Met my drag queens!!! In New York

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I've been trying to keep excessive fangirl squee on my Tumblr instead of here. But - why not - I'll share what I wrote on Tumblr. I'll only add that I am really really enjoying fangirling out but - and this is a good thing - my head is NOT 100% obsessed at all times? So, good on me, I guess.

• Where do I start? Well, first of all just being grateful that the travel went well, no travel hiccups and I even got on an earlier flight home. Went with my friend John and he is SO wonderful to travel with, and he loves a good drag show. He had a blast.
• The queens did a live before the show, and as they always do, they shouted out to our IG!! They said make yourself known at the M&G, and I did.
• John took video of me at the M&G! The queens were thrilled when I told them I was with the IG fan page (Lydia bounces around with happiness when I tell her!!) I brought a personalized tote bag for them to sign for the woman who does most of the work on the page. Sent the video to her and she said she felt so happy and included, since she couldn't be there in person. (I also bought her a T-shirt which I'll send along with the tote. She was very happy about that too)
• wtf the M&G started on time, and so did the show pretty much? Place was packed. And they had another show after ours which had also sold out.
• We found a small area at the back where they had seats....and an outlet so I could charge my phone! The rest of the venue was standing only, girl bye I am too old for that.
• I livestreamed much of it from the IG account. We got SO much love for that! People were wonderful and really appreciated it. I did feel bad as my arms got sore, and one person didn't like...the amount of g's I had? don't know what the fuck that was about, again girl bye. But everyone else was VERY appreciative.
• The show!! Epic lip synchs to songs from Rocky Horror, Cabaret (John esp loved Cabaret and RH), APT, Boogie Wonderland. Like my dream! And Kori and Lydia's romantic number. I have no words, just watch the video. They are so in love.
• Having my GCs on IG to message with the whole time! Thank god for those groups. I love the people there sm
• Also grateful that the show was indoors, because it was cold and rainy, and clips from other shows at the venue showed...outdoor stuff?
• Went back to the hotel, kept GCing with my people, finally fell asleep for a few hours, woke up around 1:30am and realized around 2:30 that I was not gonna go back to sleep, so I DoorDashed a vegan burrito and watched Lydia slay All Stars!!
• The amount of BK content is crazy. Like drinking from a firehose. The show last night, Lydia's first ep of All Stars where there was slayage, Kori's vlog, and Kori announced to be on PitStop, plus all their lovey tweets to each other...cannot keep up. But I love it. And somehow my brain functions, mostly? Maybe

One thing to add in. (And here we go, crazy font change). A week or so after I booked my travel for this, it was announced that Kori and Lydia would have another show together, the day after this one, but in Houston. I considered going. After all, it was billed as a Ru-yal Wedding. But it also said the show wouldn't start till midnight, the venue looked like one of those without seats, and I didn't want to change my travel plans or do 2 drag shows in a row, so I took a pass. I'M GLAD I DID. While the clips from the show look lovely, it also seems that Lydia and Kori didn't do one number together (wtf) and there was no "Ru-yal wedding". SO, SO glad I didn't go. 

AND another thing to add in. The Pit Stop is a show where they recap Drag Race, and they always have a guest queen on from the show. Kori was this week's guest, half the episode was Kori gushing over Lydia, and this Pit Stop was the cherry on the sundae.