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My Star Wars club had their meeting on Sunday! It was a great turnout, a post Celebration run down. I haven't been to a Star Wars Celebration since CIII and I'm fine with that - I prefer my conventions to be multi-fandom where possible because I love too many things. But I did enjoy listening to everyone talk about their weekend. It's a great group of nerds and we have fun.

Couple of highlights - I picked up this little lady for $1

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I am calling myself an Expanse Evangelist now. Every time someone starts to talk to me about tv shows, I immediately bring it up. One of my Star Wars buddies was chatting with me about Firefly, which I was also praising like crazy back in the day, telling everyone to go see 'Serenity' and he did and he loved it and now he was the one telling me that there were Firefly books out. So of course I had to ask if he had watched Expanse LOL. I really feel like it is a perfect fit for Firefly fans.

Hope everyone else had a good weekend!

Sidenote: I realized that I never posted about my PAX East adventures!!! I will do something soon because I had a lot of fun and there were a bunch of game I think many of you would enjoy!

But now, TO BED! Because Monday was a Monday. Why did I schedule a program the first day of the week????

What a week, talk about hitting the ground running! I'm sorry I haven't been commenting much, but I pretty much overbooked myself this week when it came to work and I have been exhausted in the evenings.

That and I'm addicted to Stardew Valley so I've been unwinding by playing that in the evenings before dinner.

BUT I did manage to pick up some Star Wars TFA figures, finally!



Usually, I am an opener, but I really love the box art for the Rey figure and I haven't been able to bring myself to free her from the packaging. (this is probably my Daisy Ridley girl!crush talking, you can't see it in the picture, but she's in her final movie moments outfit and looking badass. The face sculpt is actually *really good* for a kid's toy too!)

I got my copy of the TFA blu-ray on Tuesday from Amazon. I opted to just keep it easy and pre-ordered from Amazon rather than messing with Target's "exclusives". From my club members, I have heard the packaging left something to be desired and since the extras are just streaming on Disney Movies Anywhere, I'm wondering how long until they just let anyone buy them.

And then the Rogue One trailer dropped yesterday and WOW. I really hadn't been paying much attention to this movie. I was worried that Disney was going to kill my love of the franchise by cranking out movies too quickly, flooding the market like they did with the Marvel stuff. But the trailer just blew me away and now I'm really curious about it!

And now jediknightmuse alerted me to the Build-A-Bear Wicket exclusive so I may need to find the closest store and make a trip in the next few weeks.

LOL when I started this point there was going to be some substance but...yeah, my brain is tired and everything is STAR WARS and that's pretty great. :)

(I also impulse purchased The Fugitive with Harrison Ford because when we drove through Chicago, I was talking to Tim about the scene where the cops hear the train on the phone and know he is in Chicago and that's all I know about Chicago and then it was $7 so WHY NOT!)

(oh and I also kinda sorta pre-ordered X-Men: First Class so I can have all the X-Men movies. X-Men, X2, First Class and Days of Future Past. THAT IS ALL THERE IS! Until Apocalypse comes out...which better not suck, these last two were so good)

(Clearly I should delete the Amazon app from my phone...all of these orders were made during the drive back from Wisconsin)

(I'm just abusing parenthesis now...I need to get to bed because I'm visiting a school tomorrow morning for a parent brunch to tell them about all the awesome the library has to offer)

(goodnight)

It's gonna be a geeky week coming up, I can FEEL IT!

First - Beatles Rock Band announced today that the rest of the songs from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band will be available to download on Tuesday!

Second - Xbox sent me an email saying that the big update will happen on Tuesday, which will give Gold members access to Facebook, Twitter, and Last.Fm via Xbox Live. Yes, I may have to go gold next week.

Third - Joe gave me back Bioshock this week. He said it was making him too tense. Which means I can start my replay on hard-mode. OH YEAH! Splicers BEWARE!

