Won another contest!

Won another contest!

Yeah! I was just notified that I won another contest! Awesome!

Here is the site: http://www.possiblebypopculture.com/2010/12/want-my-life-made-possible-by-pop.html

and a list of what I won :-)

Inside this holiday gift box is:

A Days of our Lives mini tote, notepad and calculator

A copy of "Don't Stop Believin': The Unofficial Guide to glee"

A unique LOST tee shirt

A copy of "Darkly Dreaming Dexter"

I Love Lucy's Guide to Life

Syfy holiday LED lights

A Lonestar bottle opener keychain

A box of jordan almonds and a bling ring keychain from Marry Me

A copy of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"

The My Generation cast yearbook photos

Ron Swanson's "Pyramid of Greatness" poster

A completely customizable plastic globe ornament: fill it with your favorite pop culture photos!

A copy of my pop culture memoir My Life Made Possible by Pop Culture by Entertainment Blogger Danielle Turchiano
http://www.possiblebypopculture.com/p/buy-book.html

Lost Auction Experience Day 1

Location of the Lost Auction and Exhibit - at least the Barker Hangar part

    

As I came around the back of the building to the entrance, I found this awesome sign!

     I have finally somewhat recovered from my whirlwind trip to Los Angeles for the Lost Auction and Exhibit on August 21-22, 2010. It was an amazing experience and I wouldn't trade it for anything! I left Louisiana shortly after I got off work on Friday afternoon (the 20th) and landed in Houston with barely a moment to spare to make my flight to Los Angeles. In fact, after the run/escalator/train/shuttle/run some more from Terminal A to Terminal C, I was the last person to board the flight and of course, my seat was way in the back of the plane and in the middle of the row. Picture Hurley boarding flight 815 and you get a good idea of how things were going for me - sweating and bumping into everyone with my luggage! But I felt the Lost connection - LOL!  The flight to LA was fine and I was able to get my rental and get to my hotel in Santa Monica without any problems by about 11:30 pm PST.

    

I enjoyed this nice little motel near the beach in Santa Monica

                                                                                                                                                              The next morning, I wanted to get a look at the Pacific ocean because I had never been that far West so I woke up really early to have time to do that and give myself time to find the Auction and get in line early.  Glad I did that because I even enjoyed standing in line listening to the people around me talking Lost and I met Alice and Alex after @Lottery_Ticket told them I was in line. Thanks, Lotto for the introductions!

Pacific Ocean at Santa Monica

My kind of tattoo!

The people standing in front of me in line were from Barcelona!  While in line, @BonnieJGreen and her husband arrived and I was able to meet them for the first time in person. She is such a great person and took me under her wing and introduced me to so many other Losties and made me feel right at home. I can't thank her enough for that :-) !  When I entered the gate, the staff stamped my hand and I was able to get two Lost buttons.

Lost buttons given at entrance to the Lost Auction and Exhibit on Day 1

The Hangar was all decked out to look like a tropical paradise.

I like this pic because you can see the LOST on the big screen at the far end of the Hangar

The Photo Ops

For the Exhibit, they had set up a variety of photo ops around the outer edge of the room. When I first came in, I went to my right and found Mr. Clucks but poor thing was in need of some work because someone had gotten too excited and disturbed how they had him secured to the platform.  I guess they thought they might snatch him up and run past all the guys is black suits and black sunglasses who were guarding the door! LOL! So I moved on to the next photo op, which was one of the cast pics blown up with astroturf and "rocks" in the forground where people could go and get in the picture with the cast.  And I just discovered when I went to find my picture to post that the picture must not have taken when the girl had my camera (I thought I check them all afterwards but I guess I missed this one!) because I can't find the one where I posed for this shot anywhere :-(   At least I have a shot of the set that I took during one of the breaks during the auction (very late at night so no one was there anymore except about 15 of us at the auction - LOL).

2nd photo op - people would pose with the cast photo & have their pic taken (I can't find mine!)

Next came Sawyer's beach camp without the real Sawyer :-(  There was a piece of Oceanic 815 with Sawyer's plane seat in front of it and a mannequin as Sawyer.  You couldn't get up close and personal with this set but it was great to look at and take pics of......

