Gratitude and fangirling

 
I kinda do miss doing gratitude posts. I used to keep a list elsewhere and then sometimes post it here. I guess this is the 2nd (or 3rd?) time I've said this, but I should go back to doing a list, since now I just have to reconstruct this from memory:

- Game night last weekend. It was great. In addition to our usual bunch, Mico and Christian have been coming. I was saying to Doris...it's funny because M&C are mother and son (both adults) but it's not awkward and they both fit right in. 

- I have a 2-night business trip, which I need to depart tomorrow - Sunday - for. I hate giving up half my weekend, but I always remind myself that this is the time to be grateful to have a great job that I truly do love.

- Last month, I reached into the pockets of my winter coat and saw that one glove was missing. I hate losing a glove. It renders the remaining one useless. But about a week later, I was at work and walking back into the parking garage. Someone had placed my missing glove atop this flip chart thing. Reunited!! Seriously, I love that someone did that, and it was not lost.

- Doris and I have been doing a monthly date night. We need to, because her life is basically work and elder care. She is rarely home before I go to bed nowadays. On the good news front, she cut her work hours, but those free hours have just been absorbed into caring for her parents. Last month's date night was going to lunch at Liberation Kitchen and then the Garfield Park conservatory. Today we did Out in the 'Burbs, our city's Pride celebration. It reminded me why I love where I live. A whole street fest in our downtown with music, food, vendors, and nonprofits. We sat outside a cafe and took it in. The weather was perfect. 

- And I wore the new sundress that I bought at the end of last summer, from Title Nine, as it was on sale. 

Fangirling

I really am trying to keep most of it on my Tumblr. But a few.... 

- Doris and I are traveling next weekend - it will be my second time seeing Lydia and Kori! And a nice "date weekend" for us since we're going to a cute, smallish LGBTQ+ friendly city, and the drag show is part of their Pride weekend. Excited to see my queens again! And even better, this venue has seats.

So many other things that I really should just summarize.....Lydia continuing to slay All Stars, the other fans in my GC and I each got GREAT Lydia Cameos yesterday and the 2 queens def appreciate our IG fan page, so many cute interactions between the two of them online, a new photoshoot of the two of them together, their vlogs are all like couple goals, they did a live where they revealed to each other drawings that they made of each other. The level of cuddling in it was insane. I just love that the two of them love the same things like art and drawing and dolls; they will never be bored together. Even the Redditors still are mostly very positive on their loving up.  

In the 'this is interesting (to me)' category.... (And sorry, wtf font?)

• I messaged with someone at a bar who books drag queens. They have Kori booked, and I asked if they could book Lydia for the same night. They said they'd love to but they can't afford 2 big name queens on the same night. I get it. Sadly, it suggests why there are not more shows that have both of them. (And it also tells us why so many of these shows are standing-only. Gotta jam as many bodies as you can in).
• Way TLDR but I will put it here anyway. I had been wondering how Drag Race would handle a challenging issue with the timeline. Last year, they filmed S17 in May (and that's where the two meet and flirt), then they filmed the first half of All Stars which Lydia is in, in July. Lydia and Kori were not officially a couple when All Stars was made, so I wondered how the editors/producers would handle the relationship, given everything that happened since then. They handled it well. There was mention of Kori in the first ep, then a day later they had the recently-filmed PitStop where Kori was on and confirmed that they were together. The second half of All Stars was not filmed until March '25, so they can go to town on mentions of the relationship then, if they want to.
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