the town), and our flight arrives/leaves from Hartsfield (which I know is actually SOUTH of Atlanta). I'm thinking on Monday we'll do something in Atlanta, since it'd make us closer to the airport. Or something. Got any ideas?
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
Fantastic Fowlers? They get an F. Why do i not get to be Bodacious Ben or something?
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
'Cause I couldn't remember the word Bodacious, Bodacious Ben. Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
Liam's home from school today, sick. I think most of my household, including the BIL have had a bit of the Wenchcon plague.
Still, it was worth it.
Why is it I look so much better in Lime's and Vana's pictures than I do in my own? Maybe I should rub vaseline on my lens. Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
A lot of our pictures turned out crappy too. I blame Eddie for no reason whatsoever.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Oh, no, Olivia! I am so, so sorry. I sincerely regret bringing a plague upon your house! Poor little guy. Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
A sniffle is a VERY small price to pay for such a winng pair of houseguests!
Don't even think for half a minute that I regret it at all.
It was cool to meet everyone, of course, and to see people I've been missing. But metting you and Emma was definitely a high point. *hug*
I wish we all lived closer.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Me, too. Especially as it looks like there's at least a 50% probability that I'll be back out in CA in a couple of months, so it will be a lot harder to get out to see you all. Posted by Lucky4 (Member # 1420) on :
But, KQ, that's a good thing for you, right? So glad to hear it might happen! Keep us posted!
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Well, I just informed my aunt that our lease is up May 1, so she's getting moving on Jeff's resume and stuff. We can go month by month if need be, but we'd rather not sign a year's lease when we don't know we'll be here that long.
It's both a good thing and a bad thing; I'll be glad to be back where I grew up and feel like I fit in more, but my relationships with my family have improved so much being this far away from them... Plus, you know, I had my first child here, my OB/GYN is here, I feel like I'm finally starting to make friends... And let's not forget Bluebell ice cream, I'll miss that. And Bob's, the best steakhouse I've ever been to. And I'm supposed to be planning DallasCon. And Jeff's mom is the only babysitter Emma has ever known (and she doesn't charge).
So, mixed feelings on the move. But I think it would be good for me to be back where I can participate in some of the things I used to do (like the choir I sang in) that made me feel more myself and less detatched from life.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Trevor, I've got an album all set up for me, so I'm going to go ahead and post the pictures today. Thanks anyway, but you can delete the huge e-mails if they ever come in!
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
KQ - just got so bored you couldn't stand it, eh?
S'all good - they still haven't popped into my account as of yet.
Mac & T - I don't know if Mormo's available, but it wouldn't be hard to make a list of the usual sites and sounds of Atlanta and let you pick.
-Trevor
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
quote:Jane shot me a look that I swear took five years off my life when she saw me giving Ela a backrub (isn't that what I was supposed to be doing?)
Actually, after driving for 6 hours and lugging a 50 lb suitcase in and out of the airport, I could use another backrub, Frisco.
Wanna come over? Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
Morbo will devour ya'll puny humans! Yes, fear of the wenches brought us together. I was very glad to meet you too, Frisco.
But you're too kind. We mostly sped around the poor neighborhoods east of downtown, during a massive manhunt , looking for Col. Grant's house, the oldest in Atlanta. I couldn't find it.
Then I couldn't find the King Center, just an elementary school named after MLK,jr.
After that I took him to a grand old house owned by the Woodruffs, one of the major owners of Coke who helped build Atlanta. But it may have been owned by someone else, Frisco saw a sign.
At least you saw Little Five Points, that's a funky neighborhood. But not the greatest tour, I wasn't prepared.
quote: I'm thinking on Monday we'll do something in Atlanta, since it'd make us closer to the airport. Or something. Got any ideas?
I've wanted to go to the Atlanta Historical Society for years but can never get anybody to go with me, it's supposed to be a good museum. It's on West Paces Ferry, near the Governor's Mansion and the most expensive houses in GA, they make a great driving tour. I'll try to think of other fun stuff to do.
Posted by Lime (Member # 1707) on :
Olivia - I hope the $10 we left with Trevor covers our portion of the conference room bill. Lemme know if not; we weren't sure so we just guessed. And I've got more pictures sitting on the flashcard at home; I'll post 'em on Thursday when I have more daylight time.
quote: Lime...well, Lime is just about the hottest man I've ever seen wear a foil bra. For reals. Like, it's not even a contest.
Flattery will get you everywhere.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
[ March 15, 2005, 07:25 PM: Message edited by: ketchupqueen ]
Posted by Lime (Member # 1707) on :
By the by... don't know if I mentioned it...
Everyone rocked. I really wish that we lived closer so that we could have stuck around for some of the Sunday/late late Saturday fun.
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
Lime! Geez, I almost forgot about that check. I was so tired by then It slipped my mind. Actually, five would have more than covered your share of the Meeting room, which came out to $1.50 per person, give or take. Negligible, really, though if I'd been stuck with the whole bil it would have stung a bit.
Hey, could you email me your mailing address so I can send you your change?
As a matter of fact, I think I should get the addresses of everyone who did extra driving for group things (Trevor, Abby(especially Abby, who circled the airport for, like, an hour or two), Morbo... Ben) so I can re-imburse you on some gas money. Most people insisted I take more for the meeting room than was necessary.
So email me those adresses!
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
-Trevor
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
Frisco (and Ben) - I really don't get why I was such an attractive target for the Foil Ball Fight. Maybe it was the story, since anyone who will go out of her way to give a guy she doesn't like some gum (in the hopes that he'll leave her alone) must be an easy target. And the fact that I didn't have good aim.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I have to say, Olivia, if it had been me being followed around and harrassed, that guy would have gotten a talking to and/or slap in the face long before it came to gum.
I'm just not as nice as you.
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
I'm home, I'm home...and finally on a connection that isn't a slow-as-sin dialup. I'll be uploading my photos probably tomorrow (not tonight, cause I...am...tired.). And, out of curiousity, did the WenchCon plague begin with a queasy stomach for anyone? Cause if so, I've got it, too. Blech.
And, just in case I hadn't mentioned it, that was fun! Let's do it again! Again, again, again! Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
*raises hand* I had some nausea.
Sorry. Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Great photos Anne.
And your emails still haven't arrived, so it's a good thing you were bored.
-Trevor
Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
Oh no, Megan! Another victim! I feel guilty and/or left out because I'm healthy.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Now that you've jinxed it...
Although the plague seems to be hitting the wenches and sparing the wenchmen.
-Trevor
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
Things I learned from WenchCon:
I was a dishrag when I was young and pretty. Probably still am, just a more talkative, bitchy dishrag.
Dancing is fun. I used to dance all the time. I studied Ballet, and loved to go to dances in college, but time passed and I just forgot.
I don't like it when I talk so much. It's artificial somehow. I don't enjoy it when things seem gossipy, and trying to make ity less gossipy doesn't really work.
I like everyone, really. I enjoyed every person who has ever attended a WenchCon, even though I sometimes act playfully annoyed about it.
Ben is still a Butthead.
It's really sad to find a group of like-minded people knowing that very soon time and space will separate you. I wonder if my soul will stay as full of fellowship as it feels now, when the goodbyes last longer.
And my husband is a saint to put up with this mayhem every year. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Megan was also in a room with Emma and me and handled Emma quite a lot. Trevor, you may be next...
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
And Olivia, your husband is a saint. You and I are very lucky women.
Poor Lindsay. Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Olive - your husband is a saint because he still lets you go even after you were impaled on a sword and then impaled yourself on a tree branch.
KQ - ya know, what is a few germs between friends? Besides, I don't often get a chance to launch babies through the air...oops...you did know about that, right? Um...sorry?
