Whew, whatta weekend I just had. Lots of Halloween party action plus the start of Dickens Fair workshops is making me one tired girl this Monday morning.
Friday night Anji and Aimee and I went out to Ghost Ship in San Francisco like we’ve done for the last few years. We started late (we had planned to meet Aimee at 9:30pm but didn’t actually leave the house until a little after 11pm), for a variety of reasons. I got to Anji’s house to get ready a little late, but instead of jumping right in to dressing and makeup we spent some time processing some feels. Plus Aimee was late (didn’t get there til around 10:30) which didn’t help. But eventually we got it all together, and I must say we looked quite fabulous. I was especially pleased with my purplicious burlesque clown costume this year, I think I looked awesome and it certainly was quite a fine last show for the beautiful big boobies. I do wish I had taken more pictures but I’ll just have to make do with what I got.
Once we were on our way into the city Friday night’s adventure got off to a somewhat rocky start but we recovered like the professional partygoers we are and then caught the shuttle over to Ghost Ship. We got there around 1am as everyone else was starting to leave. But we did enjoy ourselves a lot once we got there, mostly wandering around outside and checking out the art and enjoying interacting with the other people in their costumes, so it was a story with a happy ending. I got tons of compliments from people about how awesome I looked, which really made me happy (because I *did* look awesome, as mentioned above). Anji and I got to ride on the Ferris Wheel, which was fun. We stayed until right around closing at 4am and then caught the shuttle back and drove over to Mel’s to have our traditional milkshakes. We got home around 6am and I managed to strip down and take a shower before it got light out and then nap for an hour or so before I had to get up again to take Eli and his friends Everett and Joe to Dickens workshops. I actually felt better than I thought I was going to, considering the lack of sleep, although I did start to fall asleep in our final lecture workshop of the day. (Luckily the boys were in a different class than me.)
It was actually pretty fun to be at Dickens workshops, to see some old friends and get some sympathy hugs, and to introduce Eli’s friends to the whole world of Dickens. I think the boys had a great time overall. We went to the morning meeting, and then I went to the Dark Garden workshop even though I’m still unsure whether or not I’ll be able to model there this year. I did go up afterwards and explain my situation to Caroline the new model wrangler and ask if I could borrow an underbust corset or waist cincher and she said to come on by during dress rehearsal so she could measure me and see what they could do. So I’m going to put in my form and hope that we can work something out for maybe the 4th or 5th weekend. I really do enjoy that gig and want to do it again if I can. (And fuck you, cancer!)
Saturday we got home from workshops around 4 and I immediately went to bed for a few hours because I was so exhausted. I got up around 6 though and rallied for dinner and trick or treating with Isaac and a few of his buddies. Isaac reprised his cat onesie costume again this year and I had a fabulous pink unicorn fleece onesie and unicorn Chuck Taylors that Anji got for me so our costume stuff was super easy (and pretty cute if I do say so myself). We met up with friends and had a nice time walking around Quietwood with all the other families. It was pretty crowded but overall friendly and the kids were happy with their candy haul (I was happy about the house that was handing out wine and coffee to the parents...that cup of coffee was perfectly timed.) We got home around 8:30 and I left Isaac to sort and gorge on candy while I got dressed again in my purplicious outfit.
Anji came to pick me up around 10 and we drove back into the city to go to Phantasm at the Armory. It took us forever to figure out parking but we finally found a garage a few blocks away and then walked over to the Armory only to discover that the line to get in was super duper long. So we just rolled with it and had fun talking to people in line. We probably got into the party around 12:30 or so and had a pretty good time (the music was awesome and we finally did get a chance to do some good dance time) until we had to leave around 1:30 (it was daylight savings so that was actually two hours later) to go pick up our car before the garage closed. I again got lots of great compliments on how awesome I looked, and that was pretty cool. I enjoyed dancing with my flowtoys, although it got more and more hot and crowded. I got all sweaty and there was a point right before we decided to leave where I started feeling faint, so I’m glad we quit when we did. On the walk back to the car we got lots of attention from random revelers for how beautifully boobalicious we were (and wow, we really were), and joked about how next year we should just skip the party and go wander around the streets of the Mission looking at cool costumes and having random complimentary street encounters. It was a short outing but still very fun and I am glad we did it. I liked being able to wear my fabulous costume twice and I did enjoy the dance time, even if it was somewhat brief.