Incidents and accidents

Larken’s murder party was last night. She sent us all a character packet with the following:
“Dr Robert Corpse was discovered dead in his office two weeks ago. It was the eve of his press conference to announce his cure for earlobe cancer. The situation speaks of foul play, but the coroner could not immediately decipher the cause of death at the scene. However, the autopsy will be concluded this evening, at which time the morgue has strict instructions to contact Bailiff Pepper with the cause of death. Until then, I, Kate Beyotch (the proprietor of Mr. Corpse’s estate) will be holding a dinner party with both suspects and witnesses; because I want to watch you all squirm.

Larken - Kate Beyotch (rich lesbian)
Me - Fifi Delacroix (Beyotch’s crazy french maid)
Jon - Sgt. Pepper (baliff)
Kevin - Dr. Berliner (famed German scientist)
Tim - Father Paul (catholic priest)
Angel - Duchess Marie Sussexshirelichtenstrauss
Blixem - Hank Greenspan (Wall street Investor )
Stephen - Skip Drake (Mr. Corpse’s personal pilot)
Meredith - Enya MoonUnit (Liberal activist )
Jeff - Chet Treewood (Boy Band member)
John - Nick, the Notsosecret Ninja

A grand time was had by all. I laughed so hard I nearly peed myself. I was playing a bat-shit crazy french maid (yes, I wore the costume) who was terrible as a maid. I dropped several pasta noodles, stumbled over people, threw bread at the guests, and told people that Larken’s character sounded like a purple diswasher and tasted like blue. Blixem and Stephen were being somewhat male chauvanist pigs and kept ‘dropping things’ for the maid to pick up and making comments about my ass. Stephen slurped his beer loudly durring the preist’s mealtime prayer. John ’sneaked’ on tiptoe across the middle of a very crowded room. Angel was even asked if she had a penis. It was a great party.
About 1/2 the party (A preist, a french maid, a lesbian, a tree-hugger, and a prom-queen all go into a store…) went out to the store IN COSTUME because the bottom fell out of the mason jar that Blixem was making alfredo sauce in. He even called a grocery store and had ‘Fifi Delacriox’ paged to the front counter! It was only when we got back that we learned, because he’d called the wrong store. The kicker to this whole story is that the woman in line behind us invited us to a costume party she’s throwing on the 28th.
To see the rest of the photos, go here.

So, last night was finally seXXXy halloween. I’ve been looking forward to this for months. I couldn’t build a new costume since finances have been really tight for a while, so I wore the french maid getup I built for Atari’s graduation party. I won first place that party for the costume, so I wasn’t expecting to win a thing this year, as the judges had seen it already. John and I got up early here, and went out to pick up soem last minute costume bits. He needed leather wrist cuffs and some fake fur for boot coverings. Kleef was lending him his kilt for the night, so we packed up and left Athens at about 2pm.

We got to the party venue at about 3pm to help out with the setup. I was put to work stuffing the nasty guy in the morge wheelchair while John got to work cutting the eyes out of the porno in the eyeball room. One I was done stuffing the dude and zip-tying him to the wheelchair, Atari and I took him outside and dumped fake blood all over him and the guts he was trying to hold in. It was so gross we scared a few of the people walking by for the Tech game that afternoon. After the guy was done, I sort-of took over the dungeon as Atari wanted some decent photos of people using the Esse for his bosses. The Liberator crew had graciouly donated a Scoop, a Ramp and a Wedge to be given away as prizes, plus they added an Esse and a Scoop to the dungeon for the night for people to play on. I made sure that the lighting was bright enough for some decent photos, which was a real bitch because we only had one working outlet in that room. It took me a good 2 hours to get some light in there and to get it cleaned up and somewhat decorated. By the time I fisished in there, it was time to get dressed. I made sure to get some quick photos of me on the Esse, just in case no one else played with it.

The party started off quite slowly, so I spent a lot of time just sitting down and chatting with people. Heels are a bitch to walk in for me, because I never wear them. I somehow developed a migrane halfway throught the night, so John walked 3 blocks to a gas station (in costume) to buy me some Aleve. I love him. After that, the party was much better. We had some great costumes too. Unfortunantly, instead of the 3 batteries I usually have for my camera, I was stuck with 1.5. I just didn’t get as many photos as I wanted to. There were two more photographers there, so I don’t feel quite as bad, but I do feel like I wasn’t doing my (self-appointed and surely obnoxious) job. The costume contest finally got started at about 12:30am, and by that time the crowd had swelled to about 200 people. The three judges opted for a more fair point-based system and also included to option of some honorable mentions. There were about 15 male entrants and 15 female entrants, so the actual contest took quite a while. Each contestant walked on stage and answered questions from the judges, then walked off.

