Heather's adventures at Shatnerball....

[The Frymarker]

I arrived on Saturday morning courtesy of Beemer, thanks so much Beemer for getting me there and the awesome posters that you and your elves printed, they came out great and I'm sure that everyone who received one was very happy!!!!

Saturday it was really hot and humid, I didn't have time to eat all day and that one beer snuck up on me!!!! Yes, I'm proud to say I'm a light weight!


I was very glad to be able to hand out the posters and have people check out the micromag with Dan "Triggernomics" trigger. After a little tinkering by Kayle and Gunga, we got it working!!!!!!! Leave it to me, not bring backup or a working marker. Thanks very, very much for that!!!! I was really glad at the response to my portfolio and the grips, I loved answering everyone's questions.

Thanks so much to Melissa and Trina, the two of you made me feel at home, and I had some girlie gurlz to hang with I hope I can hang out with you at some other events! If it weren't for you two I probably wouldn't of handed out as many posters

Okay the BBQ, Thanks Gambit for having me over, it was a lot of fun and no.....we weren't looking at porn in those pics, we were looking at pics on AO.

Day of Shatnerball I was really tired and I didn't really drink the night before, I guess it was just jetlag.....I was kind of dragging, but after I hit my first person playing I got my second wind!!!!
Then I was running around the woods and the town like a mad woman. I had a lot of fun playing thanks to the Dupuis's TacOne, that is an awesome marker and I'll post a write up in the paintball forum.
Thanks so much both of you that was very generous and I am very happy you let me borrow it to play. Thanks to those people who gave me some extra paint by the end of the day, so I could play in that last half an hour, I had no idea I would go through a box that fast!!!!

Okay the day is over and onto the auction......Joann I'll be calling you today to get some info on my auction prize, I know I was supposed to pay for it but some events happened and I'll explain more in this post

I was very impressed and proud of Shawn (Sean),...not Kevin, he worked all summer to save up and buy a paintball marker to auction off. He has a big heart and an awesome little guy, keep up with those morals and values through life Shawn you will go very far! I bid $80 and bought the marker and gave it back to him, and then he reauctioned it, I think twice more, I forget what the total was that was donated for that one piece, but Shawn that was all you!!!!
If anyone has pics of me on stage can you post or forward them to me, I wanted to give them to my dad.

OH and I almost forgot, the memory that will probably stay in mind my forever is, I was on stage, Tom asked if I hugged Shatner and I didn't remember????? But I did remember this, when I was up there I was trying to move out of the way so I wasn't crowding the boy, when I moved back I stepped on Shatner's foot, the look he gave me was classic. He didn't have to say anything it was like You....just stepped...on my foot. I apologized then,and Again I'M SO SORRY BILL!!!

Okay so all of that was over, I went to my car to get the poster's that Beemer had made for Tom and to get some extra cash to pay for my auction and then I realized that I had just locked my keys in my rental car!!!!!! AAAARRRGGGHHHHH!!!

So everyone left and it was Datapimp, Wyn, Load, one of the staff from CPX and I trying to break into my car to get the keys out. Thanks so much all of you for helping me with that, that would have costs me some cashola to get a locksmith out there!!!!!!
So Joann that is why I didn't get the chance to drop off that money.

The party afterwards, I'm sorry I didn't get to stay, I was really exhausted. I am so glad I got to meet all of you, AO'ers are the best.
Thanks Jon for the compliment

Now the next day going home....... I get up at 3:30 and I left the hotel by 4:30, I get into the car and the Sexigator Orgasminav (that is was we called the navigation system, because of it's voice), had a preset Hertz drop off, so I'm thinking great, I just hit that and I'm on my way to the airport.

45 Minutes later I end up at the airport, no tolls so I thought that was rather strange. I was there at 6:15ish I went up to someone there and said where's United Airlines.....they said your in the wrong airport!!! The navigation preset was to Midway airport not O Hare. They said your never going to make it for a 7:00 flight, it is 45 minutes from here.

