This weekend was awesome! I flew out to Milwaukee to visit devildoll for her birthday, as she was having a big party. Which was also awesome! chicklet_girl, girlinthetrilby and carleton97 were also there, so there was a lot of fangirlish glee and snark.

There was also some amazing food - I had some great mac and cheese at the Honey Pie, and I attended my first Friday night Wisconsin fish fry, which was not a ritual I was aware of prior to this trip. (I had a grilled chicken sandwich that was really good, since I can't eat seafood.) The food at the party - all made by DD's mom (well, we made the grilled cheese sandwiches, which were also very good) - was awesome, and the Surrender Dorothy cosmos packed quite a punch. And were also violently green, which is something I appreciate in a cocktail. There was also a fantastic pumpkin cake with wicked green cream cheese icing, and a planetarium show. It was a very cool party!

Yesterday, DD and I went for brunch and I had the berry nut French toast, which was also fantastic. If I'd had my camera with me (my phone takes shitty pictures), I would be sharing pics of all the fantastic food, but since I didn't, I'm not.

Anyway. Then we met up with the Minneapolis fangirls and ate a raspberry sour cream pie that they'd brought from Norske Nook. Oh my god, it was pink and gelatinous and FABULOUS. SO DELICIOUS.

After pie, we went to see Thor, which I liked a lot. Surprisingly, I didn't hate the romance - I thought it was sweet and funny, though I had a moment of "Luke and Leia's mom and Jim Kirk's dad!?" but I liked Natalie Portman for the first time in a while. I also liked what little we saw of Kat Dennings, who I wish would be in more things. Idris Elba was awesome, as well. I could listen to that man talk all day. And I am expecting a lot of fic about Sif, people. Because, yes. And Thor himself was like a big puppy who needed to be smacked in the nose with a rolled up newspaper a few times before he figured out how to be a person. And of course, Agent Coulson rules all. SO AWESOME. PLUS, JEREMY RENNER. I did not know he was playing Hawkeye! (I'm still having a weird disconnect that I first saw him on Angel and now Joss is directing Avengers.

I feel like Loki was in a different movie? One where he was the star? And I was probably more sympathetic to him than the movie wanted me to be, but I'm not sure his motivations made any sense, and that's even granting the huge amount of "no heterosexual explanation for his behavior" that is present in the movie.

I wish Rene Russo had had more to do.

Anyway, I enjoyed it, and while I'm still on the fence about Captain America, I'm kind of hoping they pull Avengers off. That would just be really neat.

After the movie, they dropped me off at the airport around 6 pm and I spent the next 7 and a half hours getting home. Just so you know, the flight is 1 hour 45 minutes. The trip from LGA to my apartment is about 30 minutes (less if you don't hit any lights). SEVEN HOURS. Because of bad weather at LGA. Luckily, I'd upgraded to business class, so I had a nice comfortable seat for the whole annoying journey. Best $50 I ever spent, I tell you what.

It did give me time to read one of the books I'd brought with me - The Secret Lives of Dresses by Erin McKean - which was sweet and funny and just perfect for reading on an airplane in a holding pattern, and leaving behind when we landed. I liked the concept more than the execution, though I enjoyed it well enough for what it was, and it was easier on my head than the other book I'm reading atm, The Poisoner's Handbook. Sometimes you don't want to read about people slicing up corpses to do experiments. Sometimes you just need some soothing rom com.

We were supposed to land at 10:10 pm NY time, and we landed at 1:23 am NY time, and the thing about LaGuardia is that it basically shuts down at midnight, so the cab lines were really fucking tremendous and there weren't as many cabs as there usually are. So it took a while to get into one. Plus there was some drama when one cabbie wouldn't load one lady's bag in the trunk and the dispatcher was like, do it, it's your job, so he did it, and they all got in the car and then for some reason he got out again and refused to drive them to their destination. We were all like, dude, what the fuck? because it was holding up the line. (It was cab # 1Y97, btw.) but eventually I got in a cab and my driver was great but chatty, and I was home by 2:20 and in bed by 2:30. Sadly, I didn't fall asleep until after 3. Sigh.

I'm just glad I'd taken today off to begin with, because I don't think I could have handled getting up at 7:30 am.

Anyway, it turns out I left my phone charger at DD's - usually I forget to pack it and have to buy one at my destination, so this was changing things up a little - which means that this morning I headed out to Radio Shack, except that the Radio Shack on 3rd Avenue is gone, so I continued over to Best Buy and got what I needed. I hope. The phone is plugged in now anyway, and should be charging.

I wasn't able to do more than skim LJ/DW this weekend, and I just went back skip=60 and quit, so if there's something you need me to know, you should comment.

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