I Went to Soap Nation

On Saturday for no particular reason, I went to Soap Nation at Billy Bob's Texas. But before I get to that, I wanted to say that I've been feeling "off" for several days. It happens sometimes. I think of it as my electrolytes being out of whack even though I don't really know what that means. I think Jammie J would say my hormones were being funky. Whatever it is, I don't like it. On Sunday afternoon, I felt like I was having an anxiety attack. Just sitting in my living room chair. With nothing going on. I hate when that happens because you can't even logically "talk yourself down" because there's not even anything going on. I started to feel a little more normal today. I hope when I wake up this morning, I'll feel all normal again.
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For those of you that don't watch soaps, Soap Nation is some big party gathering thing with a bunch of soap stars. I didn't really know what to expect, but it was A) Indoors B) at a bar and C) Free. So why not? I don't know anyone that watches my soap except Daryl the blogger, but she lives in NYC, so I resigned myself to going alone. Because I am a serious beer drinker, my daughter droppped me off before she headed off to an appointment and my husband picked me up after his Fantasy Football thing. I even made myself a goofy little sticker to wear on my shirt:
I guess my main purpose was to hear Bobbie Eakes sing, which I did. She plays Krystal on my soap and she has sung on there a few times and I really like her voice. I have no interest in autographs and I don't stand in line, so there really wasn't anything else for me to do but stand at the bar, drink beer and smoke. This is just a tiny part of the line to get autographs:

It went all through the building. I know people stand in line all the time, but I just don't do it, unless it's the only way to use the bathroom. But Billy Bob's, being such a giant place had plenty of bathrooms and apparently most soap watchers are not beer drinkers, so I never had to wait for those two things. It was also sort of interesting because I had not been there in almost exactly 23 years. Saturday was the day before my daughter's 25th birthday and the last time I went was on her 2nd birthday. With Dad and my first husband. I didn't recognize anything.

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They had some deal that you could get a free barbecue sandwhich if you wrote down a question for one of the soap stars, but I didn't want a barbecue sandwich, so I ordered a nice grilled cheese sandwich:

Blogger is being ornery tonight and won't let me highlight anything, so I couldn't URL Dary's blog but it's on my sidebar there. Or make italics. Oh well.

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So that's what going on over here and why I've been quiet. Hopefully my electrolytes will get back in sync.