1. What food do you like that most people hate? Fruitcake! And eggnog too :-)
2. What food do you hate that most people love? Probably a bunch, bell peppers, pickles, celery, avocados...
3. What famous person, whom many people may find attractive, is most unappealing to you? Before the scandal I probably would have said Martha Stewart, but now everyone seems to dislike her too. (She always annoyed me) Iím not a celeb follower, probably Britney Spears?
4. What famous person, whom many people may find unappealing, do you find attractive? Honestly, I canít think of anyone.
5. What popular trend baffles you? Why people feel the need to be on the phone 24/7. If they knew how insane they looked walking through a supermarker seemingly talking to themselves they wouldnít do it... no, they probably would. I think I was the last person to get a cell phone, I never wanted a pager, I donít want people to be able to find me, thank you. I only got one because they had a killer deal where I worked at the time and I used to drive a lot and donít have a particularly reliable car. Iíve used my cell phone many times to call wreckers. The one time I broke down on the freeway (on an overpass, yet) the damned thing kept cutting out on me.
One more postdated entry
Every Halloween for 12 years now we've held a huge party at our house, which is fun, but stressful since I do 99% of the planning, I'm not cut out to be a hostess. But all went well as usual, there were no messes or accidents, everyone had fun and the costumes were inventive as usual. It's sad when the guests have better costumes than the hosts, though I did actually have a real character costume this year and wasn't just the "spooky pale girl in black who might or might not have fangs". I'd been wanting to do Magenta from Rocky Horror for years and had been too lazy to do it, but this year I actually did it. It's really an easy costume for me because I did her for years at the RHPS weekly midnight shows and I sort of look like her (maybe it's because we're both Irish).
Years ago I actually handsewed really elaborate custom outfits for Magenta and Columbia, but eventually sold them at garage sales when it became clear I probably would never be tiny enough to fit into them again. I had a black satin and lace dress, a sequined Columbia outfit, and a gold lame and black vinyl Magenta "space" costume. In my usual last minute costume rush I went out a few days before the party and ran through Walmart looking for lace and remnants to sew white collars and cuffs, to put straps on the apron I had that I had used 20 years ago, and to get some dark blood red lipstick. I went to Sally Beauty & Walgreen's and bought some super strong hairspray, shampoo to make my hair curl even more than usual, some spray on red haircolor, fake eyelashes and a new thing of Almay Mascara.
I never buy makeup at drug stores because I'm really picky and like to test everything and have super sensitive skin (and expensive tastes in the few cosmetics I do wear). So of course, the lipstick was all wrong. It looked great in the tube, but when I tested it, it was a hideous pink-purple color. So, the night before the party I decided to go to the mall and get some proper lipstick and look to see if I could find a better shirt skirt combo than the one I was planning on wearing, maybe with a white collar on it already. I was going to drive to Memorial City Foley's because they have the best selection of makeup and I wanted to look at MAC, but it was getting late, traffic was bad, and so I thought I'd be brave and try the new Galleria Foley's. I managed to find it, and park in a decent spot, but alas they had a lame selection of cosmetic brands compared to MC so I ended up with Prescriptives Plum, which is really a fabulous dark blue-red, almost Vamp dark but sheerer.
I did my usual speed shopping and ended up finding several tops with white collars, snatched them up, and then found a hideous black dress on the clearance rack that looked interesting. All the tops looked too flimsy, but the dress was near perfect. It buttoned up the front, had short sheeves, was the right length and made of a heavy cotton befitting a domestic. It was a little tight buttoned up, but since I was doing Magenta, I wouldn't be buttoning it but about halfway so then it was find.
Ran home, then we went to Sam's and the grocery store to pick up food for the party (pre-cooked food, yea!), and stayed up all night finishing arranging and recording the music for the party. The next day I got up and basically sewed the collar and lace onto the costume till about half an hour before the party was supposed to start, then spent the rest of the time on my makeup and hair. I washed my hair earlier and let i mostly air dry, so it was properly frizzy and curly. I found out that spray on haircolor is really difficult to use (kept getting round red spots which wasn't what I wanted). But it all came together nicely, and people actually knew who I was supposed to be, which was fun for a change.
Here's some pics:
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