As of this morning I was undecided if I was going to participate in dressing up at work. Last night at around 5:00 some of the engineers and myself stayed late to decorate our area of the building. We had decided on a zombie theme so we trashed the place throwing papers everywhere and turning over chairs. We blocked off all the windows with black plastic. We had strobe lights and zombie noises and flashing light bulbs. This got me in the mood so on the way home we stopped at a KMart and Target to see if we could find shirts to wear that we wouldn't mind tearing up and getting "blood" on. So we found some, got them all dirty, and frayed the collar and ripped one of the shoulders. I freaked this morning and felt really lame and almost chickened out. I got to work and a couple people helped me put some white on my face, black under my eyes, "blood" around my mouth and on my clothes. It was quite a scary sight.
We ended up winning the "best group costume" award and came in second by one vote for the "best decorated department" award. Normally the engineering department does not manage to get their act together to participate at all. This year, nearly all 30 of us participated.
At 1:15 I had a doctor's appointment. When I first made this appointment and she told me the date I figured I would not be dressing up anyway so I figured it would be ok. Since I did end up dressing up, I was debating between changing my clothes and removing the make-up before I went, but decided against it. I felt really weird going out in public in the middle of the day looking the way I did, but I wanted to keep in costume for the afternoon, and when I got home for the trick or treaters. It was quite an experience. There was not another single person at the office dressed up. I got comments from several people, including the receptionists, nurse, doctor, and even other patients. I highly recommend going to your doctor's office on Halloween dressed like death with blood all over you. It's quite entertaining.
Tonight I had only 24 trick or treaters come to my door. I was quite disappointed. I am used to the 400 or so when I lived at home with my parents. I bought 6 bags of candy. As I mentioned before, I bought all the types of candy that I like. This could be very bad for my waistline in the coming weeks.
We ended up winning the "best group costume" award and came in second by one vote for the "best decorated department" award. Normally the engineering department does not manage to get their act together to participate at all. This year, nearly all 30 of us participated.
At 1:15 I had a doctor's appointment. When I first made this appointment and she told me the date I figured I would not be dressing up anyway so I figured it would be ok. Since I did end up dressing up, I was debating between changing my clothes and removing the make-up before I went, but decided against it. I felt really weird going out in public in the middle of the day looking the way I did, but I wanted to keep in costume for the afternoon, and when I got home for the trick or treaters. It was quite an experience. There was not another single person at the office dressed up. I got comments from several people, including the receptionists, nurse, doctor, and even other patients. I highly recommend going to your doctor's office on Halloween dressed like death with blood all over you. It's quite entertaining.
Tonight I had only 24 trick or treaters come to my door. I was quite disappointed. I am used to the 400 or so when I lived at home with my parents. I bought 6 bags of candy. As I mentioned before, I bought all the types of candy that I like. This could be very bad for my waistline in the coming weeks.
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