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The (rather brief, as I am tired) rundown of Halloween night is as follows:
First stop (after classes, blargh) was the HAWC and their little Halloween shindig, which wound up being a small pumpkin-carving social event. I learned when cutting a hole in a pumpkin, one should make it large enough for one's hand to fit through. That was definitely an interesting pumpkin to hollow out. It ended up being Boo from the Mario games (carvings on all sides), and since there weren't enough people to facilitate a contest we all got gift certificates to Malibu Yo. I have probably three of them by this point. BuYo party at my place~
After that? Anime club for probably forty minutes. It was a good way to pretty much just relax and see costumes and friends I don't see often. I'm so far behind in the anime we're actually watching that I don't care about that aspect anymore. XD
And then...Santa Monica. Oh boy Santa Monica. We spent the night specifically on Third Street and wound up in a crepe shop for a late dinner. After randomly bursting into song (amazing how all four of us knew the words to Poor Unfortunate Souls) and watching costumed people parade by (we only saw one Joker; I was surprised), who should walk in but Jason Castro, one of the runners-up on last season of American Idol. After having Tara point him out and grinning like a dumbass, what do I do?
Text my mom, of course. Idol fans unite.
The first thing she asks, of course, is if he still has "that yucky hair." My mother is not a fan of dreads.
Thirty minutes of chitchat, several crepes, and two empty paper bags later, we were back on the street and my roomie and I were ready to Trick-Or-Treat. Unfortunately, everything on Third Street closes at 10 pm and it was well after then by the time we got out. We got three pieces of candy apiece at a restaurant and that was about it. Those lunch bags were pretty lonely.
I've also discovered that, when one dresses up as a lesser-known kids' television show villain, there's a fifty percent chance that any given person won't have a clue who the hell you are. One of the guys on the street asked me if I was Sherlock Holmes. Yeah, not really, no. We also had one guy attempt to pick up all four of us - it didn't work. At all. Terrible form, terrible execution.
After a while, we figured that the religious debate in the middle of the street (yeah, I'm not kidding) wasn't going to get good anytime soon and most everything else was closed. As a last ditch effort to get free food, my roomie and I tried to Trick-Or-Treat at an AMC.
The guy at the box office sent us to the guys ripping tickets.
The guys ripping tickets sent us to concessions.
The guys at concessions tried to tell us that the guys ripping tickets were pulling our legs and that they had the candy at the ticket booth. After a bit of confusion (Halloween pranks, haha) and a few jokes about how kids were going to find me if I wasn't careful, we dumped our massive haul (all six individually wrapped pieces of it) on the counter and wound up getting our bags filled with free movie popcorn.
This is all to say, hell yes I'm Trick-Or-Treating at movie theaters more often.
After all this, we headed on home, called up![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lynxgriffin, and watched The Nightmare Before Christmas, talking almost all the way through it. I nearly snorted my soda when one of my guy friends walked through the open apartment door dressed as a Hot Cop.
The long and short of this one is, relatively uneventful Halloweens can be fun and hell yes there are pictures on the way. :D
Oh, and a short update on the Paixao Trick-Or-Treating Post:
Rosette is not letting Laharl live down his costume choice. Neither is Flonne.
Abstract!Silver is never going to make it off Kae's porch. Poor guy. X3
DEATH does not quite understand the concept of Trick-Or-Treating, though he will likely learn it at the resident house of badfic. Good times.
Sonic is about to face a house of mirrors. We'll see how that one goes.
Wall-E is still stuck at the beginning. Please, please help the poor confused robot.
And the mun herself (that'd be me, folks) has thoroughly terrified everybody with warp panels. NiGHTS seems to be the one exception.