-Trevor
Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
Because our hearts are pure, we have the strength of ten wenches, plus two.
I love that cartoon.
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
KQ and Morbo, it's all good. I think it may be a sign that I should chill out and sleep tonight. I tend to keep illnesses down to a bare minimum length, so it shouldn't go too badly for me. I do have to say though, for the first time in my life, I was almost sick on a plane flight (and that's a new one for me; usually I have a stomach of iron when it comes to turbulence, cars, roller coasters, etc.).
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
Hey, kq! Great pics! Were you the one who took a pic of my Grevious Wound? I'd like a copy if I can get it. I must milk my victimhood.
There was some vocal squeaky going on with Ben and Lindsay, but it seemed to improve. Those who shared the water at the Cantina... who's sick and who's okay?
Then we ate my pie with spoons, right out of the plate. Probably about as sanitary as moist kisses, only with a lot more calories Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
quote:And Olivia, your husband is a saint. You and I are very lucky women.
Poor Lindsay.
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
I have a picture of your wound, which I plan on posting as soon as I get to the posting bit. I have a long shot and a close up.
And I shared no water with anyone; I'm pretty sure my sickness came from KetchupPrincess, poor little thing.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Well, the good news is, even I, who take illnesses very hard and long, am almost recovered. So it won't be more than a week if you've got it, and probably less than that for most of you.
I am washing some of Emma's new clothes right now. Thank you so much, Judie and Olivia! It's always so neat to have clothes with a story!
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
To clarify, Olivia, I was in charge of Megan's camera for a bit, that's when your wound got photographed.
Posted by Lucky4 (Member # 1420) on :
I shared the Water of Doom- actually, I have to admit to instigating it- I went and got it and forcibly passed it around to everyone, so I apologize. All the things they've been trying to beat into my head in nursing school about germs must go out the window when the dancing gets hot. I'm fine, of course, because my steel immune system hasn't let me get sick in about a decade.
KQ, loved the pics! I get so excited to see the pictures, but then it just makes me miss you guys so much! Can we do this more often than annually? Please?
Posted by Lime (Member # 1707) on :
quote:Lime! Geez, I almost forgot about that check. I was so tired by then It slipped my mind. Actually, five would have more than covered your share of the Meeting room, which came out to $1.50 per person, give or take. Negligible, really, though if I'd been stuck with the whole bil it would have stung a bit.
Hey, could you email me your mailing address so I can send you your change?
Pfft, I say! $5 isn't worth it. Besides, I'm sure that you and Andrea both deserve a little compensation for the organization you did. Go out on the town! Buy yourself another margarita. Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
or two if you want to be drunk the entire week.
Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
Be sure and film the resulting Operetta, Olivetta, for posterity's sake.
quote: Can we do this more often than annually? Please?
From lurker to stalker in days--only at WenchCon. Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
I Don't think I shall indulge again for quite some time. Actually, I may just be getting too old to learn to drink.
But getting carded was worth it. The waitress said, "We have to ask if you look under thirty-five." I absolutely could have kissed her. LOL
Kq, Megan - that clears it up. I sent my picks to mackillian for Mad owl, and then tried to load a bunch to Photo bucket, but something crapped out and I had other stuff to do and haven't tried again. Plus, I named all the pics with their captions and my computer changed their order to alphabetical order, so now some of the names don't make sense. >_<
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
*grins* You're only four hours away Lucky - I'm sure some sort of improvised outing could be arranged.
After all, we have five people in Georgia alone.
But if you all will forgive me, I'm off the clock so I get to go grab dinner (a salad?) and then starting moving.
-Trevor
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
Move safely, Trevor!
Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
quote: You're only four hours away Lucky - I'm sure some sort of improvised outing could be arranged.
Ditto. Let us know when you want to come down. Or, if we get a sudden urge for country music, we could trek to Nashville.
Maybe we could even coax Ak out of retirement, she almost came to WenchConII, does she still live in Alabama?
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Pffft. That's not real country they make in Nashville. Come to Texas, I'll take you out for some real country. Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
Like Louise in the movie, I try to avoid Texas. But meeting the entire ketchup royal family might change my mind! Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
real country...what?
o_O
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Real country. Texas is where it's at now. Not that sappy pop-with-a-twang.
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
Country Music?
Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
Hmmm, gang, if we play our cards right, we could start a bidding war between Lucky4 and ketchupqueen.
Should we hold out for limos or will a 4-star hotel be enough?
Depends on how bad a case of WenchCon Withdrawal they have I guess. Posted by Lucky4 (Member # 1420) on :
*Tactfully ignores talk of NashvilleCon and waits for it to go away*
Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
*frantically shushes Lucky*
At least play along till we get ketchupqueen to promise mopeds for everyone!
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Hey, DallasCon is already in the works. And lay off Lucky, she's got 5 more months of training and then she has to get a real job. I, on the other hand, get to play with a baby all day.
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
quote:I am washing some of Emma's new clothes right now. Thank you so much, Judie and Olivia! It's always so neat to have clothes with a story!
Some of those clothes date all the way back to adam613 and narrativium.
(That's true of the clothes I brought for Olivet's kids, too - waiting to hear if at least some of them fit. )
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
Nobody gave me clothes. hmmmph!
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
I have a nice sundress and hat just for you, Ben! You can get it this weekend. Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
I would be vastly amused to see Ben in a sundress. Really! Posted by Lucky4 (Member # 1420) on :
I think that I am now gong to demand a photo of Ben in the sundress as repayment for having received a nose blow. It's only fair.
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
A sundress. Now that's what I'm talking about!
Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
You still have to get Ben back for the chair carry, Lucky.
Make him wear make-up and heels to complete the ensemble, then you'll be even.
Or just hold something back, then he'll never know when the ax will fall... Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
Hey, i wasn't the only one with the Chair. And besides, that stunt fizzled out due to lack of planning for some worthwhile finale of the act. Therefore it is not worthy of retribution
[ March 16, 2005, 10:34 AM: Message edited by: Ben ]
Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
That's lawyer talk, Ben. Are you sure you're studying to be a preacher? Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
I have Olivia's and Telp's pics and I'll be posting them later today. Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
I just looked at KQ's pics, and I have to say, Emma is one adorable kid. Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
We still need to upload ours.
Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
Yes, Emma is a beautiful baby. And she was very well-behaved, too. Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
I have a weird sort of slideshow on Photobucket, but I couldn't get some of the pics rotated correctly.
[ March 16, 2005, 11:45 AM: Message edited by: Olivetta ]
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
I can only view the first pic, then it asks me for a login password.
I don't think I like photobucket.
I had problems viewing the last photobucket pics, also. Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
Olivia, I only saw the first photo at that link, of Abby as Gandalf sitting down, then
quote: Warning: getimagesize(): Read error! in /apache/htdocs/main/index.php on line 341
and it just keeps trying to reload, with the same error message. Not sure if it's browser specific, I use Netscape 7.2.
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
I got the same message, Morbo, and I am using Safari.
If you then try to click on "return to album" it asks you for a password.
[ March 16, 2005, 12:16 PM: Message edited by: Ela ]
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I am also having problems. Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
But what a photo to be stuck on.
-Trevor
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
Yes, it is a great pic of Lucky. Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
I think I hate Photobucket, too. Grrrrr
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
I'm glad you all had a great time. The pics look great! I wish I could have gone!
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
Okay, try this, or wait 'til Jamie puts them up at Mad Owl (possibly the best choice). Here we go again Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Woo-hoo! It works.
-Trevor
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
You know, if Paul Reubens were an attractive woman he'd look a lot like Ophelia.
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
Noemon. I'm trying to wrap my mind around that comment. Care to clarify that? Or provide examples.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
I'm glad I'm not the only one who had a (0_o) moment.
