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Fish fingers and custard!!!! That could only mean one thing... Doctor Who 50th Anniversary viewing party!! It was a fantastic weekend which I'm going to say started Thursday evening when I went to see Catching Fire.<br />
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This was me at work Thursday, way too excited to see the movie. I didn't really have time to get a costume together since I was travelling like crazy this month. Nothing a Mockingjay pin can't fix though! The movie was everything I wanted. JLaw can do no wrong in my eyes. I liked it so much that I'm going to see it again tonight in IMAX. The audience was a little dissapointing, our theater was only half full - so not quite the opening night experience I was hoping for. But guess it didn't really matter in the end because the movie was FANTASTIC.<br />
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Saturday I woke up and immediately started baking. I bought some great Doctor Who cookie cutters from <a href="http://warpzoneprints.com/" target="_blank">WarpZonePrints</a>. I dyed the dough blue and grey since I didn't have time to ice the cookies.<br />
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I bought TARDIS, DW, Weeping Angel, Adipose, Cyberman, Dalek, and Doctors 8,9, & 10 cookie cutters. Though I didn't use the Doctors and realized after I finished that I also forgot to use the Dalek cutter. Oh well - They'll get some use for the Christmas Special.</div>
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I threw some disco dust on the cookies once they came out of the oven.</div>
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I love how they turned out!</div>
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I found a <a href="http://bakingdom.com/2011/08/fish-fingers-and-custard.html" target="_blank">recipe</a> online for cookies that look like fish fingers. (Because who really eats fish fingers with custard...) I bought a set of shot glasses at Comic-con this summer that display all 11 doctors and have a disappearing TARDIS on the back. (When the glass is warm the TARDIS turns white). They were perfect vessels for custard!</div>
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I bought a groupon a while back for personalized M&Ms. I've always wanted to make them. I chose 4 different phrases - "Allons-y", "Geronimo!", "Doctor Who?", and "Bow ties are cool" and had them printed on TARDIS blue M&Ms. mmmmmmm</div>
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I also set out some 3D glasses and bow ties for the event. Got to represent both my Doctors!</div>
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I got a silicone Doctor Who ice mold for the 50th Anniversary Reddit exchange so we could drink in style - melting Dalek's and TARDIS's alike. The movie was just... SO GOOD. Everything I could have wanted. The interactions between the 3 doctors was gold. So many great one-liners. </div>
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I went and saw it again in the theater last night in 3D. It was so fun. Unlike Catching Fire, the theater was completely sold out and the crowd was awesome.</div>
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My favorite was the 6 year old behind us in line dressed as a Cyberman telling everyone they would be deleted. One day I hope to have a child as awesome as this.</div>
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I even brought my own special snack for the movie :) It was great to watch it with so many fellow Whovians who screamed every time David Tennant came on screen, gasped, cheered, clapped, and yelled in all the right places, and nearly lost their minds towards the end of the movie. (if you saw it, you probably know what part I'm talking about.)</div>
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Last week I talked about our costumes and all the little ways you can dress up at Comic-con with the free stuff you get. This week is dedicated to all the people I saw who had awesome cosplays. Above is me and the sibs posing with Shawn of the Dead who looks eerily like Simon Pegg. In fact, when my brother and I went to the screening for The World's End, this guy was there in this costume, and Simon Pegg just stopped what he was saying and exclaimed "Hey look! It's me!"<br />
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I love to people watch. That's probably part of the reason I like amusement parks so much. There is no better people watching that at Comic-con. It's part of what makes waiting in line for 10 hours and then never getting into the panel you wanted bearable. You're constantly being entertained by people's creativity and dedication to their costumes.<br />
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While weaving in and out of the line for Hall H, we definitely saw a lot of awesome costumes. You can never go wrong with Muppets.</div>
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Here is somebody doing Pride & Prejudice & Zombies right! Muddy skirt, brain in hand, bloody hand print - the works! (The brain is actually a clutch and I bought one when I got home because who doesn't need a brain clutch?)<br />
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I loved seeing all of the Game of Thrones cosplay. Now that I finally caught up on the show, I could actually understand who everyone was! </div>
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Seeing hobbits always makes me a little giddy. I do love a good group cosplay!<br />
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I didn't even know what this was when I took a picture of it. I was just like "ooh weird moon shoes!" Thank god for my brother who plays video games and can explain who all the people are!<br />
