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I'm visiting my mum for the first time since last October when she had her operation, and she sent me into town today to sort out her phone, which seemed to have died. I called into one of the mobile phone shops and got her phone sorted pretty quickly, but then thought I might as well see if I could get a better deal on my own phone since my contract runs out soon.

The customer service girl was nice and friendly, and in the course of sorting out what sim-only deal was best for me I mentioned that a few times a year I go to conventions so might need more data allowance then. Which led to a very nice conversation about Wandavision, TFATWS, Marvel in general and how she misses Wales Comic Con. I love it when I randomly run into another geeky person. They are invariably so happy to natter about what they love. We even discussed Supernatural's recent fandom woes and the fallout from the finale in the Destiel camp.

Gina the Wales Comic Con volunteer may have a few other things on her mind than whether conventions start up again over the next few months/years though, since she's expecting identical twin girls in August. I hope she keeps her geekiness alive and passes it onto her girls. Her X-Men passion and her hubby's love of MCU might help that happen.

Anyway, that, and getting my monthly phone bill down to a third of what I've been paying, has left me in a very good mood!
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I've been fairly busy lately, in between snoozing for England. Yesterday's highlight was getting to meet the totally charming [livejournal.com profile] kazluvsbooks, over from the Land Down Under - with the only downside being I had to pre-book my trains so only got to spend a couple of hours with her and her lovely friend Julie, [livejournal.com profile] milly_gal, [livejournal.com profile] dizzojay and Sue (a fellow JIBcon-goer).

Spot the hobbit.
2018 London fangirl meet up

What else?

Art stuff
I've been working on a poster for my friend Wendy, who's off to Paris next weekend for a Spartacus convention. I'll do a post about that when the convention is over. Inktober is coming up so I'm hoping to manage an ink drawing a day for that, starting (unsurprisingly!) on Monday 1st. Though I may not be able to post them every day due to being away in Venice for a few days, followed by Manchester.

Wild in Art news - I've now sent off two designs for Plymouth's Elmer the Elephant trail next year, and one out of a possible three designs for Ipswich's Elmer trail. The latest announcements have been that there will be a trail of wallabies in the Isle of Man and gorillas in Jersey!! So I will be designing for those critters soon. Keep everything crossed for some of my designs getting picked to paint in a few months time when they do their shortlisting and selections!

Oh! And JIBland in Rome next May just got a tad more interesting, as it seems highly likely the next guest to be announced is Sebastian Stan!!! Got to say, I'm going to be rather chuffed if this is true. For those of you that don't know, JIBland is a two day multifandom event that's been tagged onto JIBcon for the last few years. Attendance for JIBland is usually much lower than for JIB, but with someone like Seb headlining, who knows!
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For no reason other than I just uploaded a ton of pics from my computer stores onto Flickr, here's some of my collection of very youthful Jared with some very questionable wardrobe choices...LOLPicspam follows... )
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Our lovely captain made a wee vid summing up the experience - if any of you have never done it and wondered, have a watch of this.
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So my mini Dean finally escaped from his box and decided to try on my hubby's Hup Holland hat - Read more... )
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It's okay, I'm not going to bombard you with all the happy days I haven't posted about since last time - but be assured, I have had happy moments every single day, and will now continue to randomly post happy posts like this one.
If you haven't already seen this wonderful invention, the Intelevator, then watch this video and enjoy the laughs. I especially loved the photo booth, the refilling of the ball and the drying facilities on the 8th floor...

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