Marriages & Acquisitions (PLUS Bubble Gum Accessory + The Harmonica Debuts)
Topics: Wedding Expo, Clothing/Puzzle/Book Swaps, Toddlers Entertained, Expos, Convention Center, Weddings, Wedding Culture, Bride Culture, Bubbles, Harmonica, Busking, Bravery, Courage, Tips, Clothing Swaps, Tarot Cards
If you’ve been a fan of my blogs for a while now, you know I love taking my daughter to expos - (and i love gamestop… who is hinting at a Merger & Acquisition soonnnn. wonder if it’ll be AMC or the shell of BBBY? aka BBBYQ) - And it has been quite a while since I’ve had a chance… so this “wedding expo” coming to Seattle is PRIMO for us!! What a fun thing to see. Also! I’m someone who never had a true wedding… it doesn’t really interest me and I don’t get the appeal… it just seems so stressful (and lots of couples say they don’t even enjoy their own weddings cause its so much to manage, flies by so fast. Idk.). Just feels like one of those modern-day traditions that are WAY TOO EXPENSIVE and overrated. So, with that mindset, I’m just gonna go enjoy the expo with my daughter, sample cake… and then stop by a clothing/book swap on the way home!
Why Attend? I love to show my daughter lots of cool stuff and this is right up our alley. It’ll have cake… dresses… flowers, good vibes. It should just be extremely fun. And after? Yeah! We can go check out some amazing things like puzzles and books (and clothes). It’s like the perfect way to spend half a weekend day. And if my energy isn’t too drained from all of this, I can go busk downtown when she goes back to her dad’s. I’ll bring my new harmonicas too (which just arrived) and try them out. For now, I wanna get good at the “G” key harmonica. It feels most instinctual to me. Also, I think i like to play it (as they’d say in skateboarding) “sloppy” style… like I think it’s more instinctual to me, too, to put the harmonica on the neck-holder BACKWARDS. but… you know, I jsut like to do things how they work for me. Who cares? There’s no harmonica police. :). but let’s see how the audience/fans like my new instrument. Will the tips be more than usual? Hahhaah on my first ever day harmonica-ing officially? You know? I wanna work on my confidence and bravery all of the time, so this is definitely a way to do it. Harmonicas can totally be embarrassing (in my opinion), but I’ll get good at it and then it’ll be awesome.
Photo Collage and Commentary
NOTES FROM THE EVENTS:
WEDDING SHOW
I have so little to say about this. It was just like any other expo… You know? Amazing to bring your kid, lots to see. Would definitely also be fun on your own and fun to truly be interested in. But, I just wandered around with my daughter, tried every single sample they offered, and had a nice time. The photo collage shows a lot of it. Nothing too significant happened or is worth mentioning though. Weddings are overrated but expos are not.
CLOTHING SWAP
This was super fun and I love clothing swaps so much. I haven’t paid for clothes in at least a year… and I don’t know if I ever will again. Shopping is finally so boring and uninteresting to me (especially for clothes) and it’s just a waste of everything: money, time, energy, materials… there are so many lcohtes in the world, and clothing sawps are the best. You get amazing stuff, pay nothing… save the planet pollution-wise. I mean, duh! Reduce, reuse, recycle.
This event also had plants to take home and tarot cards and puzzles and books!! So, I brought some books and clothes and left with lots of clothes, plants, and even tarot cards… I pulled some when I got home and they lined up with my life a lot. But, one kinda embarrassed me - about my favorite topic: GameStop. I won’t get into it too much but I love them a lot and hope they value me and my genuine care/understanding/drive for that company’s mission and standards
My daughter literally had the best time at this event btw. She loved the bubble wizard who was here, making hte best bubbles i’ve ever seen in my life hahah. We had the best day - then she came home and we watched some episodes of Pokémon till her dad picked her up. Then I head out for busking/harmonica. Which, I really didn’t want to do, but I pushed myself anyway… was it worth it? Read and find out. I ALMOST STAYED HOME - instead, FUN NIGHT!!
HARMONICA DEBUT
I started off playing by the art museum… cause i got to one intersection/area where that “divine masculine” guy I’ve hung out with a fe times now said I should play, and I realized, OMG this spot is SO embarrassing to play at… which made me decide to do it. Cause my whole goal of guitar/harmonica/busking is also to practice being extremely embarrassed and powering through it. LIke, just go play and be brave.
So I played in that location for about 5 or 10 minutes and was tipped $14 right there!! By two different people. That cracked me up cause it was a lot of money for two tips and my first ever time playing harmonica hahah.
