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Post by Rider on Jul 30, 2006 19:43:44 GMT -5
(NTWF Birthday Puzzle 2007)[glow=red,2,300]Pictures on the way. Rider's story: It's true. I didn't panic Saturday night. I waited until Sunday morning. I wake up feeling like the morning after, and I swear to God I didn't do anything the night before. My head fealt like it was swimming through cotton candy in humid weather. So of course, I panic, 'cause I can't get sick on the day of the meetup, when I've been looking forward to this for ages. Thankfully, it more or less cleared up. But I forgot to bring a lot of things, including my camera and my pirate eyepatch. I nearly forgot to look up the calling codes for Canada again, not that we got to use them anyway. T_T In any case, I was the first one there. Ikkin arrived shortly after. I forget what name she called me by, but whatever it was, I was expecting the other one, so it took my brain a minute to process it. XD Then I'm all, "OMG BEST SHIRT EVER." My mum then decided that hey, Ikkin looked normal enough, it's safe to leave the kid alone with her. So she ditched me. XD *abandon'd* Kitkit was next to arrive. She found us while we were talking. She was wearing normal-people clothes, much to my dismay. We started talking about the Duckie shirt. Frogs said, "I'm going in the Duckie shirt." None of us could remember what the Duckie shirt was, but we knew it was yellow. A while passed. Our other two are 10 minutes late, and Kitty realizes that OMG, Fj0rd can't contact us if for whatever reason, she's unable to come. Then we walked towards the ticket-buying line, to see if we couldn't intercept her or Frogs before they got to the lobby. And we see... Kitty: Well, that kid's wearing a yellow shirt... and it has a duck on it... Me: think that's him? We: *stare at him* He: *stares at us* We: *wonder if it's him* He: *wonders, "Who are these weird, hot chicks who are staring at me?"* ... He: *comes to the realization that we are the NTWFers* Oooooooh. Rider: *smacks him with her purse* Then Kitty runs away and yells, "SHE'S HERE!" which took me totally by surprise. XD Fj0rd came in her orange trenchcoat and she didn't look like the Fj0rd I imagined, but she's still pretty. ^_^ And there was much glomping and hugging and all. Odd, I thought I was meeting them for the first time. But it was more like... we were old friends who hadn't seen each other in a while. We caught up on some stuff, yes, especially with Fj0rd who we literally hadn't seen in a while. But after the initial "OMG it's you and you're a lot like I thought you'd be, and I can't believe you're really here" the conversation just... flowed. ^_^ I don't think there was a silent moment in the entire trip, with the exception of the theatre presentations. It was an awful, ringing-silence shock when everyone had to leave... More details regarding the trip on the way. [/glow]
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Post by Retired Blub on Jul 30, 2006 20:02:05 GMT -5
I can't wait to hear more!
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Post by Zylaa on Jul 30, 2006 20:04:57 GMT -5
More! More! ;D
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Post by Rider on Jul 30, 2006 20:17:59 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Rider's Story, Chapter Two:
Rewind to the waiting.
Ikkin, Kitty and I are waiting and talking about clothes. I'm spacing and then I realize, I left my things on the bench where they're likely to get stolen. I run back to get my purse and I've been carrying a second bag aaround this entire time. Ikkin and Kitty want to know what's in the bag. Kitty goes for the bag and I physically put myself between it and her. No touchie the bag.
Rewind even further, 24 hours. Me trying to explain to my mum what a persona is. That was fun, fun stuff...
Back to where we left off. Lunch is a beautiful, beautiful thing.
I got a pizza. Froggsy spent ages getting food. The man eats like a vaccuum. One minute, the food's here and the next, it's gone. XD And we were all eating, and talking with our mouths full. Putting quotes around things and forgetting everything our parents ever taught us. XD Ikkin talks surprisingly little. I never would have guessed she was so quiet. Frogs, poor Frogs. The only male, and we were giving him an awful hard time. XD
I duck under the table and get the bag. Presents. The first and biggest is a deer plushie, for Fj0rd. It's Bambi. I am ashamed, I resorted to buying a Bambi, but they had no other deer toys or figurines or anything. XD Kitty, of course, got a kitty. It looked kind of emo, like a sad kitty. Ikkin got a dog, 'cause there were no foxes. Froggsie got a duck, 'cause all the frogs were either feminine or ugly. I threw the duck to him and he caught it pretty well, he just got pizza grease all over it. There was a red sticker with a white G-clef on it on the duck. He;'s all, "The duck sings?" And I say, "Well... sort of. If you squeeaze him the right way and hold him up to your ear, he sort of sounds like he's quacking..."