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I love when people cross dress. A guy as Hit Girl!? Hilarious. I saw a lot of women Doctor's that were fantastic.<br />
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It's fun to see people thinking outside of the box. This girl dressed up as black and white Dorothy from Wizard of Oz. So clever! Here are a bunch we saw walking around the floor:<br />
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Since last week was Halloween and I have costumes on the mind, I thought I'd throw up my re-cap of costumes from Comic-con! (Meant to do this in July - oops.) First up - all of the stuff clan Cottle wore! This was another fantastic year at San Diego Comic-con. My brother and I flew out together with his Chewy back-pack. Gotta start things off nerdy!<br />
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We stayed at the Embassy Suites and some how lucked out and got the King Daddy of all suites.My brother and I were a little delirious as we didn't get there until midnight (3am our time). We opened the DOUBLE DOORS to find we had a 2 bedroom suite. Was not expecting that. It had it's own entrance way, a giant living room, dining room table, and 2 bathrooms! Needless to say there was a lot of jumping up and down and running around in excited circles. My sister's flight got delayed so she didn't get in until around 2 am. We told her we got the crappiest room so it was fun to be woken up by her WTF!?! yells as she walked in. </div>
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Lots of different vendors pass out things you can dress up with. Check out these cool Hello Kitty headbands!<br />
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You could even take your picture in Uncle Scrooge's money vault. Not really dressing up, but I did get to wear a hat. After taking it all in on Thursday, my sister and I woke up early to don our first costumes of the weekend.<br />
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Strawberry Shortcake and Blueberry Muffin! We bought these wigs last year and formed our costumes around them. We spent most of Friday waiting in line to get into Hall H, which never actually happened. (cue the sad trombone!) But we did have fun in line. Tristan showed up late and we had to assemble his costume in line. Luckily people at Comic-con are awesome and everyone around us helped out. </div>
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He was just a bunch of grapes but his costume got the most comments out of all of ours. Everybody thought he was something different. It was either Fruit of the Loom, the <a href="http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/tv_shows/adventuretime/characters/lumpyspaceprincess/index.html" target="_blank">Lumpy Space Princess</a>, or the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqgiEQXGetI" target="_blank">Grapist</a>. (We had to look up that last one). It was hilarious seeing what all these different people thought Tristan was when in reality, he wore it because it was a cheap costume.<br />
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His balloons slowly deflated throughout the day, and a few of them popped. It was great watching him try to squeeze through crowds on the floor.<br />
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At least he paved a pretty nice path for Chelsea and I to follow!<br />
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Tristan and I went to an advanced screening of The World's End where we got t-shirts and cool mouth lights so we could look like the Aliens from the movie. We all dressed up again on Sunday the day of the Doctor Who panel - so I of course dressed up as a Jenny - The Doctor's Daughter.<br />
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When you're waiting in lines for hours and sleeping on concrete, you want a comfortable costume. I tried to think of which blonde character I could be from Doctor Who. Then I remembered Jenny and thought that it was the perfect costume! Easy to assemble, and I got to buy new boots!<br />
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Chelsea and Tristan went the much more detailed route. They dressed up as characters from Bioshock Infinite. A lot of people stopped to ask them for a picture - the true test of a good costume! So as you can see, there's always a way to cosplay at Comic-con - whether you've spent months preparing, or just use something they're handing out for free. Next week I'll throw up a post on the awesome costumes I saw other people wearing.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13030715680996827683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415336362015842417.post-79845237784284568032013-10-31T15:48:00.000-04:002013-10-31T15:53:36.370-04:00Happy Halloweeeeeeeen!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One of my favorite days of the year! I get to wear orange and black striped tights to work, eat tons of candy, and see adorable children in costumes. Also I'm keeping up a tradition I started for myself when I moved into my current house 7 years ago of watching Hocus Pocus and ordering Pizza Hut. BEST NIGHT EVER!!<br />
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Today is also my little sister's 25th birthday. TWENTY-FIVE. She's old and I'm OLDER. waahhhhh. But We always have a great time together and I wish her the BEST birthday ever! (Though I guess it can't be that great if I'm not there to celebrate with her.) HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHELSEA!<br />
