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Bubble Parade Flash Mob! 🫧 I guess I’m posti Bubble Parade Flash Mob! 🫧

I guess I’m posting about two different flash mobs today, hahah. 😹

Story time: 📜 The first flash mob I was ever a part of was in 2012 I think. It was something on my bucket list ✅ and I diligently researched how to be a part of one. 🧑‍💻 I even put a Google alert out for “flash mob” and my state!

Finally I got a hit ❣️ and the way it worked was they sent out a video of pre-made choreography 💃 you were to practice and learn. Then we showed up at a Nordstrom’s 🏬 with instructions for how and when to start dancing.

That’s what flash mobs were at the beginning. 👯 Dancing in large groups as a surprise.

But to me, now, and maybe to more — flash mobs I think are a much larger and flexible concept. 🤔

I think it’s about creating something — ANYTHING — unexpected that creates a positive surprise. 😲 A piece of good news. A fun outcome.

❎ I don’t think it requires choreography. ❎ I don’t think it needs a group of people. ☑️ I think it can even be ONE person.

Maybe a flash mob could be when I show up and dance alone in a grocery store aisle. 🏪

Maybe it’s when I place a tiny guerrilla art installation for someone see on their walk home from work. 🎨

Maybe you would disagree because the technical working definition is 🗨️ “a large public gathering at which people perform an unusual or seemingly random act and then disperse, typically organized by means of the internet or social media”. 🤷‍♀️

And while I am aware of that — I still think we can be open to expanding what creating good news is. 📰 How we can share kindness, fun, silliness, absurdity, and give people a GOOD story to take home with them. 🤩

If that feels good to you, take it. 😊 If it doesn’t, leave it.

This is a wonderful gif that the fabulous Randall created of me at the 9th Annual Bubble Parade 🫧 — which I have transitioned into the Bubble FLASH MOB. 🌈

📸 @randallartphotos

#bubbleparade #baltimorebubbleparade #bubbleflashmob #baltimorebubbleflashmob #bubbles #flashmob #11kacts
MONSTER MASH FLASH MOB 👹 (to no one!) Personal MONSTER MASH FLASH MOB 👹 (to no one!)

Personal Story: 🏰 My favorite kinds of friends are the ones where I say do you wanna hang out they’re down for ANYTHING. 🆗

10 years ago, my love languages were gifts 🎁 + words of affirmation. 💝

Words of affirmation are still important to me, 👍 but quality time has taken a really high priority. 🫂

I think gifts were there before because it was demonstrating that people were thinking about me.. 💭 but now I want to make sure we’re spending time TOGETHER. ⌚

Anyway, I want to make sure I see the people I love as much as I can. 📅 As adults, that usually works out to maybe once a month. This last time I scheduled time with April I suggested we do Halloween-themed nonsense 🎃 and sent over some weird ideas for an evening together. 🤳

For the ideas, I referenced my own Halloween + Autumn Bucket Lists 🍂 (in my Etsy shop if you want ideas!) 🛒 + one of the things was to do the Monster Mash in public.

April was down. 🆗 When we showed up to the Rotunda in the evening on a Thursday with my boombox, 🎶 we both got dressed in essentially the exact same outfit:

💟 Fuzzy jacket, 💟 Monster hat, and 💟 claw gloves. (Great minds, right?) 🧠

I set up my camera, pressed play, + we danced. 📹

The area was pretty desolate. 👀 When people walked by no one really stopped. 😹 It was kind of silly in itself. That we were doing something absurd and it didn’t make people look twice.

🔙 If you happen to have been around since the genesis of my Merriment Making methods, you might remember one of my VERY first events was inviting everyone out to a Monster Mash Flash Mob but no one showed up! 🚷 So I did it alone.

Since then, I have also done this a second time and no one batted an eye then either. 😅

Maybe there’s something so beautiful and accepted about the Monster Mash (especially during Halloween time) that we are more likely to love and accept it. 👻

So the ultimate message is:

🧡 If you wanna be weird in public, maybe try this first! Haha.
💜 Get friends who say YES.
💚 Stay tuned for more shenanigans from this evening.

Have fun with editing; not sorry for all the effects.

