With apologies to Ric Ocasik (whom I met) and The Cars, gotta love this song, this album, this band! The album cover, which maybe, maybe, maybe I might recreate, was painted by legendary pin-up artist Alberto Vargas. A concert poster with this image hangs just to the left of my office desk. Love The Cars.
Kandi-O, I need you
Sunday dress, ruby ring
Kandi-O, I need you so
Could you help me in?
Purple hum, assorted cards
Razor lights you’ll bring
And all to prove you’re on the move
And vanishing
Kandi-O, I need you so
Kandi-O, I need you so
Edge of night, distract yourself
Obstacles don’t work
Homogenize, decentralize
It’s just a quirk
Different ways to see you through
All the same in the end
Peculiar star, that’s who you are
Do you have to win?
Kandi-O, I need you so
Kandi-O, I need you so
Kandi-O, I need you so
Kandi-O, I need you so
The final rehearsal for the fashion show, October 22, 2026. Beforehand, I had some work to do. Our hostess will explain…
After soliciting for the HRC, I stopped for (yeah, you guessed it), a cocktail! This was an outing that lasted over 8 hours, but really nothing to talk about here. I have really tried to doll it up at these rehearsals. It did not go unnoticed. Weekly, I received compliment after compliment. This day, a fellow model said I always looked like a living doll. Made me happy…
Love this dress! Cuteness overload.
Plexus Summer Soiree 2022
Remember, do your very best to be “you”!
July 29, 2022 I attended the Plexus Summer Soiree! Plexus is Cleveland’s LGBT Chamber of Commerce. I am a proud member and really enjoy these events.
Most of the photos you see here were taken at home, as I was trying to get from work on one side of town, back home across town to get ready and then back again for the event. I am glad I do so but it was a few hours of rushing.
I love the dress, the different hues of red and pink. The purse was a day-of purchase that helped bring the whole thing together. I was so pleased with the red purse, jewelry, lipstick and the pink shoes. Yet again, someone commented how well put together I was.
I may not say this enough here, but I am truly blessed and am so happy to be the woman that I have become. It gives me such pleasure to navigate the world, clearly not born female, yet to receive such love. I have no real stories to tell from the event, except the one below. I grabbed a bite to eat at a local place, sat at the bar, no issues before the event began. I hung with a few friends and met a lovely psychiatrist who Zooms our community and we had a delightful scream at each other (the endless DJ disco music made conversation difficult). I know, I am old but so enjoy the art of conversation.
The one quick story is typical of my experiences. I wander from the soiree over to the adjacent hotel bar. I strike up a conversation with a couple from NY in town for a wedding. The gentleman in this couple buys my drink, clearly referring to me as “she”. I would have been happy with the “she”, but a drink on top of it, wow! Just another example of my being seen as just another person, a person worth knowing, but regular, everyday people. The world is a wonderful place, just tune out the idiots on both sides in the media and you too can have these experiences.
Pass it on!
