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Back from the Renn Fest
Oct. 10th, 2015 11:06 pmI thought I wouldn't ever GET there. It's over 100 miles to get to this thing and there is only ONE rest stop just about 20 miles from home. Real helpful. OH doesn't believe in them or something. SO I'm forced to stop at the Tangier outlet mall to go before I get on 71S. (because it is so hard to piss in a portapotty in a renn dress). I duck into the combo long john's/taco bell and buy something small. Cinnabons in this case because doesn't need cooking. TWENTY minutes later...I'm not even sure WHY I didn't just leave and call it 2$ lost.
I finally get there and it's packed. More than ever before. I'm parked across the road it's so packed (and thank god I limited fluids and ignored my aging bladder because the lines to the portapotties were so long I'd still be in them now.) It's under new management. I noticed one thing, lots more competition for things. I'm betting the old timers aren't too happy but you know what competition isn't a bad thing. LIke the soap place. Let me see 15$ for your soap vs 5 at the other place. Yeah guess I know who to get it from.
I didn't buy much actually but what I DID buy was expensive. I always get things from Uncommon Adornments though I don't see the silver kitties clutching a ball on the site which is what i got, the ball being malachite beads. I got another two pendant pieces because you know I needed those. Rolls eyes. I forget who I got the goldstone one from but it's pretty. I got two pieces and spent way more than I should at Knotty Jewelry. I’ve been buying from them for 20 years so you know (and they are the new managers as it turns out). She did give me discounts on what I bought and he likes seeing me because I wear stuff he made years ago and no longer does (I do wonder if his hands just can’t any more because he’s not young). I got a beautiful pentagon pendant of labradorite and a drusy ring. I almost never buy rings. Two other women had them on and there was one I liked better but didn’t fit. This one fit like perfection. Actually his dragon ring is the only one I wear on a regular basis. I should have bought one or the other but since I wasn’t buying much else I bought both.
But then I had to run back to the henna tatt place because I had prepaid and it had been the half hour since I did and that was ‘my time.’ BOY did she fuck that up. Normally she’s good at estimating. I was there for another hour and a half. The damn thing CLOSED and we were still there. Have I mentioned I have a very bizarre anxiety about being someplace after it closes? I won’t even go to the mall on Sundays unless it’s really early in the day for that reason. I have no idea what the harm could possibly be but it makes me very anxious. She also tried to convince me I hadn’t paid. I’m like yeah I did. She had confused me with someone else and I was on the list. Still. I think that she was either dead tired or tried to make it up to me because she didn’t give me the little dragon who looked like Toothless that I asked for. I was wondering why what she was doing starting in the middle of my arm but she gave me a full arm dragon tatt (though the head doesn’t much look like one) with strange curly tail plumes which was a much more expensive tatt. Normally I’d have said something but I missed out on several stores as a result of waiting so I said screw it.
One of those stores was the glass one. First thing mom asked when I got home ‘did you get me my green glass.’ I told her they didn’t have it and I’ll look at Bob’s fest tomorrow.
But who I really wanted to see (and did but I DID miss the earlier concert thanks to LJS/TacoHell) was Albannach, a pipes and drum group from Scotland. I love them. I wish they’d bring CD’s to sell because it’s hard to find their music in America, even online. It was a great concert (and I got to hear their late night one sitting up at the henna station reading gay porn on my tablet).
The other downside to being there until it closed was a million people trying to get out of the damn place at the same time. It took me an hour to get out of the parking lot. I was thankful for the book on cd! By then it was too late for me to do what I planned: eat in Chillicothe. I stopped at the tangiers again to pee and go to Popeye’s. I always planned on stopping there for dinner for tomorrow because I LIKE Popeye’s but it’s 70 miles away so I only get it when I go shopping at that outlet or to the renn fest. I got a meal for tomorrow and today. Spicy chicken! Yum!
I’m exhausted. My back feels like it’s been beaten (well it felt like that since I woke up. I slept for 6 hours without waking which never happens then I tried to go back to sleep for another 2 but then some assholes called me to telemarket in spite of me being on the no call list and I was done. Couldn’t sleep again).
Westley & Buttercup!
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I finally get there and it's packed. More than ever before. I'm parked across the road it's so packed (and thank god I limited fluids and ignored my aging bladder because the lines to the portapotties were so long I'd still be in them now.) It's under new management. I noticed one thing, lots more competition for things. I'm betting the old timers aren't too happy but you know what competition isn't a bad thing. LIke the soap place. Let me see 15$ for your soap vs 5 at the other place. Yeah guess I know who to get it from.
I didn't buy much actually but what I DID buy was expensive. I always get things from Uncommon Adornments though I don't see the silver kitties clutching a ball on the site which is what i got, the ball being malachite beads. I got another two pendant pieces because you know I needed those. Rolls eyes. I forget who I got the goldstone one from but it's pretty. I got two pieces and spent way more than I should at Knotty Jewelry. I’ve been buying from them for 20 years so you know (and they are the new managers as it turns out). She did give me discounts on what I bought and he likes seeing me because I wear stuff he made years ago and no longer does (I do wonder if his hands just can’t any more because he’s not young). I got a beautiful pentagon pendant of labradorite and a drusy ring. I almost never buy rings. Two other women had them on and there was one I liked better but didn’t fit. This one fit like perfection. Actually his dragon ring is the only one I wear on a regular basis. I should have bought one or the other but since I wasn’t buying much else I bought both.
But then I had to run back to the henna tatt place because I had prepaid and it had been the half hour since I did and that was ‘my time.’ BOY did she fuck that up. Normally she’s good at estimating. I was there for another hour and a half. The damn thing CLOSED and we were still there. Have I mentioned I have a very bizarre anxiety about being someplace after it closes? I won’t even go to the mall on Sundays unless it’s really early in the day for that reason. I have no idea what the harm could possibly be but it makes me very anxious. She also tried to convince me I hadn’t paid. I’m like yeah I did. She had confused me with someone else and I was on the list. Still. I think that she was either dead tired or tried to make it up to me because she didn’t give me the little dragon who looked like Toothless that I asked for. I was wondering why what she was doing starting in the middle of my arm but she gave me a full arm dragon tatt (though the head doesn’t much look like one) with strange curly tail plumes which was a much more expensive tatt. Normally I’d have said something but I missed out on several stores as a result of waiting so I said screw it.
One of those stores was the glass one. First thing mom asked when I got home ‘did you get me my green glass.’ I told her they didn’t have it and I’ll look at Bob’s fest tomorrow.
But who I really wanted to see (and did but I DID miss the earlier concert thanks to LJS/TacoHell) was Albannach, a pipes and drum group from Scotland. I love them. I wish they’d bring CD’s to sell because it’s hard to find their music in America, even online. It was a great concert (and I got to hear their late night one sitting up at the henna station reading gay porn on my tablet).
The other downside to being there until it closed was a million people trying to get out of the damn place at the same time. It took me an hour to get out of the parking lot. I was thankful for the book on cd! By then it was too late for me to do what I planned: eat in Chillicothe. I stopped at the tangiers again to pee and go to Popeye’s. I always planned on stopping there for dinner for tomorrow because I LIKE Popeye’s but it’s 70 miles away so I only get it when I go shopping at that outlet or to the renn fest. I got a meal for tomorrow and today. Spicy chicken! Yum!
I’m exhausted. My back feels like it’s been beaten (well it felt like that since I woke up. I slept for 6 hours without waking which never happens then I tried to go back to sleep for another 2 but then some assholes called me to telemarket in spite of me being on the no call list and I was done. Couldn’t sleep again).
Westley & Buttercup!my wtf dragon
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