First of all, how nice is Abi? She was all like “oh girrrrl, post on my account” and I was like “nawh” but then I was like “well maybe” because all of you posted such gr8 blogs and I needed to reply somehow (srsly, I hate that new account deletes are more permanent. Never making another account. Lurker 4 lyfe)

Everything I have to say has been said already – y’all are the best people I know and I’m so sad that Chicagotimes only happen once a year because ;-;. 4rlz. And because I don’t want to make Abi’s list of blogs she’s participated in skyrocket, I’m just gonna say stuff to people who have posted blogs/will probably post blogs/but maybe not because they never blog in here.

Warning: dis blog is gonna be so long, holy crap. You probably don’t want to read it all. Just ctrl+F for your name or something. And if you don’t find it, be like “sup girl wtf you forgot me ;-;” and I’ll be like “OH NO” and tell you why you so spicysexy.

DeeAnn: oh girrrrrrl, you are the best. I’m so glad I got to meet you! I was sooo tired and kinda out of it and you made fun of me because you hated me but I wanted to hug you like the man you are. Also, you remind me of the babe, the best babe who has super voodoo powers and such because you do remind me of it. Serious <3

Brian: Aw man, you da best guy. Thank you for the brief (like, 1 second brief) and mostly uncomfortable cuddles. I hope we share some gluten-free mealtimes again soon :D

Jeanette: OH GIRL, sorry about what happened at renegade/wtf I’m so bummed I didn’t get to say bye!! ;-;-; next year, we will have an extra epic hello. Chicago roommates again next year?

Master Kevin Capricious Wells: I can’t even tell you how much I appreciate your friendship. I can’t believe this is only my 3rd time seeing you ever ‘cause it feels like I’ve known you for so long. Again, serious bummer on not being able to say bye, but maybe I’ll go to Ohio sometime and hang out with you and your mother because I love her lots, too. Tell Dotty-Mom I say Hi, Will you?

ANNACRAIN: omfg Anna you are the cutest most adorable most best girl and I want to high-five you while giving you a hug and riding sharks and wearing taupe-colored pants.

Kayceface: Oh man, thanks for you-know-what and other things and I can’t wait to see you again next time. I enjoyed our latenight chats about how uncomfortable pull-out bed was

Mike B: OH. MY. GOD. I was so excited to meet you. I apologize for my ferocious hug when I first saw you (and additional apologies to StubbyPhil, heh), I couldn’t contain my excite ;-;. Thank you for letting me carry around Nicky and for giving me so many hugs from Jebbie (and so many non-Jebbie hugs) and for not being mad at me when I made your shirt a little wet from sad goodbye tears.

Alvin: Each time I see you, I think I like you more than the time previous, which I didn’t even know was possible. You’re adorable and so many lolz. We never got Chubby Hubby! Which means we have to see each other at least once more. But hopefully more than that.

Omair: Last year when I left Chicago I wasn’t sure if you hated me or not but now I’m pretty sure you don’t hate me. You my favorite brown bro ever 4lyfe, I just want to brush your hair and give you infinite hugs.

Jeff: Oh jeez, you were the happiest guy when you were drunk. I am so glad that happened, because you sang karaoke with me even though you were like “naw I ain’t doin that shit ever!” I’m so glad you came, because this meetup was better than the last and I was all Jeff% of going. I would’ve been pissed if you made me miss out on that :P

RAAAAAAAANDY: YOU GOT A CROWNIE. ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?! I hope so. You better be happy, the amount of physical labor that went into baking and transporting those was ridiculous. Also, I love your face.

Priscilla: Oh girrrrrrl, I’m so glad you were able to come to Chicago! You’re so cute, I kinda involuntarily squeal with delight every time you smile. It’s like watching a kitten explode into a million rainbows in my heart.

Becca: Holy shit girl, you are so wonderful. Seriously, without you, this community wouldn’t be nearly as amazing. I love you.

