Halloween!

Mood: Tired
Song: Forever Young - Alphaville
Days Until Graduation: 46
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
So, it's Halloween; perhaps my favorite day of the year; and I think I made a poor choice in my costume. Well, it's not to say that I had a lot of choices here - You see, my office loves themes. No, really.... they love themes!! I didn't have a problem with the "villains" theme or the "80s" theme; but it started to get a little tired last year when my office decided on "cheerleaders". Since I was doing the Dublin workshops at this time last year, I "didn't have time" to find a cheerleading outfit. Damn.
This summer, the theme was chosen based on a program my office is doing in an effort to increase awareness in student leadership opportunities: "Go Bananas!" So, my co-workers decided that we should all dress up like bananas. Umm..... no. In an effort to keep from looking like and idiot, yet still look like a team player, I said that "it would be really cool if I made myself up to look like a monkey!" No, I really didn't care to be a monkey, but it sure beat being a banana. So, I spent a couple of months acquiring what I needed for my makeup design, and it looked as if it was going to come out quite well.
My makeup plot for this thing required use of crepe hair. Quite a bit of it. So, last night, I decided to do a test run, using some blonde crepe hair I knew I would never use, and make myself a beard in order to get an idea of what I was doing and how long it would take. I looked up some information on how to apply a beard using crepe hair and followed the instructions. The instructions I found used a technique called layering in which you would take small amounts of crepe hair and affix them to your face, bit by bit with spirit gum. Let me tell you, this has got to be the messiest way of accomplishing this! Not only was I getting hair stuck all over the place, but one of my cats decided that I was doing it wrong and that I needed her help. She jumped up on my work area, but because my hands were just two big wads of sticky spirit gum and crepe hair, I couldn't pick the cat up and throw her off, lest I get cat hair all over my hands and (worse) spirit gum all over the cat. She climbed all over my makeup and knocked over the open bottle of spirit gum. I screamed bloody murder at the cat! Not because of the sticky, saplike substance that was now all over the bathroom sink and floor - but because of my aforementioned fear of spirit gum getting on the cat. If that had happened, I would seriously had to have shaved the sticky fur off the cat. Oh, man, I am SO glad that I didn't have to go there.
So, I completed the beard, and it didn't look half bad. Too bad that it has on my hands and not on my face. So, I cleaned up and thought that the whole crepe hair thing was probably a bad idea. So, I pulled out my Elvira wig (don't ask) and tried it on with the monkey face. It didn't work. I mean, I don't mind being funny; but that was absolutely ridiculous. So, I went to bed without a real solution to the problem. When I woke up at 4:00 this morning, it hit me! I could create little swatches of fur using liquid latex - and that's exactly what I did! So, I showered and got right to it! It worked well, but I didn't have enough crepe hair to cover the entire face, so I just put a cap on, which took care of the lack of crepe hair on my brow. So, at quarter after seven this morning, I looked in the mirror with a satisfied look on my face.
Then another problem hit me.
The prosthetic piece I'm using on my face does not allow me to eat anything, nor does it make it especially easy to drink anything. So, here it is: 11:17 in the a.m. I've been awake for over seven hours now with no food and (more importantly) NO COFFEE! So, I'm hungry and bitchy. Fun, no?
So....since I have now established that I'm in a bitchy mood, let me gripe about my co-workers a little. I came in, expecting them to look like... well.... bananas. Nope. They're all wearing yellow sweats and yellow tee shirts. WTF? That's what you call a banana? Hell, I could have done that and been a hell of a lot more comfortable than I am now! I mean... it doesn't look like bananas at all. It kinda makes me look like an idiot. I mean, it looks like the theme was PJs and I just misunderstood the assignment. Either that or the theme is "Planet of the Apes Reject Goes To A Sorority Slumber Party."
4 Comments:
LMFAO... So you look like a retard and I look like a hooker? What a pair, I tells ya!!!
I swear, I'm about to take a dump in my hand and start throwing it at my coworkers for their lack of originality!
You should. I'll go out and work the corner (in my hoochie makeup) to make some extra dough for when you get fired for throwing fecal matter at your boss.
Oh... and the title of that photo on top of your blog entry should be "batcat"...
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