Um, I made my plane reservations this morning -- bit the bullet and went through SFO for convenience's sake. (At least I hope that's fairly convenient.) So I'm definitely, irretrievably ON.

I believe that 9 out of 10 OB/GYNs specifically recommend Laura belly pats.

ACK! I typed up a BIG LONG POST and got logged out. Drat. Let's try to recreate, and this time, I will CTRL +A and CTRL + C like a SMRT person.

Hello all! I just tried to catch up on 1600+ posts. *head officially spun*

I AM SO EXCITED TO SEE EVERYONE I CAN'T STAND IT. smonster and I both are so looking forward to this, and are so happy about it that it's hard to wrap our brains around it on a dreary Monday.

Sorry for my prolonged absence from the thread. My head can sometimes disappear up my proverbial arse. April was a month. It just was.

Is it too late to express a desire to attend the Winchester House on Saturday? I'll happily chip in for car rental $$.

Also, Deb, I know this is terribly late, but if it isn't too awfully late to RSVP, I'd like to attend BBQ post baseball game on Sunday if that's all right as well.

So, to sum up:

Plane ticket: bought!
Valium for plane trip: acquired!
Prom money: insent!
Baseball game: a go!
Supernatural torrents for Kate P. pimpage: slowly, slowly downloading

Still left to do:

Buy swag
Figure out what to wear to prom
Decide if it's worth it to try and see brother and nephew during Chicago layover
Other things I haven't even figured out yet!

Can't wait to see you all!

JACQUELINE! I need to buy you lunch this week, and will insist on doing that thing, once I find out what days I'm doing what with HWA. I'm supposed to be signing this week, twice, and I only know about the big Borderlands event on Thursday night.

Amyth, excellent, and the BBQ will be delighted to have you, ma'am. Can you email me with your particulars, if you want to be listed? And Theo, you too, ma'am, please?

Hi. As so often happens, I trail along behind amyth and say, "Me, too!"

I think I want to go to the Winchester House, though I'm a bit skeered, and I know I want to attend the BBQ.

Deb, we're flying together, so I'll forward you our info after lunch.

Juliana, my love, we're leaving Tuesday morning - if we need to find other accomodations for part of that time, let me know.

Supernatural torrents for Kate P. pimpage: slowly, slowly downloading

Have I told you lately that I love you?

Juliana, my love, we're leaving Tuesday morning

Hey, I'll be around on Monday too! Yay, more time with amyth and smonster!

Also, I said this over in the Music thread too, but: Huge congratulations to Hec and JZ!!! I am so excited for you both I can hardly stand it. And I must tell you that October 24th is not only my birthday, but also Rebecca Lizard's, so I encourage The Halloweenie to stick as close to her wicked cool due date as possible.

Nov. 1 is an excellent birthday too.

Juliana, my love, we're leaving Tuesday morning - if we need to find other accomodations for part of that time, let me know.

Nope, no worries. Also, WHEEE!!! Please to be sending me travel info so I know when & where, yes?

Couple of quick things:

1. I'm awaiting some info - and seeing whether we can set it up for two more people who want to attend, and whom we'd love to attend - before sending out a draft of the F2F Info Cheat-Sheet. My thinking at the moment is to send it out to everyone whose cellphone numbers I already have in the document, as follows:

Anne W, Kristin, NoiseDesign, Laura, Tommyrot, Nora & Tom, JZ, Jessica, _t, Teppy, Sparky, Ginger, Nicole, Pete & Jilli, Brenda M, ChiKat, Trudy, Vortex, Toddson, Polter-Cow, SailAweigh, SA, Kate P, Theodosia, juliana, Lee, DX, EpicTangent

That's obviously not the whole list of people coming - for one thing, it doesn't include the locals (except that juliana just told me to add her). If you don't see your name above, and want to either receive the list or add a number/arrival and departure info/BBQ or other event confirmation to it, please email me at the profile addy. I'll be sending this out probably on Wednesday of this week.

2. Monday 22 May is going to be a quietish day for me, since it'll be coming at the end of ten says of furious activity and the multiple sclerosis will almost certainly be cranky. But I'll probably be up for some nice mellow City-wandering, and will put a pasta dinner together for anyone who wants to come along an enjoy it. I don't need an RSVP for that - nice fluid plan. I'll just check with people at the weekend, get a rough headcount, and put together some food.

Insent to you, deb, and if I should forward some of the info therein to anyone else, I hope you'll let me know!

I really am so looking forward to this -- I like SF a whole lot, above and beyond the wonderful people I'll see there, and if all works out I should be able to do some significant things that I've never done before, like the Winchester House and the Monterey Aquarium. (I've made a 9:45 PM plane reservation for Monday in order to fit this is.)