Daily Twaddle

There I am, sitting on my throne… waiting for little children to come to my dungeon and eat my poison apples.

I had a basket of green apples with one red one on top. My niece came down from college dressed as Snow White (wig and everything). I had a bean bag toss game, darts, and mystery food guess cauldrons. The kids had to play a game to win a prize.

But the best part was my mirror on the wall. I put a little TV covered in black cloth and played the Shrek DVD with the bonus game. I let the kids ask the mirror on the wall if they deserved candy. Then I pressed play on my hidden remote (under my sleeve) and the mirror would tell them yes or no. If it said no, they had to play a game.

It was the best house on the block! What should I do next year?

Update: Go to my Picasa Web Album to view more pictures of this event. You can even order prints!

This is an update to my original post What Should I Be For Halloween?

I decided to go with the Evil Queen from Snow White. She just seemed more recognizable to me. Most people barely remembered the villain in Sleeping Beauty.

The costume costs $5 more than the Maleficent costume. By the way, the correct spelling is Maleficent not Malicifent. So her name is pronounced “mal-iff-assent” not “malice-affent.” Good thing I know all that now that I’m not even going to wear that costume!

I’m going to do up some disney-themed stuff for trick-or-treaters. I’ll have a basket of poison apples (one with a bite taken out of it) and a glass slipper next to a smashed pumpkin.

Also, the Shrek DVD has a bonus game with the talking mirror in Lord Farquaad’s bedroom. You ask it yes or no questions and it “answers” after you press the play button. I’m going to dress up my TV as a mirror on the wall. Then I’ll totally ask the mirror if I’m the fairest in all the land.

Have you looked for Halloween costumes this year? Oh my gosh. I can’t believe the overabundance of slutty outfits! Slutty pirates, slutty witches, slutty fairies. What gives? Of course, they call them “sexy” costumes. Give me a break. If you only cover up your nipples and your hoo-haw you look… *slutty*.

After I weeded out the obvious whore-ensembles, I realized that I wanted to be someone evil this year. I narrowed it down to two choices:

1. The Wicked Witch of the West $90
2. Malicifent (the sorcoress from Sleeping Beauty) $40

I considered others like Medusa, Cruela De Vil, or Ursula - but I couldn’t find good costumes at a reasonable price. Which one do you think I should be? Leave a comment or vote on my poll on the sidebar.

Click picture for a larger view of the costume.

The title sounds more fun than the photo! Especially since I’m only putting one photo up. This is my friend Missy. My tricky friend Missy. You see…

We purchased a bottle of tequila for the New Year’s occasion. To sip. Just a few short drinks. Missy had her own “mixed drink” that she used as the reason for drinking a fraction of the shots she poured me. And I couldn’t pour the tequila back in the bottle from my dirty glass. What could I do? My hands were tied.

So, I “tied one on”. I had a good buzz and Tara made me dance. She has this awesome CD with boogie oogie oogie and car wash. I show off my sweet dance moves when funk hits from the ’90s start playing.

Everyone wants to get Roch drunk. And every time he explains that he doesn’t get drunk. Not because he’s against it or anything, but because he physically cannot make it happen. He’ll out-drink anyone around, but his mannerism never changes. Boring. Yet, everyone “wants to see him drunk”. That’s weird.

Which reminds me of my friend Geoff getting drunk and yelling Bonzai (he’s half Japanese - I guess it was funny at the time).

I’m still not sure what we’re going to do for christmas. My parents will be in Oregon this year, but it doesn’t look like we’ll be able to make it down there. My friend Tara is coming home for christmas, so we might spend some time at her place. But I would love a christmas alone with Roch. We’ve shared christmas with his family every year since we’ve been married. I would like to start our own personal holiday traditions. Although I can’t think of any.

Missoula put on the Macy’s parade of lights last week. That was so fun. They had a tree lighting ceremony and santa came rolling down the street in a carriage. It was cold. C’est la vie in the rocky mountains.

What are some of your christmas traditions? Yule logs? Caroling?