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One of my good friends Mary got married in September. I offered to make a grooms cake for the reception. Her husband is really into racing so we decided to try to incorporate his car into the cake.<br />
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I wasn't 100% sure how I was going to make the car. I bought red fondant in case I wanted to mold it out of that, but I wasn't sure how to get the white stripes on the side, so in the end I decided to mold it out of white fondant and paint it. I used <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=americolor&sprefix=americo%2Caps&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aamericolor" target="_blank">AmericColor</a> edible paints.<br />
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The inside of the cake is probably my favorite. I bought a checkered cake kit a while back and never knew what to use it for. When I asked what kind of cake they wanted, the bride said she liked white cake and the groom liked chocolate. I thought, I can do BOTH! And added bonus, it looks like a checkered racing flag. #Winning.<br />
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This is what the set looks like. (Bonus: hidden Mickey!) Pretty simple.<br />
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And then the center ring with the opposite. Once all the rings are filled, you slowly remove the plastic...<br />
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Tah-dah! It's a little messy, but not as bad as you would think. Then you bake the cakes normally.<br />
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I made the almond butter cream frosting to fill between the layers.<br />
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Then I rolled out some green fondant I bought (I used the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_6?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=fondarific&sprefix=fondar%2Caps%2C213&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Afondarific" target="_blank">Fondarific</a> brand because I think it tastes the best out of all the ones I've tried) and covered the frosted cake.<br />
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Next I trimmed off the edges and added a black road, the fondant car, and some mini fondant cones I made.<br />
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Here's the cake displayed at their wedding! The ribbon around the bottom was money. It made the cake look 100 times better. It's a simple and easy way to make the edges look smooth.<br />
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Here's what the inside looked like. Now I want to go eat some chocolate. Probably going to have to buy my trick-or-treaters some more candy because I don't think what I have is going to last until Halloween!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13030715680996827683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415336362015842417.post-53596129257233425152013-10-25T15:22:00.001-04:002013-10-25T15:41:49.676-04:00Friday Musings #40<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last weekend I went to NYC to celebrate my parent's 35th wedding anniversary. We had a fantastic time and I got to see two AMAZING shows. Saturday night I saw Cinderella with my parents. I grew up watching the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rodgers-Hammersteins-Cinderella-Lesley-Warren/dp/B00005RYKY/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1382726104&sr=8-2&keywords=roger+and+hammerstein%27s+cinderella" target="_blank">Lesley Ann Warren</a> version on TV and LOVE the music. (I apologize to all of my coworkers because I've been singing it non-stop around the office.)<br />
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The costumes in the show are fantastic. I mean, just FANTASTIC. Cinderella's costume changes are mind blowing. I heard that the costume designer used to work for Siegfried & Roy so there's definitely a magical element.<br />
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I mean, look at that. HOW!?! (note: this was not how it happened when I watched it, her dress changes when she's still at her house, so I don't know if that was a permanent change, or temporary. It was still really cool.) This play just made me so happy. When you watch it you just get that child like sense of wonderment and really believe that anything is possible.<br />
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On Sunday I went to see Once with my friend Kristen. I was a big fan of the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0907657/?ref_=nv_sr_6" target="_blank">movie</a> so it's definitely been on my list of shows I want to see. Of course when I heard that Arthur Darvill was in it, I knew I HAD to see it ASAP.<br />
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The show was awesome. You have to be so talented to be on Broadway in general, but I feel like you have to be extra talented to be in this show because everyone it it can sing, dance, AND play an instrument! The set is a bar and during intermission, you can walk up to order drinks! Also before the show, all the actors were just jamming on stage and they let the audience members also stand on stage to watch. It was so cool! Unfortunately we had tickets in literally the last row so we just went straight to our seats. The whole show was great.<br />
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Kristen was super patient with me after the show as me and about 30 other fans (most Whovians) waited to get our playbills signed. I even got to take a picture with AD!! IT WAS AWESOME.<br />
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If you're in NYC I highly recommend both of these shows. And if you don't have plans to go there anytime soon, then I suggest you make plans!<br />
