On Friday March 29, 2013 I watched Supernatural for the first time in my life. I had always loved Halloween, horror movies, and paranormal stuff, so I wasn't quite sure why I had never watched it. But I kept seeing promos for it on TNT and I thought "I should watch it." I kept seeing people post about it on Instagram and Pinterest and I thought "I should watch it." Then one day I started looking at pictures of Jared Padalecki and I thought "I SHOULD WATCH IT!". Then one morning I woke up and saw that it was on. I said "I'm watching it."
I'll never forget the first episode I watched. It was Hell House, the 17th episode of Season 1. Within five minutes I was into it. It had such a creepy feel and I loved the dynamic between Sam and Dean. The prank war between them was the perfect introduction for me. When Sam turned the music up in the Impala and pointed to himself "what? me?" I was like "he's cute". And then when he super glued the beer bottle to Dean's hand I decided they were adorable. They were cute, they hunted ghosts, and they had a hot car, I was hooked. I watched three episodes that day and had pretty much fallen in love.
I told my mom that I fond this great show that I loved and she said "oh good, I'm glad." The next Monday I got up to watch it and my mom was home. She watched casually with me at first, but at the end of the Season 1 finale "Devil's Trap" I could tell she was a little more invested saying "Well now they're all dead on the side of the road!" We continued watching into the week. I gravitated more towards Sam while she gravitated more towards Dean. By mid season 2 I had become emotionally invested in these characters. I realized it was more than just a scary show. I came for the scary, but stayed for the brothers. Soon I was buying DVDs and trying to get caught up to Season 8 on Netflix. I was following cast and crew members on Twitter and countless Supernatural blogs on Tumblr.
Supernatural had become a part of my life. Within two months I'd made it through Season 4. Around the same time I discovered Supernatural conventions. I was amazed that there were whole weekends dedicated to the show where you could see and actually meet the stars. I was curious if there was a con in Las Vegas so I looked it up and there was. Actually, we had just missed it before we started watching the show. But, one for next year was already scheduled. I immediately wanted to go. I told my mom about it, and to my surprise she was actually considering going! My mom has always been very practical and somewhat of a home body in the past, but recently she has been stepping out of her comfort zone. We kept talking about it, and eventually decided we were going. At that point it was 8 months away, but I was still so excited. Before we even bought our tickets to the convention we bought photo ops with Jared and Jensen. When we were ordering my photo op with Jared my heart was beating out of my chest. I couldn't believe that I was going to see Jared Padalecki in person, let alone stand beside him, and touch him. Then we ordered our convention tickets and it was official: we were going to VegasCon!
Now we are caught up on all past seasons, we survived our first season finale and are awaiting the Season 9 premiere. VegasCon is five months away and we are counting down the days. We're driving down crazy street and enjoying the ride.
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