Well now I'm about to cry because I felt lost! I went down to the shuttle, the first shuttle said I had to wait until after 7:00 to get the shuttle that goes to OHare. Another bus pulls up, the gentlemen asked where I was going and I said I'm lost and need to get to O'Hare before 7:00.

He said I'm not headed that way, but let's see what we can do, he hauled a$$ down the highway. Got me there at exactly 7:00 but it was too late there was enough time for me to go through security and what not.
So I ended up on standby until 1:00 in the afternoon. Then I arrived at home by 4:30

So needless to say, I probably shouldn't be allowed out by myself anymore.

Again I love being there, thanks to all, and I'm glad I had the opportunity to meet everyone!!!

[kevdupuis]

No problem Heather, Like we said that's what we bought the Tac-One for. As for the extra paint Pjammaman and I still had plenty left even after the final battle.

Deb and I are glad you had a good time and are looking forward playing with you again, maybe we can get Deb out on the field then.

BTW; Let me know how much those grips for the Slugg are going to cost , thanks.

edit As for the quantity of paint you went through, a few birdies told me,(plus what I saw in the final battle) you were rocking on that trigger all day.

[The Frymarker]

Here's some more pics from my camera



Trina, me and Melissa




Beemer


Marcia and Joann


Melissa, Kayle, and I


Melissa took this pic, a skeeter stuck to Wyn's head....ewwww


The guys wanted this pic, I thought I was just taking a pic of Shatner....

[The Frymarker]

Here are some pics of me playing

[The Frymarker]

No problem Heather, Like we said that's what we bought the Tac-One for. As for the extra paint Pjammaman and I still had plenty left even after the final battle.

Deb and I are glad you had a good time and are looking forward playing with you again, maybe we can get Deb out on the field then.

BTW; Let me know how much those grips for the Slugg are going to cost , thanks.

edit As for the quantity of paint you went through, a few birdies told me,(plus what I saw in the final battle) you were rocking on that trigger all day.

No really you two are the best and thanks so much, please the grips are on me

I will email you or pm you shortly.

I'm going to make a post on the Tac in a minute

[pjammaman]

anytime heather, thanks for helping me finish off my paint. my classic just doesn't fire it fast enough next year its a ule-pro for sure. was great to meet you. lets all do it again next year.

[Gambit1106]

Heather if you are ever in Chicago again stop on by, my door is always open for AOers. I also will be putting an order for grips in soon.

Darren

[The Frymarker]

Thank you for posting pjammaman, I didn't catch your name, on your jersey and I just wanted to thank you very much for the extra pods!!!!

More spray for the Blue side!!!!!

Thanks so much Gambit!! I will I wish we stayed longer but I think we were all a little tired.

[Ken]

Who's the one beaming behind shatner? (with the see through shirt)

[trevorjk]

Ken... thats one of the 3 models they had to help auction off items after the event.

Fry... it was nice meating you and i must say your grips look alot better in person, infact i know for sure im going to you for more then just 1 pair of grips.... i just wish they would of auctioned your gift certificates off but they didnt! i even saved $130 for one $100 gift certificate

anyways it was nice meeting you and hope to again sometimes

[vf-xx]

Who's the one beaming behind shatner? (with the see through shirt)

IIRC it was Monica or Melissa or somesuch like that.

[The Frymarker]

Hehe I don't know her name, but I had no idea that was in the background until someone pointed it out to me


Trevorjk, I'm sorry about that, I'm assuming that not many people signed the sheets that were attached for bidding and they just decided not to use them.

Well it's okay because I still make you some grips It was very nice meeting you as well.

Let me know when ever you're ready!

[Muzikman]

Heather, Actually, the certificate was laying on the stage at the end. I have no idea what they did with it. They just missed it during the auction

[The Frymarker]

Ah well no biggie

[Beemer]

Hey

at least you didnt get lost in the woods. I thought for sure that map with the highlighter on it would do the job. And what were you telling me on saturday about being non blonde something or other plus ya saved 2 bucks on tolls