I was lying through my teeth.
Karma got back at me for that. We all finished, got up to go to the bathroom. I, being a complete space-case, got the bag (which still had candy in it for later) and left my purse at the table. It took me a while to realize that hey, this load is light. Something's off.
Thankfully, I got to my purse before anything could happen to it. This was neither the first nor the last time I forgot my purse. ^_^[/glow]
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Post by Spot on Jul 30, 2006 20:23:17 GMT -5
So if Spot and I had gone to Boston, I can easily guess what Spot would've gotten.
But what would you have found for me? XD
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Post by aerisangel01 on Jul 30, 2006 20:26:41 GMT -5
So if Spot and I had gone to Boston, I can easily guess what Spot would've gotten. But what would you have found for me? XD ...Spot? XDDD I WANNA MORE!! =DD
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Post by Retired Blub on Jul 30, 2006 20:27:24 GMT -5
Woah, Rider, you're pretty forgetful.
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Post by Spot on Jul 30, 2006 20:31:21 GMT -5
So if Spot and I had gone to Boston, I can easily guess what Spot would've gotten. But what would you have found for me? XD ...Spot? XDDD I WANNA MORE!! =DD Rider would try giving him NSQ, and then Ikkin would try giving me to him instead, all while thwacking Rider with teh Stal/Spot club.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2006 20:35:53 GMT -5
Aaahhh, sounds so awesome! You guys made historrryyyy. *Waits for pics* x3
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Post by kittygirl on Jul 30, 2006 20:52:53 GMT -5
First off before hand I made Fj0rd a present. It was a book mark with pressed flowers and bookmarkynes. As well as I made her a friendship bracelet and a card. Then I wrapped them all up.
Ok I got to the meet up about half an hour early. So I was just looking around the general area thinking: "Ok, so I wonder if any of them are here yet." So I'm looking around and I see this one girl wearing a skull belt. I look her over. Asian, red t-shirt, blue jean shorts. It matchs. "I think that's them." I told my dad, pointing to Ikkin and Rider. I walk up to the girl and go: "Jen?" And she turns around and as soon as she realized who I was hugged me. (It required a jump on her part and a lean down on mine.) I shook hands with Ikkin then we moved to the designated area to wait for the others.
Waiting involved laughing talking, akward silences, and a fluffy. As well as Rider and Ikkin signing Fj0rd's card. We waited for a while, and I soon started becomeing a little paranoid. What if Fj0rd can't come and couldn't contact us? What if there was really bad traffic for Frogs? And What the heck is a ducky shirt?
Rider pretty well described meeting Frogs. He's a slow one. We had just been talking with him for a little while when I saw Fj0rd. As soon as I saw her I knew it was her. I ran off to go meet her. But when I walked up to her I didn't have anything to say. I knew who she was and who I was, but didn't know how to explain it. So we just stared at each other. Then Fj0rd's dad said something along the lines of "I think someone's here to see you." And that kind of got the converstation going. I was about to give Fj0rd her gift but Frogs had to sign it first so I told her to look away while he signed it then gave it to her. She liked it, I think.
So then the others bought tickets to get in. I didn't have to because I had a membership. I used my planatarium passes (they expired in 1998 and 2002 but they took them anyways) to buy everyone tickets to the planatarium exept LotF who had been silly and bought his before I could tell him about mine.
Then we ate lunch. Ikkin had fish, Fj0rd had something she brought so she wouldn't die. (seriously deaths make the meet up less fun.) And the rest of us had pizza. Rider gave us all Plushies. Frogs got a Duck (to go with his shirt), Ikkin got a dog(that was the closest Rider could find to a fox), Fj0rd got a Bambi, and I got a kitten/mountain lion (so cute).
Then we went to the planitaruim. Word to the wise: some stuff is fine to say in a crowded museum, but those same things are worse when you're in a dark, really quiet planatarium. But when you've only been together for that amount of time it seems like nothing could make us shut up. So the planitarium got dark and we watched the show with only minimul comments. I was sitting next to Fj0rd and Rider so they were the only one's I could talk to.
After that we went to the exibits where the first thing Frogs did was to lift 500 pounds to get his masculinity back. (There were five year olds doing it too. I'm not sure how much he got back) I felt like a random spaz always talking and moving from place to place really fast. I'd seen all this stuff before and I was in no mood to read the explanations. So I was just spazzing from place to place.
