CEOK in Pasadena Oct 7th. 2004.
Well as I'm seeing I don't have the good habit of updating my LJ regularly. I will post my most memorable Fangirly moments of the last years.... First is the CEOK with Orlando Bloom, it happened on Oct 7th 2004. During the filming of E-town on a thursday in Pasadena, CA.
Thanks to Francophile who confirmed the filming location and to Lori who was just nuts enough to go with me... a complete stranger at the time.
A little teaser:
Well one saturday while I was working on physical inventory I came upon an addy online.... that was supposed to be the filming location of E-town in Pasadena, that addy was promptly removed 5 minutes later. I don't really remember but Francophile confirmed the address. They would be filiming in that location from Oct 5th to the 12th or so.... Francophile couldn't make it for one reason or another. I PM'd Twinks even tho I never met her before or contacted her even. But I did know she lived in the LA area so I needed a partner in crime... she PM'd me back with just a phone #, which I dialed and we introduced ourselves and she squeed for me since I was at work.
On monday I LIED THROUGH MY TEETH. At work I asked for 2 days vacation, next thu and fri. At home I lied to my husband and mother that I was being sent on training to L.A. So they wouldn't lecture/worry and also babysit my son... I know I'm awful!! *blushes*. The overtime on sat and sun paid for the rental car. I mapquested the addresses to Lori's and the filming location, which we reprinted at her place without the maps.... and the following is just a transcript of the whole thing.... I will review and edit if applicable... for the meantime:
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Twinks
In the Garden of Pasadena, Part 1
About 9:30 in the morning my phone rings and it is, Eleanora saying that she is in my apartment’s driveway. She is here. I go out and meet her, instant kabloomie friend, means instant long time friend. She is so sweet and warm and beautifully excited. I bring her to my apartment were I start to show off the Orlando/Lotr interor design of my little one bedroom apartment. The first thing she see is a DYC clock. Yes Eleanora, you are home! We sit and chat for about an hour, I map-quested her directions to a more consise listing and printed it. I kept telling her, not are we, or maybe, but we will see him.
We left and with the map-quest stating it was 1.0 hours from my door to the door of the E-town set, I knew we were in luck. I had the success buddha and told her the story behind it. We chatted and cried the whole way down about how Lotr had changed our lives, our favorite scenes, lines, the things that made us cry. That Legolas took Gimli with him when he left Middle-earth and how you know that the love of another to say I will die for you is the most precious thing on earth. I know I have another sister under the skin with this lady. We follow the directions and turn this way and that entering Pasadena. The city of Roses has a new bloom in it, this we know. The directions were spot on! Because when the directions ended, I looked to my right and there was the production van. I reached over and gave my new friend a big hug, and said, “Now the wait begins.”
We parked and walked to the set, I did not want to get to close, and so we decided to walk around the block and come to the set from the other side. This is when I found the Bodega, *spelling Ely?* and filed the information for future reference. We saw this lovely house with a high wall that we could sit on and just watch. We could see the extra’s tent. Everyone sitting around in formal clothes. We sat down and the security guard, the lady that is now a honorary ka-bloomie, came down and looked at us. I told Ely that she was checking us out to make sure we were not Paparazzi. Found out later I was correct. We just sat and chatted and I called Jet. This is the first report stating that we were 70 feet away.
I kept noticing there were other fangirls closer, about 4 of them. But, I did not want to go up there if we were not allowed. That is when I saw all of sudden a black dog. I had seen Sidi before and HE! Is a pretty pup. I said Ely, now come look. And we watched as Orlando and his pooch crossed the street and saw his arms and everything all I could think is, “this day is only going to get better.
I was getting thirsty and my cooler of Diet Dr Thunder was in the car. A block and a half straight down through the set, but a walk around the block to go the long way. I said to Ely, lets get your car and move it closer and get my soda. I had not eaten, and only had a half pot of coffee from that morning and then a Vinti White chocolate mo cha chino with and extra shot and light whipped cream. I really needed some sugar and caffeine.
Then we walked around the block to get her car.
*PEFIC* Forgive my spelling errors.
Continued,,,
Back in business we get our stuff and creep down to where everyone else is sitting. Trying to convince each other, you ask - no you ask - okay we will ask together, okay but will you ask first thing going back and forth we finally ask the guard if we are very quiet can we just sit and watch. He looks at us like we were so silly to wait so long to ask and smiles and says, “Sure ladies, have a seat!”
I call Jet, and update, we are now 20 feet away and watching the Pretty walk back and forth. I could see him in the back of the tented resting area just sitting back in his Elizabeth town director’s chair. I know he glanced our way a few times, and all we had were little smiles for him. Suddenly a wardrobe rack way pulled in front of him, just about blocking our view but I could still see a shadow. I know from the movement, he was changing his shirt. Thank God for the obstructed view because I think peck-peeckage would have killed us then and there.
We are just sitting there enjoying a warm lovely cool breezy Pasadena fall day. Chatting and laughing. There was one fan girl, and I do not mean to be a downer, but she really scared me. I knew she had already seen him earlier in the day, because she told us all.about.it. The security guard kept asking why did she want more? How could she want more? Anyways, we knew he would not come out as long as she was there. Eventually the girl and her mother left, and now we were down to six ladies.
More chatting, oh and I the bad girl and smoking my smokes way too fast. Nerves sorry guys. I keep counting them down to Ely. Okay I know this is not the most pleasant thing, but the boy is a human being and how can I fault his nerver settling device when I am using the same one? I saw him go to a catering table and pick up a familliar red and white box. He took one and went around a corner and then a cloud of grey came up. Yup he is a bad boy. But I am thinking, if I run out, I know who I can bum off of.
Time is fleeting and so are my smokes 4, 3, 2, oh and I need to go to the bathroom. We had kept inventory. I had the starbuck and three diet dr peppers and one Heath bar. If you did not think I was not taking English Toffee with me, well, you get the idea of the luck charm involved there. Speaking of, the good luck charm I gave him in Kentucky was a Buddha, one for happiness that could fit in your hand. We had my success one that I had wanted to keep. All day this little statue passed from hand to hand, got squeezed, his belly rubbed and kissed, and is now back in its place of honor on my computer desk.
I politely asked if I could use their bathroom to the people that owned the house whos fence we were sitting on. I was in obvious pain. They said yes, I met Sidi’s future playmate pupply, and used the restroom, washed my hands and threw some water on my neck. Much better. When I came out all the other women were gone and sitting alone was Ely. I said, “What the hell happened?” I immediately dreaded that they had come to get us and Ely, and I know this would have been true, had stayed behind to wait for me.
Another part of the story where the umm fan? Got umm baptized by a canine, caused those other fangirls to leave. Now it is me and Ely and a long wait. Oh it was at this point we moved from sitting in front of the wall with the puppy to another wall, since we were not sure if that same puppy would get friendly again. Bless that dogs heart. If all dogs go to heaven then this one will have a place of Golden honor forever.
