Wil Wheaton and Redditgifts

It is currently 1:25pm and this is the current state of things.

Goodness at the upvotes.

HEY GUESS WHAT. A REALLY COOL THING JUST HAPPENED.
I signed up for RedditGifts sometime last year after a friend told me that they were opening a yarn exchange and he knew that I was a knitter so I might enjoy that. I totally signed up right away and I was hooked. I've done 7 or 8 so far and they've all turned out amazingly well, except for getting shafted once, but that wasn't even that bad because it's all about giving anyway.
So one of the recent exchanges was a Star Trek exchange. I really debated about signing up for that one because I felt like I'm not that much of a fan to be participating in a Star Trek themed thing. Then, I thought, I do know someone who is a huge Star Trek fan!

So I signed up and put this in the info box for the exchange, "I'm signing up for this for my uncle. He's a huge fan. He really likes the original series of Star Trek, cheesy graphics and all. He's a man's man so maybe send something manly. You're the best. I already know you'll do a great job."

I got an anonymous message from my match on the 5th.

 Certainly I was excited because the person mentioned getting my uncle's gift from a convention, but I can tell you that my mind did not go to Wil Wheaton AT ALL when I read this message. I just thought, sweet, maybe this person is sacrificing their autograph that they got from an actor to give away. That would've been pretty amazing. To give some background on why I responded, "I'm so sorry! I bet you got a nasty email from Reddit!" I said that because just a few days before, I had selected that I did not receive the gift and usually when you do that Reddit will send an email to your match saying 'You better ship your thing OR ELSE.'

On Saturday, Jess, MJ, and I got together at my G&P's before we headed to Trussville to the bowling alley and I can't remember why we started talking about it, but I somehow convinced them to sign up for RedditGifts. Later on that night, after bowling and we were headed home, I noticed I had a missed call from Xander so I called him back. He was like, "Hey, you got a package from RedditGifts." I said, "Yeah, I know, I was expecting one. That's the one for Bryan." Then he was like, "You'll never believe what the return address says." Then he texted me a picture and I was all OMG SOMUCH ASDNFCAOWERGWHAT? Jess & MJ were in the car and I had to explain why I kept saying NUH UH. I told them about the gift for their dad and that the return address said Wil Wheaton. They were like, "Who?" Even after all this, they still probably don't know who he is.. haha. So them being who they are, they wanted me to call Xander back and have him open up the present. I told them I wanted to wait for Bryan to open it. They convinced me because I'm a pushover and because they're persistant. So I called my brother back and asked him to VERY CAREFULLY open the package and take a few pictures so we could see what was inside. He called me right back presumably because he was excited to announce what was inside. At this point, I was very skeptical about the realness of the whole thing. The letter though... the letter felt really real. So I decided that it must be.

I went back to G&P's that night and I couldn't sleep at all.  I was a weird kind of nervous that had a lot to do with celebrities who are also really nice people. The next day I was supposed to get up and go with my family to see Fried Green Tomatoes at the Alabama Theatre, but while lying awake, I devised a plan to meet up with my dad about halfway between my actual house and my grandparents house so I could pick up the package and let Bryan open it that same day. It was an excellent plan.

Everything went to according to plan and I gave Bryan the gift and Jess and MJ pretty much told him what was inside before he opened it because they're bad at secrets. G&P, Linda, & Cason were also there during the unveiling. There was some confusion from the people who weren't in the know, (G&P), but Bryan was really surprised and happy. That was the best part.

I posted the gift to Redditgifts at about 4:30p on Monday afternoon and I also posted it to facebook at the same time.

Mom commented almost immediately and Jess, too. Another one of my friends is a pretty big Star Trek fan so that was cool that she commented.

Then I noticed that RedditGifts promoted my thing!

And about that same time, Wil Wheaton commented on my post!

Which is hella rad. What is also rad is the amazingly sweet and nice comments that people keep leaving about Wil and my uncle Bryan.

I'm just so delighted. I tried not to fangirl too much on the RedditGifts post. I'm not totally clueless and I figured that it would get a little bit popular. Which, by my book, it definitely has.

I figured I could save that fangirling for this blog. Also, I fibbed a little on the RedditGifts post just because I was trying to be succinct. I've noticed that sometimes people go off on a tangent and that it sometimes is boring.


I keep wanting to send @wilw a tweet, but I just don't know what to say. Typing out a long post on reddit is one thing, because it's kind of impersonal. A tweet is like... direct. He could actually like, reply and stuff. And plus, I don't want to inflate his ego too much.

But seriously, he typed my name like 4 times. He maybe even said it out loud once! I mean, there's no way for me to know that, but STILL. COOL.



I've got to remember to give that friend of mine who referred me to RedditGifts a big old hug.




A new thing that happened today(6/12/13):

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH *DEAD*

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The thing about reading good books at work is the crys. I've been answering the phones at the front desk this week, which is not what I usually do, and people don't come by that often, but it's awkward when someone walks through and says hello and my eyes are watery and when I respond my voice cracks.
In case you were wondering, I'm reading All These Things I've Done by Gabrielle Zevin. So much good.

Anyway, I'm going to pause the reading/crying to post some pictures. I went home for two weeks at the end of May and spent some time with my long lost friends and a little too much time, for my taste, with my little bro. All in all, had a fabulous time. And I've got pictures to prove it!

