Who You Gonna Call?

What's up everybody. I'm currently taking a slight break between gaming sessions. I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to play next. I've been playing plenty of LEGO Rock Band recently, and I'm getting slightly burnt out. Time for something different. While I was doing this, I figured I might as well give you all a little blog to read up on.

As you should have known, Halloween was about a week and a half ago. I always love Halloween. At my work, they let you dress up for the holiday. Never one to let an opportunity like that pass me by, I made sure I had a costume ready to go.

It took a lot of work, but I was able to put something together on Thursday night. I stuffed some white scrubs and sweatshirt with portions of a mattress pad. Together with some face paint, and a severely doctored white cotton hat, I had made myself into the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man! Truly an epic feat. It wasn't supremely awesome, but I'm on a budget here. I think for 50 bucks I did DAMN well.

Everyone who saw me that day thought so too. Unfortunately, there was a bunch of confusion about who I was. Seems people can't figure out for themselves the difference between Stay Puft, the Dough Boy, and Michelin Man. Kinda sad, but at least everybody was loving the costume. It felt good to bring that much joy to everyone that day. People were smiling and complimenting on the costume every time they saw it.

It wasn't without it's own price though (besides the price tag). The costume was incredibly hot. With an inch of pad surrounding my upper body inside of a sweatshirt, it's understandable that it became my own personal sauna. I actually thought I was gonna pass out for a bit during work, but it must've just been a bit of panic attack. I even broke out on my chest from it! It was real rough and red for a while, but it's almost completely back to it's normal, pale self now.

In spite of the fact that everybody loved my costume, I still couldn't pull first place at the costume contest we hold. Lunacy, I know. None of you will really get to see the pictures, so you'll just have to take my word for it. They say that we're supposed to judge our voting based on originality and such, but like everything at that store, it's all about your circle of friends. I do have many friends, but apparently not enough to place in the competition. I can understand getting beat by the Amish, because that was actually kinda cool. But I got beat by a witch (just a basic witch), and a person who wore a bald cap to call themselves one of our managers. Once again, I guess it's about being topical, and I'd rather have fun. A poor Joe the Plummer (that's how he spelled it) last year, a poor excuse for a manager this time.

Like I said in my Twitter, I'd love to say it doesn't bother me, but it does. It's really disappointing. Last year he bought a penguin outfit and placed third, this year he just buys a bald cap and places first. And really, a witch? A black outfit and pointy hat is all it takes for third? I worked my ass off and I can't get anything beyond a couple of pats on the back and "attaboy"s? People at work keep saying that it's rigged. Every year they tell me that, and I'm starting to believe them. I guess I found another area of life where hard work doesn't pay off in the end.

But, like I said, I had a lot of fun doing it. I wish that I could've run into some of you guys (preferably while the makeup still looked good), because I'm sure you would have gotten a kick out of it. I've still got the hat that I went through so much trouble to make, so who knows. All I know is that I'm already anxious for next year. I'm actually going to try and get the costume ready ridiculously early to prevent any last minute runs for ideas. Sure, it paid off this time, but I really wanted to be Dan from Street Fighter. I'm not even sure if I'm going to be in the same job next year. I hope not, but you can always bet that I'll dress up for Halloween.

... and any other time I get the opportunity.