I arrived at the convention centre in Telford and we got all confused on where to go and then I spotted some people dressed up as Pikachu’s and so we just followed them to where we were meant to go and I literally died because it was just a line of Pikachu’s and it got even better when we got inside. I started to queue up and EVERYONE was cosplay and I felt so left out because I didn’t cosplay but I actually didn’t know who to dress up as! But I FELT SO PROUD OF MYSELF BECAUSE I NAMED LOADS OF CHARACTERS WOO! There were Eleven’s, Amy’s, Adventure Time characters, loads of Pokemon and Digimon, Minecraft, A FREAKIN SLENDER MAN I LITERALLY CRIED WHEN I HAD TO WALK PAST HIM and loads more, it was amazing!!
And basically took us about half an hour to go through this massive queue to actually get into the con but you can never go to a con and expect no lines (LINECON WOO)!
This is the hall from the queue:
and a picture I thought Tumblr would appreciate, from one of the stands:
Then I walked around a few of the stalls and I saw A FREAKIN TOTORO ONSIE AND PIKACHU ONSIE (I didn’t buy it though :()! But as soon as we got to the autograph tables I had to pay to get signing and I found someone dressed as Merlin, holding a freakin' 'have you seen Arthur sign?' IT WAS LITERALLY THE CUTEST, then someone had a hand-made Pendragon cloak and was getting all the fans to sign and so naturally I signed it and it was so well made! Then we walked around a little more until I noticed that both Hannah Spearritt and Andrew Lee Potts were signing right at that moment so I went to line up (hello linecon once again but hey ho it didn’t bother me)
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So basically I was freaking out because ALP is literally my favourite actor in the whole world and I’ve wanted to meet him and say how inspirational he is and I FINALLY GOT TO DO IT. And well Hannah is also lovely and since I started watching Primeval I wanted to meet her too (but basically the whole cast haha)
As soon as I got to the table of where they were signing, there was a girl in front of me who gave them an amazing picture that she had painted, like it was so detailed and as soon as she had gone I was just like ‘Well I’m sorry but I can’t follow that up’ and both Andrew and Hannah laughed for about 5 minutes and Andrew was like ‘well then you better just leave darling, go on’ and so I had a joke with him about that. And he signed my boxset DVD and I couldn’t get Hannah to sign it because I didn’t have two signature tickets for them :(
I apologised to Hannah for leaving her out and she was so sweet about it like ‘AW it’s fine honey don’t worry about it’ and I was like ‘well I’ll come back’ and she was like ‘Well that’s fantastic news’ (I never got to go back :(). So me and Andrew had like a 10 minute chat about Primeval: New World and how good it was and he was asked me if I had seen it and I said YES OF COURSE and he said that that was really cool and that he was in it again (after the first ep) which is really something I’m looking forward to. And I was like well nothing can beat old primeval eh? And he agreed haha!
And that was basically my conversation with him, a part from thanking him for coming him and being able to meet him and I GOT A PICTURE, he asked if I wanted a picture and I said if that’s okay and he said ‘Of course it is’ and so I got a picture and it was time to say goodbye to him and before I left Andrew said ‘it was lovely to meet you, see you around Beth’. Literally he is the sweetest person ever, truly a great guy, as well as Hannah of course!
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Then as soon as I got out of meeting Andrew and Hannah I went to line up for Eoin Macken!! And as i was queuing this girl was dressed as a knight in full chain mail and a proper pendragon cloak and it was so good! And basically long story short it was about a half an hour wait for Eoin and as soon as I got up to him I asked him how he was and he said he was doing well and he signed by Merlin Series 3 boxset and he was lovely and I asked if I could have a photo and he said sure of course it was okay and so I went to kneel beside him near the table and he put his arm around me and then I told him that Gwaine shouldn’t of died and there were tears in the household when he did and before the photo was taken he just turned to me and said ‘there were tears on set too don’t you worry’ and gave me a wink and smile and I DIED I SWEAR. And I said thank you and he said thank you back and just aw he is the sweetest guy. But literally he was so kind!!
SO I MET THREE OF MY FAVOURITE ACTORS FROM TWO OF MY FAVOURITE SHOWS, I HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE HAPPY IN MY ENTIRE LIFE.
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Then whilst we were waiting for the Merlin/ Primeval talk I went around the stall and bought SIRIUS BLACK’S WAND HELLO!! They didn’t have it out so I asked and they did and I had to buy it, I am so happy I got it!!!! I NOW HAVE A WAND WHEEEEE. And I bought a few more things such as tshirts and a really pretty hunger games bookmark. LOOK:
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So my dad then wanting to go to a panel about a comic book and a heavy metal band so we went to that and finally got seats and so we stayed there during that and the Star Wars panel and then moved forward to the second row to watch Eoin talk.
Eoin’s Q&A was hilarious, someone asked him about Percival and Gwaine’s relationship and the question was ‘What do you think about the hidden chemistry with Percival and Gwaine’ and Eoin got really confused because he thought it was friendship chemistry and then they had to explain about it being a relationship and not a bromance and just he got so so confused over it. Then they asked if he knew about Merthur and he was all smiling and was like ‘Yes I do’ and again got confused over love relationship and bromance and was all like ‘oh you’ll have to ask Colin and Bradley over what happens behind the scenes with Merlin and Arthur’ and I just CANT HE WAS SO LOVELY.
