I am tired and I am cranky. Cranky mostly because I can’t seem to adequately pass information to people and they frustrate me so much because they can’t understand what I need from them. I want to bang their heads against the wall because they are being so dense. I know it has to be a me thing because it has happened with so many people.
I woke up around 1am kicking and flailing. I am trying these new earplugs to try and block out the unidentifiable whine in my apartment to attempt to get some good sleep. The whine cuts through the ear plugs and it is now the only think I can hear but at least the volume is lower so the sounds from inside my own head can cause interference. I woke up in a panic because I felt I couldn’t tell what was around be because I couldn’t hear and I was trapped. I ripped the earplugs out of my ears and kicked all the things around me that were suppose to be comforting and then settled down to try to sleep again.
Unlike past years when I have been one of 5-10 people who are wearing costumes for Halloween, I am the only person wearing one. Thanks to an idea from fresne, it is appropriate. I am wearing one of my grandmother’s old suits and doing Retro Business Wear. I am a secretary from the 40s. I would post pictures but I am having issues with my site and haven’t been able to connect for weeks and haven’t hear from the sysadmin.
The Season is in full swing and we are reaching the end of the October Gauntlet. I have as much scheduled for the next 5 days as I have done probably this entire month. It has become the Hell Season again with all the fun activities we just can’t say no to. We know better but we have done it again. At least this time, we aren’t making many costumes, most of our outfits are coming out of the closet or costume boxes. I know one of the reasons I am doing what I am doing is because I had to miss most of Halloween last year and I feel the need to make up for that. But it is turning what use to be my favorite time of the year, a time to show more of me and do things my way and be acceptable, into a time of year I dread. Next year, we will do things differently. (The we includes fresne and probably capricious_k)
Hopefully from here on out I can go with the flow of everything I have worked to set up. We will see. But this is my state as I go into the Best Weekend of the Year.
Costumes
Only 1 other person at my office dressed up. I’ve had great fun, however, playing the Dread Pirate Catnip. If I’d had more forethought, I would have found a stuffed parrot to complete the outfit. Hand over the chocolate and nobody gets hurt ;-}
I feel like such a slacker. I didn’t make a single new thing for my Halloween costume this year! I’ve got a new Faire bodice cut out and just got the right color trim ribbon for it last night, but I was not insane enough to try to finish it in one evening.
Drop off the hat at my place tonight?
Re: Costumes
Too bad you didn’t let me know about the parrot sooner, I have one in a treasure box you could borrow. If you want it with the hat, call me and leave a message. Anything else my closet can supply you?
And as for no new costumes, we have enough, we don’t need new costumes. Now if I can actually get my subconscious to accept that, life might be easier. It would help if I didn’t go to “themed” events and could just pick out favorites.
I tend to feel weird dressing up for work/school when Haloween isn’t ON a workday. Almost every time I have dressed up the day before or after when it was a weekend I was the ONLY one. But when Haloween falls on a work/school day other people tend to actually bother.
A co-worker did bring in a static-electric skull-shaped globe earlier this week though. (you know – the kind where you touch it and the “lightning” moves. I don’t know what those are called). I accused him of distracting me from work with his “hypno-sphere”.