the color shifts a bit depending on lighting--I thought it was more green in Goodwill but at home it could be a green-leaning turquoise. super comfortable, I've never done a pantsuit/coverall-type look but it's a nice natural-feeling fabric and fits well. also the shoes are a happy find.

a solid-color shirt with a nice texture--trying to build out my options for nice-casual a little bit and this green was pretty. also. THE BOOTS. they're Kohl's so not actual leather but they're great condition at the moment and I can save my actual leather boots now (thrifted from this same Goodwill actually) xD

and this cute comfy dress which looks great with the boots which hide my compression socks nicely when they're folded down. I will probably wear this dress to dance on Tuesday (with a red necklace bc it's a special red-white-blue theme night) but will have to wear my normal slidey shoes/have visible socks because I don't think I can do properly smooth spins with these thick boot soles, alas. I may see if any of my belts look nice with it as well...

I am sleepy as whole hell but I’ve decided to do a 1 hour 30 minutes of work on a character reference sheet when I could’ve just gone to bed.

scene 1

exposition: a bunch of us are on the church bus riding up to the orchard. one of our goals, besides having fun, is to pick up apple orders from seniors at our church. church guy (whom I will abbreviate to C for this post) is the bus driver.

one of the two group leaders with us says that picking up the orders will actually happen at a different, less touristy orchard a little ways away, while most of the group is enjoying the touristy one. he asks for volunteers to go with him, his young son, and C (as driver). purely because C is involved, I raise my hand.

i am the only one.

scene 2

we go. we pick up the apples. I end up being fairly extraneous as the two men do all the lifting from trolley to the back of the bus. not sure why volunteers were asked for. (but it was a Christian-run family business and I bought some caramel pecan apple butter that sounds amazing so. great time.) on the way both to and from the little orchard our seating arrangement is so:

🛞 👶🧔‍♂️[aisle] _ _ _ _ [aisle] 👩_

so the leader was taking turns talking to C at the wheel and then to me. he asks where I live, what I do for work, if I see myself staying here/at that job for the long term, all the basic talk you might expect as we don't interact a ton. And then, the final question he asks C on the way back is about his dating life. Which, C gracefully takes the "too personal" out the leader offers, no biggy. So the leader then spends the next ten minutes or so talking about his own dating life before he finally met his wife and got married (she was about my age at that time, sounds like), avowing the importance of guys getting out there and at least giving it a try, "God can't move a parked car" etc., till we were just about back at the touristy orchard 😂😂😂

then we all went up to an observation tower and took in some nice scenery and he and I exchanged maybe one line of joking conversation and all went our separate ways for the next little while till it was time to load up everyone and head back to church.

and when leaving the bus for the final time, i thanked C by name, and he responded, so I knew I'd been audible enough.

end scene.

Ramblings tag: Dreamer Rambles

Art tag: Dreamer’s Art

Writing tag: Dreamer’s Writing

Tord tag: ❤️ ; Tord

Paul tag: ❤️‍🩹 ; Paul

Eduardo tag: 💚 ; Eduardo

The Batter tag: 🖤 ; The Batter

Bob Velseb tag: 🥩 ; Bob Velseb

Kevin tag: 🍬 ; Kevin

Kurloz Makara tag: 🔮 ; Kurloz Makara