Halloween at the store was fun and exciting and full of loooong hours. We had one exciting arrest of someone stealing a costume. We sold out of: vampire teeth (surprise surprise), cat ears, handcuffs, nerd glasses, V for Vendetta masks, afros in normal hair colors (i.e. not pink green blue etc), bumblebee and butterfly wings, and were down to three mustaches last I knew. Not sure why the run on mustaches. I had a customer specifically ask for "the girl in the sailor dress" (that was Thursday's outfit), because "she knows EVERYTHING". I win!

Thursday: last year's sailor dress, worn over jeans.
Friday: Rainbow Brite costume from a few years back, worn over jeans, with ridiculous eyeshadow and my hair in a side ponytail. People knew who I was dressed up as and it made them smile. yay.
Saturday: 80s rock star, somewhere between Jem and Cyndi Lauper. I forgot to get a picture before work, but Ann took one of me and Sam, which will find its way to the 'nets sometime. Black tanktop with a mesh-y glittered shirt overtop, a waistpiece with two belts, short black capris, aaaand the most amazing skirt ever: a little tutu-style thing, neon pink tulle under a layer of poofy black lace. I added: pink fishnets, two layers of socks (scrunched down, of course), a flowery tattoo sleeve on one arm, a mess of bangle bracelets, THE most amazing lacey glovelets I designed myself and crocheted, giant heart-shaped ring, chain'n'crosses'n'coins necklace, star necklace, aaaaand I teased my hair and sprayed it in place. And crazy eyeshadow again. It. was. AWESOME.

(It also took me at least fifteen minutes to comb my hair this morning.)

I made a general invite to my place for snacks and drinks and Wii games after work... but nobody came. Which was a little sad, but I had a really nice night anyway. Tom and I watched movies and ate snacks (my dip was kind of a fail, but the Twinkie sushi IS AMAZING) and had some drinks and then sleeeeept. Sleep felt amazing.

Today was nice and quiet. Mom came down for a visit, and brought me a re-released "Boy" LP - ORIGINAL COVER ART omfg. I staaaared at everything for a good long while. The cover picture is beautiful. The booklet... I'm so glad I didn't grow up with records. Because I would have been SERIOUSLY angry over how small booklets have become since. There's so much visual real estate in an LP booklet it is positively mind-boggling. And this one had Bono-drawings in it! And the original lyrics, aaaand some of the contact sheet shots from '79 that Megs and I spent probably weeks in total studying every detail of. I think a few of these were new to me though, AND! they used Kodak Tri-X film! That's what I used, all through photography! eeee! I don't (currrently) have a record player around but I so don't even care, it's such a beautiful thing.

There are also food goodies, and a WalMart trip got me a few more.

...which brings us to the import of today. NOVEMBER FIRST! NANOWRIMO begins! Approximately 7oz of trail mix and one Snapple raspberry white tea later, I have met my word count for today. It was only a little painful. And my main character still lacks a name, but at least I have some ideas.

Tom, in trying to get me to stop nagging him to NaNo with me, has declared he is going to write a program this month. It is a little consoling to see him throwing words at walls too... or what passes for words in coding. I know enough about the theory to have a vague idea of what he's spazzing about, but, uh, not enough to remotely help.


I am so sleepy. Was up too late last night, and now that the insanity of Halloween is over work is going to feel very, very boring, which makes me feel the tired more. I have some dishes I should wash, and definitely need to make some food sometime today, but... we shall see. There is a Wii with Super Paper Mario on it.

Labels: art, nanowrimo, U2 spazz, work, writing