Interesting weekend

This weekend was a good one. Friday night Vera and I had our Halloween party at her place. I was worried that most of the guests wouldn’t dress up, but almost everyone did! And they all had good costumes as well. We also had some group efforts: Simon, Adrianna, Philip and Jo came dressed as the Four Equestrians of Doom: Famine, Death, War and Pestilence, complete with little paper horse heads as trusty steeds. Although I do have a photo of Famine eating something – hmmm.

Helen and Adam also came as a group costume: Helen a giant spider, and Adam the can of Doom.

Another thing of note: I have couches! I have officially inherited Dave’s couches now that he’s living in the states (if you’re not following his blog, you can read a bit about his first month across the pond over here). Various people helped me move them over to my place this evening, and it turned out to be a lot easier to carry them up and down all the stairs and around all the tight corners than I thought they would be. Thank you Dave and Ilda

Testing makeup

Last night Vera and I played around with the make-up that I need for my Halloween costume. It was a lot of fun. The scars on the face came out really well, I think, but the black lipstick we bought is definitely not black: it turns into an odd purple after it’s been applied, and eventually turns into this bright, bright pink.

Calling it lipstick is also a bit of an exaggeration: it barely sticks to anything, not to mention your lips. Which is actually a good thing: see the previously mentioned pink-and-purple problem.

My lips are still too pink this morning.