-Trevor
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
O_O
Posted by Ophelia (Member # 653) on :
um . . .
Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
You know, if Noemon were an intelligent mon he'd backtrack a lot like pronto.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Or at least explain what he was smoking to get him so far removed from reality.
I freely admit, I'm so tired I could be missing a fairly obvious joke, but...um...
-Trevor
Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
Were there any other sunset pictures, Olivia? I thought I took 3-4 but wasn't sure.
That pic with me and Lime looking unimpressed is funny--but the axhead kept slipping off! Also, I hold the ax like a dwarf wench in the Fellowship poses.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
"A database error has occured. Too many connections." Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Hey! Who stole my password?
But seriously, I didn't mean anything bad by it. Ophelia is, obviously, an attractive woman. I wsa looking through the pictures on Photobucket, and saw this one. Looking at it, something kind of snagged at the back of my mind. I thought that Ophelia kind of looked like someone in this picture, but I couldn't put my finger on who it was. Finally I realized that the reason it was escaping me was because it was so strange. She looked to me like a female version of Paul Reubens, only attractive. Looking at the picture now I can see what I was thinking, but it isn't nearly as pronounced as I thought it was when I first saw it. Anyway, like a moron I came back to this thread and posted about it without giving any thought to the fact that it might not be construed as the most complimentary thing I'd ever said.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
I still don't see it, but my keen powers of observation aren't particularly keen.
Thanks for the explanation Noeman.
-Trevor
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
There we go. Very cool! I love the caption about you not liking to handle things that sharp, Olivia. I should say not, since you got stabbed! You have reason not to.
Did anyone get a picture of me and Ems wrapped in foil? I'd have liked to see what that looked like...
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Trevor, you had the mask of doom on. Were you the one who got kicked in the head? Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
KQ, I don't think your outfit lasted long enough for anyone to get a picture. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Oh, well, it's on tape.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Heh. Yes, that was indeed me. As far as I am aware, I was the only token Orc in all the photos.
-Trevor
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Wow. You're such a doorm... uh, I mean, gentleman, Trevor. (((hugs)))
[ March 16, 2005, 03:47 PM: Message edited by: ketchupqueen ]
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
That's true...of the evil ones, Ben and I were Nazgul, and you were the only orc.
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
Shhh...don't share that.
*ahem* I never dressed up. Don't believe the hype!
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Oh no, you were right the first time - Ketchup Princess walked all over me.
-Trevor
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
So.... I think I have everyone figured out from the photos (and some I have met before). Lucky4 was Gandalf? She is beautiful!
So who is related/partners with who in all of that?
Frisco is perfect as Strider..
FG
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
*sigh* I wish I could dress up like Finrod Felagund...
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Lucky was indeed Gandalf and yes, she is quite breathtaking.
Ben/Ophelia Lime/Vana Edit: Ela and Janey-X are mother/daughter. Edit 2: The young lady impaling the Witch Queen is Olivetta's sister Edit 3: I'm a dip. Ketchup Queen and Ketchup Princess.
I think those were the only official couples, unless you count Olivetta and Jenny's kiss.
-Trevor
Edit 4: It's amazing how you miss the little details with four hours of sleep.
[ March 16, 2005, 03:57 PM: Message edited by: TMedina ]
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
And of course, Emma is attatched to me. And seemed to have adopted Ben as her temporary substitute Abba and Trevor as her substitute uncle. So, figure that out if you can...
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Oh, and of course JaneX is Ela's daughter.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
And Olivia's sister was there. And her sister's daughter.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Trevor, your edits are making me redundant! Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Heh - did Olive's sister's daughter make it into any of the photos?
-Trevor
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Edit: I could never do that Ketchup - who else would be the voice of Pizza?
Mental note: get an online Papa John's account for the next convention and a list of pizza preferences.
-Trevor
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I have one, but I didn't post it because her eyes were closed and stuff. It was a bad picture all around. But I'll bet someone has a shot of her. If not, I'll clean that one up as best I can and post it.
She signed t-shirts, so she counts in my book. Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
I don't think so...I don't think she was around for most of the actual dress-up festivities.
It's too bad no one was taking pictures of the late night goofiness on Friday, though I guess there's probably video.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
So.... are Lucky4 and Frisco a couple? Or did they just play the part?
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Ah, yes, my husband was a bit surprised at a $40 pizza bill. See, he'd bought Papa John's while I was gone, and didn't notice there were two pizza bills on the bank statement until I pointed out that that was us. Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
I should hope so - I'm still curious to know exactly what I slept through.
-Trevor
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
No, they're not a couple. I think most of us girls did a little flirting with Frisco, and he was very chivalrous about flirting back with everyone. Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
Well, there should be at least one verrrry interesting picture of you. Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
Saturday.
7:30 ish. I'm trying to get up. I take my Events Coordinator status seriously, so I'm groaning and grunting to myself. Besides, if I get up first, I get the first shower. There! Finally I'm up.
I go enjoy a hot shower. I come out in my towel and tiptoe around, finding my clothes. I creep up to Olivia. Flip! I get her all wet. Then I flip Sara and Judy. Mwahahahaha! Since Olivia still isn't getting up, and I'm now hyper, I straddle her and put my face near hers. She rolls her eyes. She realizes I'll just be annoying until I have someone to go to breakfast with me.
On the way to breakfast, I "knock up" Eddie, at his request. No one answers, of course. Then I try a downstairs door, but I've been given misinformation, and some random guy answers, befuddled. I try to graciously excuse myself.
I'm the first to breakfast (Livvy's still getting dressed). Hooray! They have peanut butter. I go to get the ROTK started. We have many technical difficulties. Olivia makes some interesting requests...
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Trevor, JaneX has the photos of your corruption. IIRC, she's the one with real film that needs developing.
It's not really that bad, actually. I suggested worse, but was vetoed.
[ March 16, 2005, 04:04 PM: Message edited by: ketchupqueen ]
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
Shhhh!!! We want him to think it's as bad as possible! Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Well, it does involve pink...
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
As far as I know, they're not a couple - insofar as they just met at WenchCon.
They do look cute together though.
-Trevor
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Yeah, their hair matches! Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
did I ever mention Olivia is hot?
She's hot.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
In that dress? I would imagine so.
Although it does put an amusing spin on her fan club.
-Trevor
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
*groan*
The worst part is, he does it in real life, too.
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
Of course he does...that's how he ended up on Hatrack in the first place!
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
*points at Megan* I blame you for this, you know.
Don't ask me why.
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
But, for what?
Trevor's punning, you mean? That's not my fault. Bringing to Hatrack, now...that, I'll take the blame for. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Hmph. You could at least slap him upside the head now and then when he does a really bad one. I haven't known him long enough to hit him, even virtually.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
*coughcoughCokeMachinecough*
-Trevor
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
Well, it's been awhile since I've actually caused him any physical harm. But I actually hadn't known him that long before it happened, so I'd say you've known him exactly long enough to hit him, particularly virtually.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
*virtually slaps Trevor upside the head*
*looks innocent*
It was Emma! Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
HEY! How come you get to blame things on Emma and I don't?!
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
Cause they're related!
And while we're virtually slapping people upside the head...
*virtually slaps Ben upside the head*
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
It's more plausible coming from me.
*joins Megan in the virtual slapping*
*points* It was Emma again!
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Pfft. Emma kicks.
-Trevor
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
She kicks and hits and pulls hair and noses. She's multi-talented. Didn't she steal your glasses? She's permanently maimed mine.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
She pawed at them once, but it was a half-hearted effort. Apparently it's not as much fun if it's not family.
She did grab my shirt once or twice during some of the more colorful aerial maneuvers, but I'd call that common sense.