The next photo op on that side of the building was a section of Oceanic Flight 815 seats included. People could sit in the seats and the man would take your picture.  He wanted to get pics of people like they were crashing so it was fun to watch all the people doing their different crash poses.

As you can see, I would not make it as an actress - LOL!


After the plane crash, I went to the Swan Station and was able to join the Dharma Initiative by putting on a lab coat and pressing the execute button on the computer........

The area just past the Swan Station was were the actors from the show came and went so it was a good place to get autographs.  It was also where they gathered everyone that was entered in the costume contests.  They had a contest on Day 1 and Day 2.  I liked Day 2 the best :-)

me and Sterling Beauman (Young Ben)

Sterling Beauman

 Daniel Roebuck (Doc Arzt)

 me and Daniel Roebuck (Doc Arzt)

Yikes-it's a polar bear hanging out with LaFleur!

 Day 1 some costume contestants

Noreen O'Toole and costume contestants

 Day 1 Costume contestants (check out Sawyer's Letter)

 Sterling Beauman with Jo

 Noreen O'Toole and Beth Shady

Daniel Roebuck, Beth Shady, Sterling Beauman

 Day 1 Costume Contest Dharma Polar Bear

 Judges

 Day 1 Costume Contest Rousseau

 Day 1 Costume Contest Sawyer's Letter

 Day 1 Costume Contest Sawyer's Letter

Judges

Sterling Beauman, Beth Shady, Daniel Roebuck, Noreen O'Toole

Day 1 all the the entrants in Costume Contest

Finalists in Day 1 Costume Contest

 Lafluer made up with the Polar Bear - no more killings

 Mother with baby Jacob and baby MIB won Day 1 Costume Contest- CONGRATS!

 Alice before the contest

I was thrilled to meet Noreen O'Toole because I follow her on Twitter and she has been so involved in Lost and is playing a big part in the Lost Encyclopedia. She was nice enough to give me her autograph :-)
More to come................

Favorite Lost Episodes......

Rewatched All the Best Cowboys have Daddy Issues tonight with the crew at http://www.lostblog.com/ and was blown away by how amazing that episode was.  It is so easy to forget things with so many wonderful episodes but this one was packed full of mirror moments (http://lostmirrormoments.wordpress.com/) and reveals about characters that were so important to the whole series.  Boone having the red shirt conversation with Locke was priceless.  Christian and Jack in Christian's office standing together with Christian's hand on Jack's shoulder was very reminiscent of the scene at the church in The End. There were so many more and I would love to relive the all again but I'm afraid the bed is calling because I have to get up early to go to work - boo hoo! Would be fun to be independently wealthy like Hurley - even though he owed Walt $20,000 from the backgammon game. That was so funny when Hurley said he had to go to a meeting to get out of playing another game with Walt. And Sawyer and Sayid's conversation with Sawyer showing a softer side by saying he kept the fire burning for Sayid even after Sayid tortured him. I could go on and on...........

Lost Links

My new project is to gather Lost links as I travel around the web.  I originally decided to do this as a "Favorites" list for myself but I think it will be nice to have a Lost Links list available.  I am sure with so many webpages out there dedicated to Lost that there are some wonderful compilations of Lost Links but I wanted to add my own contribution to the cause :-)  Maybe someday someone will find it useful besides me.

The Others (Lost Band) - too cool

Just heard these guys and had to share:
The Others

Lost Auction - I wish I was a millionaire :-)

Just looking at the Lost items that are going to be up for auction at www.profilesinhistory.com/lost-the-auction.html makes my heart ache because I want to buy so much.  I am a collector by nature and when you add in some obsession (LOL) to the matter, it makes it even worse.  I will just keep saying to myself - you don't need that to survive, you don't need that to survive and I will ignore the voice that says but this is authentic LOST memorabilia being auctioned from ABC - this will never happen again!  Oh, it is killing me :-)

Won more Lost contests

It all started when I won a Lost Trivia app for the Iphone then I won a Lostie's Tshirt from http://www.gritfx.com/ plus I won a Lost Wristband from http://lostwristbands.wordpress.com/ . Then I won a contest from the ODI: http://the-odi.blogspot.com/2010/05/giveaway-sdcc-exclusive-jacob-and-man.html for the Jacob and MIB figures!

I am still entering any Lost contests I come across so hopefully I will win more and more!