It is getting dark and I am thinking of the irony that I had seen Orlando in Kentucky, also, in the dark. We just sat and waited. And ummm, counting down. 1. I am out of smokes. Sh!t.
We are just sitting and talking and chatting and having fun and smiling and I need a smoke by this time. I think it was 7:30. I keep looking up and down the street and people, looking for a cherry to burn in the night so I can bum a smoke. Finally I see 2 guys standing together, and one has my fix. I asked him for one and he obliged. The other guy, Eric, then turned to us and said, are you guys waiting to see Orlando Bloom?
Ely
Ladies, Twinks is posting this story for the both of us. I'm in contact with her over the phone and we went through this whole story together and we are posting our story together hand in hand, just as it happened, this is such an emotional moment for both of us, and to share it with all of our friends here at Ka-Bloom.
Lori, it was so special to me while driving down when we found all the common things we felt about LOTR, when we cried together, everything. Love you.
I'm crying right now, all the composure that we fought so hard to maintain is now gone.... I love you guys so much all of you are so special to us.
The good thing about Ka-Bloom is that all the ice has been broken already. When we meet we are already friends.
Love ya Lori (Twinks) glad we were nuts enough to make it there.
Lori, Jan, Jet, thanks for my Title, you have no idea what it means to me I LOVE IT.
OK lets get back to the story.
:cry: :cry: :hug:
Ely
Twinks
Point of view will now change from mine to Ely’s I will try to let you know when it does. We, Ely and I are on the phone together and are posting this together. This is where the account begins - what we stayed up all night writing and makes sure was right.
Point of view, Ely
We were still waiting outside at 8:30 pm after arriving at 11:00 am and Lori had run out of cigarettes and we worked up the courage to ask a couple of crew guys that were on our sidewalk to bum a cigarette and one of the guys: Eric he’s the one that had prepared his dinner. He asked us if we’ve been waiting to see Orlando Bloom Lori answered Yeah! We’ve been waiting here since 11.
Eric asks: “In the morning? I fixed his foo-foo and he needs to know this.
Lori asks: “Whats his foo-foo?
Eric says: “Lettuce wraps: Lettuce, Tuna, Vinegar, Avocado, Lime and Salt ONLY!!” He said he likes that vegetarian stuff, wants to live forever to spend all that money. It was said with a sweet and enduring voice, not sarcastic at all. He just thought it was very sweet of him.
Eric continues “OK, I’ll make sure he knows but I can’t guarantee anything.
Lori said: “We'll be here”
Lori then proceeded to call Jet.
Then 10 minutes later, Bodyguard John came over to get us.
We grabbed our hands in anticipation.
He asked: “Are you the ones that wanted the autographs”.
Lori went back to get our goody bag and we specified :”No pictures, since he is in costume and on set they don’t allow pictures because of the copyright”.
Lori answered: “We understand, we appreciate it”.
We proceeded to cross the street, Lori slipped the bag open to get our magazines and stuff, we each had our sharpie on hand, Lori had the success Buddha.
Lori out of the corner of her eye saw him watching and waiting for us, with his hands stuffed deep into his pants packets kinda slouching, his head cocked seeming to watch to get us to lift our heads up, but we couldn’t yet.
We still had to cross the street. Then we took hands again and walked up the short hill to the house and looked up into the face of heaven.
Soft curls around the face of an angle. Chocolate pools of sparkling happiness. Lovely. Simply lovely.
We got there rather nervous.
He asked us: “Were you waiting all day?”
We both said “Yes, since 11.”
He said: “I’m sorry, I didn’t know”
We said: “That’s OK”.
He put his hand out to Lori, to shake her hand, the hands are covered with the softest skin, firm handshake, he was not afraid to shake our hands firmly. She said “Lori”.
He turned around to me and shook my hand and he said “Orlando” - In conference later we both thought well duh!- I said “Eleanora”
Lori said: “I met you in Kentucky. In the dark, AGAIN” *Lori thinking, omg, I just used the duh voice with Orlando. But, I was so comfortable, and he felt the little tinge of friendly dig at his expense. He smiled so much at my little joke, you made me wait until after dark, again!
He laughed, his head tilting back a little in an almost uncontrolled giggle. He got the joke.
Lori said “At Cavehill Cementery in Kentucky in the dark. I gave you a happiness buddha” -She opened her hand and showed her success buddah.
Lori’s Point of View.
He pointed at me (like Uncle Sam’s I Want You Poster) smiled, raised his eyebrows and said,
“That was you, I still have that!! I still have it!!.” *Omg, he kept it, and he remembers me. Omg.
Ely’s Point of View.
Then he asked, “What were you doing in Kentucky?
Lori got stumped and didn’t want to sound like a teeny bopper so I cut in and said “She went on a dare!”
He asked “Really?”
Lori’s Point of View.
Eyebrows up, glint in the eye. As if, ‘Yea, I can understand that if was a dare. You don’t back down on a dare after all.’
Ely’s Point of View
Lori said with a big friendly smile, not afraid anymore to talk about her leap of faith. “Yep 6 hrs on a plane, they picked me up and spent 5 hrs in the cemetery and then I met you, in the dark!”
Lori turned to me and said “Oh! and I just met her today she drove down from Mexico and picked me up” he turned to me and asked “How far is that?” and I answered “4 hrs” he asked again “Really?” I nodded.
Twinks: "Oh! And I know Geri!, the one with the Yellow Hat!"
Orlando: "Oh Yea! That was so sweet of her. I had lost mine and I had thought maybe that was the same one, but of course it was not."
Twinks: "No, that one was new, she got it on e-bay with a little help from some friends because she knew how much you liked it. It meant a great deal to her to give that hat to you."
Orlando: "I love that hat! I was so thrilled to get it back."
Twinks: "Well, she was thrilled to give it to you."
*Californians do not speak in distance. When asked how far something is from point A to point B, we do not give miles we give time. Believe me it is easier this way*
Lori’s Point of View
He asked: “Do you have something for me to sign?”
I handed him my un-capped Sharpie and the ONE magazine, he beamed!
“Oh! I haven’t seen this before”
I said “It’s a German magazine my friend from Vienna Millisa sent it to me. I didn’t even know what it was until I got it.”
He started flipping through it and asked me. A little tentatively “Is it all about me?
And I said “Yes that’s what makes it so great!”
I said, "My husband speaks German, but he would not translate it for me."
He said, "I can understand that."
I said, "Yea, he puts up with alot from me."
He said, "I bet!"
Omg, I just got a dig from Orlando Bloom. Met with the best gisting. Like him when I said, 'Again!' I got the joke! And he laughed at me, and I smiled.
He continued to flip, He said, “Some of these are really old.” *I smiled in side. Pictures from four years ago, old. How sweet is that he is still so youthful that four years is a long time. But his life has changed so much since the mohawk and eye-liner, and I think he was reflecting on this as a display of his career in pictures was in his hand.
Then I said, “Yes, but they’re really good.”