-Trevor
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Apparently she had too much time away from her real Abba this weekend. Sunday, when we got in, she was so tired she pretty much went right to sleep. Monday she was catching up still. But last night, when her Abba came home, she glommed on to him and wouldn't even go to me. She refused to let him hand her to me until she was absolutely exhausted.
He thought it was cute.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
*grins* She loves her abba - and being away for three days, I imagine she was quite happy to see him again.
-Trevor
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Yes, but by the time she went down, he really needed to go to the bathroom.
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
As in real life, I was not getting Trevor's puns. Duh.
That dress was really hot. My sister kept fanning me and I even tried to lie down on the floor once, Hoping for an "Arwen Fading" picture as well as a cool spot.
But when I looked up, someone was about to take my picture and someone else was suggesting we do that scene with Aragorn and Arwen getting all snuggly in TT. I jumped up, blurring the picture amusingly. I insisted that Aragorn was actually kissing a horse. Plus, my beloved would not approve of me pretending to be a horse who was smooching on Frisco pretending to be Aragorn. Erm...
That thing is velvet, and IS very warm.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
She looked so worried when I took that picture...
I did delete it immediately, though, to my credit. Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
I appreciate your defense of my virtue, dear Lady
Morbo, there were three sunset pictures, which I plan to email to you. I may have to zip them first.
Anybody else want higher-res pictures than the ones posted? Probably they will be better on Mad Owl, or just email and ask and I'll send 'em to ya.
Unfortuneately, the footage I had of the IMPROV seems to have mysteriously disappeared. Either I had it on the feed portion of the tape and it never recorded to begin with, or someone sneaky slipped in and rewound the tape to destroy the evidence.
About all I had was Megan and Lucky dancing (and Lucky screaming and collapsing as soon as she saw the camera on her.
All in all, not a lot of footage this year, though I tried. I got the fashion presentations (kq, no still picks of our design - I was wrapping you in foil at the time) and the Bard Contest. Too bad we didn't get to the action figure play. The categories this year were going to be Silliest, Best Reality Show, and Best Musical. It would have been a hoot.
WenchCon II attendees should be warned... we did watch the tape of your action figure play in its entirety.
Posted by Lucky4 (Member # 1420) on :
It is just flat out unhealthy how much I miss you guys!!
How nice it is to get home and find a whole page and a half of WenchCon fun to catch up on!
I LOVE WENCHCON!!! (To all the people who think writing in caps looks like screaming, THAT WAS THE POINT!)
Some time soon, I really am going to sit down and write out something to each of you, it's just been such a hectic week getting back in the groove. Rest assured, it's coming...
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I know how you feel, Lucky. I am missing you guys so much. I wish you were all in my area, I'd cook you dinner. Every night you wanted to come.
Posted by JaneX (Member # 2026) on :
So, I'm on my fifth day of spring break and I've only spent a total of about half a day at home during all that time. But now that I have some computer time, I present to you: Sarah's WenchCon Highlights. Adapted from my LJ.
- Sharing a room with the Head Wench and Olivet was awesome. Our room wasn't just the "family room" like it was last year - the four of us spent time in there after we'd said goodnight to the rest of the group, just hanging out and talking and watching some of a trippy anime that Olivet had on her computer. And during the day, our room was Wench Central and everyone wanted to hang out in it.
- Going to On the Border on Friday night and eating Olive Garden take-out and chips. Then playing Freeze, which gave us some really amusing scenes, especially since it was pretty late by then. Then hanging out in the hot tub listening to Olivet's stories and not watching FOTR as planned. And then hanging out in Wench Central talking to Olivet and Jenny and watching the aforementioned trippy anime, and going to bed at about 6 am.
- Being woken up at some ungodly hour on Saturday morning by Jenny flipping her wet hair in my face. Yay for crazy Wenchy roommates...
- Watching ROTK for the I've-lost-track-of-how-manyth time, with the Wenches. In my cloak.
- Dressing up in costumes and taking lots of great pictures (which I will post as soon as my film gets developed). Emma as Gollum was absolutely adorable! Frisco made a great Aragorn. And Jenny and I were Frodo and Sam again, this time with matching hobbit curls.
- Thinking of the perfect tune for one of Sam's songs from the book and winning the Bard Contest with it. I was quite proud of myself.
- Dressing Lime up in an aluminum foil Princess Leia outfit, complete with chain. o_o
- Going to the Macaroni Grill in costume and getting lots of strange looks. Signing the tablecloths with our screen names and "Hatrack Was Here."
- Going clubbing on Saturday night with Olivet, Jenny, Abby, my mom, Ben, Frisco, Morbo, and Trevor (after wandering around downtown Atlanta at midnight for a while, and dancing with the Wenches in a random Internet cafe). I've already mentioned Olivet's and my adventures in the bathroom line at the club. o_O But despite the creepy guys and the disgusting, pervasive cigarette smoke, it was pretty fun. Mostly 'cause I had a whole circle of friends to dance with, so I didn't have to worry so much about the sketchy people. Well, except for the sketchy people who were my friends. *coughBenandFriscocough*
- Coming back from the club at two in the morning and getting into the hot tub. Then eating Olivet's insanely wonderful peanut butter pie straight out of the pan with spoons, while still in the hot tub. Yum.
- Passing someone's laptop around the hotel lobby at breakfast so we could all read and post at Hatrack. We're not obsessed at all...
- Counting for Ben and Frisco while they tried to set a record for the number of times they could toss an (increasingly small) ball of aluminum foil back and forth within the space of one minute.
- Watching Ben and Frisco pick up Abby, chair and all, and carry her all the way to the elevator and up to the third floor. Then they couldn't think of anything else to do with the stunt, so it kind of fizzled.
- Writing weird things ("HATRACK WAS HERE"; "All your foil are belong to us"; "Ben is a whipped sugar butt") on the white board in the meeting room, and then leaving it there for the next people who use the room.
- Going over to Olivet's Saturday night to hang out (which for me consisted of watching old Simpsons episodes while half-asleep on Olivet's shoulder). She has an awesome house. Seriously. I want a house like that.
- Being the last ones to leave, for a change. And having Olivet and Ben and Lindsay come over to the hotel Monday morning to see us off.
~Jane~
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
Abby is a butthead.
Posted by Lucky4 (Member # 1420) on :
It's just too bad that I'm rubber and he's glue.
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
Don't worry, Abby, Ben is a jerk. Or a nerd. I forget which. Posted by Ophelia (Member # 653) on :
Both.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
(And a geek.)
quote: She has an awesome house. Seriously. I want a house like that.
Me, too. I covet her kitchen. *eyes very tiny kitchen, which is still better than the last one, with distaste*
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
Quit calling me names. Shame on you all! SHAME!
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
*pelts Ben with straw wrappers*
Now, where's that sundress? Come on, get moving!
Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
Saturday, cont.
Either before or after the movie, I get the opportunity to play with swords. Kneebyter was displaying his mighty cool wares. There were swords, chainmail, costumes and even odd items; I seem to remember Viking chick Barbie and an inflatable wasp. After being warned not to touch the blade, I notice fingerprints on the long sword I'm playing with. I swear, I didn't put them there!! So I'm told to wipe it off along my leg, which (judging from Olivia's sister's reaction) is a bit vulgar. I stop, and think of another brilliant but fun way to rub a sword against clothes.
"Livvy! Come over here! Let's do that pretend killing you with a sword thing!" "Okay!" she says. So I put the sword between her arm and her body. We're having fun. I pull it out, still fingerprints. I push it through again. But.... It pokes her.