Right before I was set to go up, I was fretting about what to do when I got up there. Just standing there wasn’t going to turn heads. Right then, John walks up out of nowhere, grabs me and says "Hey. Go up there and pretend to dust the drumset. Make sure you show off your ass too." I was so thankful he’d had an idea. I walked up, showed off my ass and answered some questions ("Hey, do those legs go all the way up?"). I sat back down for the judging, because my feet were really killing me. It was about 2:30am by that time. I was hoping to actually win a cash prize this time, but I wasn’t really counting on it. I did win an Honorable Mention for Best Effort, which was great. I do put a lot of effort into my costumes. Third place went to a monkey and his handler, second to Bender and first to The Prince and Katamari. The Liberator crew stepped up to give their prizes, and I looked around for John. They were giving one girl pick, one male pick and one extra pick. I was about to leave, because I’d heard another girl telling her boyfriend that she’d been told she’d won the girl pick. She had a great satyr costume, complete with horns, fur legs and a tail! I figured that I wasn’t going to get away with anything but the Best Effort (still totally awesome). I couldn’t find him though, so I watched the picks anyway. Slinky won the male pick, snagging the Scoop. I was watching the girl who was to win the other pick, but to my total shock… I was called! My hand went involuntarily up to my mouth in surprise, and I stepped up to get my prize, the Ramp. I was feeling really sorry for the other girl, but I was happy to actualy win something so awesome (and useful!). The Wedge did in fact go to the other girl, so I felt much better. Afterwards, I thanked the Liberator crew, who told me that I got the Ramp because I’m way too tall. Heh.

After that, I changed clothes, got some cars moved, and left. It was 3am. We made it back up here at 4:30am and crashed. I woke up today at 10am, but I caught a 3 hour nap this afternoon, totally screwing my sleep schedule for work tomorrow. All in all. a great party, and I hope we can do it again next year.

So, Meggie and her freinds Merideth and Heather went out and about last night for the Athens Downtown costume fun. I decided not to go as I am still sick, but I did help Megan and Meri with their costumes. I lent Meri my Sexy Halloween costume from 2004. It was really fun to see how different she looked in it. She sure took it in a different direction than me. She even had awesome makeup and a curly mohawk to go with the riding crop she added. Meggie ressurected the black costume once again, making it the third time this one’s been worn. I wore it out the last time we were both downtown, way back in 2002. She looks better in it than me.
I had a great costume all planned and ready. I didn’t put it all on to get photos, but hopefully I can do that eventually. It’s the little red dress with the black designs, some flame wings, some fishnet tights and a pair of glittery devil horns. It’ll be really cute if I ever get a chance to wear it. It’ll probably come in handy for a Sexy Halloween at some point.

Just for the hell of it, I also bought some Mini-Pumpkins and carved them up. I was curious as to whether they’re just gourds or if they are actual pumpkins. They’re real pumpkins! Since I had chopped them open, I decided that carving them would be a lot easier than carving a huge pumpkin and scooping all that junk out of it. It was fun! It took me about an hour to empty and carve up all five of them, but two were too small to actually fit the tea-candles in. They’re only about 3-4 inches across and about 2 inches tall. I got the fun fall pumpkin carving smell without having to get my hands all slimy. Yay!

So, in order to raise more money for the new camera, I’ve decided to put all of my pixietails up on Ebay. That’s right, every one of them, all 187. They just don’t hold the same joy for me as they used to, so I feel okay selling them now. I have the reserve price set a bit high at $300, but I don’t really think they’re worth less than that. Market price is between $1 and $5 for each of them, and 187 x 2 = $374. The ‘buy it now’ price is $400, but I don’t honestly expect anyone to use it. These things are a niche market collectible, you know? Anyway, you can see the auction on Ebay here. Not that I expect that any of you will actually want to bid anyway, but I’ll be totally checking it complusively for 7 days.

Note: Two of my costumes are up as well.
Princess Daisy: here.
Princess Toadstool/Peach: here.

EDIT 10/10/05: Well, shit on me, the pixietails have already passed my reserve. They’ll sell for at least $300 so far.

Atari’s party was loads of fun. In fact, I think it may be one of the best parties he’s ever thrown. There were tons of people there, but it wasn’t too crowded. The costumes were good, but there weren’t too many to look at. Lots of people I know were there, and they even let me enter the costume contest again this year! I wasn’t planning on it, but the other entrants made me stand up. I ended up winning first place, which was a surprise. I liked Tamar’s and the other Heather’s costumes, myself. I got quite drunk, drunk enough that everything seemed like a good idea. Even getting the CHOMP logo painted on my butt. It really was the only place I could get it put, but I thought it was going to be little. Just a small section of one cheek, but Ryan decided to spread it over both! Let me tell you, that air-brush is COLD down there! I was even drunk enough that letting people bite my ass seemed like it was a good idea. I STILL have bite-marks on my butt from Atari. Lori and Kleef bit me too, but much more gently. I laughed myself most of the way through the party, with a bit of drama at the end. I went home with a nasty headache, but I managed not to wake up the next morning with a hangover.

