Flo Vs the Comic Con

It all started with a text message to my bestie, Sue:

me: "OMG! David Hasselhoff is so gonna be at LFCC this year"

Sue: "Really? You so need to get his autograph"

me: "Aah shit at £30 a pop I don't!!"

(I feel I should point out that although we have been to several conventions, The London Film and Comic Con being our main one, we have never (EVER!!) done the whole photo/autograph scene, and for reasons unknown have spent a lot of time avoiding it).
 
I just wasn't prepared to spend £30 on a bit of ink on an A4 size postcard, I also thought Sue was thinking the same however little did I know that this simple text conversation had awoken something inside her and she would spend the next 2-3 days thinking of nothing else:

Sue: "So I think you should get your photo taken with The Hoff, it's still £30 but much more fun than just an autograph!"

Me: "seriously? You're still thinking about that?"

Sue: " Yu huh, I have it all worked out. I'm thinking maybe Peter Dinklage or Lena Headey for mine, so hell yer lets do this"

Me: "............................................................................"

£30 later, yes Im seriously easily misled by my BFF, I was the proud yet unprepared owner of ticket number 58 for a photo shoot withThe Hoff. 

 Finally, Saturday 6th July 2013 arrived and I awoke early,  a little over excited about the days up and coming events (seriously I was like a kid on blue smarties!!)

However with many other exciting things to see and do at LFCC the time of the shoot, 1.15pm, came round so quickly there really wasn't anytime to think about it. Before I knew it this was happenning:

 Then approximately 20 minutes later I found myself only a couple of people away from The Hoff (MEEP) and before I knew it I was next, all I could think was "Don't trip up Flo for the love of God dont trip......ooh I do love his boots". Then it was my turn....

Me: "oh I love your boots"

The Hoff: "Hi, oh thanks I've had them forever" (yes he totally talked to me...!)

At this point all I can think is "omg David Hasselhoff has his arm around me" then this happened:

Yes he is very tall, and yes Im a short arse!

 Best. Photo. Ever!!

Squee!!

Amazing photo of a genuinely nice guy and me of course *insert happy smiley face here*

 But this isn't where the story ends, I'm sure you are all dying to find out what happened with Sue and her photo...?
Well at 3.20pm, that very same day, this was happening :

 And then at approximately 3.50pm this totally happened:

 Two words:

TOTALLY & AWESOME!!

Flo Vs the cookies

Thought I would do some experimenting today as I found some chilli Peanut Butter ( bought at last years chilli fest, goodness knows how it has not been eaten before now) which needed to be used up....

I found a cookies recipe on the BBC Food website and got baking (Im not a big baker so needed a recipe!!).
30 minutes, lots of mess and a bit of panic over seperating the yolk from the egg white later they were ready for eating.
Now they look nothing like the ones in the picture on the site (typical) but I managed to make 8 as the recipe said so it cant all be bad. 

One broke as I put it on the cooling tray (how convenient) so of course I had to sample a little bit....and if I do say so myself it didn't taste too bad but then (and very suddenly) the chilli kicked in, omg they are hot! 

 Definitely cookies with a kick!!

Ooh you little tees...

A couple of years ago my brother introduced me to the addictive world of 24 hours only tees available on such sites as Teefury and Qwertee, ever since then I have been completely obsessed with buying from these sites and now have quite a large collection. Above is just a small selection (in need of a good ironing) I honestly dont know how I can fit all of my collection into one photo when my wardrobe struggles to squeeze them in .....

If you have never heard of these such sites and you are a huge nerdy geek (like me) you really should check them out, prices vary from site to site and most are based in the States but you can get a decent geek tee for around £11, which imo makes the 4 week totally worth it.

Designs can include tv shows, films, video games and even cartoons from your childhood they has them all!

These sites have also introduced me to some awesome independent artists such as Karen Hallion (@khallion) and Scott Weston (@hoborobo) of whom I have bought many designs. 
Actually @Bookindle initially introduced me to Karen Hallion's works, she has done some awesome Dr Who/Disney crossovers check out her redbubble page. Below is one of my faves from her (the other I am currently wearing...) This one came from Othertees:

Goodness knows how many I have now in my collection, but it will continue to grow I'm sure. Although I have stopped checking the sites religiously every morning over breakfast, my friends  continue to point me in the direction of a tee they think, and KNOW, I will be want to own and I get emails from them aswell (its like they know).

If anyone else reading this has the same addiction and wants to share any tees they have purchased, please do it will be nice to know I am not in this alone....

My name is Flo and I am addicted to t-shirts.

