Well..., its official.

This weekend really does top anything I’ve ever experienced! That may sound a tad shallow, but hey I’m using the word ‘ever’ loosely when you compare ‘life’ things like giving birth and those ‘moments’ with the one you love..., but this weekend came pretty darn close to all that!

I won’t do a step by step, just a little thought or two on moments that I think affected me the most!

I won’t bore you with all those details that everyone is talking about on the forums, you know that momentous ‘Bette & Tina’ moment when we all experienced Jennifer breaking down into tears when she was talking about wrapping up the season and that she never had the opportunity of thanking Laurel, that moment when the tears were falling and she looked at Laurel who also started crying, that moment when Jennifer stood up and walked to Laurel, when Laurel stepped into Jennifer’s arms and they embraced and cried to the cheers of the crowd. I won’t bore you with all that.

For me, the weekend was special with so many other moments, all mingled up with those special moments that are in the forums.

It was special because my partner gave me free reign and didn’t moan once (well, you know...) and allowed me to fulfil my ultimate fantasy of Jennifer Beals. I have to admit (which has never been a secret ?) that this woman has been in my head/thoughts since the 80’s! Yes I know, you’d think I’d be able to move on, but I just never could shake it off!

It was special because during the Meet & Greet that spare seat just happened to be beside me, which meant that not only Laurel, Rachel and Janina sat next to me, BUT Jennifer Beals did too... She really sat next to me! I think that was when the palpitations for the weekend really set in.

The following morning had its own special moment with the opportunity to have my picture taken with Tibette, my very understanding partner sat and waited because I really did want that moment of just me being between them! I felt the chairs were a little bit far apart to be honest, I wasn’t even expecting to be sat between them, I put those FM boots with the big heels on, on purpose, didn’t quite want them both towering over me, hell fire if I’d have known I was going to be sat down, I’d have stuck with trainers! But after I managed to break my gaze from the gorgeous Jennifer for a minute to move along the queue I took a deep breath and walked up take my turn.

I sat down and just had to say the first thing that came into my mind..., “I think I’m in heaven...”, did I really just say that? Uh, yes I did, the little chuckle that I heard from either side of me confirmed it and I think I rolled my eyes. I’m a grown woman for goodness sake, get hold of yourself! It was over in the blink of an eye, but I expected that, it was the same in the photo session last year.

We had all the afternoon Q&A’s with that momentous moment, I won’t bore you... But I was in heaven again, could somebody pass the tissues... I even welled up trying to tell my workmate about it, I tried to keep reminding myself I’m a grown woman, get hold of yourself!

The autograph session was great, I was ready with my armload of goods..., well just a few like my photos, my title page of Those Adoring Eyes which Laurel wrote last year, thought it would be a nice touch to have Jennifer’s signature on there too..., oh and of course my L-Word.com tee shirt which is slowly collecting a nice array of autographs from the show. I also took this opportunity to give Jennifer and Laurel an actual copy each of Those Adoring Eyes, because that copy I sent to Laurel last year went via cyber space, and who knows who reads it out there... But they have their very own copy now?

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