I can sing a rainbow

Well, actually, no I can't.  I used to love to sing, but now I can't sing worth a dern so I don't bother unless I'm alone.  Anyway, today is Find a Rainbow Day.  It's also April Sunsplash's birthday, and that would normally mean me wearing my bow with her on it, but that darn thing is heavy!  This one is not.  StarchasersUK supplied this one.
I find it ironic that Find a Rainbow Day is the anniversary of one of the U.S.'s worst tornado outbreaks.  The incident in 1974 was the biggest single-day tornado outbreak on record...until 2011 came along, that is.  But I'm not gonna delve into yet another discussion about tornadoes, not when this bow is so cute!  I went through a very brief kawaii period during...oh, I'll say spring of 2021, right at the beginning of my hair bow obsession, and that led to...well, the purchase of a few things.  I've got a necklace with a macaron on it (somewhere), and this stupid thing.  That's a Kewpie face, if anyone is wondering...
...and I'm sizing up a ring on Etsy that looks like the old school Ring Pop.  But that was where my kawaii obsession largely ends, and I guess Ring Pop is more kidcore than kawaii.  I think I may very well be too old to do the kawaii thing.  Being heavy isn't an issue, but I think being a few years shy of forty may put one solidly out of the "cute" label ("kawaii" means "cute").  I don't necessarily want to be "cute" anymore anyway.  Put-together, semi-polished, and free of stains and offensive odors is more my speed.  Oh, and comfortable.  Granted, I do like to wear pastel T-shirts on a regular basis (as I am today), but that's about as far as my kawaii look goes.

Kidcore, on the other hand...I can get behind that all the way, because I love the bright colors, and the retro themes, and...well, just about everything.  Heck, for all I know wearing a hair bow is already kidcore.  I KNOW carrying a doll or a teddy bear is, and I do that on a regular basis.  Exhibit A:  my favorite Cabbage Patch Kid, Idalia Gale, nestled into my workstation in her new after-Easter garb.
Sometimes I carry my favorite American Girl doll instead, or Floppy Kitty, one of my Build-a-Bears.  Either way, these items are apparently now considered fashion items in some circles.  I can dig it.

Clouds and rainbows,
RagingMoon1987

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