oh it was lovely. i spent around 30 hours watching television between thursday night and last night, most of them belonging to horror movies (ah, it's been a while since i saw candyman, a new nightmare, carrie, etc etc). in fact, i spent every night sleeping on the couch because it was more convenient. thank ghod halloween finaly came, or i would probably have developed a bed sore!

saturday i did carve my beautiful pumpkin (ed), and it turned out really, really well. i'd say for somebody who has never carved one before, i did a pretty good good. i waited until last night to light it, though, and the energy kick i got from seeing it grinning by our door was very exciting indeed. i didn't care much for the goo inside when i cleaned it out, however - nasty little tentacles indeed, but the seeds were sooo yummie once salted and baked.

i spent all afternoon yesterday getting my costume ready. i stitched my grey jumper open so that most of my chest was showing, including a lot of my red sequin bra. finally i found a use for that thing! i also fixed my black skirt up, put my hair up in pony tails, and then spent the appropriate 40 minutes applying make up, only to have gabbi say i looked too cute.

not a good comment when you are going for the 'evil cheerleader' look. it worked itself out after i applied the blood red lipstick, and stuck my vampire fangs to my teeth with the aid of fixodent. that, and the fluffy pom poms, that is.

around 7 jesse showed up, and i helped him get ready by drawing a pentagram on his forehead with my lipstick. it looked very neat, i must say - a bit as if somebody had carved it into his skin. combined with his long cloak with a hood, and walking staff, the effect was very satanic indeed. success!

after a brief pop-in at harris teeter (it's funny standing in a line with a willie nelson in front of you, and a bunch of mexican guys whistling and trying to look down your bra behind you) we ended up on franklin street around 10 p.m. we met up with a few of jesse's friends, and gabbi showed up.

to my great disappointment he had ignored my threats and offerings of costumes ("come on, wear the burger king paper crown at leeeeeast!!") and showed up in his regular clothes. he then made big eyes and group after group of people in elaborate costumes passed us, and said that he couldn't believe that people actually take the dressing up so seriously.

it turned out that he had though we were all exaggerating when we had said that the streets would be filled with people dressed up. he thought that me and jesse had just been a bit loony with our costumes, and that we'd get to franklin street to find everybody but the kids dressed normally. um, okay.

we walked further up the street and began to encounter the real masses of dressed up people. we were joined by gene (in an alien mask) and soon dove into the mass to walk back and forth and to look at everyone. nothing like being stuck in a people jam surrounded by 3 guys dressed as charachters from the movie 'top gun', a bunch of fairies, drag queens and darth vaders.

a few comments:

• thanks, george lucas. it was great seeing fifty billion guys dressed as darth maul :PPP
  
• PEOPLE. ugly wig and ugly shirt do not count as a COSTUME. it's just an ugly wig and shirt.
  
• if you are going to dress as a 'bad' catholic school girl, at least check to see if you really should be wearing a skirt that short and tight. i'm sorry, but rolls hanging out because your clothes are too tight is just... ugh.
  
• ghostbusters! beastie boys a la sabotage! goose, maverick and iceman from top gun! i love retro, especially when done well.
  
• a walking, -enormous- bong. i don't know what else to say about that.
  
• naked guy inside showercurtain, with enormous tuft of fake pubic hair and a fake penis that reached his knees! haha!!!
  
• group of ppl walked by me and somebody went "hey! buffy!" at me. um. NO. buffy is a vampire SLAYER, and blond. later i overheard somebody taking another guess: "i think she's dru, buffy's friend." - um. get your buffy straight, people! :) [/anal]
  
• fixodent WORKS! my vampire teeth stayed on -all- night! yey!

*sigh* and now it's over. bah.