Epic Weekend Was Epic Part I
Life and job have not been kind. Due to the stress of said job the drinking, emo eating etc were causing me to gain too much weight. As much as I try to lose it..it seems a never ending battle. Even when I don't eat..but that's besides the point
In May I attended a charity event for Kim Manners with many XF people. Met Mitch, couldn't get my pic taken with him b/c i was afraid to approach but got my photo with a few others, met new friends and all in all had a great time. At this event I met up with my friend Patricia who I have known for over a decade and was one of the creators of http://www.ibginc.org. They do a lot of charity work with Gillian - at this event I made a joke about flying a lot this year to which Patricia replied "You'll be doing that a lot this year..."
Little did I know how right she was
When in mid June it was announced that both David AND Gillian would be holding an event where they would sit on a stage and interview each other. To quote my mom "Guess you're going back to LA." So basically I had a month and a half to lose 100 pounds
yeah well...that clearly didn't happen. I tried but given I don't own a scale I'm not sure what was lost...but anyway. The time finally came, given I'd been battling severe lung problems I've had to overdose on the medication which makes me swell (seriously people) and I went to the opening of IKEA last Wednesday (insanity) and didn't sleep a wink the night before...nor did I get to bed at a reasonable hour so not sleeping equals..looking like this
This was after no sleep Wed night, then a 4am wake up call on Thursday, then driving around LA lost from the airport (it's not the first time) and bored out of my mind till I could check into my hotel in Koreatown at 3pm. I spent an hour at Carls Jr b.c you can get lunch at 9am, and hour at Trader Joes and about three at Starbucks abusing their wifi until I could FINALLY check in and glob makeup on my tired face. Then I texted my friend Melanie who had gotten in the night before and she picked me up and we headed down to Hollywood Blvd. Ran into some fellow Philes and had fun until I needed to head back to my hotel to meet my friends Jenny and Mary at their hotel. Where I proceeded to get lost...twice. Finally I get there, we chat, we exchange gifts and wait for a table..for..ever. Apparently there was an issue in the kitchen. After 90 mins they completly validated my parking and we finally eat. Salad and Pelegrino were it for me given my exhaustion and even though I didn't get back to my hotel until well after midnight I figured I'd get a good nights sleep
EHHHH
630AM my brain kicks in and I'm up. I watch some House and since we're all meeting to see Leno I head on down to prevent getting lost and using my phone GPS get there in no time
I am told to wait here...
People come...people go...I'm all alone...this feels weird. I surf the net on the pad, I call my mom 20 times and then out of nowhere my Susie arrives. YAYS. She asks the dude where to go, big surprise different place. The people WITH the confirmation for tickets are at the aiport, we have to wait for them but can hold a place but they have to be there by 130.
So Susie and I wait, texting Mel like mad, posting on her wall at the same time THERE'S NO TIME in hopes of making her laugh..later. Eventually at 1:28PM I see Jess, so I can breathe again. Basically they got food, left it in the car and RAN in. We're waiting in a coral like thing where we're being told EVERY FIVE MINUTES that if we take a photo of ANYTHING in the studio and put it on the net NBC can sue us. We mingle, people ask who Gillian Anderson is and Jessica does all she can not to pummel them and give them a history lesson in the awesomeness of Miss Anderson. There are A LOT of people there who don't know who anyone on the show is, they are just there to be there b/c they're "in town" and even though Jess, Susie and I are in the 40s (our friend Lisa was running late so she had to get a higher number) and Mel, Deb and Emily are in the early 100s we all get in around the same time.
The studio is small and i'm sure a lot of people did not get in but a lot of philes did get in..I hope all philes that came got in because even the chic next to Jess didn't know who Gillian was.
I really thought Jess would have an anxiety attack. We kept grabbing one another's hands. They played music while we waiting, performances on the screens everyone from Avril to Adam Levine and I danced in my seat while the FIRST warm up guy told us what to do (basically laugh at EVERYTHING Jay says) then Jay comes out, poses with people in the front rows, asks if anyone has talent, a dude licks his elbow and then the next guy comes out telling the people to jump up when Jay comes out to shake his hand, tells some jokes, throws prizes at people and does a funny drinking tequilla in slow motion routine. He also had a girl put her arms through his to tell a weird story and the girl was big on the thumbs up it was really cute and then we wait..and wait..
The show starts, we do what we're told, he does his jokes, Steve Carrell comes out, spazzes us all, and during the LONG commercial breaks the second warm up guy throws more prizes into the crowd. I continue to act like a goof. We make jokes about doing the X's with our arms in sequential order but it never really happens, Jess keeps motioning to the girls two rows behind us (Mel, Deb, Em and Em's gramma who is SO COOL) and the chic in front of Mel ends up thinking Jess has a thing for her.
Then she comes out. In her three to four inch spikey heels, her little dress, and she starts with "really big tits" and from then on...
"fuck you you fuckity fuck fuck" people saying she can't name her son Felix b/c she already has an Oscar and the response of "They're my kids, fuck you!" the C word etc...during the first commercial break with her a dude comes over to her (scared her it was so cute) and we guessed he was yelling at her for the cussing. But it continued anyway, as did the playing with the accent and showing a clip of her at 17 reading a poem that didn't make it onto the show but was so cute. I saw Mark like five feet away from us watching we accidentaly shared eye contact and I waved at him and then questioned my sanity (lack of sleep and all). During another commercial she drank water, then spit it back out into the cup (Jess's moment) then the next guest, then Kelly Rowland and while she was singing Gillian tried to get Jay to dance with her and he didn't. Dork. Then it's over, and we leave all hyper. We got passes to Crazy, Stupid, Love and a free baseball hat for it, but the passes were for THAT night at a specific time and I didn't want to deal with that.
We leave, congregate, meet other philes, then leave cuz I really want a pic of all of us so we have Emily's gramma take it in the parking lot two blocks away
Deb, Jess (HIDING), Melanie, Emily, Susie and Moi
Then we went our seperate ways b/c the girls had to check in to their Hostel and I was STARVING. Susie and I then played with her dollies in the park (mine were in the glove compartment of the rental. I didn't bring them into the show. Susie did and the security lady said "Why do you have dolls?" she replied "They're not coming out, don't worry about it."
So, we played
and we played
and then we got hungry and went to one of the orignal Bob's Big Boy in Burbank. Damn car show made parking hard but I had not been there in over a decade and what the heck (my mom loves it, told her we were there and she squealed)
We tried to meet up with the gals since it was Melanie's birthday but I needed to get back to the hotel by 1130PM to meet the Jen who was coming in that night and Susie and I decided to watch Leno b/c we wanted to see how they bleeped everything so we hung around LA, got some drinks at the Hard Rock Cafe (I needed a shirt and they sell the bears again yay!) and posed dollies
and I redid a pose first done in 2001
(Richard Gere handprints)
then we went back to the hotel and waited for the arrival of Jen...and watched the BLEEP fest on tv. The closed captioning was stuck on the tv in spanish and it was BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP and I shall end it here b/c my lunch break is over
I HAD PHILES IN MY BED!!!
Coming up...July 30, 2011...my holy trinity on one stage together in front of over 200 fans of all ages