Thank you for your kind words, Erin. It's hard to explain how much the night meant to me (although I obviously tried, LOL).
Credit for all the LeeFest pics must go to my husband! I didn't even know that was taking them (other than the posed ones with Lee at the end). Then we got back to our hotel room, and he started showing them all to me. I was thrilled when I saw that he'd taken so many pics of Lee with the calendar and a bunch of Tom Fontana. (Considering the circumstances, my husband was an amazingly good sport about the entire evening.) (I think it was due in large part to the free drinks and food, LOL.)
I got the idea for the calendar because I remembered reading about the matchbooks that Colleen had made for everyone at a LeeFest she attended (I think it might've been the one you were at?). I was originally going to do something smaller like that, but I got carried away with the idea, as I often do when it comes to things involving Lee. ;) I tried to emphasize to Lee that I wasn't expecting him to actually USE the calendar, it was just supposed to a souvenir of the night, so I was pleasantly surprised at his increasing excitement over the whole thing. At first I thought his enthusiasm was him just being polite, but when he chased David Simon down to show the calendar to him... I was like, "OK, he not just faking, he genuinely likes it!"
Anyway, it really was a magical night, and it's already starting to feel like a dream to me, too. :-)
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Date: 2017-11-09 11:16 pm (UTC)Credit for all the LeeFest pics must go to my husband! I didn't even know that was taking them (other than the posed ones with Lee at the end). Then we got back to our hotel room, and he started showing them all to me. I was thrilled when I saw that he'd taken so many pics of Lee with the calendar and a bunch of Tom Fontana. (Considering the circumstances, my husband was an amazingly good sport about the entire evening.) (I think it was due in large part to the free drinks and food, LOL.)
I got the idea for the calendar because I remembered reading about the matchbooks that Colleen had made for everyone at a LeeFest she attended (I think it might've been the one you were at?). I was originally going to do something smaller like that, but I got carried away with the idea, as I often do when it comes to things involving Lee. ;) I tried to emphasize to Lee that I wasn't expecting him to actually USE the calendar, it was just supposed to a souvenir of the night, so I was pleasantly surprised at his increasing excitement over the whole thing. At first I thought his enthusiasm was him just being polite, but when he chased David Simon down to show the calendar to him... I was like, "OK, he not just faking, he genuinely likes it!"
Anyway, it really was a magical night, and it's already starting to feel like a dream to me, too. :-)