Vampires, Priests, and Scary Pop Singers...oh my!

Well, Halloween was quite interesting. As usual the post office encouraged their employees to dress in costumes for Halloween, bribing us with a late PAT which allows us to be up to two hours late if the need ever occurs. Rather than be safe than sorry, and even though I still have my late PAT from last Halloween I went out and got a new costume. I never had taken into calculations that garments would be inappropriate with my old costumes unless I wanted my white sleeves to be showing underneath the black see through lacy sleeves of my spider queen dress or everything from my ribs down showing with my genie costume. I couldn't believe how hard it was to find a decent modest Halloween costume a week and half before the actual day. Thank heavens I didn't leave it for the last day because I might have gone into work with a blue and white polk-a-dot sheet over my head with the eye holes cut out so I could at least see where I was going. I'm sure that would have been exciting. I might have gotten a laugh or two. As it was I managed to find a vampiress dress, which was not only modest but on sale! A double bonus! I grabbed some face paints and vampire teeth as well so I could look like a real vampire. I was quite pleased with my costume...until I got it home.

The teeth were, naturally, too big. In order to make them stay in I had to bite on the back of them and suck in air from the corners of my mouth. It made me look like I was sucking on a whole bunch of lemon slices at the same time. Disappointed I opted for skipping the vampire teeth and being a vampire from my favorite TV show instead, Supernatural. The vampires from Supernatural don't have fangs but a retractable set of vampire teeth that come down when they feed. So I pretended to have those. They never came out, but its the thought that counts.

The second problem was my hair. My dress was black with a dark blood red on the cuffs and collar, making my hair stand out like neon. So the next day I stopped at Wal-Mart on my way home and bought a long black wig. It took me a few times to try and figure out how to get the stupid thing on and make it stay, but when I did I got into my dress and went downstairs. Dad was making a sandwich at the time and didn't see me. When he turned around his lunch almost ended up on the floor. He told me not to scare him like that. I guessed that I should probably change out of my clothes and wig so I put them aside for Halloween.

Saturday morning I set my alarm for 3:45am so I could have time to get ready for work. I woke up at 3:20am and decided to start getting ready anyway. Which was probably better because it took me over and hour to get all my make-up done. I painted my face white and then used the black around my eyes and the red on my lips. Then came the part that made me want to throw up. The blood capsules. If you have never tried to use them. DON'T! They are disgusting. Try sucking on cough syrup. That's what they taste like. I put one in the corner of my mouth like the instructions said and bit down. The fake blood immediately popped out and filled my mouth, staining my teeth and dribbling down my chin. I caught the run off with a klennex before it could hit the dresser or my dress and spat the capsule into the garbage. I wish I had been done with the first one, but it only left one line at the corner of my mouth, so I put in the second capsule and bit down again. It was even worse the second time. Spitting the excess fake blood into a klennex it looked like I was actually coughing up blood. It made me gag and even though I brushed my teeth as best I could without smearing my make-up I still popped some gum into my mouth as soon as I got in the car, but could taste cough syrup for the rest of the day. With my vampire make-up complete I started for work.

Work was long, but it was fun to see what everyone chose to dress up in. My favorite was the grim reaper. Although I never saw the face behind the dark veil. There was also a Captain Jack Sparrow there, complete with beard and hat. I was rather frustrated that I couldn't itch my nose or rub my eyes because I'd smear my make-up. I was relieved when I left.

Victoria, Mike, and I had planned on doing a scary movie night at our future home in downtown Salt Lake and then Victoria was just going to spend the night at my parents house with me. So after work I went down to Walgreens to pick her up. She was in a sparkly pop girls shirt and a bright strawberry blond wig. She had temporary tattoos everywhere visible on her body. She said she was a pop singer who had committed suicide. So Jack (and no Jack wasn't wearing a costume), a vampire, and a dead pop singer started for downtown Salt Lake.

Mike wasn't at the house so after letting him know that we were there we let ourselves in. I put some of the groceries for dinner in the fridge and Victoria settled herself at the counter while Jack investiagted the kitchen. I went upstairs to take a phone call, and heard Mike come in not long after that. I had never told Mike what I was going to be, so I went down to surprise him. Victoria told me he was in the pantry, waiting for me to confess my sins. I told her the undead do not need to confess and pulled the door open. Mike stood there in a priest outfit, complete with collar. His eyes bulged when he saw me, and for the rest of the evening I had a hard time keeping him away from me. He hopes that the vampire will come out of retirement before next Halloween.

We went to the store to get the last of what I needed to make lasagna. We got quite a few stares. It isn't very often you see a priest and a vampire holding hands.

I got dinner made quickly when we got back to the house, and after eating we all went upstairs to watch movies. I washed off my make-up before we did. I wanted to be able to touch my face without worrying about white smudges on my fingers. We had decided to watch Cry Wolf, The Ring 2, and Boogey Man 2. I fell asleep before the Cry Wolf got to its title. The week had been long and the lack of sleep had finally caught up to me. Jack fell asleep next to the couch where Mike and I were cuddled, and Victoria sat on our spare chair. I woke up just as Victoria was putting in The Ring 2. I had asked her to bring it because it is something I don't own.

Mike had seen the first one but not the second and even though she owned it Victoria and I had not seen it for years. So it made me laugh when at the first real scary moment the only one who didn't jump was me. Victoria denied it the rest of the night even though Mike and I had seen her leap up on her chair.

The mood was broken when I smelled something weird, and knew immediately who had made that smell. Then Mike smelled it too and we both looked down at Jack who had a guilty look on his face. He made it stinky two more times, so Mike took him outside. When he went out there he discovered that the garage door was open and the light was flickering, which he thought was odd because none of us had opened the garage door. So he started inside cautiously to see if someone was in there, but Jack bounded in ahead of him, not ever cautious, and discovered that there was nothing of interest in there. So Mike came back inside and we started Boogey Man, but again I fell asleep.

Boogey Man was enough to scare Victoria into having enough scares for one night. So she opted for Ice Age: The Meltdown, but I stopped it before it was even halfway over because it was going on 1:00am. So we loaded stinky dog, the wide awake dead pop star and the very tired, very cranky vampire into the car and went home.

Jack didn't want to be in my room by himself, so after ten minutes of his loud annoying protests I let him sleep on the floor by the love seat where I was falling asleep, on the other side of the room and already snoring Victoria was asleep. The only evidence of her ever being a pop star was the small tattoo on the back of her hand.