Then he found the Gap Commercial screen caps he said “Shit! That’s Cameron!, Oh Wow. " Then moved to stand sideways to me his left shoulder to me, so that I could look over his shoulder and point out to me what he was looking at, smiling like a boy looking at a yearbook photo. His finger showing me each of the pictures and the one with him and Cameron looking at a monitor of the commercial.
He was so giddy started looking around over his shoulders back and forth and said,
“Shit, I’ve got to show this to T. J. *It is still unknow to us who T.J. is* I do not think it mattered it was someone he wanted to impress and it was so cute.
He looked at me, and asked,“Can I take it to show it to somebody?”
I said, “Absolutely! Knock yourself out!” I am now fully at ease with an adonis. Life is sweet.
He turned to leave and I asked him shyly if it was alright to dial my cell phone? He said walking away from me continuing to flip the pages of my magazine Sure!, so while he was gone, I dialed Jet.
Ely
Ladies, Lori just stood up to get another cuppa coffee, and stretch a bit but there was a part left out that happened during our long wait.
WARNING, POSSIBLE OVARIAN EXPLOSSION!!!
At one point while in between scenes, he was outside in the front lawn in front of the damn clothes rack (so it did not conceal him) with his back toward us.
The banned ka-bloomies were there still to our left and Lori and I were a bot more to the right watching him from about 25 feet away, looking and admiring his back, arms, hair, hands, just taking it all in..... and then all of a sudden, he crouched down like doing a sit up and Oh.My.God, his t-shirt rode up and his pants which are always rather on the low side...... so we saw skin, ladies, SKIN, Illiac crest.... ILLIAC CREST. :w00t: For those who haven't been here long enough or anatomically challenged, the Illiac crest is just well...... above him bum :lmao:
So the banned girls did NOT see that only Lori and I did, and we were pretty much :kablaam: for Lori and one :kablaam: for me.
:smoke:
Now back to our regularly scheduled program.
Ely
Twinks
Still Lori's Point of view.
She said, “Huh?”
“We are standing on the set with Orlando and he is talking to us and so beautiful."
She said, “blahblahblah blah hun?”
I said, “When you hear his voice you will understand."
I just held the phone out so that Jet could listen. I did not want to put a phone in his ear. I just wanted Jet to be there too. By now Jet has listened to me and is planning her own CEOK and is preparing to come to us in Pasadena.
He came back all happy, and asked me how I spelled my name. He still had my sharpie.
I said, “L-o-r-i,”
He looked at me and asked, “Oh! Are you the ‘Lori’ that talks to my mom?” *My mind thinking, he said, mom! I was like dude, your British, I want to hear you say Mum,* but then I thought well, since we are in the City of Roses he might think I might get confused and this he meant a kind of flower. *snort*
Then he corrected himself and said, “No, that Lori is from Canada,” I had almost corrected him and said that no that Lori is from OBM on-line, so glad I did not. I did not want him to know I was an internet junkie, yet!
He then signed the One magazine. He noticed I had another magazine and I asked if he would not mind signing it for my friend. I handed him the Premier that Sprkles had sent to me so long ago out of the goodness of her heart, she did not even know me at all. Just saw that I had posted I could not get one. She hooked me up. I asked him to sign it for Leslie. I said “She lives in Atlanta and sent that to me long ago and I want to send it back to her.”
He said sure, and asked me, “How do you spell her name?”
Here my dyslexia met Mr. Bloom’s. Neither of us could get it right. I kept saying. “L-i, L-i, and he began to write it wrong. We both knew it was wrong, and we must have looked at each other with a bit of yea, I know but how do you spell it? A little crinkled eye-brows between us.
I turned to Ely and said, “Ely, I am flipping my letters, how do you spell Leslie?” and he turned to Ely and said, "Shit, how do you spell Leslie?"
She saved us, the incorrect 'i' turned into a heart with e-s-l-i-e right behind it. My dear friend now has her autograph. Leslie , I will FedEx, a.f.k.
Leslie, still has no idea that I got this for her. She will have to read it for herself to find out and from the email she sent me she knows I saw him and wants details. Shhhh. Nobody tell!
*According to Jet, this is where the cell phone battery died!*
Point of view, Ely
He turned to me and I gave him the two Time magazines I had brought over but opened on the article page. He lit up like it was Christmas. His jaw dropped!
He said, “Fuck! I haven’t seen this!” he started flipping trying to see the cover and asked. “What magazine is this?”
We said, “It is Time Magazine!” With a hint of yes sir, you are not in a teenbopper mag anymore, but a national magazine that has its thumb on the pulse of the nation. And also with a little lilt in our voice that said, ‘Dude, it has been out for three days, where have you been?”
He said, “Shit! This is the first picture I have seen of the Kingdom of Heaven! Fuck!”
*okay children we have graduated from shit to fuck!*
He tilted and lowered the magazine over to us to share his enthusasium with us and started reading it. He lifted his head and looked at us and asked.
“Does it say it is good?”
I must stop and say, that here we saw his vunerablity, his need for validation as an actor. Our hearts spilled over. He was asking our opinion. He wanted to know what we thought. This was the first publicity he had seen of KOH and wanted our opinion and take on the article. The look on his face was that of a child not sure where he stands.
Lori and I just beamed with an, Aww baby, it is going to be okay look.
Then Lori said, “Yea! They are saying ‘Watch out! They are saying it is controversial but very good!”
He had not ask if it said he was good, but if it was good. He seemed excited that the article talked about the film just as much as it did him.
His face broke into this wonderful grin, with double dimples and a little nod. And said “It was a lot of fun, difficult and hard.”
He went to sign the copy of Time, and asked me to spell my name so I did, and he said my name back to me, seeming to try it out and said, “That’s nice.”
He flipped to top magazine under the one below and when he saw it was another copy of Time he said, crouching down to us again, “Fuck! I really want to read this.” with his eyebrows furrowed to us.
I could see that Lori was very close to wanting to give him the magazine, seeing how much he wanted it. But, to her credit remembered that it was for Melanie and she knew that I really wanted to get that for her, like she had wanted to get Leslie's for her.
He turned to show his bodyguard like a boy that just got all A+s on his report card. He was causing a bit of excitement, *okay a note here, the ka-bloomies got Orlando excited, not the other way around.* and another couple of guys came up from the other side of him and he turned to them holding up the magazines in the air.
“Fuck, we gotta get this guys. Time magazine October 11th, it just came out. Look!”
Lori, dear Lori said, “They are at Barns and Nobel or you can find it on-line.” Then proceeded to step on her own tongue for the ‘on-line,’ statement. It was so funny! Through our minds we are thinking, ‘yup, online at ka-bloom with the scans!’ Ut oh, but he did not hear us. We were just thrilled that ka-bloom that alerted us to the Time article in the first place was giving him such a fantastic feeling. Time Magazine, he has arrived and we as ka-bloomies and a collective group put that smile on his face.
Then he said, “Fuck! I have got to show this to T.J.”
Still do not know who T.J. is. He turned to me and asked, “Can I show it to T.J.?”