Flo Vs The Hobbit

Ever since it was announced Peter Jackson was going to be bringing The LOTR prequel "The Hobbit" to the big screen I have been extremely excited and could not wait to see it!! However little did I know it was going to turn out to be quite the "Unexpected Journey" for me...

December 13th 2012 could not come quick enough! When the world did not thankfully come to an abrupt end on December 21st I made plans to see it between Christmas and new year, little did I know that obviously I was on the naughty list this year and the lovely FC himself was about to bring me the worse case of flu you have ever experienced and I spent the following two weeks in bed.....I honestly thought I was going to die (No I'm not a drama queen!!).
When I finally emerged back into the real world I discovered that EVERY single person on the planet had been to see it and thought I had sadly missed out, I was heart broken and gutted but shrugged it off and just thought "Oh I'll buy the blu-ray".
Enter Dad, stage right, who, being a huge Tolkien fan, very kindly offered to go see it again.
So there we were, sat in Deans diner at Port Solent, on a snowy Saturday afternoon trying to find a decent showtime of the film bearing in mind it had been out for over a month by now...ding! ding! ding! *starts jumping around* Vue at Gunwharf had a showing starting in just over an hour, we jumped in the car and bombed it quick time over to Pompey, joined the mahoosive queue and waited patiently to be served... to be told that the only seats available were in the very front row, absolute disaster. Was I ever going to get to see this film. Disheartened and gutted once again we went home.
THe following weekend was my parents 40th Wedding Anniversary so to celebrate (and be good children) my brother and I decided to treat them to meal (because sending them to Cardiff for a few nights wasn't enough...) and thought whilst we were out we would try again to see The Hobbit. THis time we booked tickets a few days in advance and late on the Sunday morning headed back over to Pompey to try again.
Excitedly I ran up the escalators and popped the credit card into the card machine and pushed the 'collect tickets' button. YAY!!!!
"Thank you, there are no tickets booked on this card"
.....WHAT!?!?
Try again
"Thank you, there are no tickets booked on this card"
Aah you have got to be kidding me...
and again and again...... :(
STOP SAYING THANK YOU!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!
Upon investigation it turns out that in the wee early hours of the morning all the screens at Vue had gone down...dun dun durr!!..seriously?!? someone was determined that I was not going to see this film...we were told some engineer guys were working hard to get all the screens back up but had only been successful with a few therefore some films were having to be cancelled 'The Hobbit' possibly being one of them.
By now I just wanted to cry, I had never found it so hard to see a film...EVER!!!
After waiting around for about 3 hours (well probably more like 20 minutes but three hours seems more dramatic and it certainly felt like hours) we were finally told that our film was being shown....yay!! However there was no way I was going to be happy until I saw those credits rolling at the end of the film and I could walk away with the biggest smile on my face and finally say "I have seen it".
Well approx 169 minutes later (give or take a few trailers and ads) I could finally say just that and Mr Jackson...well what can I say I was hooked from start to finish, loved every minute of it, totally worth the wait and agro and I can not wait for "The Desolation of Smaug" to be released, roll on December!!
Hopefully my attempts to see the next one wont be so hard.....

An Introduction

So hi I'm Karen, or if you are on Steam hi I'm flo, or if you are on Xbox or twitter hi I'm floradorable. Good God I have a lot of personalities and I could go on....
Well what can I say, at this very point in time I have been in existance for 34 years..ugh typing that makes me feel old...anyway currently single but looking for Mr Right and maybe even "The one" (if you are lucky maybe one day I will tell the beuatiful fairy tale that is known as Flo's Love life)
I love to game, currently obsessed with Borderlands 2, Oh how I love my Sal! In my head he's a bit of a ladies man (he's a lover not a fighter, though you wouldn't think that when he is shouting "GUNZERKER" at the top of his lungs whilst dual-wielding a rocket launcher and Torgue assault rifle oh and laughing and singing to himself as another psycho midget squeals and bleeds out) I also reckon he's bit of a *whispers* drunk but a lovable drunk well if you like that sort of thing, ahem.
Typical, only been here 5 minutes and Im already blabbering on about BL2.
Anyway Im doing this blog so I have something to look back on in my old age, perhaps make me feel like I did something in my "youth" ( ya-huh 34 is still young!!) However even if I just cheer up a few friends and maybe even make them laugh along the way my work here is done.
So lets do this and in the infamous words of Joe from Reservoir Dogs *clears throat and puts on best US accent* "Let's go to work"

Beginnings

A very good friend of mine *cough* @bookindle *cough* thought it would be a good and helpful idea for me to write a blog about all the weird and wonderful stuff that keeps happening to me. So here we go, not sure how good this will be but only one way to find out....