Steph-i-fied

ARgh! I forgot to post about the signing with Stephenie Meyer! How could I forget?!?


Me, Latu, and my friend Doris got tickets to attend a book discussion and signing with Stephenie Meyer last month. Doris and I camped out at Borders the night of The Host's release to get these tickets, so we were pretty excited.

On the day of the event I found out that Latu wasn't able to come. This meant that we had an extra ticket. So what did I do??? I sold it. There were others who were selling their tickets for anywhere from 50 to 200 dollars, but I just couldn't do that. So I sold mine for $15.00....At least I made five bucks! ...And made someone's day.

Doris and I got to Thanksgiving Point at about 4:30, and they were going to let us in at 5:00. The line was already at least 500 people long. We finaly got into the building around 5:15 and were lucky enough to find two seats about 10 rows back. At 7:00 they introduced Stephenie Meyer, who came in and answered questions from the fans. She was very down to earth and friendly. She said she had alot of family in Utah and was very excited to be there.

F.Y.I. - If anyone wants the questions and answers let me know and i'll get them for you. The crazy Twilight fans at the Lexicon have almost word for word what she said. :)

Anyways, afterwards she sat down at a table in the front and began signing books. We were allowed to have her sign unlimited copies of The Host and up to two additional books per person. There were one-thousand tickets sold to this event. Lots of people were bringing six and seven copies of The Host for her sign, plus their other books...I don't know how she did it.

She started signing books at about 7:30. Around 10:00 our row got called up (we were probably 2/3 of the way back). Doris and I went up to meet Stephenie Meyer. Doris went first and had her books signed. She spoke with SM and then it was my turn. She took my books and looked at my name (they had us put our names on sticky notes in the books we wanted personalized so that it would go faster). She said that she loved my name and that it was very pretty, and asked if I had seen the new movie Penelope that had just come out. My response was: "I'm sorry, what did you say?"

AHHHHHH!!!!! Yep, folks. I got STEPH-I-FIED!!!







Steph-i-fied
(Stef-i-fide)
1. amazed; astonished
2. having been thoroughly dazed by the meeting of one Stephenie Meyer. (Penelope was Steph-i-fied.)
3. Dazed; Dazzled

See also: Stupify


Anyways, she repeated what she said and I replied that I had not, but I was planning on it. Both her and her agent (i'm assuming that's who she was) said that it as a good movie. I then tried to think really quick of something fantasic to say that would sound really cool. Nothing came. I ended up saying "Oh good, i'll for sure go and see it." She then asked me something else and I answered. It was the next person's turn, so I said "Thank you so much!" and walked away. I wanted to say something about how much I loved her books, but I figured she had heard the same thing from everyone else.

After that, Doris and I talked about our SM experiences on the way home. I had some really cool pictures and videos, but they were accidentaly deleted from the camera.
All I have are the memories.