Then after that we went to the lightning show, and before it started we went to the computor exibit that had internet access and maybe broke some rules by coming on the NTWF and posting a couple times. But no one noticed. Then we watched the lightning show and that was fun. A baby cried because it was really loud in there.
Then we went to more exibits. We mourned the loss of the Virtual Vollyball. Wandered around some more and then went out side to make phone calls. Those were fun. Exept the person on the phone was ususally trying to follow two conversations at once. If I was talking to you on the phone and being really vauge and say "Yeah, Haha." That's probably because I couldn't hear what you just said.
Thundy sent nukes over the atlantic at me. I told him that he wasn't worth the transatlantic call because he didn't have a brittish accent. He made fun of my voice. I wouln't pass on the phone till he said sorry.
Wandy had a really low voice. (Manly man!) I was the last to talk to him so I told him I was hanging up on him. Then he was sad at me. Then I told him I was hanging up a few more times before I actually hung up.
Stal and my's converstation was pure gold: Stal: Hi. Me: Hi. .... Stal: So how are you? Me: Good how are you? Stal: Good here's Spot. Spot and I talked about her brother. Stal sounds exactly like I had expected. So stal-like.
I talked to Elcie, who was hyper like me. I asked Zylaa how old she was. And I have this feeling I left someone out.
Now for random things about the people actually at the meet up:
Rider is awesome because she is the giver of soft fuzzy things and sugar. I found out that she's not abnormally short (there was a chart for tallness.) I also found out she's adopted. Which was new.
Fj0rd was <3. Orange trench coat, a german speed-limetless shirt, and her Fj0rdyness. I have a lack of things to say because she was altogether awesome and I feel really happy to have met her.
Ikkin was older than I suspected. Her shirt was awesome. She is such a great artist. I don't think I've seen a picture of her before. Long hair. Great planning skills that made this come together.
Frogs was clueless. Rider insulted him many time only for it to take 10 seconds before he realized that it was him, not someone else, who had been insulted. But he had a great face when he was confused, and another good one when it all came together in his brain. And he reminds me of some one so much in personality, looks, expressons but I have no idea who. It's going to bother me till I figure it out. Great lines: Rider(on the phone to Stal): Hello, so have you and Spot done it yet. Fj0rd: I want a bomb burger.
I know I'll add to this list as soon as I think of more.
The saddest part of the whole thing was leaving. My dad and Frogs' dad were both trying to get out of there as fast as they could. So we all did a group hug. I got glomped by Rider, which is cooler online. Then I huged everyone and left. If I ever forget how you looked or how your voices sounded I'll slap my self but I know I'll forget anyways. It's hard to conect the people to the forumers but sometimes someone would say something that made it so blatenetly apparent that they were indeed the same person. If there is ever another one that I can make it too I will. ^_^ This makes me so happy.
And again I'll proabably remember more stuff later. And I'll have more comments to go with the photos.
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Post by Spot on Jul 30, 2006 20:59:11 GMT -5
She asked me that? I didn't know. XD Didn't hear it. I wonder what I thought she said, and what my response was.... ...that could be embarassing.... <.<;;
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2006 21:00:23 GMT -5
Frogs was clueless. Rider insulted him many time only for it to take 10 seconds before he realized that it was him, not someone else, who had been insulted. Rofl, poor Frogs. xD More guys needed at next meetup! Sounds like you had a lot of fun, though!^^
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Post by Speck on Jul 30, 2006 21:17:58 GMT -5
Frogs was clueless. Rider insulted him many time only for it to take 10 seconds before he realized that it was him, not someone else, who had been insulted. Rofl, poor Frogs. xD More guys needed at next meetup! Sounds like you had a lot of fun, though!^^ I wish we could all meet-up in San Fransisco... But since not many NTWFers live in California (Carrie and Mera both live in Southern California, I live in Northern California), it's pretty pointless to organize one at this point.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2006 21:23:32 GMT -5
Rofl, poor Frogs. xD More guys needed at next meetup! Sounds like you had a lot of fun, though!^^ I wish we could all meet-up in San Fransisco... But since not many NTWFers live in California (Carrie and Mera both live in Southern California, I live in Northern California), it's pretty pointless to organize one at this point. Darn, I'm going to San Francisco next month. xD Hmm... it's hard to organize these things and make them convenient for a lot of people.
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Post by Spot on Jul 30, 2006 21:25:38 GMT -5
(For the record, I'm seriously planning a St. Louis one for the summer of '07. And I'm talking multiple days)
-Stal
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