Let me first start by saying I am SO sorry I took so long to get an update. And I'm even more sorry that I don't have anything to show for all the days I missed. I was so much busier than I expected I'd be after the convention. I had a great time, though!
Hopefully starting now I will be back to regularly updating again.
There's really not much to say about this picture so instead I'll detail how the convention went!
First of all on Thursday we had to get all the merchandise from the card shop to the convention center, as well as pick up our staff badges. We got a late start and we spent the entire day setting up. Up until 10PM, when we were bounced from the convention center. At that point I walked down towards Pike Place to meet up with my boyfriend and friends so we could head to our hotel. We stayed in the Hyatt, and I got to take rock star baths all weekend in the rock star bathtub. It was glorious. Not much else happened on Thursday besides work and sleep. There just wasn't enough time.
Friday morning I had to be down at the convention center early. We hadn't finished setting up the night before and had to rush to get everything together for when the vendor's hall opened. Luckily we got everything together in time. Though we did have to put last minute price tags on things while people flooded in. I worked in the vendor's hall from open to around 3 when I was called down to the card gaming room to work in there. See...Monster Gaming had a booth in the vendor's hall as well as a big room set up for table top/board/card games. Combined between the two rooms I worked a 15 hour shift on Friday with no breaks.
Saturday was pretty much the same, though I stayed in the vendor's hall until close before heading down to work in card gaming. The vendor's hall had some sort of dehumidifier running or something because it was so. fucking. dry. My lips were so chapped, and even though I was drinking water all day I felt ridiculously dehydrated. So much so that I requested to be down in card gaming all day Sunday because I could not handle how dry it was up there. I ended up working about 16 hours on Saturday, with only a one hour break.
Sunday I worked all day in card gaming, and left when we were tearing down and packing up. I wanted to stay and help with that, but we got a really late start packing up and we weren't going to be out of there until really late and I had to go to school Monday morning. I caught a ride home with my friends, ate dinner over at my boyfriend's house, and then stayed over at my friend Melissa's so we could get to school together in the morning.
Sunday was also my anniversary with my boyfriend. We didn't get to spend much time with each other because we were both working at the convention, but what we did get was nice. He got me an adorable plush Chain Chomp (it was the last one at the Monster Gaming booth, and I wanted one soooo bad), which Melissa named Om Noms. For his present I got him three boosters of Conflux (M:tG) because on Friday night he bought an entire box of Conflux boosters in hopes he'd get four Path to Exile for his deck. He only got three. So I spent the rest of my money to get him three boosters, since it was all I could afford. He ended up getting his last Path to Exile in the third pack he opened. :3 Then later in the evening I cuddled with him after we ate dinner, before I had to leave.
And between then and now I've been all over the place. Going to school, helping set back up at the card shop, and hanging out with friends. So again, I'm really really sorry I haven't updated. I've just not had a single spare moment lately. ):
