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I'm back from my weekend in Bloomington. I had a nice time with the girls.

Payne picked me up on Friday morning and we drove down to IU. We arrived in the early afternoon to find Alie hard at work, trying to meet the deadline for Gaia Online's cosplay contest. It was a bit of a lazy afternoon. Alie set part of her cosplay on fire in the microwave and it smelled foul, so we had to air our the house for a bit, lol. Then, I received news from my parents that my grandma (on my dad's side of the family) was in the hospital with pneumonia. Naturally, this upset me. I would have gone home if my parents thought it was necessary, but they seemed to think she was doing okay and that it would be unnecessary for me to leave early. It was good that the rest of my weekend was filled with distractions, so I wouldn't think about it as much. Friday night, after more of the group was free (except for Alie, as she was still working to meet her deadline), we went out to dinner at China Buffet for Greta's birthday. It was yummy. Then, after a quick visit to the manga section of Borders, we made our way to Zury's place. It was then decided that we needed to make a booze run. We then made some mudslides and played Munchkin. The game seemed like went on forever and I started to fall asleep, lol.

I spent part of Saturday helping Greta and Alie with their cosplay for the contest. Saturday night, the group got together for a cosplay dinner at Cracker Barrel. Some of us dressed up in cosplay, others wore fun wigs and outfits. We even had a mini Kuroshitsuji group. I wore my Ed cosplay, so I could peel off the layers and not die in the heat. Boy, was Cracker Barrel was surprised by us. Luckily, our waitress was super nice. She told us that our wigs reminded her of the Final Fantasy video games her husband played. There was also a little girl there eating dinner with her mother. Her face was painted like a tiger and her mother told us that they had been at the fair earlier in the day. The girl was super cute and shy, though she kept looking over at us. Eventually our waitress, who apparently knew the girl and her mother, carried the girl over to our table. We talked with her for a minute and she seemed to like our costumes, even though she seemed a little put off by yaexrae's red Sebastian contacts. As we were getting up to leave, our waitress was nice enough to offer to take a group picture of us. So, we have a nice group pic (even though we're missing a few of our members who couldn't make it). We then spent time messing around taking pictures outside Cracker Barrel. Then, it was onto Cat's place for wine and more goofing around. It was a fun night.

Got home yesterday afternoon and was super tired from lack of sleep. I get to go to the hospital later today and see how Grandma's doing.