fullygoldy | Fangirl Weekend

Friday was

sasha_feather 's birthday celebration, and I was finally able to go socialize with the girrlz. It's been probably a year since I've been to bookclub, and although we've all run into each other at various other events in that time, I've really really missed those regular gatherings. I haven't read any of the bookclub choices in that time either. But this isn't about all the crazy in my RL that prevents me from getting my girl fix.

This is about getting that fix. DH had a terrible week, and I was expecting to have to skip the gathering, or for him to attempt to attend and us staying for maybe an hour before having to give it up for a bad job. But he said go, and I *didn't* say "are you sure?" I went.

So I got to give a fabulous Star Wars card to sasha, which made everyone howl with laughter, and I met more of her friends than I had before, in addition to the bookclub regulars. We were at the bookclub's fave place (Argus), with the hardest working owner/bartender I've ever seen. Gwen is amazing. She's seriously a pro. I got to dance to Adam Lambert with happy, tipsy girls. We talked about beer and brewing, tattoos, drinking, work/careers, and politics. Sasha's new girlfriend seems lovely and more than able to hold her own in the melee.

were_duck was as adorable as usual, with an added side of kittenish and snuggly. Her girl was a lot more talkative than usual, and it turns out that we have some similar tastes in music. I got to make up a lot of touch deficit, and giggling deficit, and general

fullygoldy deficit. The weather sucked, but I waited for it to calm down a bit before hitting the road. Even though it was only 4 hrs out it was heavenly.

Then for the rest of the weekend I read approximately 175,000 words of Adam Lambert fanfiction (mostly schmoopy), with a side of Merlin. I've also got another long AL bookmarked, because

were_duck recommends

mistresscurvy quite highly. I did manage to wash all the laundry, and do the grocery shopping, but the weekend was also dominated by my stupid PMS, which made the reading the only thing I was seriously interested in accomplishing. DH wanted to go to the protests/rallies, and I wanted to too, but I totally needed the sofa days, and he needed a bit more recovery time.

Dinner tonight was a delight, prepared by the multi-talented DH. We had crabcakes with greek yogurt remoulade, roasted corn and tomato compote and a spinach salad gazpacho. The menu was designed around our newest acquisition - a Wisconsin made vodka,"Referent" which is infused with horseradish. I liked it fresh from the freezer with lemon wedges, and DH liked it straight with a tomato juice sidecar. It is going to be fabulous with oysters on the half shell. I can only assume it will also be great with bloodys, but they're not MY drink.

Okay, I've got to get some sleep so I can be at work on time tomorrow. Better go neaten up the kitchen, fold the last load and hit the hay.

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Oh man that last g&t really put me over, thank you :) I had a blast with you at the party, it was so wonderful to see you and chat about things and hug you and dance to Adam lambert embarrassingly!