marchia43

Now, in my opinion money isn't the route of all evil - it's religion. I live in the UK and two days ago two men chased and practically decapitated a man in Woolwich in London.
I was really shocked by this. The guy was a soldier and had been in Afghanistan but was back home. The guys who killed him were, allegedly, muslims who wanted to start a war in the UK...
Why can't people just let others believe what they want and just get on with their own lives?
I'm not particularly religious and maybe if I was I would have a better, more biased, opinion but who knows.
I feel sorry for the soldiers family, (A) because they know how horribly their loved one died, (B) because the soldier was back home, they felt he was safe.
I also feel sorry, to a certain degree, to people of the muslim faith (because that was what the guys who did it said they were!) because I fear the backlash that will happen to ordinary, peaceful muslims.
Part of me wishes we lived in a more insular society where people who believed one thing lived together and people who believed other things lived together and neither met at all.... if that makes sense.
Ultimately I don't see any benefit in religion if people truly believe it is right to hack someone to death, which let's be honest here is what they did, in the name of their god...
Sorry if people are upset by this post, but I just felt I had to put something down somewhere.

I know, I know loads of people are doing this, and some people hate them, but I love them;

A - Age: soon to be 47
B - Bed size: Double
C - Chore you hate: Cleaning the bathroom
D - Dog's name: No dog!
E - Essential start to your day item(s): coffee and loads of it!
F - Favorite color: Red, it always has been red.
G - Gold or Silver: Neither - I prefere platinum
H – Height: 5'8"
I - Instruments you play: none
J - Job title: Admissions Administrator
K - Kisses or hugs: Depends on who they are from
L - Living arrangements: me and my partner of 13 years Rich
M - Mood: On an even keel
N - Nicknames: When I was a kid I was called Marsha the Marshmallow Monster! Unfortunately I don't like marshmallow so I don't remember where the name came from!
O - Overnight hospital stays other than birth: Onely once when I found out I had asthma! Lovely
P - Pet Peeves: Ignorant, intolerable people
Q - Quote from a movie: "Life move's pretty fast and unless you stop and look around sometimes it will pass you by" Ferris Bueller 
R - Right or left handed: right
S - Siblings: complicated, technically I have 11 siblings, realistically I see 2 on a regular basis
T - Time you wake up: around 6am
U - Underwear: Yes please, fresh and clean every day
V - Vegetable you dislike: lettuce - what's the point of it?
W - Ways you run late: I don't! I'm never late - EVER. Seriously.
X - X-rays you've had: Teeth, ankle/foot.
Y - Yummy food you make: I'm pretty good at making vegetable curry.
Z - Zoo favorite: I don't like zoos, We have a safari park near me (Longleat) so I suppose if I had to choose it would be the wolves thre.

Thanks
M

So I went to A10 and I really don't know why I keep giving Rogue Events my money because they literally couldn't give a F**k about us the customers.
I turned up at my time to register and as usual they were running late. Met my mate Angela and had a chat - went back to the registration room and joined an even bigger queue by this time..... Anyway to cut a long story short it took me almost 2 hours to check in and when I did they didn't have the reserved seating sorted out and also someone was saying that people on the registration desks had messed up and given out incorrect packs. This meant that people had photo ops vouchers that they shouldn't have had and others didn't have photo ops that they had paid for!!!!

Luckily all I paid for was reserved seats and was told that those were to sorted out in the morning!

So go back to the bar and have a few more cocktails and checked into the hotel. Went to the opening ceremony which was supposed to start at 7.15pm and it started about 7.50pm because, and I do actually quote here, "The artists are having something to eat!" My god! the convention had almost started and they weren't able to feed them before it did?!??!

Anyway watched the opening ceremony and shuffled off to the bar again and more booze.
Went to bed but all I could here was the thump thump thump of the disco downstairs and then I have noisy neighbours! Why do I put myself through this year on year??? LOL

Next day loads of panels - Misha, Mark Shepherd, Osric, Julian, Rob and Emily and then the highlight for me Ty Olssson and Rick Worthy!!! Man they were hilarious and at 11:15am they were drinking Rum and Coke's and Ty decided to ring Jensen on his mobile. Now bearing in mind it was probably something silly like 3:30 am where Jensen was, I wasn't holding out much hope that he was going to pick up... Anyway the phone rang and then the automated message started saying "The number you have rung is switched off, please leave a message for..." AND THEN IT STARTED TO READ OUT LOUD JENSEN'S MOBILE NUMBER! LOL
Luckily because we are not mad, insane fangirls - when everyone realised what was going to happen we all shouted "NO!!" and Ty quickly pulled the phone away from the speaker saying "I didn't think about that!!"
So Jensen's number is safe and secure... LOL

They then proceeded to walk around the hall talking to people. All in all they were my favourite panel for the whole weekend.