So that was my Halloween. My All Saint's Day will likely be full of homework and too much candy, huzzah. |D
First stop (after classes, blargh) was the HAWC and their little Halloween shindig, which wound up being a small pumpkin-carving social event. I learned when cutting a hole in a pumpkin, one should make it large enough for one's hand to fit through. That was definitely an interesting pumpkin to hollow out. It ended up being Boo from the Mario games (carvings on all sides), and since there weren't enough people to facilitate a contest we all got gift certificates to Malibu Yo. I have probably three of them by this point. BuYo party at my place~
After that? Anime club for probably forty minutes. It was a good way to pretty much just relax and see costumes and friends I don't see often. I'm so far behind in the anime we're actually watching that I don't care about that aspect anymore. XD
And then...Santa Monica. Oh boy Santa Monica. We spent the night specifically on Third Street and wound up in a crepe shop for a late dinner. After randomly bursting into song (amazing how all four of us knew the words to Poor Unfortunate Souls) and watching costumed people parade by (we only saw one Joker; I was surprised), who should walk in but Jason Castro, one of the runners-up on last season of American Idol. After having Tara point him out and grinning like a dumbass, what do I do?
Text my mom, of course. Idol fans unite.
The first thing she asks, of course, is if he still has "that yucky hair." My mother is not a fan of dreads.
Thirty minutes of chitchat, several crepes, and two empty paper bags later, we were back on the street and my roomie and I were ready to Trick-Or-Treat. Unfortunately, everything on Third Street closes at 10 pm and it was well after then by the time we got out. We got three pieces of candy apiece at a restaurant and that was about it. Those lunch bags were pretty lonely.
I've also discovered that, when one dresses up as a lesser-known kids' television show villain, there's a fifty percent chance that any given person won't have a clue who the hell you are. One of the guys on the street asked me if I was Sherlock Holmes. Yeah, not really, no. We also had one guy attempt to pick up all four of us - it didn't work. At all. Terrible form, terrible execution.
After a while, we figured that the religious debate in the middle of the street (yeah, I'm not kidding) wasn't going to get good anytime soon and most everything else was closed. As a last ditch effort to get free food, my roomie and I tried to Trick-Or-Treat at an AMC.
The guy at the box office sent us to the guys ripping tickets.
The guys ripping tickets sent us to concessions.
The guys at concessions tried to tell us that the guys ripping tickets were pulling our legs and that they had the candy at the ticket booth. After a bit of confusion (Halloween pranks, haha) and a few jokes about how kids were going to find me if I wasn't careful, we dumped our massive haul (all six individually wrapped pieces of it) on the counter and wound up getting our bags filled with free movie popcorn.
This is all to say, hell yes I'm Trick-Or-Treating at movie theaters more often.
After all this, we headed on home, called up
lynxgriffin, and watched The Nightmare Before Christmas, talking almost all the way through it. I nearly snorted my soda when one of my guy friends walked through the open apartment door dressed as a Hot Cop.The long and short of this one is, relatively uneventful Halloweens can be fun and hell yes there are pictures on the way. :D
Oh, and a short update on the Paixao Trick-Or-Treating Post:
Rosette is not letting Laharl live down his costume choice. Neither is Flonne.
Abstract!Silver is never going to make it off Kae's porch. Poor guy. X3
DEATH does not quite understand the concept of Trick-Or-Treating, though he will likely learn it at the resident house of badfic. Good times.
Sonic is about to face a house of mirrors. We'll see how that one goes.
Wall-E is still stuck at the beginning. Please, please help the poor confused robot.
And the mun herself (that'd be me, folks) has thoroughly terrified everybody with warp panels. NiGHTS seems to be the one exception.
So that was my Halloween. My All Saint's Day will likely be full of homework and too much candy, huzzah. |D
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Cause like... what do you mean kids television show character? (... You aren't even just thinking of the cartoon are you?) She started life as a video game character, my dear.
I have Where in the Time is Carmen Sandiego, in fact. XD I WILL TAKE A PICTURE OF THE BOX IF YOU LIKE XD That was like.. a later game too. Mmm delicious DOS. I played it on my Tandy XD; Ah, old times.
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