Thursday, Aug 22 & Friday, Aug 23

See, my housemate had an IKEA bed with the wrong supports, and left the old ones lying in the hall, nails UP. She had stepped on one of the nails earlier, although I doubt as badly as I did. (I love how they didn't get moved even after that happened)  **I didn't know where to move them to, I didn't know what she wanted to do with them**  The pain didn't hit me right away, and I was fine until about 3 am, when I couldn't stand on it at all anymore. In the meantime, though, Sora shirt got sewn, and A20 finished, and I still had a few things of BT's to complete, which I finally finished at 6 that morning.

Also around 3, the first instance of "Sunny almost losing it" occurred. See, the weapons were crafted out of foam core and the plan was to cover them with this plaster stuff to smooth out the edges. The package says the stuff dries in half an hour. After letting it sit for almost an hour, I turned it over to work on the other side only to hear the plaster fall off as slop. I was ready to chuck them out Eleryth's second story windows (as they have no screens)  (No, I was ready to go through the glass). Since that is probably a bad idea, I decided to leave for half an hour for a walk. Good choice on my part. Came back and went with the paper maché. Left that to our volunteer assistant.

As the night slowly became day, things came together. BT was complete, A20 was complete, and Sora, well, Sora had everything but the weapons and purple stripes complete.  We figured we'd do that in the hotel room, and got ready to get the van from the rental place. I had called them and told them I'd be coming as soon as possible, which means 7am. We left around 7:10, with the assistant in tow, as her house was on the way.  We got there, then had to wait for the person before us to rent, and then, as I should have guessed, for our van, as it too, wasn't ready.  It was getting cleaned, and was still dirty in places when we got it. Wasn't nice, but we were in a hurry.  Sunny drove, as I could hardly walk - was quite the sight to see, I imagine. (It was) I hate limping. We got the van loaded with Louie's help, and left to get everyone else. It was now about 9:30 am.

Here's the second instance of "Sunny almost losing it". We left the van parked next to Eleryth's apartment figuring we'd be leaving again really soon. That wasn't the case. When we did, guess what we found on the windshield? A parking ticket. Apparently you can't park where we did between 9 and 10.

Ok, so we're on the road. Poor Sunny has to drive with the rest of us sleeping.  I wake up about an hour and half into our trip, to his insistent question: "You packed my weapons, right?" Note that there was panic in his voice. I didn't, but as Louise had to pack her big sword, I assumed she'd grab the weapons which were lying next to it, also drying from paper maché.  I woke her up from the back of the van, and she answered. Disaster had struck again - ("Sunny almost losing it" three -- while driving!) the weapons were still on my apartment floor, 1.5 hours away.  We quickly debated about turning around then, which in my opinion would have been better, but we ended up going all the way to the hotel in Toronto, another 1.5 hours away. (I didn't want other people to miss out on the weekend because of my mistake. Only regret is Eleryth had to come back with me. Feel bad for making her miss the entire first day.) Trust me, I felt bad enough for not checking the apartment.  Sadly, this was not the only thing forgotten. 

Fastforward to Sunny's and my return to T.O., with weapons, and exclamations of elation from those who hadn't seen us at all "You're not dead!"  But in reality, I think (in retrospect) they were thinking: "Oh God, 2 MORE people to fit in that room?"

You see, the room we ended up with was smaller than my bedroom. Not that most have you have seen my bedroom. Anyway, two single beds and some floor space. And by "some", I mean "next to none". TIIIIIIIIIIIIIINY. Ended up with each bed (or mini-bed-of-molestation as they were known) getting two people ("Alright" ala Quagmire, Family Guy), and two on the floor. Can we say cozy? (see Stillvisions Con report for pics)

After feeling claustrophobic for a while, Oselle took us out to the hall for what was possibly the best part of the day - learning the dance (Village People style, choreographed by Oselle) for the skit!  This went well, and was a lot of fun, even if it was midnight and very few of us had had any sleep.  The fun dancing was followed by Sunny and Eleryth staying up until 4 am hand-sewing purple stripes on Sora while everyone else slept.  We eventually crashed, and slept like logs until the alarm went off at 9am.