I actually left A10 early because I wanted to spend sometime with my partner but they have announced that they will be doing A12 again... Shall I go????? probably, should I go? probably not. LOL


Anyway here is my impulse buy a Ty photo op and yes he is squinting but doesn't do that in real life!

Thanks

Marchia

Hi
I've been stupidly busy since I got back from Vegas and today I am off to the Asylum (A10) convention for the weekend!!!!
I'm currently at work and hope to leave fro Birmingham in about two hours so I'm pretending to work and type on my keyboard, when in fact I don't have anything to do! LOL
I will try to upload pics and a short write up later in the evenings but depending on how much I actually drink (and boy can I drink!!) I may uterly fail!
Talking of failing - I haven't posted any new fics or finished any new fics for a long time.......
I've disabled comments because I don't really need any comments just wanted to put it out there!!!
Love
M

LOL
I need someone to BETA with me a Supernatural Outsider POV fic which I have started but have stalled a bit. It's not a massive fic just a quickie.
I probably won't finish my first draft until later tomorrow so if someone is willing and can spare a few moments to give me a hand that would be lovely.
Oh I should say it is wincest.

Ta

Marchia
 

Hi

First and foremost, sorry for all the shite pics I have uploaded.... LOL Blurry, shaky stuff abounds...

So for the faint of heart here are my pics (under the cut)


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I arrived in Vegas on the Wednesday afternoon and spookily met someone from the UK who goes to the Rogue Events Conventions here... I smiled at her and she blanked me.. LOL  Also in Vegas was the guys from Rogue Events Wayne & Paul - probably doing a mingle and wanting to see what the other people do.

So Vegas - what can I say except it is an amazingly OTT city and I loved it. The hotels are huge, the casino's are huge, the advertising budgets must be huge... the electricity bills must be MASSIVE! LOL
Surprisingly the cheapest hotel we stayed in at $38.99 per room per night (Plus taxes) was The Circus Circus and it was our favourite hotel. It was honest, cheap and gave us free WiFi, free local phone calls, free food, had great shows and the Chuck Jones Experience which was lovely. I hated the Rio hotel - the convention hotel, it was loud brash, noisy and not worth the $115 per night we paid and they charged for WiFi. The Stratosphere was nicer than the Rio but not as friendly as the Circus Circus and it was $50 per night and charged for WiFi. I find the charging for WiFi bizarre, the hotels have it, they all do, yet to charge you $12 per day for it is mad....

I enjoyed the convention but I felt that if you didn't have the gold tickets, and/or didn't have money to spend you really didn't get much J2 for your money.... they were actually only on stage for 1 hour.... yes you are correct 1 HOUR!!!! how bad is that?!?!? If I had known that I would only see them for 11/2 hours (due to the Gold Lunch deal) I would NOT have bought the ticket. I will not be going to another Creation Event due to that....
I finally met Chad Lindberg who was lovely and I really liked having my photo done with him. LOL

I am very tired still - probably jet lagged but glad I went to Vegas.... I did send post cards but people don't seem to have got them yet.

Hi

I am finally back from Las Vegas and boy what a city that is!

I thought I would wait until I have uploaded my pics and then post a longer message, so I thought I would drop by and say HI.

I'll be back later today or tomorrow

Ta

M

Just to let you know that I probably won't post again before I leave for Vegas on Tuesday.... So I thought I would say "Hi" and "Bye" until I get back. I will try to post stuff about the convention next weekend but am unsure at this moment what I need to do to upload photo's to photobucket to be able to upload them.

For anyone who is going to Vegas Con, I have put a pic of me and J2 below the cut, so if you see me wandering around the con on my own - please come and say hi!

Have a great couple of weeks people

Love
M


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Bloody Daniel Day-Lewis. He wins the Oscar for the third time and my place of work is snowed under with reporters filming and interviewing people left right and centre!!!!

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So, Thanks to a_phoenixdragon I've just watched the latest episode of Supernatural

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So onwards and upwards to the next episode..

On a personal note: work life is rubbish at the moment which is why I haven't posted (or even written) anything lately so for that I apologise

Take Care
Love
M