"Ouch!" "Oh no, did I hurt you?" She lifts up her shirt. Blood is welling out of a little wound. I'm horrified. The sword is taken away from me. I am not to play with swords any more. Olivia's sister doctors her with a first aid kit, although Olivia protests that it's not that bad. I recommend a tetanus shot. Yes, it was that deep. Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
Saturday, after the film.
It's lunchtime. We end up ordering pizza all 'round. Sara and I retreat to our room to make her hobbit hair. I've already had mine done from the morning. Our room then becomes the hangout spot. I share my 7th grade student Hobbit drawings. Sara/Sam now has lovely curly hobbit hair. Eddie wanders by, and we decide he should be Aragorn (the hair, the face!). I get creative with makeup. I make him lie on the bed, which is where the best light is. He is willing to let me touch him wherever I wish. He ends up with a dramatic bruise, some battle scars, dirty knuckles, and blood-matted hair strands. I am inordinately proud of myself.
Back in the common room, it's costume time. For a while, things are chaotic as I distribute cloaks and costumes. Kneebyter lends us some of his costumes and swords. I make him up as a Southron. Our greatest surprise comes when KQ descends with an absolutely adorable baby Gollum. The sheen on Gollum's skin is perfect. Little Gollum even has her own suckable Precious!
We do pictures, capturing some of the best scents in the LOTR series. You can see them by following the links in this thread. Fun!
After a bit, we settle into chairs for the bard contest. I go first, with Sam's song about the trolls. Next is Judy, with a lovely rendition of one of the Elbereth songs. And then Sara, from memory, sings Sam's end-of-the-world song to a haunting tune. She wins, hands-down. Sara, did you like the prize?
Next comes Dwarven Chain Mail Fashion Show. The group is divided into 3 groups, and given 20 minutes to design a functional, beautiful, and original outfit. It was so hard to judge. Every outfit was detailed and lovely.
After that, we went to dinner at the delicious Macaroni Grill. Eddie insisted that, as the King, he should sit at the head of the table. Several of us were friendly and shared bites of some wonderful food. I drew a pomegranate on the tablecloth.
By this time, night was approaching...
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
"We do pictures, capturing some of the best scents in the LOTR series."
Hm.
Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
Like Olivia's hair, and Sara's, and Judy's. We like each other's smells.
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
Hmm. I thought I had a picture of the forces of evil, but as it turns out, whoever was in charge of my camera at that time took a brief movie rather than a picture. I'd like to blame it on Ben, but that won't work, since he was actually one of the forces of evil. Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
I didn't get a Forces of Evil pic at all. I think I was lying on the floor (on a blanket with pillows) trying to cool off. When kq started to take my picture, I realized Frisco was beside me. While I know that Frisco would never do anything to threaten my marriage vows, I figured lying on the floor with his hotness nearby wasn't doing them any good, so I bolted.
Oh, and our room had some nifty-smelling ladies. That first night after lights out (only an hour 'til they started serving breakfast!) Jenny and I snuggled a bit and I said, "You smell nice" which had Sarah and Judie giggling madly.
Ron came up to the room about the time Jenny was having her way with Frisco. We were putting the peanut butter pie in the fridge. When we left, he said "Who was that guy sprawled on your bed?"
[ March 17, 2005, 11:35 AM: Message edited by: Olivetta ]
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
Here are my pictures, in (essentially) reverse chronological order. It seems you can't reorder things once you've got them in there.
Wow! those are great! I was hoping there were some of Friday night. I had no batteries. Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
Thanks! I told Jim the digital camera was the best Christmas toy ever. Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
Spelling alert: It's Sarah and Judie.
quote:Ron came up to the room about the time Jenny was having her way with Frisco. We were putting the peanut butter pie in the fridge. When we left, he said "Who was that guy sprawled on your bed?"
Actually, he was lying on Sarah's and my bed, next to the window, where the light was best for Jenny's make-up job. Posted by Lucky4 (Member # 1420) on :
Great pics Megan! Although, I have to admit to being slightly disturbed by your apparent fetish with chopping my body off from my arms. Maybe instead of being disturbed I should just apologize for getting in the way of half your pictures! Sorry about that!
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
I only chopped you up on Sunday at lunch...all other pics include all of you (or, ya know, all of you that was appropriate )
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
Yeah, sorry. I was calling you Ela to keep me from confusing you with my sister. I know it's different spelling and all, I just wasn't sure how much of your real name you were willing to have posted on the internet (since we had some discussions about that). I'll fix it.
Oh, and that's what I said to Ron. "That isn't my bed." Funny thing about Ron, he thinks I'm so hot that every other man in the world would want to steal me away. Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
Actually, Olivia, I didn't notice that you were the one spelling my name wrong.
There you go again, apologizing for something you didn't do. Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
So, Olivia, do you have any gum?
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
Ela, I went back and looked, intending to change it, and discovered that I had not, in fact spelled your names wrong. I did change 'Ela' to 'Judie' though, since I was usuing Sarah's real name and not yours.
*smacks Ben. HARD*
YOu know, I never realized, until I told that story, how easy I was to manipulate when I was younger (possibly even now). I mean, a guy you don't like asks you for some gum... Like this:
Jerk walks up to furriously studying girl in Library: Hey, do you have any gum?
Girl: Not on me.
Jerk: But you have some back at your dorm?
Girl: Yes
Jerk: Could you go get me some?
Girl: I could. *thinks* Maybe he just wants gum, and If I give him the gum, he'll go bother someone else.
God help me, how did I ever live to full adulthood? What an idiot! *facepalm*
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
I don't think you're an idiot; I think you just tend to err on the side of niceness, which is not at all a bad way to be. My response would've been to look skeptical and say, in my most sarcastic voice, "Um, no."
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
I only gave him one piece, though, not a whole pack. At the time I thought, "I'll show HIM! He's not getting a whole pack, and not the Juicy Fruit either!" Oh, what a wee beeyotch I was, lol!
Though sometimes, I wish I was still that quiet, considerate person. I'm much more selfish now. Like, I didn't even think to offer Trevor the use of our shower when I realized he'd not been home all weekend. I remember wondering why he wated to buy a new shirt, but my brain just didn't make the connection. Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
To be fair, none of us offered Trevor the chance to use our showers, so it wasn't just you.
Posted by JaneX (Member # 2026) on :
quote:Sara, did you like the prize?
I haven't looked at it yet. I've discovered that it only fits in a CD tray, and Charlie has a slot-loading CD drive, as does Ela's computer. So I'll have to borrow Shlomo's computer at some point to check out my prize.
And by the way, as my mom mentioned upthread, it's Sarah.
~Jane~
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I love the pictures!
I look like a dork in most of them, but that's pretty standard.
Olivia, I think I'm glad you developed some guts since you were younger. Myself, I am very glad I've never lacked them when it mattered. Honestly, I think you would have been okay even at that age if you'd needed to.
And did you get that tetanus shot yet? It's good that you've had one 8 years ago, but I'd really feel better if you went in and got a booster.
Every time I look at more pictures, I miss you guys more! Ela, Emma is wearing her new green overalls today for St. Patrick's Day. Thank you once more!
Is everyone recovered from the plague?
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
I'm good. As I suspected, I conquered the plague overnight (go go gadget immune system!). Jim is still sick as a dog, but that has nothing to do with WenchCon. And I miss you guys, too. Like I said upthread...AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN! It's too bad that all the currently-in-the-works cons are all at places and/or times that I couldn't get to. Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
quote:Ela, I went back and looked, intending to change it, and discovered that I had not, in fact spelled your names wrong. I did change 'Ela' to 'Judie' though, since I was usuing Sarah's real name and not yours.
You could have kept it Ela; either Ela or Judie is alright, just as long as it's spelled right.
quote:To be fair, none of us offered Trevor the chance to use our showers, so it wasn't just you.