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Then we moved to the front row for Andrew and Hannah’s Q&A and well IT WAS THE BEST. They do interviews and q&as so well, and I asked a question that I’ve been wondering for so long (Is there a meaning behind the ring that Connor wears throughout the whole of Primeval?) and he answered it and was like Yes and laughed and I laughed because it was a blunt question and then people shouted why and he was looking straight at me and was like ‘well I like to keep the story private but yes there’s a meaning and it always makes me smile when I get asked that question’ SO I WAS SO HAPPY BECAUSE IM GLAD THERE IS A MEANING BEHIND IT (literally his smile was huge answering this question!!
Then someone asked the most awkwardest question ever and said ‘Are either of you single and if you are will one of you marry me?’ and Andrew just came out and said ‘Well er.. we’re together so no but maybe we’ll both marry you’ DEAD. THIS MAN I SWEAR.
And then other questions like ‘if you were to go through an anomaly what time period would you go’ and the best question was ‘what fruit would you be if you could be one’ because Hannah and Andrew must of sat there discussing fruits for about 10 minutes (SO CUTE) that were really good and just they were awesome!
Then it was over and we went to look around a bit more and watched robot wars (so cool) and just it was the most perf day ever. I HAD SO MUCH FUN WHEEE!!! Sorry for this being so long but yeah. ALSO I'll post pictures of what else I bought and Eoin, Hannah and Andrew's Q&A in a second :D!
"If you ever wear odd socks then please just leave my blog because we will never be friends."
Well Melissa I think you are talking BS because we're bbf's fam and I always wear odd socks and you know it. It's because I look sexy when I do it isn't it?
Seriously, help? I don't even mind if I get advice from a total stranger, I just need other peoples opinions because honestly, I've been stuck in my own mind for hours now and it's getting me no where!
I just don't know what to do any more. All my life I've had it drilled into me 'go to school, get good grades, go to uni, get a degree, get a good job', as if it's all that easy. But it's not. The fact that we're expected to know what to do with our lives when we're 16 is ridiculous. I honest to god feel like I only applied to go to university because it's what I was told I was meant to do. But seeing as I had no clue as to what I wanted to do with my life I instantly jumped onto something I had a slight interest in; Interior Design. And at first, it wasn't that bad, I actually quite enjoyed it. But over time I started to not enjoy it, but I always told myself "It's just that the project brief is bad, it'll get better.". But it hasn't. And now I've wasted two years of my life, paid all this money, got into debt, for a course I don't enjoy and, to be frank, don't want to spend the rest of my life doing.
And I feel my grades reflect how much I actually care about the course, in all honesty I feel like I'm going to be lucky to pass this course with a C. Which kinda puts me in a rut again because if I'd completed the course and got a good grade, yeah I might not want to do it any more, but I'd still have a good degree from it and it'd still be a potential option. But I don't think I can fall back on a D/C.
Which is another thing, who started this BS about needing good grades? How many people out there are doing just fine without good grades, without proper qualifications? I could potentially do anything I want even with the grades I have, but I feel like I won't because of what's been programmed into me.
And I wonder what I'm going to do after uni. I finish this year and I have no intention of applying for the 3rd year. So now what? I have a job but it's only a part time and even then it's only temporary because the store itself is only open on a temporary basis and even if it wasn't, I don't want to be there for years.
I've thought about taking a college course, I've really gotten into make-up and make-up styling recently, and looked up some course about becoming a make-up artist. But because I'm 19/ will be 20 it's going to cost a bomb! And it's not like I can just apply for the course! I'd have to take a course Beauty Therapy level one, which if I pass can lead to Beauty Therapy level 2 and then and only then can I apply to a course to be a make-up artist. And with each course cost £1500+, and that's not including the equipment, I just won't be able to afford it, and I won't get any help from the government because they're college courses. And it's another 3 years of my life in education. I'm so sick and tired of being in school. I'm not sure I could handle it.
I did find this thing online, where you pay like £100 and get this book and video thing and you become a member to a make-up artist website and you basically study in your own time and this book and video guide tells you all you need to know and once your ready you apply to the online exam and send in photo's of your work and if your pass they send you your qualification in the post. This really seems like something I could do but I'm also worried it's a scam y'know?
I just don't know what to do. Should I try an save up for these college courses? Should I risk this online thing? Should I just not bother? I honestly don't know!
It's seriously freaking me out, like, I don't know what I'm doing with my life now that I know Interior Design just isn't my thing. And I have loads of friends who are taking courses, such as Geography, and they have no idea what they'll do with this degree but they still took it anyway because they enjoyed it. But that's the thing, they enjoy it and they're bound to find something because they're passionate about it. I'm not.
And there are so many things I want to do!
I need to start learning to drive again so I can pass my test
I need to get a car
I want to move out of my parents house
I want to go travelling with Mel
Doing these college courses will put a hold on all these plans for a good 3 years time wise and that's without the money I won't have to spend on it.
I've been going over and over this in my head all day and to be honest the whole online, buying the book and video, studying in your own time thing, makes the most sense to me. It doesn't cost a lot, I can do it in my spare time (but it won't take up 3 years) and I can still build up a portfolio for myself. And I'm pretty sure all the other stuff make-up artists do, such as make prosthetics and create fake wounds and scars etc, I could learn from google (google does know everything after all.) and it helps that I have friends who do dress making and photography and I know people who doing hair dressing so I could easily put photo shoots together and stuff.
But the second I start thinking to myself "yeah, I can do that!" I get inside my own head and start worrying. I don't know, maybe I'm over thinking everything and worrying too much. Maybe it'll all just fall into place. But I don't want to take that chance.
I guess I just need someone to tell me it'll be ok and say whether I'm being stupid or not. I don't know.
Sorry for rambling on and making your read something you probably thought was going to be a short "quick, I don't know what to do, help?!" and ended up reading with you reading my entire life story.