#monstermash #flashmob #dancinginpublic #11kacts
Merriment HallowMemes. 🎃 💜 Paint your car l Merriment HallowMemes. 🎃

💜 Paint your car like Beetlejuice’s outfit 💚 Throw candy corn in body cracks 🧡 Haunt your fridge 💜 Tampons make easy ghosts 💚 Normalize ghosts of non Victorian eras. Where are the 80s ones. 🧡 What’s the weirdest thing you can hand out for trick or treat 💜Don’t be agist with your trick or treating 💚 Peeling grapes takes too much time just shove your face in spaghetti 🧡 Cover your legs in spider webs like they’re tights 

PS - Costume edition next week! 👻

#halloweenmemes #wholesomememe #funnyhalloween #merrimentmemes #memesdaily
Be bald. Be free. 👩‍🦲 #bebaldandbefreeday Be bald. Be free. 👩‍🦲

#bebaldandbefreeday #uncustomarycelebrations
Throwing stuff out of your car window isn’t alwa Throwing stuff out of your car window isn’t always a bad thing. 🚗

🪧 I saw three guys holding up signs on the side of the road with very little traffic. 

They seemed pretty bored. 🥱 

I made a U-turn ⤵️ and decided to throw them some bouncy balls out of the window. 🔴🟢🟡🟠🟣🔵

It doesn’t take much to make a difference. 🎁

Have fun. Be silly. 🤪

#11Kacts #raok #kindnessmatters #bekindtostrangers #merrimentmaking
This week’s 11K Weekly Mission: 🧊💦💨 SIL This week’s 11K Weekly Mission: 🧊💦💨 SILLY ORGANIZATION!

I have sooo many ideas for you! 💡

Create a mini ruckus by creating a bit more order. 🤹

Slide through for ideas with 🍒 nature, ⛽️ urban finds, and 🎈public art! 

Some external inspiration can be found in The Dainty Squid’s old beach trash blogs 💻🏖️ and the Things Organized Neatly tumblr! @thedaintysquid @thingsneatlyorganized 

Go create your 📰  good news, document, and log it at 🔗 Uncustomary.org/11K to help us reach 11,000 acts of  MERRIMENT! 

#11kacts
2,000 acts!!! We’re right on track! As of righ 2,000 acts!!!

We’re right on track!

As of right now, there are 2,251 acts logged on the spreadsheet.

Come log YOUR act!

#11KActs
Work has never been JUST a job for me. 👩🏻‍ Work has never been JUST a job for me. 👩🏻‍🎨

Don’t get me wrong. It is ALSO a job. But only because I need money like everyone else. 🤷🏻‍♀️

But wherever I have worked… it’s been a place where I experiment, connect, 🐥 and do my best to make something worth remembering. 🌻

Because I am a bit chaotic and eccentric, and my life is clearly here to be a bit of a guinea pig 🐹 so I can learn things first and report back (sometimes by choice, and sometimes that’s what life has given me)… 🧪

I do my best to bring creativity, curiosity, + my ability to see the bigger picture to what I do. 🧪And I try to do it with a bit of humor. 🌭

Most people tend to find me in moments of change. Transition. 🦋 Whether it’s on their end of mine. I don’t think that’s a coincidence after all this time.

I like to ask questions that go under the surface. I hope to share ideas that open something up. 💡 I want to be here for the parts of life that aren’t fully formed yet.

There are plenty of people cheering for us at the beginning and end of the finish line. 📣 hit we don’t really need support then because that’s when we HAVE motivation & willpower! 🏃‍♀️

We need the literal + metaphorical support in the middle of the race, those angels with the water on mile 8. 🪧🚰

Messy middles forever. 🧩 I’m honest and weird. 

🩷 Learning doesn’t have to be hard. 💛 Change doesn’t have to be mean. 

🩵 What if the thing you’re looking to do could be fun? 💚 Funny? 💜 What if it cool feel GOOD?

That’s what I do. 💎
📣 This week’s community feature is from Emily 📣 This week’s community feature is from Emily in PA!

I asked people in the Positive Pulse last week if they had done anything nice for someone in the past 7 days. 🙋🏻‍♀️

Responses kept coming in. 😍 And I LOVED them.

Because they were all over the place. 💗Caregiving, complimenting, chores. 🙌 Little micro acts.

🤩 It was so important because I got to reframe ALL of them as things that DO count as acts towards the 11K Project! 

I want 🫵 YOU to do the same thing. 

For example, Emily was just being her wonderful self and suggested to her housemate — hey, wanna go take a walk and look at the Halloween decorations? 🎃

And they did! ❣️

Things that count towards this global social experiment in creating our own good news do 🚫 NOT need to be GIANT things like making sure people have clean drinking water. 😉 Although, that obviously counts, too.

I want YOU to think about what you have done in the past week that was 🫶 NICE, KIND, or HELPFUL and submit it. 📥

If you think about it like that... I bet you have a million things to add to our spreadsheet. 🗳️

#11KActs #ActsOfKindness
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