The Trouble With Visiting Hoth

Sometimes you don’t even need to be all that sneaky in the work place to flaunt your geek. About a week and a half ago I was in Calgary, AB, Canada for the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo with FlipOn.TV (which is magical, let me tell you.) While I was there it began to snow. Now, for many people this is neither surprising, nor of much concern. For me, this was terrible. I am from Seattle, raised in the greater Puget Sound area, and snow is not normal. We Seattlites are bred in a cool climate that doesn’t usually go above 80 or below 45. It rains in the morning, it’s sunny in the afternoon, and should we get more than an inch of that terrifying frozen whiteness known as snow, we shut down operations and hide in her homes glaring with distrust. This is why Alaskans hate us.

So, snow. It was snowing in Calgary and it was cold. I don’t deal well with cold. In fact being cold makes me whiney and I have zero cartilage in my hips so it makes them hurt. So what do you do at a convention when you are wearing a thin t-shirt and jeans and seriously contemplating attacking the dude in the tauntan costume so you can steal it for your own? You take a break and head for the merch booths! I spotted welovefine first and wanted the tauntaun hoodie (it has intestines patterned inside and a light saber for a zipper pull!) but their hoodies, as I was advised before the wonderful man started helping me, were designed for Asians. I am not built like an Asian girl. I am 5’7” with practically nonexistent hips, wide shoulders, and a lot of bust. I wanted that hoodie, though. So I started with the XL. It’s the right length, the hood is long enough (and has little horns <3), and it zips fine over the stomach and stops under the boobs. XXL got a bit higher, but sadly, still didn’t work. That was the highest they went to, sadly enough, as they were out of 3XL. Cue my sad face.

I wandered off, having decided I needed something Star Wars related as all I could do was imagine myself freezing to death in the middle of the Calgary Stampede, a glittery white statue that the 501st could put on display beside their Han frozen in carbonite statue. I was seriously comparing it to Hoth and the snow wasn’t even sticking. Does this make sense? To me, yes. To those like me, probably. To those who deal with three foot drifts 4+ months out of the year? I am apparently a crazy person.

Anyhow, I journeyed across the vast expanse in search of an awesome, warm, and not overly expensive sweat shirt that I would wear more than just once. I like Star Wars well enough, seen all the movies, read most of the books (which are no longer canon, thank you Disney for making this more difficult to keep in a single timeline) and have a serious crush on R2D2, however I am nowhere near as crazy over it as my mother. Halfway through my search I realized that should I get this Star Wars sweater, my mother was likely to borrow it. By borrow, I really mean she was going to abscond off with it and cackle every time I asked her if I could have it back. This is understandable, I totally did that with her Brodeur Away Jersey. Whatever, though, she totally doesn’t even like the Devil’s, she just like Goalies. I, however, am a true fan. So there.

So basically, my search changed half way through to finding instead something that called to me. Something I would wear often and without any kind of regret. I started thinking “what if I could wear it to work” and not just on Friday when we can basically wear anything we want, either. I wanted something I could input into my Sneaky Geeky work wardrobe. I ended back up at welovefine. Those that know me know that I wear a LOT of sweaters. I love them, especially boyfriend sweaters, because I think they look adorable with all the dresses I like to wear and they keep me warm when I am cold. I had remembered something that had caught my eye when I was trying on the tauntan hoodie and when I went back it was there and they did have the 3XL! So I tried it on and I swam in it. Down to the 2X, still huge. Down to the XL. Big, but in the good way that meant I could wear it like a boyfriend sweater, which made sense because it was a men’s sweater. It was simple, brick red with black accents, and when it’s open you don’t even realize that it’s a geeky cardigan.

And then you button it up, and Deadpool happens. Oh, yes. This is now my favorite item of clothing. Deadpool happens to be my favorite Marvel character and now he can come with me to work every day. Thankfully now warm, Stevie