Say Cheese... Now Smile!

WHAT A WEEKEND. :)

Convention was absolutely AWESOME.... :) And I'm not just saying that because Beth is my friend.... but it was TERRIFFIC... Lets break it down shall we?

Thursday: Jean came and we left LA around 10pm... and arrived in Vivacious "a bit stinky" Visalia around 12:45ish. A bit late for the preboard meeting but at least we made it. :) Afterwards, unloaded the car, checked in, and catched up with everyone... approx. sleep time: 3hrs.

Friday: Woke up expecting to see the sunshine outside my window, but instead it was the glow of the indoor pool outside. I had a bit of a hard time sleeping due to my arm, and so when the alarm accidently went off at 7:30 instead ot 8:30, i was more than eager to get up. Took a shower, pathetically blow-dried my hair, got ready... and by then it was time to wake up my roomies!! Had our final board meeting... :( and then helped where I could with the backdrop... got artsy with Kathy while decorating her superhero t-shirt...hotel room mix-up... downstairs rehearsal... found new hotel room. (yay!) back upstairs to dress up into my costume, back downstairs for opening session. That was so great... all the schools and their costumes... it was just a sight to see. Sorta kinda messed up with the patriotic song... but oh wells. :) Caucus session one (with some really good pizza... but still not sure about the "goodness" of the pizza... was it good because it was good? or was it good cause we were all incredibly hungry?) Back to the room, helped Carrie count out some money... chit chatted with her and Jean, and Beth for a long time. approx sleep time: 3 hrs.

Saturday: Wokeup to sunshine!! showered and got ready... Caucus session 2, dinner rehearsal, talent show audition, lunch (where I opted not to go in order to get a good nap.) The CRAZY House of Delegates, made it into the Ice Breaker workshop and was "SOOOO GRATEFUL" that Joe was there and saved it all... back upstairs to get dolled up, downstairs for the VIP reception, Awards dinner, *got to perform in the talent show with Lorraine... :) YAY!* dance/casino/karaoke *oh my gosh... those boys from Cal Maritime singing "you've lose that loving feeling" in their uniforms... and loud obnoxious group singing Jumper with "instrumental breeeaaaakkkk," PTP pieing... THAT WAS MADNESS... poor everyone who got pied... clean up, back to room to help carrie with more stuff, listened to Manny snore, watched Jimmy's "waking up" tatics, and tried out a new one to wake up Jean. *groan.... mmmm tiger.* approx sleep time: 4 hrs. (includes 1hr lunch nap)

Sunday: Woke up to hear Beth screaming because Miss Witch and Pic has made their appearance, downstairs for rehearsal, closing session. Oh my gosh, complete sadness for me... I dunno, but I couldn't stop crying. I guess it was because it was the offical end of something that has been so special in my life this past year. Yeah, I'll still be in the organization, but there will be people I won't be seeing at the events anymore because they'll be graduating or maybe will just want to leave it, or just find new things to be a part of. Actually, I said at the thursday night meeting that the whole thing was bittersweet... i think I was lying... it's more bitter than sweet for me. I kinda didn't want it to end. Sure there are people out there who probably want to slap me for saying something so stupid... hahahah... those 2years who are just tired of it... but my one little year was such an experience. *sigh* I'm so going to miss the board so much... as much as there was DRAMA... Convention just made all that go away and as Beth would say... "it was a utopia." And the fact that I probably won't see some of those people again breaks my heart. I LOVE YOU GUYS! Anyways, enough with all the mush... we finally left Visalia but since we were all LACKING sleep and neither Beth, Sakura, or I could stay awake in the car to accompany Jean... I made Jean pull over so that we can power-nap in a park for 45 minutes. Finally got back to LA. YaAAAyYY!

So that was the weekend. Its done. :( OH no.. I think I'm going to start crying again... ugh.

Lets wrap it up. Total sleep time: Approx 10 hours.
OH! Got third place for talent show!
Big thank-yous to Jean, Kathy, Pic, Joe, Carrie, and Sukhyung for being my left arm at during times when i needed it.
Beth... it was soooo GREAT! :) Absolutely perfect... it kindamakes me wanna kidnap all 270 attendees and lock them up in Visilia so that we stay in this happy bubble forever...
And thank you to EVERYONE for allowing me to be part of this... thank you thank you thank you from the bottom of my heart. :) Please don't forget me... KIT! ;) Have a "bitchin" summer...