Brandon: I don’t think we’ve ever talked before Chicago, but I had swell times using the warmth of Weston’s awesome sleeping bag with you. I will never be able to read your name on the blogs again without hearing it in that ridiculous accent in my head.

Westicles!: You da man, Weston. I’m so glad you weren’t shy this year. Or at least less shy? Or…just, not shy with me? Hahaha. I’m so glad
we are magnet buddies!

Ryder: I don’t hate you, I think.

MattyDev and Erin: Oh man, you two are so great. I kept my eyes peeled for y’all at renegade so I could say hi to the pups/bye to you guys, but no such luck :(. Also, Matt has the best magnet cutting skills. Almost as good as his typing :D

StubbyPhil: I am impressed with your handling of jet lag, because you were (mostly) totally all there! haha. I'm sorry you had to wait so long for me and Liz but I'm glad you did! First new person I met at the meetup ftw. Also, your friend from rochester whose name I can't remember (although I want to say it began with an H) was adorable and so nice! tell her I said so :D

Tyler FrankVice: Your smile is just as charming IRL as it is in Bacon Taco. Good work.

Dave and Mike: I can do better, but I don’t want to ;P You two were great, so bummed you didn’t come out on Saturday night!! Next year, you both better be there.

Jan: BURG BRACELET + Snapple. Next year, we’re gonna find waffle burgers, I just know it.

Amanda & Jared: We didn’t talk very much this year or last year, but you are both incredibly sweet. Next year, we will have some realchats ‘cause 3rd time’s a charm.

Alvaro: I think all we did was say hi and you gave me the BEST HUG (seriously, best hug. Or maybe 2nd best, but it was pretty damn awesome) and I’m not even sure you know who I am? It was great.

MCGILL: YOUR HUGS ARE WORTH WAITING OVER A YEAR FOR, BUT LETS NOT WAIT THAT LONG FOR V 2.0. If you didn’t get a hug from matt gill, y’alls missin out.

Derek: oh man, you are so smile happy awesome cool chillsauce next year bring the whole family so I can group hug you all. I’ll send some more sockstuff for Jonah when school cools down. You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.

Alexmdc: I don’t think I said two words to you, but I wish I would’ve. Milwaukee broz 4lyfe (but hopefully not because I hate Milwaukee so hard. So Milwaukee broz in spirit 4lyfe)

Torasteve: I love how we always see each other in places we don’t live but we live in the same place (wut? Does that even make sense?) Because of you, Take On Me has been stuck in my head so hard and I’ve been singing it to (with?) my friends while we study and they have no idea why, but they’re going along with it.

Jonah: Dude, so good to meet you! We talked for about 2 minutes but they were good ones.

The Canadians (Dez and Dee): I think I only said Hi to both of you, which means you need to come back next year so we can hug and high five and shave spacemitch’s beard or something like that.

SpaceMitch: You are so great. Better than you are online! I know, I can hardly believe it either…

BlackMitch: MINNESOTA BROS. Girl, you so smooth, like Omair’s beard.

FRICKINAWESOME: I only got to say hi to you, too :( but we shared a magical hug of ponies and shooting stars or something like that, so it’s all gravy. Hopefully some of your wit rubbed off with it!

Monica and Terry: FUUUUU I barely talked to both of you (as I write this, I’m realizing that I didn’t talk to very many people) but I didn’t think either of you knew who I was and I was intimidated by how cool you guys are. Socooldudes.

JESS4002: BLOGGER OF THE YEAR!!! I am totally using your list of blogs as a reference right now to make sure I don’t forget anyone who actually posted a blog about the meetup. You make things nice for everyone! Next year, you should stay at the hotel with the rest of us and we’ll read stories together or something like that.

Krystal: If I decide to run away to Chicago, can I live with you? You won’t even notice that I’m there. Also, I love your face.

Mark: Man, you are so quiet (at least when talking to me) IRL. No good. Next year, we are fixing this.

HOLY FUCK THIS IS 3 PAGES IN A WORD DOCUMENT AND I DON’T THINK I’M EVEN HALFWAY THROUGH.