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And just because I really love Rory Williams/Pond, here's one of him punching Hitler for the road.<br />
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I thought it appropriate on Prince George's Christening day to talk about the baby shower my friend Virginia and I threw in his honor.<br />
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A friend of mine hosted a baby shower that was mustache-themed. HOW CUTE IS THAT? There are quite a few mustache cookie cutters out there, but I went with <a href="http://www.amazon.com/General-OTBP-MOUSTACHE-3-75-B0891/dp/B00AZ3E012/ref=sr_1_1?rps=1&ie=UTF8&qid=1375976157&sr=8-1&keywords=mustache+cookie+cutter" target="_blank">this one</a> from Amazon.com due mostly to its primeness (2 day free shipping FTW). The cookies aren't too big, one batch of dough made about 55.<br />
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"The way I see it, you can sit around here and mope... or you can start a boy band."<br />
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I've been marathoning Game of Thrones. I finished the first book when I was on vacation and decided that I was just going to watch the TV show from here on out. I don't have the time to sit down and read it all in one sitting, and I can't keep the characters straight when I read a few chapters a week. I am loving the show - I finished season 2 in 4 days. I wanted to include gifs from the show in this post, but I'm too afraid of what I'll find on tumblr.<br />
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I am constantly surprised by this story and how it makes me start rooting for the characters I hate - they all have such dimension. I think Tywin is a horrible excuse for a human being (like seriously - give Tyrion some love - he is obviously the best of all your offspring) but dammit if that man doesn't swoop in and save the day. TWICE now!<br />
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These are tea cups I painted for the Reddit Doctor Who exchange. I got really excited when I saw that my match was a tea lover. I thought it'd be great to make a Doctor Who themed tea set. I brainstormed for a while what to.<br />
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I came up with four designs that I thought wouldn't be too hard to paint. I then went searching for a canvas and ended up buying a set of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004EBU57Y/ref=oh_details_o09_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1" target="_blank">Gracie China, Ruffle Collection tea cups</a>. The ruffled saucers are beautiful! I ended up dropping the first set I bought and broke a cup. (skillllz)<br />
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After letting the paint dry for a day, I hand painted the DW TARDIS on each saucer - some of them turned out better than others.<br />
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I also painted phrases on the bottom of each tea cup. The <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Martha-Stewart-Glass-Paint-Brush/dp/B00BRRO2NG/ref=sr_1_2?s=arts-crafts&ie=UTF8&qid=1372346084&sr=1-2&keywords=martha+stewart+paint+brush+glass" target="_blank">brushes</a> I bought were nice because they had a VERY fine tip so that helped with the writing.<br />
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So that's the basic rundown of the Doctor Who tea set! I have 2 tea cups left that aren't broken/painted with an orange Union Jack so I think I may have to paint myself a TARDIS and 10th Doctor mug. And maybe throw a bow-tie somewhere in there. </div>
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One year I was at MGM Studios in Walt Disney World when a screaming crowd ran by the store my friend Megan and I were in. Megan looked at me and said "Grab your camera, I bet it's somebody famous!" So we ran outside and who did we see but the King of Pop - Michael Jackson. I was standing TEN feet from MJ. I grew up watching his music video marathons on MTV (you know, when they used to play music videos). Black or White and Will You Be There were two of my favorite songs. (I loved Free Willy.) This was a very exciting moment for me. He was surrounded by Disney security, but still let a few of his fans in and shook their hands. Megan and I didn't get that close, but we do like to tell people how we rode Star Tours with him. (Okay, so we were in different cars - but that's just a technicality.) After that I loved MJ even more - and man could he dance.<br />
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I was in London with my sister when I heard the news that Michael Jackson had died. It just seemed unreal. I remember two very tall British men walking past on the street and telling us. It probably wasn't until the next morning when our hostel was blasting Black or White at breakfast that it really sunk in. Every bar we went to was playing Man in the Mirror (which I'm ashamed to say didn't even register on my favorite MJ songs until that weekend.) It's hard to believe it's already been 4 years. RIP buddy. We'll always have Star Tours. </div>
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I got back from my RI/ME trip about 2 weeks ago. Then I was crazy busy catching up with work and making some crafts for the Reddit Exchanges I was in. I made these magnets for the Disney Exchange. My sister made some with family pictures for my mom a few years ago and I have wanted to make them ever since. They make a great gift and you can customize them anyway you want!<br />