Fourth - DCSWCC meets tomorrow and it's the annual customization meeting! We're making custom cardbacks or something...I will document with my camera. Plus, this is my first meeting since Dragon*Con so I will bring my photos along with me to show off how awesome me and faeriesfolly are. :D

Fifth - FIVE! FIVE TALKING POINTS! AH-HA-HA-HA!

OH, and to top it all off, Edward James Olmos AND Katee Sackhoff are going to be at Shore Leave in July!!!!! I am SO going to that!

faeriesfolly will be happy to know that I did pick up some fangs tonight from Hot Topic. I haven't done the whole molding-to-my-teeth thing yet, probably try that tomorrow or Sunday. My one tooth is sorta crooked so I'm trying to figure out exactly how I'm going to get it on there. But now we can totally vamp it up at Dragon*Con - Merlotte's after dark ;-)

Today was looooooooong. Very slow at the library because I think everyone in Bel Air went to the beach. Seriously, every question I had yesterday was "what is a good beach read?" so I'm pretty sure all of our regulars were at the shore.

I have a bag full of stuff to talk about at the meeting tomorrow. My Star Wars club is meeting and the theme is one I suggested - what other stuff do we collect! Well, you know I have a LOT of other fandoms. I put a few of my more academic Whedonverse books into my bag, along with my little mini-slayer scythe. I also have a bunch of my Battlestar Galactica action figures. I put Abby Cadabby in there too, just for giggles. I'm hoping that other members of the group will participate and fill the time, but I wanted to be prepared. If they see I am prepared to babble on about my love for Joss, they might interject with their own stuff.

I watched the trailer for 'The Lovely Bones' and went and dug out my copy. I snagged a copy from the donations pile ages ago, back when the movie was first announced. But since the book did not have a due date, it just sat on my bookshelf. But I will make myself read it now because the trailer looked really good and I want to be able to compare/contrast with the book.

4 days until my Boston/Maine trip and 26 days until the Dragon*Con Road Trip!!!!!!!! Can't wait, I'm in need of some adventure.

Amy and I went to the Midnight Madness toy release on Friday night at the Columbia Toys R Us. It was a total blast.

The trip started out with a good omen. We stopped to get some iced coffee from Dunkin Donuts and their cash register was jammed so they gave it to us for free! We got to the store around 10:30. My peeps from the DCSWCC were there, hanging out, waiting. (I believe Jay was podcasting live for Force.net). Members of the Old Line Garrison of the 501st and the Terrapin Base of the Rebel Legion were there in costume, distracting us as we waited outside. It was a gorgeous evening.

Anyway, I got a really good haul. Grabbed all the new Galactic Heroes (Slave Leia/R2-D2 w serving tray, Plo Koon/Captain Jag, Jar-Jar/Destroyer Droid, Shaak Ti/Magnaguard), 2 Galactic Heroes playsets (Jabba's palace and Assault on the Death Star), managed to find a Clone Wars Yoda, snagged the new Padme Evolutions, and gave in to temptation and bought the 40 pc. school supply set (though they cheated and counted each sticker, crayon, and pencil seperately...not really 40. Still worth it for the Yoda coin purse and Yoda notebook).

Total blast as always. Can't wait to see what sort of video Frank puts together for this one!

Here are a handful of photos I took. I look like a crazy fangirl but I was having a total blast. :)

The DC Metro Area Star Wars Collecting Club (DCSWCC) has a limited amount of Boba Fett pins for sale. Each pin is $10 and the proceeds will go to the Aluminum Cans for Burned Children Program, whose mission is to prevent burns and improve the quality of life for young burn survivors and their families.

I recently got mine in the mail and it is really cool. The design is the Holiday Special Boba Fett, but you'll notice his jetpack has a little something extra. :)

Anyway, if you want to help raise money for a good cause, now is your chance. I believe there are only about 250 left out of the original 1000.

Please pass this one to any other Star Wars fans you might know. (grins at snarkel with her magical cj_rss powers).

I'm fighting with my DVD-ripper right now trying to create a version of Star Wars Cribs that I can upload. It was far less painful than I thought! I had no idea I make so many weird faces though. I thought it was just because I was on camera but AD said that it was normal. Ah well!

