I got TWO questions in Ask the Darcy! This is very exciting. One of my favorite blog posts ever was from a really mean tirade someone put in there – I need to get that into my archives!
Today’s questions is:
Dear Darcy,
I feel like your blog used to be more stream of consciousness writing, and involved a lot of really random events in your life. This one seems more planned. Are you SURE you aren’t editing your posts? Regardless, I’m still a fan!
I promise I am not editing, but I will say, I am kind of boring now? Weird things still happen a lot, so I just have to remember them, but I have barely left my house in two years, so I haven’t had my normal level of entertaining life! I need to get back into my groove, that is what the issue is! It has been a hot minute!
But for real, I get it – and I promise it will get more interesting. There is also the issue of the fact that I have ZERO IDEA of how this blog machine works, or whatever it is called. Now I use GoDaddy and their website building thing, and it is not meant for the likes of me. I tried for an hour today to make a button to take you to a certain page. It LOOKS super easy, there is a thing and it says “Add a button”. So I did. But it never asked me where the button should go on the page, or what clicking the button should accomplish. So somewhere, there may be a random, useless button on this site. If you find it, let me know.
I spontaneously booked a trip to NYC again (I wrote about that in 2010, I think? Maybe 2012), and I am positive things will come of thatohmygodijustthoughtofsomethingidid…
Ok, so I love seeing Joshua Bell in concert. Nothing gives me life like seeing him, or live theater. So. I went to a concert and this was my first time being at his concert where people I know were also there. Here’s the thing about that – these people are my friends, and they asked me if I wanted to go and I said no, I cannot possibly go WITH people. I will be going, and you will be going, but I cannot acknowledge you, because I’m not sure what will happen.
What happened was I spazzed out completely at them. I had some “ins”, so before the concert, I got to watch rehearsal, which was amazing. AMAZING. A concert just for me. I came out of that, and the rest of the people were starting to come into the lobby and stuff, and I allowed JJ from work to approach me, and I rocked back and forth at her, talked fast, and I am not even sure what else. Then we sat in our (separated) seats, and three more of my friends sat a few rows behind me. They were shocked to know that I do not move at all during a Joshua Bell concert. At all. I do not breathe, let alone move. But AFTER the concert….I met them in the hallway, along with Diana’s parents, and went Full Darcy on them. I do not actually remember what I said, I just know that I was rocking violently and moving my hands.
But the best part was that I was allowed to go backstage after the show, and in preparation for this, I tumbled some rocks for Joshua Bell and Larisa Martinez, and I put them in little velvet bags, and then I made a different bag of the rough versions of some of the rocks I tumbled. I was waiting outside the door with some other people, and two of those people were Joshua Bell’s sisters. They were super nice and they came right up to me and said “You’re Darcy, we know you”, and I was very thrown off because I had never met them. But in a Zoom quarantine concert and meet and greet, I asked Joshua Bell if he watches Schitt’s Creek, and they remembered me from that. No one else asked about Schitt’s Creek.
So I talked to them for a little bit and they were very nice and have a rescue dog and I liked them and wanted them to be my friends. I wanted to ask them more questions, but then we all got to go inside the little room and this is where I proceeded to truly….be me.
I am not aware I am doing things when I do them, the memories sort of happen like flashbacks after the fact. I know that I gave Joshua Bell and Larisa Martinez their rocks, and Joshua Bell really liked his, and looked at each one. At one point, he started to drop one, but caught it, and naturally I SHOUTED “you have reflexes like A CAT!”. Then I tried to tone it down a bit, and I said “how is everything going with traveling, is it good?” and he said yes, he was very happy to be touring, and he very sincerely asked me “And how are you doing?”. I put my hands out towards him and started clapping, and yelled “I haven’t really been out in public for two years so I am even more socially awkward than ever!” WHILE CLAPPING AT HIM. Bless him, he recovered VERY quickly from any reaction to that, and responded in a lovely and kind way. Larisa Martinez also liked her rocks, but did not inspect them as fully as Joshua Bell did.
While I was sitting in my car waiting to leave, I looked to see when I can see him next, and that is why I am going to NYC and then I added on several days because I can NOT just go and come back. Apparently I am no longer afraid of bringing Covid home to my parents and accidentally killing them.
Ahhhh, yes. I think I might be back in the swing of things. What does that even mean, “in the swing of things”? That phrase does not make sense at all, there are no swings in things.
Alright, I’m done here.
Darcy