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These are all the tools I started out with. I bought 2 different sizes of clear flat marbles from Michaels. They were only about $3 each (so this is also a relatively cheap gift!). Then I found a bunch of different Disney photos I liked and sized them to fit to the marbles. If you'd like to make the same ones I did here is a <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7t6B6osph9YNzBXOWlmYW85M28/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">pdf of the stills</a> I used. My giftee is also a Doctor Who fan so I made a few magnets with the Karen Hallion Disney mash-ups.<br />
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I'm leaving for a week long vacation with my parents on Saturday. Our original plan was to go to Newport, RI for a couple of days and then Prince Edward Island for a few days because I am obsessed with Anne of Green Gables.<br />
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Unfortunately upon further research, the <a href="http://www.avonlea.ca/" target="_blank">Avonlea Village</a> doesn't open until late June. So we rerouted that half of our trip to Maine. (What up LOBSTAAAAHHHH.) Hopefully I'll make it to Canada one day... though perhaps not in the winter.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13030715680996827683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415336362015842417.post-67247662367028353172013-05-17T16:29:00.003-04:002013-05-17T16:29:58.960-04:00Friday Musings #36I'm leaving shortly to go on my church retreat. I had my first foray in editing for the promo videos. I have to say, they came out pretty well.<br />
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The Princess Peach/Leonardo attacks are pretty left field. But we wanted something ridiculous, and luckily I have a lot of costumes. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!! </div>
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He had the most beautiful curls as a child. His hair was long enough that we could put it in pigtails - which of course we did after putting him into one of Chelsea's old dresses and then we went around calling him Tristina for the rest of the day. Ahhh siblings, we're so nice to each other.<br />
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My brother has made some mistakes along the way. There was one time he shaved off one eyebrow for a dare.<br />
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The first weekend in May is delightfully nerdy. The scene above was at my local comic book store Saturday morning for <a href="http://www.freecomicbookday.com/Home/1/1/27/992" target="_blank">Free Comic Book Day</a>. It also happened to be International Star Wars Day! (May 4th). Last year I really lamented not having my act together and doing something for May the 4th. I planned then and there to host a Star Wars marathon in 2013.<br />
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Saturday was crazy as I pretty much didn't do anything for the Star Wars party until that morning. I also had to cram in a trip to my local comic book store. I wanted to buy Brian K. Vaughan's new series Saga but the line was nuts when I arrived so I just looked through all the free comics instead. (My brother ended up buying Saga at his comic book store so win!) I had never been to the comic store before but it is pretty awesome. They have a large gaming section with a ton of great board games and a room with lots of tables so you can play them. I am definitely going to have to go back there soon.<br />
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I think they look great un-iced. You can see all the detail much better than if I had iced them. On a slightly related side-note, Friday night I went to see John Hodgman do stand-up and <a href="http://www.paulandstorm.com/" target="_blank">Paul and Storm</a> opened for him. I had heard of them before but never actually heard any of their music. THEY ARE FANTASTIC. Their songs are hilarious and a lot of them are about nerd culture. Here is one they sang Friday night called <i>Thanksgiving</i> that is pretty appropriate for May the Fourth. (Note: contains some curse words so may want to listen with headphones if you're in a public place.)<br />
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I knew I was short on time and I wanted to do some sort of cupcake. I decided making cupcake toppers was the easiest/least time consuming way to have fun themed cupcakes. (I also knew I'd be sitting around for a while waiting for the concert to start on Friday so I'd have time to cut out pictures.) I picked out 4 different iconic pictures (Han Solo, Darth Vader, R2D2, and the Millennium<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"> </span></span>Falcon) and pasted them into a powerpoint slide. It took a little googling to figure out how to rotate the pictures 180 degrees for the backside of the toppers. If you'd like to make your own toppers, here is a <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7t6B6osph9YUTF0bFFVVUJIN2c/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">pdf version</a> of what I had or you can choose your own images!<br />
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Of course I also sprinkled them with some star dust! (aka, disco dust). The last thing I attempted to do was carve a watermelon to look like the death star. (they make it look so easy on the internet!)<br />
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I was doing this AS guests were arriving and also using whatever I could find in my kitchen to carve so it didn't come out the best, but still cute! (Plus watermelon! YUM) If I ever do this again, I think I'll dig out my pumpkin carving set.<br />