I wasn't even aware that Trevor didn't have a place to shower. I assumed he was staying in a room somewhere in the hotel, like the rest of us.
[ March 17, 2005, 01:00 PM: Message edited by: Ela ]
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
It vaguely registered with me that he was sleeping on the floor, but I figured he'd be welcome to shower in the "guys' room" so he didn't risk girls walking in on him, so I didn't offer.
See, it's Frisco's fault! Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
It vaguley registered with me that he was sleeping on the floor, but I figured he'd be welcome to shower in the "guys' room" so he didn't risk girls walking in on him, so I didn't offer.
See, it's Frisco's fault! Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
Frisco had his own set of...um...odd situations going on... Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Trevor wouldn't have minded a little nudity, would you, buddy? Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
Sarah. Judie. I'm such a dork. Forgive me?
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
You are not a dork.
I just assumed you either didn't know, or forgot. Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
Saturday night.
Olivia and I ARE going dancing. Anyone who wants to go with us? Good. We go upstairs to the Wench Room to get beautified. I pop my fellow Wenches' cheeks with blush. They look really good. All unplanned, Olivia and Judie and I all are color coordinated in red and black. Olivia and I are sassy in our short skirts and Sexy Boots. Sarah manages to look both smokin' and innocent at the same time. Judie is classy and sexy. We're ready to go out!
And then comes a long, mixed up time as we travel about hunting clubs. My poor feet start getting blisters. Sexy Boots are not made for walkin'! However, we do find a fruit tree in blossom. Eddie kindly plucks twigs for all the Wenches. Some of the Wenches end up with flowers in their cleavage.
One place we stop is a moody Internet cafe. While the boys try to figure out where to go next, Sarah and I get groovy on a carpet next to the fish tank. Soon other Wenches join in. Lucky shows off her bodacious moves.
Finally, we end up at this really pretty latin dance club. It's packed, there's a live band, and everyone is shaking booty. Except, none of us knows how to dance to a latin beat. I'm trying to remember my nearly 10-year-old ballroom dance lessons. Finally I get the groove. I try to get Ben and Eddie to move their hips and shoulders. By the end of the evening, I have dirty danced with every Wench and Wenchman on the dance floor. Ben and Eddie even danced with each other! I also had fun getting close to some fishies. I seduced Sarah with an ice cube to secure her for one dance. The Water of Doom with sexy ice cubes was quite nice. Finally, it was getting time to go. Ben and I got kicked out for doing the can-can in a no-dancing area.
Back to the hotel, where we crashed in the hot tub and dreamily dined on peanut-butter pie.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
quote: Ben and Eddie even danced with each other!
No one told me that! Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Feh.
To clarify - I didn't ask to borrow anyone's shower because most of the attendees are women and somehow I couldn't muster the nerve to approach a newly introduced person and ask to borrow their shower. Not to mention I tend to come across as odd (or menacing), depending, so I erred on the side of caution.
I figured I could sneak away and run back home before I hit the "ripe" stage.
And, let's face it, it won't bother me if a woman walked in on my shower. I don't know, however, if they'd ever forgive me, so...
As for sleeping on the floor...well...that was unintentional. The original plan was to sleep at home, but by the time the evening activities were finished, I was invariably too tired to drive. However, that unparalleled Boy Scout training came in very handy, so it's all good.
And Olive?
quote: At the time I thought, "I'll show HIM! He's not getting a whole pack, and not the Juicy Fruit either!"
-Trevor
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Great pictures Megan.
And I swear my hand is higher than it looks!
-Trevor
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
*sigh*
I wish I'd been there to kick his butt for you, Olivia.
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
quote:And I swear my hand is higher than it looks!
Yeah, it took all my willpower not to caption that picture, "Lucky Trevor" or...well...something worse. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
*snarf*
Thank you Megan. I appreciate your self control.
-Trevor
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
quote:Not to mention I tend to come across as odd (or menacing), depending, so I erred on the side of caution.
You do??
Could have fooled me. Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
He's a big, scary, menacing Teddy Bear. Emma loved him, though. Babies are good judges of character.
But she also liked Ben...
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
I've known him to be menacing on occasion...but in general, yeah, he's a teddy bear. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
quote: He's a big, scary, menacing Teddy Bear. Emma loved him, though. Babies are good judges of character.
But she also liked Ben...
Emma is a flirt. In general, she likes anyone with a... um... need to shave. Yeah, that's it. Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
Hey! SHe liked me because i'm awesome!
Gosh! Idiots!
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Ben, her attatchment to you goes beyond the normal flirting. I don't know what to make of it--
except to watch out when she's a teenager. Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
KQ, that's probably not a bad idea in any case, just in case that whole "dirty mind when tired" thing is hereditary. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Or I could just make her go to bed at 9:30 every night for the rest of her life so she doesn't get tired.
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
...only to have her go completely crazy once she gets to college.
I've seen that one happen in my family. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
*sigh* I suppose I'll just have to teach her where the line is.
Ben being over the line, of course. Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
Ben's no good for defining the line, he's over the horizon. I, on the other hand, am close to the line--on which side I leave as an exercise for the student.
Hmmm, Emma did panic a little when you handed her off to me at the airport--maybe she just likes bad boys. But what'cha gonna do? Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Lock her in her room from ages 14 to 35?
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
No, I think desensitization is the key. Just keep bringing her to WenchCons. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Well, yes, of course. All the years I'm not too pregnant to go, anyway. It will be a tradition.
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
quote:I shared the Water of Doom- actually, I have to admit to instigating it- I went and got it and forcibly passed it around to everyone, so I apologize. All the things they've been trying to beat into my head in nursing school about germs must go out the window when the dancing gets hot.
Make that two nurses whose infection control principles went out the window Saturday night. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
My mother was horrified. But she wasn't surprised Abby didn't get it.
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
next wenchcon in Europe. ok?
Posted by alluvion (Member # 7462) on :
gals,
I've been wondering for a time what might be the right format for an absurdist (game) "add your own" type of thread. Any ideas you might have would be appreciated.
alluvion
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
Wenches are good at absurdity, but I don't fully understand what you mean.
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
Ben!
I HAD to tell you... I showwed off some of the pics Mine and others' to another group of online writer buddy people. I got a bit of polite "aren'y you cute" comments, but only one person in the pictures got an "OMG, who is THAT!?" and it was YOU, baby.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Which pic was it? Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
He was in several of the ones I showed them. The group pics, the lunch pics I nicked from Megan, but I think the first one I showed was this one:
or they just couldn't get past my mussed up hair, eitherway i'm an attention grabber!
ignore the fact i was the only male in the picture.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Ben has a fanclub!
-Trevor
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
There were several pictures most of them group shots. Here's the comment I got, verbatim:
quote: Really nice bunch of pics. It looks like it was a lot of fun. On a pervy note, who was that boy in the glasses? He's one nice looking piece of...um...whatever.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Heh, too bad they couldn't see the doomed shot of you and Frisco...
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
Honestly, my husband wouldn't have minded the doomed shot. I thought it was a funny picture: Frisco lying next to a big black blur, *snort*
But yeah. Ben. Ben was in several shots along with everyone else, mostly I linked to group shots or costume shots. They loved the Baby Gollum, btw!
They guy was really disappointed when I told him Ben was taken. And not gay.
[ March 18, 2005, 12:50 PM: Message edited by: Olivetta ]
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
How do you know? Lindsay could just be his cover... Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Because Ophelia can only cover so much.
-Trevor
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Ben
Poor Ben.
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
I'm just teasin' > Everybody knows that Ben's All Man!
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Yes Olive - that is indeed what we were wondering.