I nodded and he took both of my copies in his hands and again he scampered away to show off. Go baby go!
While he was gone for a second time, Lori and I took these deep breaths and she reached in her bag and grabbed my Legolas’ poster and said, “Sweetheart, don’t you want your poster?” So I removed the plastic and got it ready.
Then he came bouncing, literally, back and asked how to spell the name I wanted and I said M-e-l-a-n-i-e” so he signed the magazine. While he was signing Lori said, “Oh I loved Ned Kelly!”
He said, “Thanks! I worked really hard on that!”
Then Lori said, *she was a chatter box, but asking these great questions!* “A bunch of my friends went to see Haven in Toronto. They really liked it.”
He said, “Oh we had sooo much fun. We could not stop giggling!”
Lori was so good and did not ask him if he must walk like an elephant when he needs a restroom break in the middle of a movie?
Then I took out my Legolas’ poster and asked him if he would not mind signing the poster, he said, “Sure.”
Sometimes the planets align just so, and in this case they did. Because Twinks was brilliant, right here she had the presence of mind of a genius and said, “Ely, give him YOUR! Sharpie.”
He looked up at us and said, “I already have a sharpie.”
Lori said, “Yea, but...”
Then he looked at me then Lori and said, “Oh!” In an 'I get it' tone.
Light bulb went on for Mr. Bloom. Two women, one sharpie, bad math. The new Olympic sport is the sharpie relay. He handed Lori’s hers, she took it and flipped it over, recapped it and slipped it into her back pocket, while I in synchronized style and as Orlando’s hand came to me pulled my sharpied out of my pocket and uncapped it, and flipped it over and handed it to him, I touched fingers! He looked at us, “We all good now?”
Yes, we are good, because for one brief shining moment me, Lori and Orlando Bloom shared a brain.
He was cradling the poster with his left hand and signing with his right. I was holding the corners of the top of it to keep it from rolling. He began to sign it in the air. He wrote my name and asked, “Is that okay?”
I said, “No. There’s an A between the E and the N” Omg it was my turn for a bit of a dig.
He laughed so hard, hovering the sharpie over the poster and said a giggling, “Shit!” because there was no space between the letters to get the A in. He laughed and finally stuck the A in there. I felt like I was just standing there talking with a good friend.
Then it happened.
Get your drop cloths, get your windex and squeegies. Serious health warnings for the faint of heart coming up. Not kidding. Not kidding. Not kidding.
The point of view of two ka-bloomies.
Then all of a sudden, during the Legolas’ poster signing and the sticking of the ‘a’ between the ‘e’ and the ‘n’ laughter it happened.
A guy began to tug at our man. Not away from us but just doing his job not noticing that two ka-bloomies just had their ovaries explode, right then, right there.
:kablaam: :kablaam: :kablaam: :kablaam:
All four, gone! Buh-Bye.
His job description, lifting Orlando Bloom’s T-shirt right in front of us to tape a microphone to his back and to his stomach right between us. He lifted his shirt and was crouching down all the way around him and taping a wire around his waist. Orlando is totally ignoring the man trying to figure out where to put an ‘a’ between an ‘e’ and an ‘n’.
Again, the guy lifted his shirt and showed us peekage of skin ALL.THE.FRICKIN.WAY.AROUND! Him! No tattoo sighting but OMG! We must have looked like our eyes had popped out of our head. We did so good and somehow gained the respect of his body guard when we did not tilt our heads for a better angle non drop to our knees and begin to thank God for the wire boy that came our way. :notworthy:
Actually we considered shoving the guy out of the way and saying, 'You are NOT DOING THAT RIGHT!"
But, then again we are not union. Drats.
Back to earth now.
Ely’s point of view.
When they had him all put back together again he said, “They are ready for me. It was a great pleasure to meet you two.”
We just stood there with these smiles, then he stepped forward and leaned down to Lori’s height and hugged her tight placing one arm on her shoulder blades and one on her waist. She is so little and he came down to her so that she did not even have to move to get up to him.
Lori’s point of view.
He stepped up to me and I felt his hands go around me and he hugged me. I just closed my eyes and squeezed him back. One arm over his shoulder the other around his back. I just breathed. Then he kissed my cheek. Just a fraction of below where the previous one was. I was thinking because this time I could not speak it, “Thank you for everything Orlando.”
Ely’s point of view.
It was so sweet how he had come down to Lori’s height, I just stood there. He let go of Lori and she let go of him. Then he stepped to me and gave me my hug. He hugged me tight also. I am taller than Lori so I went a different angle. He put his arms around my waist and I put mine under his arms my hands on his shoulder blades, *he has the tightest back!* I lost my mind in the thought that my hands were right at where his scar is. And he also kissed my cheek.
We turned around, Lori put her arm through mine and we turned to walk away. We didn’t even say good-bye. Lori was slowing me down to baby steps, I must have been taking giant ones. I started to feel Lori begin to shake and started chanting to her,
“Wait for the car, wait for the car, wait for the car,”
Lori picked up the chant.
Together now.
“Wait for the car, wait for the car wait for the car.”
We had not even started to walk away from him when the chant began, there is no way he did not hear us. I can only imagine the look that must have been on his face.
Babysteps, two friends that just met that day, chanting support to each other,
“Wait for the car.”
We got to the sidewalk the gurad said to us, “Be careful crossing the street,” Lori said, “I’m floating”
Little did we realize that Eric, the guy that had said he would make sure Orlando knew we had been waiting for him was following us. I think he was making sure we were all right. We crossed the street and turned a little bit around a palm tree and Lori let her knees go finally and lay down on the grass.
Four sweet teen-boppers came up to us and asked, “How did you do that?”
I answered, “We bummed a cig fro the right person.”
Lori asked, off the ground now, “How long were we there?”
They said, a little valley-girlish, “Forever!”
Lori and I stepped around the girls and saw Eric and thanked him profusely and he said, “My pleasure.” The girls asked him if he could do the same for them and he said, “You guys live here, they came from far away.” We said thank you again and arm in arm walked back to the car.
We reached the car and opened the glove compartment and and noticed Lori’s copy of Time magazine in there.
Two words. “Lets go!”
With nothing but the magazine we crossed the street flipping it to where the article was and creasing the page. The set was now dark and we did not go seeking to see him again, or anyone else. We did not even look for him
We walked up to the security guard and said.
Lori’s point of view.
“Could you please see that he gets this. He very much wanted to read the article and we forgot we had another copy.” He promised to see that he got it. Then we turned around and walked back to the car.
Two ka-bloomies point of view.
Respectful, appreciative, giddy, ‘potty-mouth,’ venerable, seeking approval, generous, kind, sweet, beautiful, sense of humor, capable of making us both feel at ease and special at the same time. Beautiful is not a good enough word. If you had a dictionary full of words to describe heaven on earth, it would be pretty short. Just two words. Orlando Bloom.
In our ten minute visit we discovered all of these things. Amazing. He was honest, and completely human with us, enjoying our company as much as we did his.
God I love that man.
