Happy day-after-Halloween! We were awake at 7:30 this morning, which is really 8:30, ’cause of the time change and all. Here I am dressed up as Countess Elizabeth for work on Friday. I printed out a little photo of Lady Gaga in character and attached it to my name tag, since I knew no one would get who I was supposed to be. Apparently I don’t have any co-workers who watch “American Horror Story”, either. A few of them had heard of it, at least. I added the gold kimono over the top because not only was my dress tight, white, and essentially sheer, it also has a plunging V back that does not in ANY way say “work appropriate”. Heh heh sigh.

Josh sexing it up as Donovan, Lady Gaga’s boyfriend (at least in the first two episodes, before she moves on) (oh sorry SPOILER ALERT). I did his eyeliner and colored his brows in. We cut a wig to give him more volume on the top of his head. HAWT.

Maggie keeping a close eye on things. I woke up yesterday morning DESTROYED by first day cramps, which lasted an unrelenting TWELVE HOURS STRAIGHT.

“Yeah?” said Josh, shrugging, when I pointed this out last night. “That’s how it is every month.” THAT DOESN’T MAKE IT RIGHT.

It was also rainy, windy, and stormy allllll day, which made for perfect Halloween weather, but I wondered if we would have less trick or treaters last night. Ha! We blew through 40 dollars worth of candy by 9 pm. Even after we shut the porch lights off, a few teenagers still braved the long dark flight of stairs to beg for candy. We even gave away the candy we were going to keep for ourselves…which is good, really good, because I know that I would have just kept eating. And eating.

Ohhhh the supreme irony that is my life, that I chose a skintight white dress for Halloween, and then spent all day Halloween bleeding like a stuck pig. Heigh ho, the show must go on, right? I’m glad we didn’t throw a party this year, sheeee-yit. Everything from the neck up looked okay though.

This dude looked HOT. I wouldn’t really mind it if his hair looked like that.

Oh yeah.

We laid on the couch watching the first two “Halloween” movies, which we had never seen. Kind of boring, right? Well, the first one was decent. We took turns getting up and answering the door for the trick or treaters. Then we watched “The Ring”, which I remembered being much, much scarier than it actually was. Scariest movie I watched this year would have to be “The Babadook”, which I have now seen twice and don’t ever want to see again.

The disgusting jello brains Josh made and brought to work on Friday for a potluck. People actually ate some of that!

He went out to have pancakes with his family this morning. I can’t even think about eating anything sugary after last night. Ughhhhhhhrrrrr no.

I spent pretty much all day yesterday popping Pamprin and working on the latest Mandala painting, so Josh took care of carving duties this year. I requested a moon and stars, and he came through. Maw!

Today I’m going to park my ass downstairs and work on the Mandala…maybe until completion. There’s a football game today that I will only pay attention to long enough to know the final score, because tomorrow at work everyone will want to talk about it. Sigh. Dinner at Josh’s grandma’s house tonight. Is it November?! It’s November, dudes. Whooooooah.