-Trevor
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
Don't laugh because I am a sex kitten in the eyes of men AND women.
[ March 18, 2005, 12:57 PM: Message edited by: Ben ]
Posted by Ophelia (Member # 653) on :
Kitten?
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
cow?
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Horse?
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
I'll let Ophelia fill in the blanks on this one.
-Trevor
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
sex horse doesn't have a good ring to it.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
But a male horse is a stallion. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I once gave my husband a t-shirt that says "Hello, my name is STUD" (like one of those nametags).
He wore it to work when we found out I was pregnant. Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
Everybody knows Lyndsie's just bearding for Ben. [edit:btw, "bearding" is slang for "covering for"]
[ March 18, 2005, 02:50 PM: Message edited by: Mormo ]
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
Hmm...that's interesting...in the pictures you took from me, I think Ben looked quite goofy. Not that he's not a handsome enough lad under other circumstances, but I always seemed to catch him making a funny face.
Edited to add, you being Olivetta, since that wasn't at all clear.
[ March 18, 2005, 02:03 PM: Message edited by: Megan ]
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
Weird you say that Megan, those are the pictures of my i'm most comfortable with. The ones where i'm sitting at the table on sunday.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Maybe goofy is just who you are.
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
Hey, it wasn't a criticism. I'm married to a very goofy guy! And if goofy is who you are, then be proud!
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Yeah! Take your shirt off! Dance around a little! Do the chicken dance! Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Did I mention set up a webcam for us to watch it? Posted by JaneX (Member # 2026) on :
She was being all camera shy, so I'm glad somebody got one with her in it. Plus, she spent all day Saturday with Ron and the Boys.
I think I was totally drunk in the hottub. One weak little 6 oz margarita... *sigh* It reminded me that I don't like drinking.
As Morbo pointed out, at least I'm not a mean or depressive drunk, just a babbler. The thing was mostly ice, too. *facepalm*
Oh, and about Ben... I think the guy who liked his looks is into the goofy.
quote: Straight boys are so damn cute! Thanks for dashing hopes for cute, geeky gay boys actually existing in the world.
;-)
That's what he said. Personally, I think Ben is totally adorable. I would have been mad for him myself, in a younger day. I love 'dorky'. That said, I married the most non-dorky guy ever, though he is dorky-tolerant.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I think my husband is in the same general "looks" category as Ben-- you know, same kind of build, same goofy hair, same kind of strong features... 'Cept no glasses, my one sorrow. I can't wait for him to hit middle age and need reading glasses (at least, his mom does; his dad died before we knew if he would. So he still may have a 50/50 chance of not needing them, like, ever).
So, Ben, if my husband ever dies or anything, you're on my "to stalk" list. Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
You'll have to watch out for Lindsay, though. She was a gymnast. She's little, but wiley. Just ask Frisco. Posted by Ophelia (Member # 653) on :
Yeah, no stalking of the Ben.
quote:'Cept no glasses, my one sorrow. I can't wait for him to hit middle age and need reading glasses
I get annoyed when Ben wants to wear his contacts instead of his glasses. Or when he talks about how he wants to get laser eye surgery in the future.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Well, maybe you'll get lucky and his eyes will get as bad as mine and he won't be eligible for laser surgery. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I agree...it was much more amusing when we were sleep-deprived.
Ah, well.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
I'm sure it would have been much funnier, had I awoken to a giant bug on or about my face.
-Trevor
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
Maybe so, but I think it was pretty clear to all of us that you were going to be out for the long haul.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
*snicker* In my defense, I'd been up since 06:30 that morning.
-Trevor
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
We seriously could have dumped soda on you and you wouldn't have noticed.
But it would have made a mess. Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
*grins* I'm not usually so out of it that I wouldn't notice the soda shower.
I'm just glad you guys never put that one to the test.
-Trevor
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
You seemed pretty "out" to me, Trevor. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I-- I mean, uh, we were standing there putting stuff on you, talking loudly while people cried, "Not the merchandise!" and giggling through it all.
I don't think the soda would have awakened you. Especially if I did it carefully.
Posted by rav (Member # 7595) on :
Looks and sounds like you guys had fun this year. Wish I could have come. I still want to know what all was recorded from the last wenchcon on that tape Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
ehhh, the worst from last year was just clowning around w/action figures, no blackmail material or anything. But supposedly it was erased, then it "reappeared" on a tape we watched from last year.
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
I just never got around to erasing it.
Besides, Jenny really liked my cinematography in the action figure scenes. Sort of like tha guy who did the movie with barbie dolls with people's hands moving them? *cackles insanely*
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
This is probably not a good time to post this, but I just wanted to say that I have been dreaming about wenchcon and hatrackers since last weekend. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I, uh, had a uh, dream about someone.
But, uh, I'm not going to talk about it. Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
Tease.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
It was Ben, king of the Nose Blow!
-Trevor
Posted by Lucky4 (Member # 1420) on :
No, no, no, dreams about nose blows are called nightmares.
I've been dreaming about Hatrackers since WenchCon too! Nothing blush worthy though. Unfortunately. Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
That just means you're absolutely shameless, Lucky.
-Trevor
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I will tell the story to anyone who catches me on YIM and asks, but I will have to swear you to secrecy first.
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
i'm curious too. do share. did you dream about zack?
Posted by JaneX (Member # 2026) on :
o_O
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Um, no. Although I might have had a nightmare about him if I had been the one to see him running around au naturel.
But it was a very, um, personal dream, under compromising circumstances. Actually, I didn't remember it until my husband woke me and asked me what I was talking about. Then it all came flooding back.
In fact, you guys are not going to get it out of me. Ever. Sorry.
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
I would never EVER tell Ben if you happen to dream about him - he will publish it all over Hatrack if you do. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Let me clarify, then: it wasn't Ben.
Luckily! 'Cause I think Lindsay would kill me, too. Especially considering the circumstances. Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
Hmm, I had a dream about Ben, and she didn't kill me.
Ben did, however, immediately run and post it on Hatrack. Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
I just wanted to say I loved looking at everyone's pics.
My main complaint about the weekend - it was TOO short. Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I forget, is it Frisco or Lalo that posted the naked shots of himself someplace or other?
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Frisco. I think everyone's seen him naked. As far as I know, we've only seen Lalo shirtless.
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
Indeed.
Posted by Lady Jane (Member # 7249) on :
We've seen twinky naked as well.
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
I don't know that I've seen ANY hatrackers naked.
Partially clothed, yes. Naked, no.
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
too bad they're just from behind. Or am I missing a set of pictures somewhere?
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Frisco got to see Zach naked... Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Twinky's picture isn't from behind, but there is a strategically placed guitar that hides the naughty bits.
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
yeah, I meant Frisco's.
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
KQ, that's right, I forgot about that.
But Zach isn't a hatracker per se.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
*wipes brow*
Not that he's a bad guy. Just that we don't need any more naked guys running around the 'rack. Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Please, for the love of any God you choose, stop with the visuals!
-Trevor
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Edit: Hey! Not cool deleting your post and making mine make no sense!
[ March 21, 2005, 05:28 PM: Message edited by: ketchupqueen ]
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
Hmm, I have never seen Twinky's naked picture... Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
I's not terribly memorable.
So, Ela, I have to tell you, the clothes fit wonderfully, and the boys love 'em. It was all I could do to get Robert to let me snatch them away to wash them. Ha!
Thank you, thank you thank you! The jeans especially have been a godsend! My boys wear them out like nothing, at leasdt when they fit long enough for them to.
BTW... I have two plastic foil-type swords that went unclaimed and a tiny weapon, which I can only assume belonged to one of the tiny figures that the design team won.
