One small step, one giant leap....
Every year I have found myself scouring the internet for any and all videos and images of the Stargate conventions, and yearning that I could one day go.
Then came the awful news. Creation were going to hold the last ever official Stargate convention in Chicago in 2014. I had sadly run out of time. Oh well, says I, at least I am going to the unofficial convention in April next year, where joe, Rachel and now Corin nemic are coming. But I couldn't help but feel like I would still missing be missing out on perhaps one of the biggest events ever!
i tried to convince my friends, my husband, even my sister that they would really love to come with me. But, for various reasons, none could join me in my journey.
I then seemed to almost tease myself, and kept popping onto the Creation website, checking how many tickets still remained. Then the email came. Gold tickets had sold out, and silver were going fast.
More procrastination. More seemingly pointless reasons as to why I shouldn't or couldn't go. It didn't work. Then some emails came and went with my wonderful ff writer friends, who I so wanted to meet, and they were either going or thinking of going...
Then, the thing that gave me the final push..strangely came from my story. "Follow your heart, and let the spirit free...."
So I have done just that! I have chosen my seat and booked my silver ticket, and a lovely big tick now marks my seat is taken - by me!
And, after thinking I would be alone, I now find myself arranging to meet the wonderful people I feel privileged to call friends, at a place full of like minded people, talking about a subject that fills my mind from when I wake up, till the time I go to bed. I can't begin to day just how excited I am, as I am now to start planning my biggest adventure and fly the 8 hours from the Uk to Chicago.
But, where I thought I would be going it alone, I have come to realise, you are never truly alone. You have only to reach out....
Then came the awful news. Creation were going to hold the last ever official Stargate convention in Chicago in 2014. I had sadly run out of time. Oh well, says I, at least I am going to the unofficial convention in April next year, where joe, Rachel and now Corin nemic are coming. But I couldn't help but feel like I would still missing be missing out on perhaps one of the biggest events ever!
i tried to convince my friends, my husband, even my sister that they would really love to come with me. But, for various reasons, none could join me in my journey.
I then seemed to almost tease myself, and kept popping onto the Creation website, checking how many tickets still remained. Then the email came. Gold tickets had sold out, and silver were going fast.
More procrastination. More seemingly pointless reasons as to why I shouldn't or couldn't go. It didn't work. Then some emails came and went with my wonderful ff writer friends, who I so wanted to meet, and they were either going or thinking of going...
Then, the thing that gave me the final push..strangely came from my story. "Follow your heart, and let the spirit free...."
So I have done just that! I have chosen my seat and booked my silver ticket, and a lovely big tick now marks my seat is taken - by me!
And, after thinking I would be alone, I now find myself arranging to meet the wonderful people I feel privileged to call friends, at a place full of like minded people, talking about a subject that fills my mind from when I wake up, till the time I go to bed. I can't begin to day just how excited I am, as I am now to start planning my biggest adventure and fly the 8 hours from the Uk to Chicago.
But, where I thought I would be going it alone, I have come to realise, you are never truly alone. You have only to reach out....