| Thursday: handfasting I call my friend to ask her when her handfasting is (that's a pagan year-and-a-day trial marriage) and she tells me to meet her at her house ASAP and not to bother changing out of my work clothes, so I go. We went to the park where I found out I was supposed to wear a trench coat and funereal clothes. Luckily, one of the groom's friends had 2 trenchcoats, so I borrowed one of his and took off my work shirt and wore my black undershirt. I was already wearing black pants so I did look kind of funereal. We waited about 2 1/2 hours because we only had 5 witnesses so one of our friends recruited his friend as a witness, but apparantly that guy had to get there from a bus. Meanwhile, I'm entertaining the bride and trying to keep her legs warm, since the only thing she had from the knees down were shoes and lace stockings. At that point, we realized all of the bride's female friends hadn't showed. Since I was the only female who wasn't getting married I got to be the maid of honor. It was kind of funny in a way, that I knew her through the groom and hadn't even met her until this past summer, but she and I have made good friends so it worked. Finally, we had a short, cute ceremony and went back to the couple's house for dinner. Friday: Halloween I think my Halloween costume had to have been one of the most original Halloween costumes ever: I wore a black dress, tennis shoes, a reflector on my forehead, held a broom in one hand and held a pillowcase that I had written "Twick ur tweet" in my other hand. I went as a kid trick-or-treating. First, I met up with my friend and her little sister and we took her sister trick-or-treating downtown. Then, we dropped by a co-workers house and proceded to trick-or-treat in a neighborhood. Since my friend and I work in the housekeeping department of a hotel, we decided that instead of banging on the doors and yelling, "Trick-or-treat!" we would bang on the doors and yell, "Housekeeping!" The result was a bunch of people opening the doors with a smile and asking us why we said, "Housekeeping." I said, "We are housekeepers by profession but we moonlight as candy thieves." After that we went back downtown, where we saw a restaurant that had just closed. There was a cashier inside who was sweeping the floor and my friend got the idea that it would be funny that, since I had a broom too, I should offer to sweep with him. So I banged on the door and jokingly asked him if I could sweep with him. He laughed and said I actually could if I really wanted to. I couldn't back down so I said yes and he actually unlocked the door and let me in and I helped him sweep. After that we ate dinner at Jefferson's (Yay! I got to eat chicken wings!) and my friends had to go home. I ran into one of my friend's dads and talked to him for a while. It's kind of misleading to say he's "my friend's dad" because he and I are actually pretty close. But eventually my friend's dad decided to go home so I ran into my friends from the night before. Two of the people I was hanging out with got really drunk and one of my friends and I decided to watch out for them. One of them went wandering around the street with my broom and ended up at a rave in front of one of the stores. It was funny because he accidentally broke my broom so he started dancing around with the two halves of my broom in each hand. But after a while, I realized I was the only sober person outside so I went home. Last night: raincheck birthday I had to postpone my family celebrating my birthday (so far one of my friends had me celebrate my birthday with her, yay for sushi, ice cream, and us hanging out with Debbie!) because I was really busy with school, 2 newspaper staffs, and work, but my mom finally asked me to go to her house and celebrate my bday. So I relented. My mom had recently gotten a tiarra (sp?) at a garage sale and desperately wanted someone to wear it (her hair is short so she thinks it would look funny on her). Since I have long hair, I haven't worn a tiarra for my birthday since my 9th birthday, and I was celebrating the end of my teen years, I figured why not? So I got to wear a tiarra and instead of candles, my parents put a glow stick in the cake. I couldn't blow out the candle so I just told my dad to turn on the light so we wouldn't be able to see how bright the candle is. Man, how often do you get a wedding, Halloween, and raincheck birthday in the course of three days? |
