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In honor of Halloween and my past costume as the "Spider Baby," I bring you this... well, I can't even begin to describe this video. cheesehead1701 showed it to me. Hey, it's huge in Japan! :)



...Yeah.

So, I had this little sprout of a Halloween costume idea and then it burst fully fledged out of my head and it was going to be perfect. I knew I already had the clothes in my costume stash at my mom's house - oh yes! - so all I needed were accessories and some props. Good times.

All this week at work, the theatre department's costume shop has been having a crazy sale, so I snagged a back-up outfit in case I wanted to mix it up a bit this weekend. I wasn't too crazy about the backup outfit, because it's about 10 sizes too big for me and has that icky "stale old clothes" smell, but it was only $2, so I didn't care too much if I never actually used it. I'm a costume packrat, so I often collect stuff I never use. Thus, I also bought a couple of other iffy pieces, including a shiny turquoise pantsuit for toastmantom, because you can never have too many of those.

Anyway, I got home tonight and thought I'd try on the ensemble for my mom. I went to the closet to get the dress — it wasn't there. I went to my costume bin — not there. Downstairs in the costume trunk — not there. In the box of fabric? No. I spent 2 hours going nuts trying to find this dress. It was a mystery, a conundrum, a riddle. The one piece I needed was the one missing piece of the puzzle.

My mom was equally bewildered. As we sat there drinking tea and trying to figure out what the hell had happened to the dress, she suddenly said, "Wait! I think the moths got it." And it all came back to me, albeit very slowly. A few years ago, there was a disgusting moth infestation in my closet. A bunch of my clothes I stored up here got completely destroyed. I lost some really nice stuff. And I suddenly recalled that, in fact, the moths ate about half of this dress and we had to trash it. Auuuuugh!

Now I have all of half a day to try and turn the smelly old blechy back-up dress into something cool or else go with the always popular "Ho" option. Bleh.

I am going to a costume party in a couple of weeks and I haven't a clue what to be. Mind you, I have giant trunks full of Victorian and Renaissance clothing, but I don't consider that "appropriate" to wear to a costume party. I need something new... something fresh! In the recent past, I've dressed up as a Spider Baby ("it's got the head of a baby and the body of a spider!") and a cheap French hooker. This year, I can't seem to come up with a good idea. I need your help! Oh, and I'm lazy. So it can't be high effort. Have at it!

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Can't wait to see what you all come up with. I live for these moments! ;)

I haven't had much desire to write lately, but, for once, not on account of villainy. Just don't seem to have much going on right now that I want to write about in here. I've been productive, but it's been a dull sort of productive. There might be more interesting stuff tomorrow, though I wouldn't bet on it.

However, in honor of Halloween, I want to say that black cats are really just awesome. though there's much to be said for tabby stripes, as well. I'm madly in love with some cats right now, which is nothing new. 3 out of 4 cats prefer Ace of Kittens.

Hey... happy birthday, FC! :) :) Vanzetti, are you doing anything special? :)

I'm going to try to go to bed before midnight tonight, so that I can get an early start tomorrow. I'm really excited about this party I am going to tomorrow night.

Ace of Kittens... excited? Haven't been there in a while. Interesting place.

But I am excited, because I am going to have the coolest costume ever. You see, I have a hat that looks very much like this one and I've decided that I'm going to go as the spider and its web. Today, I got these tights and a bunch of spider webbing. I'm just going to be super spooky.

The real clincher: I'm kind of scared of spiders. When I see them, I scream like a little girl. I better not look in the mirror! :)