A Great Weekend

 I had the best time last weekend at The Living Dead Weekend in Monroeville, PA!  It was an extremely busy weekend though.

Friday I did the 3 hour drive to Monroeville arriving way before I needed to.  Standing in line I was able to get this:

That's Greg Nicotero and Tom Savini!  I just love Greg Nicotero!  He is so very nice.  You can read about last year's event here:  2024 Continues.  After everything opened and Greg finally showed up at his table I took my stuffed Greg Nicotero from The Cuddle Cult to have him sign:

He told me a story of how he gave one of these in a Christmas gift exchange at work and that the guy who got it, put it on his Christmas tree!  I also bought a large coin he designed with his 13 favorite horror movies on it (I've yet to identify all of them).  We did a selfie - for some reason he has to do the selfies - anyway he took my phone and then told me he couldn't get it to open; I rattled off the code to him and he said "You do realize you just gave me your phone code."  I told him all that that would get him is about 600 photos of Duran Duran.  He shook his head and said "You and my wife....."   LOL!!  Totally made my weekend!  Though I did get more photos of him from a distance; I didn't get the opportunity to talk to him again.  It was very crowded and he had people around all the time, even at the VIP event on Saturday evening.  And though being a fangirl, I didn't want to come across as stalkish either.

Friday evening I saw the original b/w version of Night of the Living Dead on the big screen finally!  Some of the cast was there to watch it with us.  It was great!  It was in line waiting to get into the theater that I met Dave.  Dave is a school teacher from New York; he's married with a 6 year old son.  He was also at the event by himself.  We would run into each other several times during the weekend - the Dawn of the Dead mall tour, various discussion panels and the Day of the Dead brunch.  The majority of the people at the event were very nice.

I also met Alice B. Sullivan, an author of apocalyptic novels.  I had downloaded one of her books but never read it due to the dog on the cover.  She assured me the dog doesn't die in her books - LOL!!  I bought some books from her - go check her out!

From the hotel to the event - everything was great!  I think they are planning another one in October.  Walmart has bought the mall and it is expected that it will probably be torn down and replaced with a Walmart; because that's the crap that Walmart does!  So they are trying to get another one in.  Will I go?  Not sure, it takes a lot of money for that!  But we will see.

The worst part of the weekend was the drive home in all the rain and fog; but it was worth it.

And We're Off.....

In no way was I happy with my start weight yesterday.......no, no, no!!!

This morning was a little better 😁.  Shapa still has me in the green zone.  I really shouldn't be weighing myself daily...I mean, the purpose of Shapa is to prevent that.

As far as food wise, I tracked everything, made some better choices, read a chapter of a book (Atomic Habits), got a walk in, water and another exercise.  All my commitments were complete!  Aiming for the same today and so far, I have my water in, my walk complete and my meals prepped - off to a good start!

Yesterday I found out that The Living Dead Weekend will be showing the original black & white version of Night of the Living Dead at the mall theater.  I'm so excited as I've always wanted to see it on the big screen!  So I quickly bought a ticket for that!  I feel a little bad that CC can't attend with me this year (we did it last year together) as seeing this movie on the big screen is on her bucket list as well; but she has another obligation and with the huge amount of actors from these movies being there - I just couldn't pass it up!

Tomorrow I have Glo-Fiber coming to hook up new internet.  I've had all I can take of Comcast/Xfinity's increasing prices and not willing to offer a good deal to long standing customers.  Glo-Fiber is offering the first month free to test it and I can cancel anytime - no contracts!  And it's half the price of Comcast with no price increases.

And today is ending with all my commitments complete!

The Start of a New Start (again)

Kickstart starts tomorrow, so I am off to a new start.

My main goal right now is to be down at least 10 lbs by June 6th.  That's when I leave to go to Monroeville for the The Living Dead Weekend.  It's honoring 40 years since Day of the Dead came out and a lot of the actors from that movie as well as Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead are being there.  The mall (where Dawn was filmed) was recently sold to Wal-mart, so it may be the last time the festival will be there.  I'm very excited to meet Judith O'Dea who played Barbara in Night of the Living Dead (I met Russ Steiner (aka: Johnny) last year, but look forward to seeing him again) and Sherman Howard who played Zombie Bub in Day of the Dead!

But honestly, I have a big fan girl crush on Greg Nicotero since meeting him last year!  And he'll be there again this year!  I was just too fat in the photo with him last year....so the 10 lbs is the goal - oh, I'd prefer it to be more...but I'll settle for 10! And though you may know Greg as the special effects expert on The Walking Dead, he was an actor in the movie Day of the Dead.  Anyway looking for a photo, autograph and whatever else he has at his booth!

BUT, enough about that festival after it actually happens!  I've got my Kickstart Commitments set and they are pretty much the same as last time:

I have been doing #5 Shapa since the last time and want to continue on with that.  I know #2 says WW Tracking - I will be doing a Weight Watchers program, it's irrelevent which app I'm using.  

So that's where I am right now and hopefully, I'll be doing daily or semi-daily updates.  Hmmmm.... maybe next time that can be a commitment 😊.