Home of the Soul Cookie

It’s been a pretty fun Halloween season so far.

Went to Nate and Crista’s “5th Annual Night of Debauchery Halloween Party” on Saturday night. I was hard-pressed to think of some sort of follow up to last year’s costume that also fit in with the theme set for this year’s bacchanalia:

“Hollywood Horror”
Come as a character from your (or someone else’s) favorite horror flick or as a celebrity who has met an untimely (and even better, brutal/grizzly/horror-filled…. muah ah ah ah) end.

After too much time spent in indecision, I finally settled on going as Dracula. (Thanks for the “well, duh!” nudge, Valli!) So I gathered the pieces for my on-the-cheap costume — white shirt and black slacks I already had, plus a “Dracula medallion” on a red ribbon and a long polyester cape.

And the fangs.

Now, mind you, I didn’t spend a lot of money on my costume, but I did splurge just a little on the fangs to get non-cheesy ones that wouldn’t need to be trashed immediately after Halloween. One of the selling points of these fangs — the most expensive part of my costume — was that their wearers could mix a binary compound (a powder and some sort of liquid) into a mold that would customize their fit.

My fangs, however, had a powder and a small capsule that may have, at one time, contained a liquid, but which now contained something the consistency of superglue that’s been left out in 100+ degree weather to dry and solidify.

So at the time I’d wanted to leave for the party, I’m instead at Safeway picking up (wait for it) a tube of Fixodent with which to temporarily attach my fangs.

Eww.

But at least it let me keep the fangs in for a little while, until I grew so tired of talking like Mushmouth that I exiled them to an Advil bottle-cum-carrying case.

The party itself was quite fun, and there were some really cool costumes — Nate’s Chucky costume was probably my fave of the bunch.

Today, I’ve dressed up as a goth boi for the Halloween festivities at work. Apparently I make quite the imposing Dark One, ’cause I won the “scariest costume” award for our floor’s costume contest. I’ll see if I can get some pics to post.