A couple of days ago, I was in one of my favorite local gaming stores. I had picked up the eldest at school, so she was with me. I was in total boy-mode, appearance-wise. We had been looking at the Funko Pop figures, and I was explaining to her that she couldn’t have them all.
So, I’m walking around, just browsing games, and feeling in my element, when I found myself, standing at the counter, asking the guy behind it if I could change the name on my account. They have a rewards program for gamers, which is really all the account is for. But I changed my account name to Willow.
I hadn’t planned to do it, but I did, and it made me feel simultaneously panicky and fantastic. Only a week or two prior, I had decided against getting dressed up to go out, because a stop there was planned. So baby steps, but forward steps nonetheless.
