Last night was such a bust.
We didn’t even get home until after 6. This is even after I left work early (by coming in early) at 4:30 to slightly beat the rush hour traffic. It took me over an hour to make a 1/2 hour trip to Waterloo. At least coming home only takes a half hour like it’s supposed to. That drive infuriates me every day because it’s so useless and frustratingly slooooow. And there’s usually at least 1 or 2 people who seem to have absolutely no clue how to drive a motor vehicle. I’ve got an allergy to stupid that causes my road rage to flare up. I don’t usually drive more agressively, but I get super steamed and hate everyone.
Anyway.
Since we have been so busy lately, and my parents visited this weekend, we hadn’t carved our pumpkins yet. We started as soon as we got home. I just made the same Devil Flanders one from last year, only it looked shittier because I was in such a rush. Josh had been going to do one of the VGCats ones, but didn’t want to spend the time printing it out, so he just made a scary face type one.
Sucky pumpkins suck.
This is all, of course, on top of the fact that my costume wasn’t 100% complete either. I wore it to work with the legs held together with safety pins. Even though my co-workers all thought it ws as really cool, it felt really lame.
This was the first year since leaving home that I’ve had real Hallowe’en decorations. I went out and got a little string of LED pumpkin lights and a handing ghost with plastic hands and face that lit up for the porch, and a cheap plastic skeleton to hang on the front door.
And we got about 10 kids. All night. After rushing costumes and pumpkins and getting decorations and candy ready, our doorbell only rang 3 times. Blah.
When we finally decided that no more kids were coming (9:30), we turned out the light and went to bed. We had been planning on wandering over to Paul & Robyn’s place because they are within walking distance, but we were both too tired and frustated so we just went to sleep. Yay sleep.
If my costume hadn’t sucked, it would have been awesome, though. It’s a faun. ^_^
I’ve even got digitigrade legs (that’s where the stripper boots and insultion foam came in), which looked good despite the quality. The legs are missing the fethering around the hooves, which would hide the bright white boot heels, but I didn’t have time to add that.
At least the boots themselves are reusable (for this costume) even though the pants need to be re-made and I still have to make the “real” top – the toga top in the photos is mainly a concession to the fact that I wore it to work. Here’s some photos:
I blame Josh for the quality of the photos, and the fact that I was cranky and tired when they were taken. They will be replaced when I get it completed “for real”. ^_^