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Gemme · 06-19-2022, 03:44 PM

I feel good! Well, a little drowsy now but that's because it's darkening outside and I didn't get a full night's sleep but still good nonetheless.

I went to Pride last night! I went later in the day so I didn't have to fight too many people to visit vendors and I wasn't going to eat there so I didn't need to hit up the food trucks. I was mainly going for the illuminated parade, which didn't start until 8pm. Once it got going, I was packed in with about 15,000 of my closest friends on my section of the parade route. They were expecting about 100,000 people altogether so I'm not sure how many in total showed up.

There was an adorable butch/femme couple slightly ahead and to my left. She was in a nice dress and dolled up with heels and a wrap and he/hy (pretty sure of the masc pronoun) had slicked back short hair and was in a nice suit vest and dress pants and a bowtie. OMG, a bow tie! I loved it and managed to get them in one of my video snippets.

The parade itself was a wee bit disappointing to me. Not sure if it's because they are still building back up after the shutdown or if it was always this way but when you tout something as "illuminated" it best damn be illuminated. All the way through. Nope. Some cars and floats were better than others but there were plenty of cars, floats and walkers that didn't have one bit of light on them. Shame! I wanted my eyes to burn from the light but alas, it was not meant to be. So, next year, I'll come earlier for the vendors but not worry about the parade, I think. And I'll attend PVD, which I did not this year because it's usually the same weekend as the parade but they had it last weekend and I didn't find out about it until Sunday late afternoon.

My squad consisted of my trainer, her girlfriend and 4 of their closest friends. All of them are in their 20's, which amused me because I also remembered not caring if I was losing my hearing or if my dogs were barking or not when I was their age. I did hold my own, though, and got a few compliments on my rainbow eyeshadow technique and was able to chat with all sorts of lovely people throughout the day and night.

I got home at 2am, went to bed at 5am, woke at 11:45am and kind of want a nap now but I'm one of those people who cannot nap without ruining the nightly sleep so I must plow through it. Next step, get off the computer, turn up the music and shake my booty!

06-19-2022, 03:44 PM	#6929
Gemme Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: Queer Stone Femme Girl of the Unicorn Variety Preferred Pronoun?: She, as in 'She's a GEM' Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: The roads are narrow here Posts: 36,631 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 182,498 Thanked 107,933 Times in 25,667 Posts Rep Power: 21474888	I feel good! Well, a little drowsy now but that's because it's darkening outside and I didn't get a full night's sleep but still good nonetheless. I went to Pride last night! I went later in the day so I didn't have to fight too many people to visit vendors and I wasn't going to eat there so I didn't need to hit up the food trucks. I was mainly going for the illuminated parade, which didn't start until 8pm. Once it got going, I was packed in with about 15,000 of my closest friends on my section of the parade route. They were expecting about 100,000 people altogether so I'm not sure how many in total showed up. There was an adorable butch/femme couple slightly ahead and to my left. She was in a nice dress and dolled up with heels and a wrap and he/hy (pretty sure of the masc pronoun) had slicked back short hair and was in a nice suit vest and dress pants and a bowtie. OMG, a bow tie! I loved it and managed to get them in one of my video snippets. The parade itself was a wee bit disappointing to me. Not sure if it's because they are still building back up after the shutdown or if it was always this way but when you tout something as "illuminated" it best damn be illuminated. All the way through. Nope. Some cars and floats were better than others but there were plenty of cars, floats and walkers that didn't have one bit of light on them. Shame! I wanted my eyes to burn from the light but alas, it was not meant to be. So, next year, I'll come earlier for the vendors but not worry about the parade, I think. And I'll attend PVD, which I did not this year because it's usually the same weekend as the parade but they had it last weekend and I didn't find out about it until Sunday late afternoon. My squad consisted of my trainer, her girlfriend and 4 of their closest friends. All of them are in their 20's, which amused me because I also remembered not caring if I was losing my hearing or if my dogs were barking or not when I was their age. I did hold my own, though, and got a few compliments on my rainbow eyeshadow technique and was able to chat with all sorts of lovely people throughout the day and night. I got home at 2am, went to bed at 5am, woke at 11:45am and kind of want a nap now but I'm one of those people who cannot nap without ruining the nightly sleep so I must plow through it. Next step, get off the computer, turn up the music and shake my booty! __________________ Gemme's Journal I'm misunderestimated.