animazement
Below you’ll find my blog posts and photos about our trips to the convention Animazement in Raleigh, NC. We attended this event in 2001 and 2002.
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My first photo at a convention
So… my first convention. Animazement 2001. I get to the hotel, we get checked in, and I toss on my Selphie costume. I’m so excited I don’t bother with my hair, and (as usual in those early days) didn’t bother with makeup. I stepped out of the elevator, not knowing what to expect but excited beyond belief to be there.…
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when i found more pics!
More Animazement pictures … there’s me and Ash on the first page of pics as Xiaoyu (tho we’re listed as “more card captor sakuras”!) And then later on there’s two of me as Lulu. You know, I realise I didn’t wear my wig correctly, now. The part of hair on the right side of my head should have been over…
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when i updated my costume page
cosplay page updated yaaaaaah lots of animazement pics. check it out (under “cons”) *crawls under desk*
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when I posted our animazement 2002 recap
THURSDAY Picked up Ash, rode to grandmother’s had dinner. Ride to Nashville was pretty uneventful. Got lost in Nashville. We passed the Clarion where mtac was last year – is it closed? Looked like it. If it is, good, because it had ugly wallpaper and mean employees and icky bathrooms. Got to hotel finally, went to sleep. FRIDAY Got up…
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Post Animazement 2002!
Well guys, Animazement was pretty fun. I’ll have my report and pictures up this weekend. I’m really pleased with how my pics came out, this time. I was also very pleased with my costumes! I’ll update our Xiaoyu pages, my lulu page, my misato page, and we got new pics of Ash’s Meryl and Ranma costumes. For Otakon, Ash and…
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when i posted some animazement pics
Welllllll thanks a lot you stupid page… as soon as I email hispeed it comes back up. Now I’m going to get one of those “It comes up for us,” emails. Bleh! I posted some pics I’ve found of ash and I at az in my livejournal, but here’s a few more I’ve found: Ling Xiaoyus: She-Ra Misato Cosp/ACP 1,…
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Last minute
Well, folks. Ash and I are off to Animazement. Check out my livejournal for some various costume ramblings, but here’s my tentative costume schedule: Friday – Xiaoyu, Misato Saturday – She-Ra, Lulu Sunday – Misato or Utena Ash will be wearing Xiaoyu, Ritsuko, and Ranma throughout the weekend, too. I can’t wait!! See you guys there!
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when it was animazement time!
Well folks, it’s that time. I actually got everything done last night. We leave around 4 this afternoon, drive to my gramma’s, drop off my clothes for next week & eat dinner with them, then go on to Nashville. Tomorrow morning we get up and fly out of Nashville around 7. We’ll be arriving in Durham around 9:30… and then…
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Leaving for Animazement 2002
Yep, tomorrow at this time I’ll be at Animazement 😀 I know this should go in my cosplay journal, but OH WELL! Xiaoyu… I’m pretty satisfied with Xiaoyu. I’ll probably wear it most of the day friday, with Ash in her 1P Xiaoyu costume. Speaking of which, I painted the design on the back of Ash’s Xiaoyu costume, and I’m…
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Nervous
(it’s a nerve inspired rant about Animazement… beware :P) I’m getting really really really nervous and excited. Next week!! It’s next week!! I’ve already started packing. Gathering up costume pieces and putting all my makeup together and setting it inside my big suitcase. I’m taking two suitcases, a big one on loan from my gramma and my regular one… and…
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when i won’t settle for anything less than han solo
I’ve figured it out! The reason I’ve never been in any kind of relationship! It’s so simple – I won’t settle for anything less than Han Solo. I haven’t been on the computer at all since yesterday afternoon – the power was out here almost all day! 🙁 Mom and I went out and about… I got two new shirts…
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when there was a creepy guy
Oooh my god Dad brought home Molly’s for me last night. I ate waaaaay too much. They give you more food when you order it to-go… I saved some of the cheese dip and had it for breakfast. yum 😀 Got up @ 5:50 am this morning to take Kevin to school. (it takes him bought 20 minutes to get…
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Hotels
We found a hotel in Nashville…. we’re going to stay there Thursday night and then get up there and catch our 6AM flight to Durham for Animazement. That way we won’t have to drive all night and then be dragging all day friday. Ash is considering going to Dragoncon with us. Plus, if she goes to Dragoncon, it cuts down…
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when the soft nougats got to me
I finally tried this “Reese’s Fast Break” candy bar my parents put in my easter basket. I love reese’s, and I was hoping to like this but… ew! ok, not completely ew… but it’s too much like a snickers. It’s the “soft nougats” I think. It doesn’t taste like a reese’s at all. what’s up with that?! I am upset…
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She-Ra wig & Animazement plans!
I got my She-Ra wig the other day. It cracks me up 😀 I do not make a good blonde. It’s like, the same colour as my skin. I was not born to be a blonde. I’ve talked about our Animazement travel plans before, about how rough it was last year, and how rough it will be this year. We…
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when we got a snow day
SNOW DAY!!! SNOW DAY!!!! SNOW— Oh wait no. I hope this doesn’t make Ash have to go to school one day longer at the end of the year. Her last day of school is May 23. Animazement is May 24. Oh no, don’t let that happen…
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Animazement plans…
Whoohoo! I booked our flight for Animazement. I guess that makes it official now! We leave Nashville at 7:30 AM on friday and get into Raleigh/Durham at 9:40. It was the same price as the first tickets I found, which left Nashville at 7:00, stopped over in Cincinnati (sp?) and didn’t get into Raleigh/Durham until around noon. Heh! Too bad…
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when i updated my costume site
Lazy Eternity updated… big kudos for my dad for scanning all my pics for me. Pics from all our Animazement costumes are up, and all the pics from the con are up, too. Check ’em out!
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animazement photos
AHHHHHH, I just slammed my ankle into one of the metal bedposts as I was running to answer the phone which turned out to be nothing but a telemarketer!! Geez that hurt! Well I’m back for good… er, well, at least for 10 more days. Then I’m going to Disneyworld!! HAHAHAHAHA!!! I updated the HP Monthly today, so many subs!…
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when i shared my animazement trip report
TRIP REPORT!!!!!!!!! Thursday We left my house around six that night to go pick up Cath and head to our grandmother’s house in Jackson, TN. I finished packing mere seconds before we left – it was all very rushed. We got to Cath’s house and it turns out she wasn’t feeling well at all. I started panicking a bit! Her…