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The pictures of the stuff I got signed:
And Jet gave me this on friday as a memento. *huggles you* I keep it in my treasure drawer.
That is all.
Eleanora.
Thanks to Francophile who confirmed the filming location and to Lori who was just nuts enough to go with me... a complete stranger at the time.
A little teaser:
Well one saturday while I was working on physical inventory I came upon an addy online.... that was supposed to be the filming location of E-town in Pasadena, that addy was promptly removed 5 minutes later. I don't really remember but Francophile confirmed the address. They would be filiming in that location from Oct 5th to the 12th or so.... Francophile couldn't make it for one reason or another. I PM'd Twinks even tho I never met her before or contacted her even. But I did know she lived in the LA area so I needed a partner in crime... she PM'd me back with just a phone #, which I dialed and we introduced ourselves and she squeed for me since I was at work.
On monday I LIED THROUGH MY TEETH. At work I asked for 2 days vacation, next thu and fri. At home I lied to my husband and mother that I was being sent on training to L.A. So they wouldn't lecture/worry and also babysit my son... I know I'm awful!! *blushes*. The overtime on sat and sun paid for the rental car. I mapquested the addresses to Lori's and the filming location, which we reprinted at her place without the maps.... and the following is just a transcript of the whole thing.... I will review and edit if applicable... for the meantime:
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Twinks
In the Garden of Pasadena, Part 1
About 9:30 in the morning my phone rings and it is, Eleanora saying that she is in my apartment’s driveway. She is here. I go out and meet her, instant kabloomie friend, means instant long time friend. She is so sweet and warm and beautifully excited. I bring her to my apartment were I start to show off the Orlando/Lotr interor design of my little one bedroom apartment. The first thing she see is a DYC clock. Yes Eleanora, you are home! We sit and chat for about an hour, I map-quested her directions to a more consise listing and printed it. I kept telling her, not are we, or maybe, but we will see him.
We left and with the map-quest stating it was 1.0 hours from my door to the door of the E-town set, I knew we were in luck. I had the success buddha and told her the story behind it. We chatted and cried the whole way down about how Lotr had changed our lives, our favorite scenes, lines, the things that made us cry. That Legolas took Gimli with him when he left Middle-earth and how you know that the love of another to say I will die for you is the most precious thing on earth. I know I have another sister under the skin with this lady. We follow the directions and turn this way and that entering Pasadena. The city of Roses has a new bloom in it, this we know. The directions were spot on! Because when the directions ended, I looked to my right and there was the production van. I reached over and gave my new friend a big hug, and said, “Now the wait begins.”
We parked and walked to the set, I did not want to get to close, and so we decided to walk around the block and come to the set from the other side. This is when I found the Bodega, *spelling Ely?* and filed the information for future reference. We saw this lovely house with a high wall that we could sit on and just watch. We could see the extra’s tent. Everyone sitting around in formal clothes. We sat down and the security guard, the lady that is now a honorary ka-bloomie, came down and looked at us. I told Ely that she was checking us out to make sure we were not Paparazzi. Found out later I was correct. We just sat and chatted and I called Jet. This is the first report stating that we were 70 feet away.
I kept noticing there were other fangirls closer, about 4 of them. But, I did not want to go up there if we were not allowed. That is when I saw all of sudden a black dog. I had seen Sidi before and HE! Is a pretty pup. I said Ely, now come look. And we watched as Orlando and his pooch crossed the street and saw his arms and everything all I could think is, “this day is only going to get better.
I was getting thirsty and my cooler of Diet Dr Thunder was in the car. A block and a half straight down through the set, but a walk around the block to go the long way. I said to Ely, lets get your car and move it closer and get my soda. I had not eaten, and only had a half pot of coffee from that morning and then a Vinti White chocolate mo cha chino with and extra shot and light whipped cream. I really needed some sugar and caffeine.
Then we walked around the block to get her car.
*PEFIC* Forgive my spelling errors.
Continued,,,
Back in business we get our stuff and creep down to where everyone else is sitting. Trying to convince each other, you ask - no you ask - okay we will ask together, okay but will you ask first thing going back and forth we finally ask the guard if we are very quiet can we just sit and watch. He looks at us like we were so silly to wait so long to ask and smiles and says, “Sure ladies, have a seat!”
I call Jet, and update, we are now 20 feet away and watching the Pretty walk back and forth. I could see him in the back of the tented resting area just sitting back in his Elizabeth town director’s chair. I know he glanced our way a few times, and all we had were little smiles for him. Suddenly a wardrobe rack way pulled in front of him, just about blocking our view but I could still see a shadow. I know from the movement, he was changing his shirt. Thank God for the obstructed view because I think peck-peeckage would have killed us then and there.
We are just sitting there enjoying a warm lovely cool breezy Pasadena fall day. Chatting and laughing. There was one fan girl, and I do not mean to be a downer, but she really scared me. I knew she had already seen him earlier in the day, because she told us all.about.it. The security guard kept asking why did she want more? How could she want more? Anyways, we knew he would not come out as long as she was there. Eventually the girl and her mother left, and now we were down to six ladies.
More chatting, oh and I the bad girl and smoking my smokes way too fast. Nerves sorry guys. I keep counting them down to Ely. Okay I know this is not the most pleasant thing, but the boy is a human being and how can I fault his nerver settling device when I am using the same one? I saw him go to a catering table and pick up a familliar red and white box. He took one and went around a corner and then a cloud of grey came up. Yup he is a bad boy. But I am thinking, if I run out, I know who I can bum off of.
Time is fleeting and so are my smokes 4, 3, 2, oh and I need to go to the bathroom. We had kept inventory. I had the starbuck and three diet dr peppers and one Heath bar. If you did not think I was not taking English Toffee with me, well, you get the idea of the luck charm involved there. Speaking of, the good luck charm I gave him in Kentucky was a Buddha, one for happiness that could fit in your hand. We had my success one that I had wanted to keep. All day this little statue passed from hand to hand, got squeezed, his belly rubbed and kissed, and is now back in its place of honor on my computer desk.
I politely asked if I could use their bathroom to the people that owned the house whos fence we were sitting on. I was in obvious pain. They said yes, I met Sidi’s future playmate pupply, and used the restroom, washed my hands and threw some water on my neck. Much better. When I came out all the other women were gone and sitting alone was Ely. I said, “What the hell happened?” I immediately dreaded that they had come to get us and Ely, and I know this would have been true, had stayed behind to wait for me.
Another part of the story where the umm fan? Got umm baptized by a canine, caused those other fangirls to leave. Now it is me and Ely and a long wait. Oh it was at this point we moved from sitting in front of the wall with the puppy to another wall, since we were not sure if that same puppy would get friendly again. Bless that dogs heart. If all dogs go to heaven then this one will have a place of Golden honor forever.
It is getting dark and I am thinking of the irony that I had seen Orlando in Kentucky, also, in the dark. We just sat and waited. And ummm, counting down. 1. I am out of smokes. Sh!t.
