I do love a costume party.

Yes, the annual Merc costume affair. Awww, yeah. I didn't want to leave.

Most splendid: krypt_kitten's 18th-century-inspired white vinyl wedding dress, complete with wig. An outfit like that deserves to be seen more often.
Best match between costume and wearer: tie between seelenschwester's Celtic war goddess and cor_tenebrarum's Jesus complete with stigmata. I'd much rather worship the former becaue a) she's scary hawt, and b) she organized & decorated everything.
Cleverest: m_cobweb's Magic Mirror.
Best hair: icprncs.
Most skin: cynickal.
Most obscure: domichan. Proof, though, that obscurity can be dead sexy.
Physique award: djartemis. I almost failed to recognize her.
Parent power salute to: turtlegrrl13. Any mother who looks that good as vinyl red riding hood gets a shout out.
Slackest: me in the lovely, old school goth black & purple velvet gown bought from krpyt_kitten -- I can't believe she sold it -- with seams painted on me.

icprncs lamented that so many people go all out when ordered to, but not so much on more ordinary days & nights. I hear her, but I'd hate to detract from a night like that.

Not the sardine scene I expected, which made it more pleasant to walk through. Should I worry, though?

Back: sore
House: about to be overrun by in-laws
Me: rushed

One small step for the Wendling?

Yesterday for the first time that I ever saw, my boy noticed that something he drew (Darth Vader, on a friend's birthday card) didn't look quite like the original. Maybe it felt like a bigger deal than it is, but.

thirty-five (35) in-laws

Now don't get me wrong: I have nothing against family reunions, even if it's for the family I married into. Can we please, though, not host another one for several years at the very least?

About twelve hours separated the reunion from Wicked. Naturally, I imagine a collision of the parties. What would the soccer mom cousins have made of all the freaky lovelies? I bet 87-year-old Uncle Al would have dug them.