A most Excellent weekend :)

[puddingcat]

There's something very satisfying about bucking a trend and turning up to a Hallowe'en party dressed not as a pirate or a witch (or other things with an excuse to show lots of leg and / or cleavage), but instead as a male Mad Scientist :) Someone, somewhere has photos, but it isn't me. I do, however, have pictures of the results of professoryaffle's baking marathon, including the pink wafer mausoleum and the Ace of Spades cupcake.

I'm not sure what to do with the tie I bought. It's covered in pigs, and is far too sweet to take back to the charity shop from whence it came.

I'm getting too old for more than a small drink. Yesteray was lost mainly to sleep, with occasional intermissions for Veronica Mars and Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service. And, once again, talking to louiselux helped get Yuletide pointed in a potentially successful direction :)

Tired today. Jasper decided to try to tunnel through the back door at 3am, then howl until I went downstairs and told him off.

Comments

[ginasketch.livejournal.com]

bucking a trend and turning up to a Hallowe'en party dressed not as a pirate or a witch (or other things with an excuse to show lots of leg and / or cleavage), but instead as a male Mad Scientist :)

God, thank you for saying this. I have nothing against such costumes, but it's getting ridiculous. I get annoyed that if I want to dress up as something, most, if not all commercial costumes available to me are "sexy witch, sexy devil, sexy pirate, sexy schoolgirl, sexy alice in wonderland(which i personally find creepy) etc. etc.

I want to go to a halloween party to dress up and have fun: not be t and a.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

I saw something via the f-list over the weekend over how Hallowe'en is now apparently an excuse for women to dress up like whores. I've just gone looking, but can't find it anywhere.

I don't object to people doing it. I'd like to do it myself, in the right crowd. What I *don't* like is the predictability these days; it reminds me of university, where all the RPers would only ever turn up in their LARP kit. What happened to imagination, creativity and indviduality?

[ginasketch.livejournal.com]

I just don't like the way it's seemingly forced on women. Sexy costumes are fine and fun- but can I have more variety? I tend to end up looking at the male section of the costumes with envy.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Yes. It seems to turn into a compulsory competition - you *have* to show off your body, and you *have* to look as sexy as possible.

Having said that, the top female costume at the party was Carrie - complete with buckets of fake blood :)

[ginasketch.livejournal.com]

win. heh heh.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

I was River Tam, wearing, er, not a lot. But I had weapons.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Wearing a small dress doesnt necessarily mean dressing like a harlot. River Tam =/= harlot, in every possible way :)

[nannyo.livejournal.com]

Having had a look at Laura's pictures, I actually think you look sexier than the "sexy costumes" cos you were having so much fun, and were so comfortable in your skin. I particularly like your parsnip fondling and test-tube smoking!

[nurse-liz.livejournal.com]

Exactly what she said.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Oh, bah and shucks :p

[professoryaffle.livejournal.com]

this is of course the point, the more confident and comfortable you are the better you look at the rest of the world

the parsnip was quite disturbing but not as much as Cab and Ellie's housemate dressed as a math teacher and a really creepy one at that!

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

It's a shame the photos don't get across teh true creepiness of him. I have one where he was chasing you out of the living room, but it isn't obvious what was going on.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

But I wasn't trying to be sexy! Gah!

It was a very good parsnip :)

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Which photos? I've only seen the facebook ones!

[professoryaffle.livejournal.com]

Halloween 2007

[emungere.livejournal.com]

Heh. I was seriously considering being Nii for Halloween this year, except I'd spend the entire evening explaining why I was carrying around a mildly debauched-looking stuffed bunny.

pink wafer mausoleum

Oooh. That sounds excellent.

[professoryaffle.livejournal.com]

Pink Wafer Mausoleum

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha! I love the in-progress shots! Sadly, I missed getting a grave :(

[emungere.livejournal.com]

Hee! Oh, that is so awesome. I love it.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Hee :) I'd debated a particalr character, but my hair's too short for Tenpou (especially after getting scalped at the hairdresser's on Saturday morning) and Kenren doesn't wear a grubby labcoat.

There are photos in Laura's comment above :) Go and admire the parsnip!

[emungere.livejournal.com]

Ha! That is a very well endowed parsnip!

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Was the parsnip one of cabd's?

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Argh, I had forgotten there was another party going on, even in walking distance. Stupid jetlag...

Love the mad scientist costume and yes, the Carrie one is fantastic. :o)
The turnip is disturbing...

Glad you had a great time, though!

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

cabd and elliphant's parties tend to be quite strict invitation-only, from what I can tell, because of lack of space.

Carrie & the creepy maths teacher were both wonderful :)

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Well, I did have an invite, just forgotten about it, as the only reminder I'd seen was robinbloke's.

Was the maths teacher the one with the round glasses, tie stuck in his trousers and pens in the shirt pocket? That's indeed cool and scarily close to an actual (and creepy) maths teacher I had in my 12th year. He sometimes wouldn't wear a tie but still have the top button done up. He also had really greasy hair or used some kind of horrible product that would make his hair look greasy and stick together in chunks...
Most of my other maths teachers had beards and glasses but not in a creepy way.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

And I just remembered Bracken used to do that, except instead of howling she would knock at the cat flap just irregularly enough that you couldn't ignore it and go to sleep.