December talking meme - 7th Dec

[amberdreams]

Requiring some cudgelling of the old brain cells...so much so I started this post yesterday, then forgot to come back and finish it!! For milly_gal
What was your most memorable fandom moment in the last ten years?

For those of you who don't know me very well, I need to mention that I've always had a dodgy memory, but that in recent years it's got worse. So whatever I pick here, there were probably 100 better and more fun moments that I should be choosing instead but that have been swallowed by one of the holes in my Swiss cheese brain.

Moments I can recall (right now) would include

• meeting a rather lovely German lady called Purple Nurple (aka Christine aka technicolour66 on tumblr/twitter aka loveinadooway) in a queue in Rome and becoming friends immediately - one of many lasting queue and convention friendships I've made to date, and one of the reasons fandom is so frigging ace. Friendships including dizzojay, katwoman76, sigrundora, xlittleangx and adrenalineshots to name but a few...


• meeting Jared and Jensen for the first time in Chicago - that moment of holy FUCK! they are exceedingly, overwhelmingly attractive in person but even though I'm shaking and stuttering from nervousness, I'm still going to follow through with my plan to feel Jared's pecs and give Jensen's waist a quick squeeze to see if he's still got love handles. (He hadn't, he was deliciously trim)


• last year's Christmas get together in London and finding I'd lucked out in the Secret Santa by landing two trays of the most tasty SPN themed gingerbread baked by our charming theymp. Looking forward to next Saturday, chaps and chappesses!


• meeting up with my oldest SPN friends for the first time in Chicago. I'd got to know them on Facebook, and although the AMerican con idea was to see the Js, the main reason was to share the experience with these lovely peeps. So I attended the convention with two of them, and then we three met up with two more on the Monday and Tuesday after the convention

And that last event is the lead in to the moment I'm choosing (finally, I hear you cry!!) as my most memorable moment - because while we were sightseeing on Chicago's main drag (I forget the name of the road), taking touristy photos of this waterpump station now an art gallery, some inconsiderately tall bloke got in the way of my friend's photo. Yep, it was Jared, out shopping with Genevieve. So we stopped and had a really nice chat with them for a few minutes. They were both really charming and lovely. Of course one of the reasons I remember it so well is because I asked Jared if I could take a photo of them both and he said he'd rather not - so no pics of them and us dammit. Which doesn't rankle a bit, of course not ha ha ha!!

Geeze that ended up quite a ramble, didn't it? Sorry about that!

Comments

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

oh the losing words thing is just horrendous. Thank Chuck for the built in thesaurus in Word or my writing would be even worse than it is!

I didn't blame Jared for saying no, but I think he would have done photos with each of us if we'd wanted - but of course after he said no to the idea of a pic of him and Gen, we didn't dare ask for anything else! Dopey how star struck we are in their presence LOL!

[heavenli24.livejournal.com]

Talking of losing words - that happened to me in Jared's M&G at JIB last year :P.

I asked him a question about stunts, mentioning that my brother was a stuntman, but I wasn't prepared for him to say something back... he said, 'I don't know what you're brother is like...' The response was in my head, but I couldn't think of the right word to describe him... I was trying for 'fearless'.. but my brain wouldn't cooperate and what came out was... 'pretty much unafraid of anything' :P. Afterwards I was like 'why couldn't I just have said fearless?'.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

At least you could think of right words to get your point across though - when this happens to me now, I lose everything for a few moments - long enough for it to be embarrassing. Cue lots of hand waving to cover.

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

I imagine he wouldn't of minded that, I think he sometimes gets a little protective of Gen when out and about and being asked for pics, which is as it should be. such a sweety, I'm still so glad you got to meet them though. What a cool experience :)

I end up handwaving and pointing at things, it's kinda hilarious, if you're not me!