Last Weekend

This weekend we had a lot of fun in North Georgia . We had planned the cast party for “Other People’s Musicals” on Sunday night, so we decided to make a weekend of it in North Georgia . Once I dropped Thunder off at Wag A Lots Saturday, Jennifer carefully looked for a hotel for us to stay in. This proved no easy task since almost all of them were full. She managed to find a really good one for around $70 a night, when most of them were going for at a minimum $150 a night. When we got there we took the evening pretty light. Just enjoying a chance of pace. We went out to eat at Schlotskies, which we both liked a lot. Then we read and then slept. Right now Jennifer is reading “Celtic Blood” about Gaelic vampires. Bram Stoker and a lot of the original vampire writers were all heavily influenced in Ireland , and apparently the earliest legends of vampires occur in Ireland . Sounds like an interesting book. I’m reading “Conversations with God” which was lent to me by Rita Moore (one of the two people that helped us meet) and “The Reluctant King” by L. Spring Decamp. When I’m done I’ll post a review on the review blog.

Sunday we had a continental breakfast. I was really tired because I’d been fighting evil things in my dreams…note…this was not a nightmare. I was kicking their imaginary…asterisks…and took a nap later to finish the job. We had lunch in Helen Georgia at the Troll Tavern, which is awesome. I had the Spaghetti and Meatballs and Jennifer had the sampler which was authentic German cuisine. We wandered around the town which is both beautiful and awesome. We skipped the Live Tarantula museum. I’m really mixed on that. I mean, on the one hand, it’s a live tarantula museum. How often do you get a chance to see one of those? At the same time …FRACKING SPIDERS….so….maybe next year. Then we got Funnel Cake with ice cream at Grandma’s Funnel Cakes. They were quite delicious. We ended up buying a tiny glass dragon figuring for only around $15, which made me feel better for not being able to get any art at Dragoncon this year due to budgetary concerns. It had a little light up stand, though when we took it home we declined to use it because apparently it highlights the phallic imagery in the castle the dragon is wrapped around that isn’t quite as apparent when it is just in normal daylight. It does look awesome though. We drove around and looked at the beautiful mountains and beautiful leaves.

Later that night, we went to the Singer’s house. Janie, Patrick, Rita, Jennifer, myself and the Singers were able to make it. They had an amazing log cabin house, modified off a template on the internet. It’s the kind of place you always imagine living in some day, and they actually did it. The food was amazing, a combo of barbeque and Philipino food. We then wrapped up the evening by singing from “Professional Karioke X”. The secret was staying on key at the end and volume. As you might imagine….I did rather well. Jennifer’s first song didn’t go so well but her second “Puff the Magic Dragon” got an excellent score.

Other things: We’re watching Heroes….moderately interesting. The Carnival of Doom might be cool or it might be stupid. But we’re hanging in there to see where it goes. We have TWO Netflix disks for supernatural right now because I shut down my movie queue (in part because I have a job now) and shifted the disk to the TV show queue. Supernatural is *AWESOME* as a show.