Atari’s graduation costume party is coming up in less than a week, which makes it about time for a quick test run for the French maid costume I’ve been working on. The sewing machine has come in first place in the ‘priceless’ category. It’s SOOOO much easier doing this with the sewing matching rather than the glue I’ve been using. I gathered up all the many pieces (dress, 2 petticoats, stockings, heels, maid hat, neck garter, leg garter, apron, feather duster) of this thing and prepared. Last night I slept in sponge rollers and put enough mousse in my hair to hold it for a week. I took the rollers out at 11am this morning, and so far the curls are still there. Yay for Meggie for showing me how to curl up my hair and make it stay. Now I just have to time how long it takes the curl to fall out. I decided to shoot a few pictures so I could see how the whole thing looks. Since I’m such a costume geek, I thought I’d share a couple.

For Christmas, my Mom bought me a sewing machine. I’ve been wanting one for a while, but I had no idea what to buy or what to even look for. I’ve never used a sewing machine in my life. I never even took a Home Ec. course in high school. So anyway, Mom bought me a sewing machine for Christmas, and it scares the hell out of me. I mean, it’s just so intimidating. There’s so many moving parts, and I could sew my own finger if I’m not careful! I half expect me to get some settings wrong and it will just blow up. After reading the instruction booklet 5 times in December (and failing to understand each time), I put the machine and booklet away. Today, after 2 hours of reading the instructions, I finally managed to thread the machine, thread the bobbin, and get the bobbin thread into the needle! This is a feat for me, especially considering the way the instruction book reads. Here’s an actual line: “While holding the thread near spool, draw thread down into the tension area and then around the check spring holder.” WTF? It was only the nice pictures that even begun to save me. I haven’t actually sewn anything yet, because I don’t know how loud the machine is and John’s still asleep. I just have to figure out how to use this fun thing this week, so that I can have time to alter my French maid outfit before Atari’s party.

Last night was Phase 1 of Halloween 2004. I got dressed up to go around Larken and Trin’s neighborhood with Munchie. He was Spiderman, Larken was Princess Zelda and Trin was Princess Toadstool/Peach. I went over early to get my hair murdered/curled. Larken and I had a hell of a time trying to convince Munchie that Trick-or-Treating meant that you had to put ON the costume and go get candy. He just didn’t want to go out because there was candy already there. It was like “Wait, there’s candy here and I’m in my normal clothes. You’re telling me I have to put on silly clothes and go knock on other people’s doors to get candy?” This was his first year going out, so he just didn’t quite get the concept. The neighbor’s kid was Batman, so we had a good time. They were both like “They gave us MORE candy?” We tromped around with everyone for a good hour or so, all of the neighborhood moms staring at the three of us. It seems that no one but us thought that dressing up too was cool. John came to get me and we went down to Atlanta, but poor Trin had to work. Larken stayed behind to hand out candy and get Munchie into bed.

Tang was already there when we got there, but we were a little early compared to the rest of the guests. To my surprise, Charlie and Corey were there, which was cool. Gumby’s party was nice. the house was very open and full of room for everyone. It was pretty hot inside though, so a lot of people ended up outside most of the time. I was a little disappointed that there was no costume contest this time. Gumby was too drunk and Atari was too tired. I think Zim, Gir and Dr. membrane would have won the contes. The Mario brothers were great, and so was Kiki’s Klan kostume. I spent my time talking about art with Atari and Lori. Ran around and got a lot of photos, but there aren’t as many this year with no contest. Nothing illicit happened this year. People just started filtering out at around 1am. John and I left at around 3am, got back here and crashed. You can see the rest of the photos in the Halloween 2004 album.

So, My Princess Daisy costume is finally fished! Heh, 5 days before the days I’m needing to wear it! That’s cutting it a bit close for me, but you can all thank sewing-goddess-and-wonderful-kind-Larken for making the yellow part look so stunning. I glued on the white ruffle at the bottom last night. I also made the crown and the belt. There’s a cute daisy trim around the sleeves and the collar, and a big huge daisy on the crown. The plan is to go to Gumby’s party on Saturday night, then go out around downtown Athens on Sunday night. I’m wishing Gumby’s party was on Sunday night because downtown Athens just won’t be as cool on Sunday night with all the bars closed. I don’t think I’ll be getting much Halloween this year.

So, today Larken and I decided to see if Trin could fit her enormous knockers into my Princess Toadstool costume. This came about because she still has no costume for Halloween, even after much research and prodding. So we came to the conclusion that Trin could wear my Toadstool costume and I could make a Princess Daisy costume. It seems that Mario is ‘with’ Toadstool/Peach and Luigi is ‘with’ Daisy, so this works out for partners as well. Trin’s boobs actually fit into the top of the dress, so she’s wearing the enormous pile of pink and I get to build a new dress in yellow and white. I’m not bothered by this at all, because it just means that I get to build two costumes this year instead of just one. Larken is being uber-nice to me and making the top part of the yellow dress for me, as I have no sewing machine. I usually do my stuff in fabric glue, but it itches against my skin, so I’d rather save it for the bottom part of the skirt instead. I made the white belt and new daisy-logo-crown this evening, and I’m just waiting on Larken to finish the yellow part so I can add on the bottom white bits and the awful froofy yellow bows and stuff.