Rosh with our graduation present for Justin

My beautiful redheaded best friend. I wish I done a better job of getting together with her while I was home for so long. :/ 

This photo features a few of my favorite things.

Luke, my new gigantic friend!!!

A bunch of us went to the Nook and had a grand ole time. Claire & I each had a Raspberry Lambic. Super delicious. Jeff was there! :) He's my fav.

Hot air balloonz and fireworkz

George(cat from above) had kittens and this is Wash. We hope he won't meet an untimely demise like his namesake.

This happened!!! And I was undoubtedly excited about it.

This dude. :)

Lookin' fresh at Lowe Mill

Hello world.

Congraduations

“There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life—happiness, freedom, and peace of mind—are always attained by giving them to someone else.”   General Peyton C. March

Witnessed my best friend walk across the stage and graduate from a very important part of her life. I can genuinely say that I'm thrilled for her. Wavering on the verge of jealousy. In a good way though.

I check facebook incessantly and over the past month my friends have been annoyingly talkative about their impending life change of ending the beast that is college. And every single time I scroll past I'm mentally vomiting on them. But with Rosh's graduation, I'm truly happy. Not even the slightest bit queasy. 



Something that will never ever ever ever happen again: Sitting in Roshni's UAB dorm living area.

International

As a self-proclaimed anglophile, (I haven't been like, diagnosed or anything), I keep coming across this thing that happens to me. I don't know if it's just my personality or if it's something that Americans who consume massive amounts of culture from across the pond do or what. I don't do this when I watch "The Jersey Shore." Okay that's a terrible example because I've never watched the Jersey Shore. It didn't happen to me when I watched Fargo. But when I watch something where a person has an accent from the UK, my thoughts become like their accent. I wouldn't dare let a peep of it come out of my mouth though. I'm pretty sure that's frowned upon. Although, having a Southern accent, I totally don't mind people trying to do a southern accent at me. So I don't know, maybe it's just the social connotation that's weird.
Here are some people who have accents very different from my own and I thoroughly enjoy watching them:
Hi, it's me, Jimmy. How are ya?
Liam Dryden
Caspar Lee
Thomas Rees - Kaye
Jack Harries & sometimes Finn
Alfie
Louise

Pants on fire

I went home this past weekend and stayed a few days and while I was there I discovered that the second season of Upstairs Downstairs is on Prime so I was watching a few episodes and my dad pipes up, "Are you watching that Dalton Abbey?"

Recently, everyone's favorite question for me is, how much longer do you have left? Truthfully, I don't know because I haven't actually calculated how many classes I have left. I should really figure that out. But since I'm a liar, I've been telling people that I have 3 semesters left. Wouldn't that be nice if it were less than that?

TO DO LIST:

Frozen Strawberry Peach Margarita

Serves 4 (Or 1 person, 4 times)

Ingredients:

15-10  frozen strawberries
2 peaches,  peeled and chopped
4 ounces tequila
1 cup crushed ice
12 ounces sparkling water

Directions:

Place all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth.

Friday. My second favorite F word.

I'm obsessed with this video. Besides the fact that Mac Miller is adorable as shit, there's this part in the video where he's taking out the trash and there's this blue door that takes him to this other place. Like the Tardis. I mean, I think he's referencing his blue slide park and not Dr Who, but still. I like it.

Also, I love that line in the song where he's like "I ain't no hipster, but Girl, I can make your hips stir." I just want to date somebody that's that clever.

Television

I'm about to fully endorse

http://www.irfanview.com/   ||||||It's fo' free!||||||

I've been using this for seems like forever for just basic photo editing and viewing and I just now found out that it batch renames photos! It's the best thing I've discovered all year. I'm trying to organize all my shit so I can find things without having to go one by one and I was thinking I would have to download a whole new program and learn how to use it to batch rename. Turns out I already had what I needed all along.
This site is what I used to figure out how to rename through Irfanview.

I have to admit though, I hate the name of this stupid program because I always misspell it on the first try.

Day 31:

The last song you heard in public

Daylight - Maroon 5

I can't remember if Daylight was the last song in their set, but it was close to last. I went to this concert on the 26th! It was pretty darn good.

Day 30:

Your favourite song at this time last year

Cough Syrup - Young the Giant

Day 29:

A song from your childhood

Two Princes - Spin Doctors

Chris Barron is really, really cool. He tweeted me once! I was embarrassing, but it's all I've got. And he follows me on twitter. Badass.

Day 28:

A song that makes you feel guilty

Meat is Murder - Morrissey

Day 27:

A song that you wish you could play

Suit & Tie - Justin Timberlake

I want to be able to whip it out at parties.

Money

So nobody is allowed to say that money can't buy you friends. Did anybody even say that in the first place? Anyway, I have proof that you totally can buy friends.

This is the highest award for this kickstarter & to me it's saying, hey if you want to pay for a third of the goal for this project then we can hang out, and maybe even be bros.
Don't get me wrong. I LOVE the dude that is behind this kickstarter and I would definitely buy his friendship if I had an extra $10000.

-->>Confluence

Day 26:

A song that you can play on any instrument

Mary Had a Little Lamb

Day 25:

A song that makes you laugh

Default - Django Django

"It's like a nipple" - Xander

Day 24:

A song that you want to play at your funeral

It's Nice To Be Alive - Ball Park Music

Day 23:

A song that you want to play at your wedding

Love Interruption - Jack White 

Day 22:

A song that you listen to you when you're sad