We are just sitting and talking and chatting and having fun and smiling and I need a smoke by this time. I think it was 7:30. I keep looking up and down the street and people, looking for a cherry to burn in the night so I can bum a smoke. Finally I see 2 guys standing together, and one has my fix. I asked him for one and he obliged. The other guy, Eric, then turned to us and said, are you guys waiting to see Orlando Bloom?
Ely
Ladies, Twinks is posting this story for the both of us. I'm in contact with her over the phone and we went through this whole story together and we are posting our story together hand in hand, just as it happened, this is such an emotional moment for both of us, and to share it with all of our friends here at Ka-Bloom.
Lori, it was so special to me while driving down when we found all the common things we felt about LOTR, when we cried together, everything. Love you.
I'm crying right now, all the composure that we fought so hard to maintain is now gone.... I love you guys so much all of you are so special to us.
The good thing about Ka-Bloom is that all the ice has been broken already. When we meet we are already friends.
Love ya Lori (Twinks) glad we were nuts enough to make it there.
Lori, Jan, Jet, thanks for my Title, you have no idea what it means to me I LOVE IT.
OK lets get back to the story.
:cry: :cry: :hug:
Ely
Twinks
Point of view will now change from mine to Ely’s I will try to let you know when it does. We, Ely and I are on the phone together and are posting this together. This is where the account begins - what we stayed up all night writing and makes sure was right.
Point of view, Ely
We were still waiting outside at 8:30 pm after arriving at 11:00 am and Lori had run out of cigarettes and we worked up the courage to ask a couple of crew guys that were on our sidewalk to bum a cigarette and one of the guys: Eric he’s the one that had prepared his dinner. He asked us if we’ve been waiting to see Orlando Bloom Lori answered Yeah! We’ve been waiting here since 11.
Eric asks: “In the morning? I fixed his foo-foo and he needs to know this.
Lori asks: “Whats his foo-foo?
Eric says: “Lettuce wraps: Lettuce, Tuna, Vinegar, Avocado, Lime and Salt ONLY!!” He said he likes that vegetarian stuff, wants to live forever to spend all that money. It was said with a sweet and enduring voice, not sarcastic at all. He just thought it was very sweet of him.
Eric continues “OK, I’ll make sure he knows but I can’t guarantee anything.
Lori said: “We'll be here”
Lori then proceeded to call Jet.
Then 10 minutes later, Bodyguard John came over to get us.
We grabbed our hands in anticipation.
He asked: “Are you the ones that wanted the autographs”.
Lori went back to get our goody bag and we specified :”No pictures, since he is in costume and on set they don’t allow pictures because of the copyright”.
Lori answered: “We understand, we appreciate it”.
We proceeded to cross the street, Lori slipped the bag open to get our magazines and stuff, we each had our sharpie on hand, Lori had the success Buddha.
Lori out of the corner of her eye saw him watching and waiting for us, with his hands stuffed deep into his pants packets kinda slouching, his head cocked seeming to watch to get us to lift our heads up, but we couldn’t yet.
We still had to cross the street. Then we took hands again and walked up the short hill to the house and looked up into the face of heaven.
Soft curls around the face of an angle. Chocolate pools of sparkling happiness. Lovely. Simply lovely.
We got there rather nervous.
He asked us: “Were you waiting all day?”
We both said “Yes, since 11.”
He said: “I’m sorry, I didn’t know”
We said: “That’s OK”.
He put his hand out to Lori, to shake her hand, the hands are covered with the softest skin, firm handshake, he was not afraid to shake our hands firmly. She said “Lori”.
He turned around to me and shook my hand and he said “Orlando” - In conference later we both thought well duh!- I said “Eleanora”
Lori said: “I met you in Kentucky. In the dark, AGAIN” *Lori thinking, omg, I just used the duh voice with Orlando. But, I was so comfortable, and he felt the little tinge of friendly dig at his expense. He smiled so much at my little joke, you made me wait until after dark, again!
He laughed, his head tilting back a little in an almost uncontrolled giggle. He got the joke.
Lori said “At Cavehill Cementery in Kentucky in the dark. I gave you a happiness buddha” -She opened her hand and showed her success buddah.
Lori’s Point of View.
He pointed at me (like Uncle Sam’s I Want You Poster) smiled, raised his eyebrows and said,
“That was you, I still have that!! I still have it!!.” *Omg, he kept it, and he remembers me. Omg.
Ely’s Point of View.
Then he asked, “What were you doing in Kentucky?
Lori got stumped and didn’t want to sound like a teeny bopper so I cut in and said “She went on a dare!”
He asked “Really?”
Lori’s Point of View.
Eyebrows up, glint in the eye. As if, ‘Yea, I can understand that if was a dare. You don’t back down on a dare after all.’
Ely’s Point of View
Lori said with a big friendly smile, not afraid anymore to talk about her leap of faith. “Yep 6 hrs on a plane, they picked me up and spent 5 hrs in the cemetery and then I met you, in the dark!”
Lori turned to me and said “Oh! and I just met her today she drove down from Mexico and picked me up” he turned to me and asked “How far is that?” and I answered “4 hrs” he asked again “Really?” I nodded.
Twinks: "Oh! And I know Geri!, the one with the Yellow Hat!"
Orlando: "Oh Yea! That was so sweet of her. I had lost mine and I had thought maybe that was the same one, but of course it was not."
Twinks: "No, that one was new, she got it on e-bay with a little help from some friends because she knew how much you liked it. It meant a great deal to her to give that hat to you."
Orlando: "I love that hat! I was so thrilled to get it back."
Twinks: "Well, she was thrilled to give it to you."
*Californians do not speak in distance. When asked how far something is from point A to point B, we do not give miles we give time. Believe me it is easier this way*
Lori’s Point of View
He asked: “Do you have something for me to sign?”
I handed him my un-capped Sharpie and the ONE magazine, he beamed!
“Oh! I haven’t seen this before”
I said “It’s a German magazine my friend from Vienna Millisa sent it to me. I didn’t even know what it was until I got it.”
He started flipping through it and asked me. A little tentatively “Is it all about me?
And I said “Yes that’s what makes it so great!”
I said, "My husband speaks German, but he would not translate it for me."
He said, "I can understand that."
I said, "Yea, he puts up with alot from me."
He said, "I bet!"
Omg, I just got a dig from Orlando Bloom. Met with the best gisting. Like him when I said, 'Again!' I got the joke! And he laughed at me, and I smiled.
He continued to flip, He said, “Some of these are really old.” *I smiled in side. Pictures from four years ago, old. How sweet is that he is still so youthful that four years is a long time. But his life has changed so much since the mohawk and eye-liner, and I think he was reflecting on this as a display of his career in pictures was in his hand.
Then I said, “Yes, but they’re really good.”
Then he found the Gap Commercial screen caps he said “Shit! That’s Cameron!, Oh Wow. " Then moved to stand sideways to me his left shoulder to me, so that I could look over his shoulder and point out to me what he was looking at, smiling like a boy looking at a yearbook photo. His finger showing me each of the pictures and the one with him and Cameron looking at a monitor of the commercial.
