idea 2 - moo moo

i think we are all well aware of my obsession deep and abiding love for those whimsical little moo cards that you can make of your own fabulous pictures and use as a sort of alternative, way creative business card, but which you can also include in your decor and your paintings.

i think that we should order blog camp moo cards from the photos we take during the weekend.  and then to prolong the fun of blog camp beyond actual blog camp, we should have some kind of fun contest-type activities where people can win a little selection of the blog camp moo cards.

tickets in hand!

seen on the side of a SAS plane in oslo last week

it seems that everyone who needs tickets to fly to blog camp now has them! and that lifts my spirits quite a lot on an otherwise dreary, grey, drizzly day. plane tickets in hand always make me happy, even if they're not my own (tho' i do currently have two sets myself so maybe that's why).

i'm so excited and thinking already about the things that we'll do during blog camp:

1. tackle some of that huge pile of WV words i've been saving and post them on balderdash.
2. partake of gin & tonic sorbet, since it's actually polly's doing that i invented it. 
3. have at least one online virtual blog camp session (probably two due to time zones) with all of our bloggy friends who can't be here.
4. starbucks (when we pick everyone up at the airport, since that's the only place there's starbucks in denmark)
5. a walk around copenhagen to take pictures (if we're not hungover and the weather is good)
6. cook and eat lots of great food.
7. send husband for morgenbrød.
8. laugh.
9. plot world domination.
10. go visit some good friends of ours who live near a lovely lake and want to meet everyone!

i am in awe of the spontaniety and gutsiness and daring of you totally cool bloggers who are coming to be part of blog camp. this is exactly what was missing in my life and i'm so happy to have found it. and i just totally can't wait!!

husband is brilliant

we are laughing quite a lot at our house (in between frantically trying to get those boxes that have been standing in the hallway for an eternity cleared out) about husband's brilliant blog camp idea.

you see, he said it a little bit in jest. he was actually making fun of me, taking the piss, as it were.  about my penchant for living a good portion of my life online and not in my own community. i was trying to explain how it felt like a community anyway, but that i would like to hang out and drink wine with my blog friends. which is when he said, "why don't you have a blog camp?"

and now we're actually having blog camp. a short leap from talk to action here on P street. and now some of those people i most wanted to hang out with are coming. here. to my place. for blog camp!

i loved B's post yesterday about her fears about meeting everyone in person, because all of the same thoughts and more had crossed my mind...

1. am i going to be totally different than they expect me to be after reading my blog? 
2. will i disappoint? 
3. am i too fat? 
4. i'm not really that happy with how my last hair color turned out. 
5. what if they don't love the blue room as much as i do? 
6. what if none of them can teach me to crochet? 
7. will everyone bring a laptop? 
8. can i find one of those cool antique swedish folding tables before they come? 
9. will i get those boxes cleared out of the hall in time? 
10. will someone be injured by falling towers of crap in the laundry room? (must keep laundry room door closed--convenient then that it has no handle) 
11. will someone mind sleeping in sabin's loft bed? 
12. will we figure out how that whole stikam thing works? 
13. what if they all cancel at the last minute and i'm all alone?
14. should we come up with a time schedule for the virtual component of blog camp? (i loathe time schedules.) 
15. and looming largest of all--will they like me?
    

so many questions. but mostly, i'm bouncing off the walls with happiness. because it'll all come together. and it's gonna be awesome!!! we're going to laugh so much and have a totally brilliant time. i'm so glad husband had the idea. i wonder if he knows what he's getting into...