Then I went down to another spot by the water I like and sang/harmonica/guitar (again, my first ever time playing harmonica) and made a total of $79!!! It was shocking. So many people tipped me $5’s and $10’s - versus the usual $1’s and 5’s… so, the harmonica is a HIT! I was happy for it. I really enjoyed the way it sounded, and its nice to make more money. Just helps, of course. And its pretty rewarding. Plus, people tip what they feel ilke, so it’s cool that people like the harmonica + guitar + singing even more than without it. I’ll keep figuring out which chords sound good with which of my 6 harmonicas I now have hahahaahha. OMG, so many keys to learn and try. I did the “G” key… LOVED it. But the “C” key was tougher. “F”… yeah right. I tried that for a second, and it was a disaster. So, let the band play on.
I played about an hour and a half in total, from like 4:30 - 6:00, but ended up too freezing, so then I head back home… but I felt like I didn’t want to end the ngiht yet, so I dropped off my guitar so quickly at home and then head back onto the bus/train for another adventure.
BUBBLE GUM?
AA:
Not so anonymously, I love to go to AA. Tonight, after busking, I wanted to keep the momentum alive and wasn’t sure where to start, so a “Dinner and Chat” AA sounded perfect!! I stopped by and had meatloaf with mashed potatoes while talking about how I’m powerless over alcohol. We talked about the little alcoholic on your shoulder… are you scared of it? You should be. You should always be and always fear what you can be with a drink. Let it keep you afraid. People talked about how they knew people 11, 21+ years sober, but jumped back in so unexpectedly. It can happen at anytime.
I love AA cause I love people being nonjudgmental, honest, and working to improve themselves.
It was fun… I’d like to go try more AA groups over time and find ones I like a lot
At the end, I put a quarter in the bubblegum machine and got a piece. Then I proceeded to chew it for like 3 hours straight.
COUNTRY MUSIC DANCING:
After AA, I went and sat at the bus stop for about 25 minutes until it arrived. While there, a guy came and talked to me. He told me he liked the way I dress, and I didn’t look like a hooker.
The street we were on, waiting for the bus, is infamous for hookers, so I said thank you, I just left AA. He asked what I was up to tonight and I said I’m going to go listen to some bluegrass music at the little red hen. He laughed and said, “What?” and I said I’m gonna go listen to music. Then he asked if i’ll go drink there and I said, no… I just left AA, i even quit smoking lately, too. And he said, oh congrats, what? Meth? (and then said something else) and I said, haha, no. Weed. And then he laughed. I told him I have a 3-year-old and even recently had that mental health episode, so enough was enough. He said his mom was a crackhead so he’s always been around drugs.
After riding the bus for a while, I got off at a stop where I felt confident enough to take a rentable scooter. Then I scootered over to the bar/venue
Once I arrived, I was happy to have my bubble gum, cause it gave me something to do other than drink alcohol. I even had been chewing it and popping bubbles when that bus stop guy talked to me before, just to kinda “seem uninterested “ cause you never know what’s gonna happen with strangers on sketchy streets, though, idk I’ve never had any weird situations happen in my life of almost 40 year, you know? I don’t mind talking to random people, even on sketchy streets -a nd he was nice enough. But the bubble gum set a good boundary.
I kept that going at the bar and was really cracking myself up having it as a fashion accessory, almost. I had my amazing dress (with a skirt under it, my new iconic style), and then I just spent my attention on the musicians. Especially now that I’m one for my profession (one of my professions). But, every now and then, I’d get interrupted with someone asking me to dance. Even some cuties! But… all drinkers. Not my style for the long term. It was very fun and they seemed to like twirling me around with my nice dress/skirt combo.
But, really, I was just havin the best time popping bubbles, listenign to music, and being such a vibe!! Bubble gum is the best when you’re not drinking. It gives you something to do and not feel awkward/the desire for a drink/something. At least for me.
And with that, see ya next time!! Be the main character of your life, dont’ let others bring you down, go out and do what you like to do
Oh… and now that the epstein files are out, there’s so much freaky stuff finally coming to surface about mistreating children and bodies and stuff… this is stuff I’d figured out, like, at least a few years ago and my whoel family odesn’t even really talk to me anymore cause I kinda tried to bring it up and even the ties to my favorite stocks and all these things and they were liek “THATS NOT TRUE” all this stuff. so, i’m kinda relieved its all becoming public knowledge though. BUt I know its a lot ot learn and take in. But, I’ve been kinda losing my shit over it all for at least a year, so I’m glad, like. Yeah, I’m not so alone in this knowledge. If you go back and read my blogs from the past, you’ll see where I’ve been holding a lot of it in.
I’ll hopefully go back and add like “version 2” or extended editions to blogs where I can add in the terrible stuff I’d discovered and concluded about my surroundings and things implied. But for now, it’s fresh and still coming out. But… i’ve learend “too much” lately, but you konw. Honored to be where I am and fight hard for the innocent and the world I wanna see. Even now I’m still a bit vauge cause if I said it bluntly, it’d be too much. And it’s not common knowledge yet. But, I do think my short film “waiting for moass” will make a lot more sense to people - in a dark way, but essential to learn and protect kids, etc - yeah. Let’s see.