Oh, and I got to visit with Jamie and Nathan this weekend, too. Ben and Lindsay and all of us went hiking up Kennesaw Mountain (not a very hard hike, but it was plenty for the boys, anyway). Then we ate at Fudruckers. Ben and Lindsay went appartment shopping while the Novaks came back to our house. Jamie napped while Nathan beat the snot out of Ron at Halo. Ron introduced Nathan to the acid-trippy joys of Katamari Damacy (sp?), which was fun.
Ben called several times trying to locate the bus station, then came back with Frisco. We hauled the boys to an amusement/arcade place. Much fun was had, and many tickets foisted on the boys. It was very generous, though I fear the boys may always be hopeful that others will give them huge amounts of tickets.
Frisco accosted me in a most ungentlemanly manner with his ticket-prize sticky-hand. I lacked the will to really hurt him, so he got away with it. I think my son Liam may have stolen a stuffed animal, or else used his "big eye" technique to get one from the lady behind the counter. Little grifter.
Then we all rode go-karts and went to eat. Nathan smashed his finger bloody at the restaurant, much to the shock and horror of all (he's fine). We parted company much later than was strictly good for the boys on a school night, but they seemed none the worse for it.
Jamie and Nathan visited us for dinner on their way to the airport last night, after having been somehow misdirected. I refuse to assign blame, though there are some people who should probably not even try to give other people directions.
Everyone is safely home (except maybe Frisco, and I'm not sure the boy has one). Now all that's left to do is send out the odds and ends to people who left things or whatever. Then I can safely change my phone numbers and move far, far away.
Nah. I love you guys. I'm just really tired. *snooze* Too much excitement for an old lady.
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
Let it be said that somebody really has to go out of their way in order to go the wrong way North of I-85 when coming from 316.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Old, my butt.
I had a blast and really hope we can come down again, sooner than what seems to be once a year.
I'll get around to pics today. *thinks* Yup. I don't have anything due!
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I had a repeatable dream about WenchConners this morning.
Actually, it turned into a nightmare, but before things degenerated, we were having fun. And when the people with guns showed up, I think Trevor might be proud to know that I gave Emma to him and told him to keep her safe as I grabbed the thing I was supposed to be protecting and ran away.
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
I still want to hear about the un-repeatable dream!
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
No. The circumstances themselves are too embarassing. Sorry.
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
*whines*
Awwww...c'mon! You can whisper it in my ear! Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
No. Not unless you're physically here to whisper to. Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
doh! Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
I wondered why I woke up in the middle of the night playing catch with my pillow.
-Trevor
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Sorry I wasn't able to be proactive in your weekend guys, but this has been a very demanding month.
I'm still waiting for the other boot to drop.
-Trevor
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
Have you moved yet?
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
I was in the middle of moving when the kidneys started doing the cha-cha.
The plan was to finish up this weekend, not writhe on the futon in lots of pain. Guess which one ended up happening?
I've only got two more car loads of stuff which I'll probably snag tonight since I'm back to one hundred percent. Well, as close as I ever get to it.
-Trevor
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
Glad your boys like the clothes, Livvy. I have a lot more where that came from.
I am jealous that you got to spend more time with fun Hatrack people.
And I say Pfft! to your claim of being an old lady. Come stand next to me, dearie. Posted by ChaosTheory (Member # 7069) on :
Excuse me for asking but...What is wenchcon? *dodges bricks*
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Check out the pictures. It's the wenches and the wench-men of Hatrack getting together for outrageously outrageous fun.
Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
"wenchmen"??
Surely, there's an alternative? I know, I know, don't call you Shirley.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Hmph. I suggested "man servants", but you didn't like that one.
Not that you have a choice. Man-slave. Posted by Mormo (Member # 5799) on :
Hey! She's oppressing me, did you see that? Ha, now we see the flaws inherent to the system!
Anne, thanks for your email, it was nice.
[ March 23, 2005, 02:04 AM: Message edited by: Mormo ]
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
I like "wenchmen". I think it has a nice ring to it.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
quote: Hey! She's oppressing me, did you see that?
Hmph. If mywhip smiley worked here, I would have used that, too. Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
Yes, and we used to call the young Wenches 'Wenchlings' as I recall.
To answer the question... Many years ago, our own Jenny Gardener started a thread called LotR Wenches after seeing Fellowship of the Ring for the second or third time. It ended up being some 40 odd pages of role-playing in a ficticious place called the Wenches' Tavern, where the Wenches served the heroes of Middle Earth refreshment. It was fun. We had versions of the Tavern for each movie, I think.
I saved some of them, though I think they are all gone from Hatrack now.
WenchCon started when Belle and I made plans to get together to see The Two Towers. People said, "Oh, can I come, too?" And we said, "Sure! But don't you live, like, hundreds of miles away?" "That's okay, you find us a nive hotel to stay in, and we're golden."
Something like that. I figured it would be over when there were no more movies, but this year, once again, many people (mostly Hatrackers, but not all) gathered to dress up in costumes and play together.
Good clean nerdy fun! Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
So what are the symptoms of the wenchcon plague?
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Some get nausea, headache, and congestion. Some jump straight to the loss of the voice. In some, followed by a cough.
Sorry again, everyone.
Almost forgot: In young victims, can be accompanied by a low-grade fever.
[ March 23, 2005, 09:40 AM: Message edited by: ketchupqueen ]
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
So what about congestion of the nose, sinuses, ears, sore throat, low grade fever, headache?
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
i don't think the nerdcon can be blamed for all of that jamie.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Unless you touched someone's lingering snot, I don't think you have the plague. It progressed very fast, and everyone except me and Ems (I think we kept re-infecting each other) was over it pretty fast.
[ March 23, 2005, 09:48 AM: Message edited by: ketchupqueen ]
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Yeah, I saw the doc this morning. It's a sinus infection. Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
quote:I saved some of them, though I think they are all gone from Hatrack now.
I think the last of the Wenches Tavern threads may still be around, but I ain't looking for it on my hubby's slow laptop.
(My computer is being repaired.) Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
I haven't read these threads, just glommed onto WenchCon II last year and WenchCon III this year, mainly because they happened in Atlanta. I enjoyed both Cons immeasurably. Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
Yay for Morbo for finding them.
I figured that at least one of them was still around.
I actually participated only minimally in any of them (too busy with work). My main motivation for going to wenchcon has been to see people - and Atlanta is close enough for me to drive. Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
I realize how late this is, but Kneebyter just gave me his pictures from Wenchcon to share.
![[Wave]](graemlins/wave.gif)
![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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)![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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They're just jealous because they don't have cool cloaks. I'm sure.![[ROFL]](graemlins/rofl.gif)
(If you want to hear something really awful, ask me about charades...)
![[Dont Know]](graemlins/dontknow.gif)
![[Grumble]](graemlins/grumble.gif)
She just made my list! ![[No No]](graemlins/nono.gif)
![[The Wave]](graemlins/thewave.gif)
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I don't usually drink, which should be obvious considering what happened after. ![[Evil]](graemlins/evil.gif)
Kneebyter had some real swords and other blades, most of them edged. He let us handle them, but asked that we wipe off our fingerprints after. Jenny was scary trying to wipe off a sword on her clothes, so she tried using my sweatered armpit, which I went along with, because I'm easily led and have no healthy sense of self-preservation.![[Laugh]](graemlins/laugh.gif)
![[Hat]](graemlins/hat.gif)
![[Blushing]](graemlins/blushing.gif)
Then Lucky started in on the unintentional double entendres, and you could visibly see him biting his tounge. ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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![[Group Hug]](graemlins/grouphug.gif)
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![[Smile]](http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/philex17/detail?.dir=/d02f&.dnm=d937.jpg&.src=ph)
![[Monkeys]](graemlins/monkeys.gif)