Be prepared for lots of pics and possibly a bit of squee'ing... I haven't squee'd in a long time... However... meeting and talking with Wil Wheaton... you know I squee'd afterward... I immediately called Burton after my meeting with him and she couldn't understand half of what I was saying because I was squee'ing in her ear so much...thankfully when excited I tend to go on repeating myself so she got the jist of what the fuck I was talking about... don't think she's ever seen/heard me so enthusiastic about something before...
I'm going to tell this story with pics... (hence the warning...lol)
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| This is a Minecraft Creeper that I knitted, he's wearing a Heart TT shirt, which just shows how much I was fangirling about meeting him months beforehand. |
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| On Saturday, after already getting a photo done with Wil and Felicia on Friday (where we asked if the lovely, funny, witty and beautiful Anne Wheaton would join us in our photo op - she did! I heart her tons too.) I stood in line to see if Wil and Anne would be willing to autograph the picture. |
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| I was very excited to be there. |
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| This is Thor-girl, who the day before on Friday was Dovahkiin -girl, she was right behind us in line, so we got to know her pretty well (The Man has pics of her in both costumes, didn't see her on Sunday so don't know if she had a third costume) She didn't mind my fan-girling because she was doing it as well. |
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| I step up and Wil had just told the girl who was over saying hi to Felicia to give her a hard time about the fact that she wasn't going to be at Fanexpo this year. So I waited patiently and then just smiled and said Hi. |
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| In my pocket was three D20's that we brought to give to him and I was going to give those to him first... but then he saw what was tucked under my arm. And said... |
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| Wil: Is that a Creeper plushie?? Me: Oh, um Yeah. |
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| Wil: Ooo Can I see it? Me: Well actually I knitted it for you... |
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| Wil: *gasps* It's for me? Me: Yeah *laughs* Wil: Like to keep forever?? (I love just how animated Wil gets when people have stuff for him, or when they tell him how much they love *insert his stuffs here* - he's like a kid on christmas morning) |
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| Wil: oh my god....squish squish (as he starts squishing the creepers head and body) lmao |
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| More squishy noises and laughing amongst us all...lol |
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| Wil tsss'ing the creeper toward Anne (whose face is priceless at this point) |
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| Wil takes a look at the Creeper and yes *hangs head* pulls a dog hair from it and proceeds to ask if we have a dog...colour me a little embarrassed about that, until he shrugged and said that he knows how it is...lol |
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| Wil: Wait...does that say I heart TableTop? Me: Yeah, we love Table Top at our house, we watch them all together and have purchased games for our house solely based on how much fun they looked on Table Top and haven't been disappointed. |
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| Think it was here that he teared up and then just went back to squishing Creeper. |
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| More squishing and a bit of gushing... |
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| there was a it of a pattern after that.. As I watched him look the creeper over and give him squishes while commenting about how awesome it is |
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| Talking to him about Table Top some more... |
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| Talking about knitting the Creeper, believe he had asked how long it took me |
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| A few weeks, here and there...was my response... |
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| Wil: I'm going to Tweet this right now. |
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| Wil: Gah! Creeper going on Twitter :) |
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| Takes picture.... |
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| Wil: What's your name on twitter? Me: *blank stare as all knowledge of Twitter is sucked from my head* I couldn't remember my twitter handle at all...At this point The Man stops taking pictures and comes over to try to help out. |
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| This is the tweet that Wil posted. I squee'd in Burton's ear and told her how my phone was being a dick and how my service sucked so she assured me she would get the picture that he took off twitter and send it to me... She did. Later on I went scrolling back through all his tweets to get this screen capture of it. I love how when Burton texted me the picture she excitedly exclaimed "I can see your hair!!" Man we're geeks...but that's ok because we're awesome geeks. I said something about how I thought my twitter handle was my derby name Raenbow Slash, to which Wil responded with 'You play roller derby? You are becoming more awesome by the minute!! we have a friend who does inner track reffing down in LA.' |
So Wil over heard that and said "Oh no way? really?"
Me "Yep there was no living with her for awhile, for when her husband and I were talking with her one evening and her phone went off saying she had a message. She looked at the two of us and said 'Oh please talk amongst yourselves my new BFF ANNE WHEATON!! just emailed me' so her hubs and I just laughed and said that we didn't rate anymore"
Everyone laughed... and Anne said to tell Burton that she was more then welcome and she was glad that she enjoyed it.
Which of course in my brain I'm totally freaking out because you know Anne just said her name, and completely remembered the whole situation that I was talking about.
I handed over our picture to be signed and while Wil was signing it Anne saw my blue nails and we sort of went girlie for a moment as she did "Oo Look!" and wiggled her fingers at me and said "Blue nails for the win!"
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| I'll have to tell more about the pic when I do the other post talking about the Con in general. And Yes I'm making the weirdest face in this picture ever. But whatevs... I'm hugging Wil Wheaton!! |
So while Anne signed our picture I said to Wil "Well now this doesn't seem as exciting but I brought you some dice to add to your collection ." as I pulled the dice out of my pocket and grinned and said 'of course it is, and here you go I'll let you put those right into the dice bag' he moved it over so I could put the three D20's in a black cloth bag that had embroidered on it Wil Wheaton's Dice Bag (lol)
After that I thanked them both for being there and I was really really glad that Anne came with him to Ottawa because she is just as awesome and as cool as she seems on Table Top and as awesome and as cool as Wil says she is.
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| And yep I totally geeked out a bit after getting a tweet back from Anne! The link in my tweet is to the pic of all of us above. |
Yep... my year was made... best Mother's Day present ever...