He was so giddy started looking around over his shoulders back and forth and said,
“Shit, I’ve got to show this to T. J. *It is still unknow to us who T.J. is* I do not think it mattered it was someone he wanted to impress and it was so cute.
He looked at me, and asked,“Can I take it to show it to somebody?”
I said, “Absolutely! Knock yourself out!” I am now fully at ease with an adonis. Life is sweet.
He turned to leave and I asked him shyly if it was alright to dial my cell phone? He said walking away from me continuing to flip the pages of my magazine Sure!, so while he was gone, I dialed Jet.
Ely
Ladies, Lori just stood up to get another cuppa coffee, and stretch a bit but there was a part left out that happened during our long wait.
WARNING, POSSIBLE OVARIAN EXPLOSSION!!!
At one point while in between scenes, he was outside in the front lawn in front of the damn clothes rack (so it did not conceal him) with his back toward us.
The banned ka-bloomies were there still to our left and Lori and I were a bot more to the right watching him from about 25 feet away, looking and admiring his back, arms, hair, hands, just taking it all in..... and then all of a sudden, he crouched down like doing a sit up and Oh.My.God, his t-shirt rode up and his pants which are always rather on the low side...... so we saw skin, ladies, SKIN, Illiac crest.... ILLIAC CREST. :w00t: For those who haven't been here long enough or anatomically challenged, the Illiac crest is just well...... above him bum :lmao:
So the banned girls did NOT see that only Lori and I did, and we were pretty much :kablaam: for Lori and one :kablaam: for me.
:smoke:
Now back to our regularly scheduled program.
Ely
Twinks
Still Lori's Point of view.
She said, “Huh?”
“We are standing on the set with Orlando and he is talking to us and so beautiful."
She said, “blahblahblah blah hun?”
I said, “When you hear his voice you will understand."
I just held the phone out so that Jet could listen. I did not want to put a phone in his ear. I just wanted Jet to be there too. By now Jet has listened to me and is planning her own CEOK and is preparing to come to us in Pasadena.
He came back all happy, and asked me how I spelled my name. He still had my sharpie.
I said, “L-o-r-i,”
He looked at me and asked, “Oh! Are you the ‘Lori’ that talks to my mom?” *My mind thinking, he said, mom! I was like dude, your British, I want to hear you say Mum,* but then I thought well, since we are in the City of Roses he might think I might get confused and this he meant a kind of flower. *snort*
Then he corrected himself and said, “No, that Lori is from Canada,” I had almost corrected him and said that no that Lori is from OBM on-line, so glad I did not. I did not want him to know I was an internet junkie, yet!
He then signed the One magazine. He noticed I had another magazine and I asked if he would not mind signing it for my friend. I handed him the Premier that Sprkles had sent to me so long ago out of the goodness of her heart, she did not even know me at all. Just saw that I had posted I could not get one. She hooked me up. I asked him to sign it for Leslie. I said “She lives in Atlanta and sent that to me long ago and I want to send it back to her.”
He said sure, and asked me, “How do you spell her name?”
Here my dyslexia met Mr. Bloom’s. Neither of us could get it right. I kept saying. “L-i, L-i, and he began to write it wrong. We both knew it was wrong, and we must have looked at each other with a bit of yea, I know but how do you spell it? A little crinkled eye-brows between us.
I turned to Ely and said, “Ely, I am flipping my letters, how do you spell Leslie?” and he turned to Ely and said, "Shit, how do you spell Leslie?"
She saved us, the incorrect 'i' turned into a heart with e-s-l-i-e right behind it. My dear friend now has her autograph. Leslie , I will FedEx, a.f.k.
Leslie, still has no idea that I got this for her. She will have to read it for herself to find out and from the email she sent me she knows I saw him and wants details. Shhhh. Nobody tell!
*According to Jet, this is where the cell phone battery died!*
Point of view, Ely
He turned to me and I gave him the two Time magazines I had brought over but opened on the article page. He lit up like it was Christmas. His jaw dropped!
He said, “Fuck! I haven’t seen this!” he started flipping trying to see the cover and asked. “What magazine is this?”
We said, “It is Time Magazine!” With a hint of yes sir, you are not in a teenbopper mag anymore, but a national magazine that has its thumb on the pulse of the nation. And also with a little lilt in our voice that said, ‘Dude, it has been out for three days, where have you been?”
He said, “Shit! This is the first picture I have seen of the Kingdom of Heaven! Fuck!”
*okay children we have graduated from shit to fuck!*
He tilted and lowered the magazine over to us to share his enthusasium with us and started reading it. He lifted his head and looked at us and asked.
“Does it say it is good?”
I must stop and say, that here we saw his vunerablity, his need for validation as an actor. Our hearts spilled over. He was asking our opinion. He wanted to know what we thought. This was the first publicity he had seen of KOH and wanted our opinion and take on the article. The look on his face was that of a child not sure where he stands.
Lori and I just beamed with an, Aww baby, it is going to be okay look.
Then Lori said, “Yea! They are saying ‘Watch out! They are saying it is controversial but very good!”
He had not ask if it said he was good, but if it was good. He seemed excited that the article talked about the film just as much as it did him.
His face broke into this wonderful grin, with double dimples and a little nod. And said “It was a lot of fun, difficult and hard.”
He went to sign the copy of Time, and asked me to spell my name so I did, and he said my name back to me, seeming to try it out and said, “That’s nice.”
He flipped to top magazine under the one below and when he saw it was another copy of Time he said, crouching down to us again, “Fuck! I really want to read this.” with his eyebrows furrowed to us.
I could see that Lori was very close to wanting to give him the magazine, seeing how much he wanted it. But, to her credit remembered that it was for Melanie and she knew that I really wanted to get that for her, like she had wanted to get Leslie's for her.
He turned to show his bodyguard like a boy that just got all A+s on his report card. He was causing a bit of excitement, *okay a note here, the ka-bloomies got Orlando excited, not the other way around.* and another couple of guys came up from the other side of him and he turned to them holding up the magazines in the air.
“Fuck, we gotta get this guys. Time magazine October 11th, it just came out. Look!”
Lori, dear Lori said, “They are at Barns and Nobel or you can find it on-line.” Then proceeded to step on her own tongue for the ‘on-line,’ statement. It was so funny! Through our minds we are thinking, ‘yup, online at ka-bloom with the scans!’ Ut oh, but he did not hear us. We were just thrilled that ka-bloom that alerted us to the Time article in the first place was giving him such a fantastic feeling. Time Magazine, he has arrived and we as ka-bloomies and a collective group put that smile on his face.
Then he said, “Fuck! I have got to show this to T.J.”
Still do not know who T.J. is. He turned to me and asked, “Can I show it to T.J.?”
I nodded and he took both of my copies in his hands and again he scampered away to show off. Go baby go!
