Pushing Back the Dawn

I ate my weight in candy last night at the departmental function where everyone was dressed up. Two years in row there has been a Super Mario brothers theme...I guess it's a testament to the pop culture viability of the Nintendo franchise that twenty-somethings think it's still hilarious to dress up as Koopa Troopas (both years the costumes brought home the costume prizes).

So I wore the wench dress, minus the gruesome make-up because although I bought some fake wounds, they looked ridiculously cheap and I didn't have time to make up some fake blood. I was busy instead throwing together a matching pirate costume for Hubby in similar fabric (different colour) than my wench dress. He sported a goatee, and I must say that I prefer a nice full beard to the fancy facial stuff :)

Although even a goatee is better than this:


This morning I wasn't planning on wearing a costume to work, but alas I looked over at the purple cat ears I bought ages ago (I think for a high school dress-up day, as royal purple was one of our colours. Not very realistic though) and the matching purple leotards and thought "what the heck". I was the only person dressed up on the bus (next to the toddler dressed up in her stroller), and garnered surprisingly few smiles on my commute. Where has everyone's sense of humour gone? Come on people: bring out your inner child!

And then tomorrow will be Teela costume. I made an Orko doll, and he's got wire arms so that I can wrap him around my leg the entire night . Yeah!!