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I wore this great <a href="http://shirt.woot.com/offers/thats-no-moon" target="_blank">woot shirt</a> (which GLOWS IN THE DARK) for the occasion and started off with my hair in the Princess Leia side buns. They started falling out and Leia changes her hairdo each movie anyways, so I ended up with the Heidi braids by the end.<br />
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Here I am with my lovely friends after the race. I finished in 2:36:01 which is practically 15 minutes faster than the 2:50:59 I ran the Rock n' Roll Half 5 weeks prior. I paced at 11:54 for Nike. Now that it's getting hotter outside I'm going to retire from running for the time being and try to tone up. I'll hit the treadmill every now and then to try and get my mile time down to 10 minutes. There were some fun signs at the race too. My favorite was "I know this is long and hard, but since when has that ever been a problem?" #ThatsWhatSheSaid. Now I know what you're DYING to see...<br />
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The little blue box! (Which I wont lie, I saw somebody holding up a sign about running towards the "little blue box" and my first thought was "ooh! another Doctor Who fan!" To be fair, my shirt was Doctor Who themed so I kinda had it on the mind.)<br />
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The front of the shirt says "Companion Training Program" and the back reads "I run so when I meet The Doctor, I'm ready!" My brilliant friend Marissa made it. Best running shirt ever? or best running shirt ever?<br />
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Okay sorry, side-tracked. So instead of a medal, you got a Tiffany's necklace for finishing the race. I was a little nervous because there's a lot of Tiffany's stuff I don't like. But this necklace is AWESOME.<br />
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How cute is that!?</div>
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So yeah. That was pretty much the rundown (heh) of the race. The course was great (super flat) and the weather was great (sunny and cool) and the whole day was GREAT.<br />
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(This never gets old.) Seriously. Where has the time gone? This year is almost HALF OVER. What the heck?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13030715680996827683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415336362015842417.post-67081753792538525582013-04-24T14:27:00.000-04:002013-04-24T14:27:54.871-04:00THERE IS NO TIME!I've been feeling a little overwhelmed lately. There are so many things I want to do, and just not enough time to do them all! I haven't been crafting or baking in what seems like FOREVER. Mostly due to travelling a ton (seriously, this will be the first weekend I've stayed home all month and May is not looking any better) and having a busy social calendar.<br />
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I kid. I kid. But seriously - I need a week to catch up on all my TV and finally finish one of the 6 half knit projects I have going on. This weekend is the Nike Women's Half and I CANNOT WAIT for it to be over and to not have to train anymore. Not that I've been doing a fantastic job at it, but it's hard to find time to run for 2 hours on the weekend and I just about died running in the 80 degree weather we had a few weeks ago. WHAT WAS UP WITH THAT!?<br />
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I'm going to take the summer to lose weight and get my mile time back down to 10 minutes for long distance runs. We'll see how that goes. I do have the May the Fourth Be With You party next weekend. So I'm excited to plan for that. It has been probably about 15 years since I've seen any of the original Star Wars movies. I think we can all agree that that is extremely way too long.<br />
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I seriously cannot get enough of Pic Stitch. Who doesn't love a collage!? I traveled to NYC this past weekend with my sister and friend Megan. I ATE SO MUCH.<br />
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Waffles & Dinges = heavenly goodness. It's a Belgian waffle and you can pick what toppings you want.... <a href="http://www.speculoosspread.com/" target="_blank">speculoos</a>, nutella, bananas, berries, whipped cream, powdered sugar... etc. Words can't even describe how good this is. If you ever go to NYC, you can find their cart at the south east entrance of Central Park. Unfortunately it is as messy as it is delicious and I proceeded to drop a big piece in my lap. Nothing like having a big brown chocolate spot on the front of your pants as you're walking into Tiffany's to oogle all the sparkly. I am the picture of class.<br />
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I ran 8 miles Saturday morning through Central Park.(Which hopefully just about burned the Dinges off...) It was fantastic. I ran by the Bethesda Fountain which was in one of the more recent Doctor Who episodes I watched. I had never seen it in real life before so I was not prepared to just stumble upon it while running and I got WAY too excited. Like it was seriously one of the highlights of my trip.<br />
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The other highlight?? MEETING CHRIS HARDWICK. I've been listening to the <a href="http://www.nerdist.com/" target="_blank">Nerdist</a> podcast while I run. I highly recommend it. He interviews tons of people: comedians, actors, video game people, scientists, authors... the list goes on. I'll get back into crafting eventually... when I'm not busy travelling all over the place. But not this weekend! I'm heading to Charlottesville to visit a friend. Happy Friday!!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13030715680996827683noreply@blogger.com0