Showing posts with label con. Show all posts
Showing posts with label con. Show all posts

Monday, April 21, 2014

Everything Is Awesome!!!!

Had the bestest weekend ever.  Started off with some coffee with my sweet Hubbin, the while he was working I spent 3 glorious hours on the National Mall, people watching, smelling the blooming flowers, looking at the spring green trees and READING, so much reading, so so so so so so so happy.  It was like the most perfect reading day I could imagine.  The weather was warm and breezy, the grass was dry and soft, the sun was out, but not glaring, people were laughing, flowers were blooming, book was awesome, just perfect.  Now this itself would have made for a wonderful day, but there was more in store.  I met my Hubbin for lunch (yay garlic fries) and then we hopped over to Awesome Con.  It was crowded with people dressed up as everything under the sun, it was like geeky Halloween and I was in Heaven.  I got to see a life size R2-D2 from Star Wars
Then we perused the artists aisles where we found this awesome artist who is redesigning book covers
the company is Rock Paper Books and I want to get ALL of his books check it out totally worth it!
Of course we couldn't leave without some sort of souvenir and my amazing Hubbin found me the perfect one!
Yep that is my very own Dragon Egg from the Song of Ice and Fire series, yep he's a keeper.
Now I am home, sipping homemade Sangria made by who else but the Hubbin (maybe I should have titled this post My Hubbin is Awesome) writing this post and trying to decide which book to read next, Ah life is good.  Hope everybody had a great weekend and Happy Reading Everybody!

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Breaking News


Who has the best Hubbin ever?  ME!!!!!!!!!  My sweet, wonderful and amazing Hubbin surprised me with tickets to Awesome Con!  Along with being a bookworm, I am also a loud and proud super geek and am so so so so so excited.  I get to see Sean Astin who played Sam in the Lord of the Rings movies, Danai Gurira and Melissa McBride who play Michone and Carol respectively in the Walking Dead tv series, and the person I may be most excited about is Cary Elwes who will forever be the farm boy Wesley from The Princess Bride movie.  Hey do you know what all of these characters have in common?  That's right they all started out in books, yep the bestest most geektastic things in the universe often have literary origins. Here they are in book form.  The Lord of the Rings, The Walking Dead, and The Princess Bride.  I love going to these Con's just to see the sheer creativity that humans come up with.  Everything from costumes, to artwork, to original literary works, I could just sit in a corner and watch all day long.  I love how every part of the art world comes together, story tellers, musicians, illustrators, artists, actors, everything just combines into one loud and bright bit of awesome.   I will try and have some pics and some adventure stories for you on Monday and/or Tuesday, until then I will have to try and stay productive until this weekend, 'cause I feel like a kid at Christmas!  YAYYAYYAY!