I got a Fireside Padme figure at the meeting today, pretty much the only 3 3/4" figure from the recent wave I wanted. I behaved myself and didn't purchase anything else. I was tempted.

Oh, and Frank showed us the trench run from Star Wars Revisited. OMG SO COOL!!! I'm downloading the entire DVD right now so I can watch it in all its glory. It sounds silly and nit-picky, but it's not just some nerdy fanboy wanking over this and that. He actually made some nice tweaks and additions. I was trying to leave when he started it up and I was like "whatever" but after watching a couple minutes I had to sit down and see the whole thing. Gorgeous seamless work. You can read a list of what changes were made on the site.

Okay, I'm going to go watch 'Hot Fuzz' and hope this Cribs thing works this time around. I will let you know once I have it uploaded. :)

Well, I did not finish my Death Star today - big surprise. We are such a chatty group, we ended up babbling about all things geek related - from the recently leaked screener of 'Razor' (so good) to 'Dollhouse' and Kristen Bell's hotness. So, my Death Star is mostly a pile of papers right now. But never fear! I will not give up. I just need to cut out the doors and windows and glue them to the foam core, then figure out how the whole thing fits together. Easy as pie! (Did I mention this thing is HUGE? Like, 25" in diameter. Don't know where I will put it when I'm done, but I will finish it!)

I did get some cool stuff today though. I'm almost caught up on the Galactic Heroes lines - I got Han/Logray, AT-AT Driver/AT-AT Commander, Duros/Garindan, and Imperial Officer/Death Star Trooper. (Oh, and yesterday when we went out to buy the foam core for the Death Star, I also found Luke & Yoda/Spirit of Obi Wan (which may be the CUTEST GH EVAR!) and Camo-Leia/Rebel Trooper!)

I also got this cool diorama/display thing! Originally from the UK and retailing for $70, I got mine for about...$12. But it's very spiffy. And it came with 50 figure stands! That's worth it right there haha. I've got it out of the box but I'm not sure if I want to keep the current figures on there that I had on the shelf before. I might do some fiddling. Then I'll post pics.

Also picked up some Star Wars playing cards! Heroes & Villians deck and Poster playing cards. Double deck solitaire will never be the same again!

Still no word on when the BSG figures are shipping...if I don't hear anything by tomorrow, I might shoot Time & Space Toys an email to check up on them. I did renew my Buffy Collector's Club membership and used the gift certificate to sign up for the Angel comics.

*sigh* this whole not spending money to recover from Bermuda is HARD! January, in January I'll stop spending money on random things...

...unless Santa forgets something, but then it's not really my fault is it!

Just got back from another fantastic Summer Social with the DCSWCC (that's D.C. and metro area Star Wars Collecting Club)! Beautiful day today, just the right temperature and a bit of a breeze. Everything went smoothly. I had a yummy burger and hot dog and got to chat with all my Star Wars buddies. jimithingy came with me so I got to show him off. :D I wore my "White and Nerdy" t-shirt, which was a big hit with everyone! AND managed to get some toys that I did not already have in the Sarlaac Swap and member raffle (my bag got an honorable mention!) -- I got the comic book set with Obi & a shock trooper and the one with Quinlan-Vos and some EU guy I did not know, and the ESB commemorative tin figure set (though I will probably ditch the figures as they are repacks, but the tin is pretty cool!). And, of course, a new club patch, cardback, and badge for my lanyard! All in all, a very good day, full of great people and good times. And the hour+ drive out to middle-of-nowhere Maryland was actually really nice!

And I just pre-ordered the BSG Chief Tyrol figure from Time & Space Toys so I'm getting him for sure! I did the whole $100 gift certificate + free toys route - bonus was they are having a free shipping and 10% off in stock sale this weekend - so I bought one in stock item ("Hush" Gentlemen minimates to terrorize my other buffy minis), then I got 10% off that, and then I was able to pick 3 free buffy figures! I'm going to save that gift certificate for the next wave of BSG figures or minimates.