Super Ass Ryan: I’M SO GLAD YOU WENT ON THE SWINGS!! The swings are awesome. You are awesome. You so :^) all the time and it makes me :^). Lets :^) back and forth forever.

BioSam: Man, our hangouts so awesome. Hopefully I’ll move to SF soon and then we will have even more hangout s (:O!!!) because they’re just that great.

Rob: I am patiently awaiting the photo you took of Kevin on the swings. Hurry the fuck up though, that patience is running out :(

SJ27Matt: Dude, you were so chill and cooltimes, I’m so glad you came! Navy Pier hangouts were great.
We had a good group there :)

Leon: We never got a picture of us hugging for Jebbie :( but that is okay. Even if Jebbie doesn’t believe it happened without pics, I know it did. I’m pretty sure. I think.

Pascal: You should blog more! I had no idea what to expect when I met you but you were really friendly and smiley and I liked it.

Kelsi: It’s pronounced “ruht-beer”, thank you. I’m so glad you karaoke’d with me! R. Kelly = pure sex, although it’s a bummer they didn’t have any Usher (*cough*Leon*cough*). I love you.

Mya: Guess what? I’m not going to Vancouver for spring break anymore because I just realized that mine doesn’t line up with Amelia’s so she’d be really busy the whole time I was there :(. I think I’m going for a bit in the summer, though! So yay for hangouts in 2 different countries (hopefully) and thank you so much for being adorable and having such a wonderful accent and for the delicious honey sticks which I’m trying to make last for as long as humanly possible <3

Phiffer & Phifferette: Y’alls are adorable! Adam, it was great to see you again. Keep Canada sexy.

Nigil: I love that you drove to Chicago even though you were only able to stay for a short period of time. You are the best. Plz sub more so I can give you 5$s in spirit because I have no account to do it for realz.

Ginette: Oh man, you are the most adorable. One day I’ll go to Toronto and we’ll hang out and get so blazzzzed and then wear our snuggies around all day. It will be so magical <3

Soloyoooo: Man, you are one of the nicest guys ever. Thanks so much for helping everyone out this weekend! We couldn’tve done it without you!!

Alice: When I met you I was like “wtf how does she know who I am?” but then I remembered secret jeffshirt plotting stealthiness and I was like “oh, right. Duh” One day, we’ll get pizza together and put mushrooms on it and laugh at everyone’s disgusted faces because they don’t know what they’re missing.

Rolf: Dude! Such good music chats. We need to have more music chats. Let us share musicthoughts together sometime soon. I need to go stalk your last.fm because I don’t remember the name of the people you told me to go look up x___x

Lim: I wish I talked to you more! I was kinda intimidated x__x I hope we can meet again. Maybe next time I won’t be so lame, haha.

And now people who will really never see this blog:

Paul Octavious: I have only ever heard amazing things about you and I was so excited to finally meet you! I was so glad when we had cooltime conversations and when our personalities just clicked. I can’t wait to see you again next year! I think KihouLiz and I are gonna be going down to Chicago a few times this year so if we do, I’ll be sure to let you know :D

Dan Simpson: What the fuck. I love you. Let’s be friends forever.

Ray, Brock, and Glenn: Your presentations were all so, so inspiring. I left the presentations so ready to make things and I can’t wait until I get the chance to do just that. And you were all such nice guys! Ahaha oh man that sounds like I’m surprised, but it was really great to see that even though you guys have so much success you were so happy to connect with all of the bloggers. This might sound like a backhanded compliment (it’s not, I swear) but I’m gonna stop now. Also, Ray: when you started your presentation by talking about R. Kelly, I knew there was no way I could possibly dislike you. Real Talk.

Jake, Charlie, Craig, Joe, Rachel, Dustin, Mimi, and all the other staffers – you guys are great. Thank you so much for everything. Group hugzz!

Everyone who didn't go to the meetup: go next year or i will be pissed.

And to everyone I forgot to mention (this took me like an hour and a half to write, fuuu), you guys are so great. I love you all <3_<3