While he was gone for a second time, Lori and I took these deep breaths and she reached in her bag and grabbed my Legolas’ poster and said, “Sweetheart, don’t you want your poster?” So I removed the plastic and got it ready.
Then he came bouncing, literally, back and asked how to spell the name I wanted and I said M-e-l-a-n-i-e” so he signed the magazine. While he was signing Lori said, “Oh I loved Ned Kelly!”
He said, “Thanks! I worked really hard on that!”
Then Lori said, *she was a chatter box, but asking these great questions!* “A bunch of my friends went to see Haven in Toronto. They really liked it.”
He said, “Oh we had sooo much fun. We could not stop giggling!”
Lori was so good and did not ask him if he must walk like an elephant when he needs a restroom break in the middle of a movie?
Then I took out my Legolas’ poster and asked him if he would not mind signing the poster, he said, “Sure.”
Sometimes the planets align just so, and in this case they did. Because Twinks was brilliant, right here she had the presence of mind of a genius and said, “Ely, give him YOUR! Sharpie.”
He looked up at us and said, “I already have a sharpie.”
Lori said, “Yea, but...”
Then he looked at me then Lori and said, “Oh!” In an 'I get it' tone.
Light bulb went on for Mr. Bloom. Two women, one sharpie, bad math. The new Olympic sport is the sharpie relay. He handed Lori’s hers, she took it and flipped it over, recapped it and slipped it into her back pocket, while I in synchronized style and as Orlando’s hand came to me pulled my sharpied out of my pocket and uncapped it, and flipped it over and handed it to him, I touched fingers! He looked at us, “We all good now?”
Yes, we are good, because for one brief shining moment me, Lori and Orlando Bloom shared a brain.
He was cradling the poster with his left hand and signing with his right. I was holding the corners of the top of it to keep it from rolling. He began to sign it in the air. He wrote my name and asked, “Is that okay?”
I said, “No. There’s an A between the E and the N” Omg it was my turn for a bit of a dig.
He laughed so hard, hovering the sharpie over the poster and said a giggling, “Shit!” because there was no space between the letters to get the A in. He laughed and finally stuck the A in there. I felt like I was just standing there talking with a good friend.
Then it happened.
Get your drop cloths, get your windex and squeegies. Serious health warnings for the faint of heart coming up. Not kidding. Not kidding. Not kidding.
The point of view of two ka-bloomies.
Then all of a sudden, during the Legolas’ poster signing and the sticking of the ‘a’ between the ‘e’ and the ‘n’ laughter it happened.
A guy began to tug at our man. Not away from us but just doing his job not noticing that two ka-bloomies just had their ovaries explode, right then, right there.
:kablaam: :kablaam: :kablaam: :kablaam:
All four, gone! Buh-Bye.
His job description, lifting Orlando Bloom’s T-shirt right in front of us to tape a microphone to his back and to his stomach right between us. He lifted his shirt and was crouching down all the way around him and taping a wire around his waist. Orlando is totally ignoring the man trying to figure out where to put an ‘a’ between an ‘e’ and an ‘n’.
Again, the guy lifted his shirt and showed us peekage of skin ALL.THE.FRICKIN.WAY.AROUND! Him! No tattoo sighting but OMG! We must have looked like our eyes had popped out of our head. We did so good and somehow gained the respect of his body guard when we did not tilt our heads for a better angle non drop to our knees and begin to thank God for the wire boy that came our way. :notworthy:
Actually we considered shoving the guy out of the way and saying, 'You are NOT DOING THAT RIGHT!"
But, then again we are not union. Drats.
Back to earth now.
Ely’s point of view.
When they had him all put back together again he said, “They are ready for me. It was a great pleasure to meet you two.”
We just stood there with these smiles, then he stepped forward and leaned down to Lori’s height and hugged her tight placing one arm on her shoulder blades and one on her waist. She is so little and he came down to her so that she did not even have to move to get up to him.
Lori’s point of view.
He stepped up to me and I felt his hands go around me and he hugged me. I just closed my eyes and squeezed him back. One arm over his shoulder the other around his back. I just breathed. Then he kissed my cheek. Just a fraction of below where the previous one was. I was thinking because this time I could not speak it, “Thank you for everything Orlando.”
Ely’s point of view.
It was so sweet how he had come down to Lori’s height, I just stood there. He let go of Lori and she let go of him. Then he stepped to me and gave me my hug. He hugged me tight also. I am taller than Lori so I went a different angle. He put his arms around my waist and I put mine under his arms my hands on his shoulder blades, *he has the tightest back!* I lost my mind in the thought that my hands were right at where his scar is. And he also kissed my cheek.
We turned around, Lori put her arm through mine and we turned to walk away. We didn’t even say good-bye. Lori was slowing me down to baby steps, I must have been taking giant ones. I started to feel Lori begin to shake and started chanting to her,
“Wait for the car, wait for the car, wait for the car,”
Lori picked up the chant.
Together now.
“Wait for the car, wait for the car wait for the car.”
We had not even started to walk away from him when the chant began, there is no way he did not hear us. I can only imagine the look that must have been on his face.
Babysteps, two friends that just met that day, chanting support to each other,
“Wait for the car.”
We got to the sidewalk the gurad said to us, “Be careful crossing the street,” Lori said, “I’m floating”
Little did we realize that Eric, the guy that had said he would make sure Orlando knew we had been waiting for him was following us. I think he was making sure we were all right. We crossed the street and turned a little bit around a palm tree and Lori let her knees go finally and lay down on the grass.
Four sweet teen-boppers came up to us and asked, “How did you do that?”
I answered, “We bummed a cig fro the right person.”
Lori asked, off the ground now, “How long were we there?”
They said, a little valley-girlish, “Forever!”
Lori and I stepped around the girls and saw Eric and thanked him profusely and he said, “My pleasure.” The girls asked him if he could do the same for them and he said, “You guys live here, they came from far away.” We said thank you again and arm in arm walked back to the car.
We reached the car and opened the glove compartment and and noticed Lori’s copy of Time magazine in there.
Two words. “Lets go!”
With nothing but the magazine we crossed the street flipping it to where the article was and creasing the page. The set was now dark and we did not go seeking to see him again, or anyone else. We did not even look for him
We walked up to the security guard and said.
Lori’s point of view.
“Could you please see that he gets this. He very much wanted to read the article and we forgot we had another copy.” He promised to see that he got it. Then we turned around and walked back to the car.
Two ka-bloomies point of view.
Respectful, appreciative, giddy, ‘potty-mouth,’ venerable, seeking approval, generous, kind, sweet, beautiful, sense of humor, capable of making us both feel at ease and special at the same time. Beautiful is not a good enough word. If you had a dictionary full of words to describe heaven on earth, it would be pretty short. Just two words. Orlando Bloom.
In our ten minute visit we discovered all of these things. Amazing. He was honest, and completely human with us, enjoying our company as much as we did his.
God I love that man.
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The pictures of the stuff I got signed:
And Jet gave me this on friday as a memento. *huggles you* I keep it in my treasure drawer.
That is all.
Eleanora.