Halloween Fun

This post is only related to training in that it gives me more fat to work off while training...and involved missing working out midweek due to costume prep and Halloween itself.

Our office had a contest for a $50 Melting Pot gift certificate (read: more fat) so I opted to join in the fray. I was trying to come up with something different and I thought, why not involve a real live prop?

I ended up going as a young queen Elizabeth (mostly because there were black wigs, not grey, left). It's hard to tell what I was mostly inspired by... my grandmother's mink wrap, having recently seen The Queen, or the fact that I happened to have a corgi handy.


In either case, we pulled it off well enough to get a tie for second place (for which we received nothing, just like Top Gun, no points for second best...).

But between the photo sent around to staff as well as an actual photo I sent around with it, I think I feel pretty good about the effort.

And Tilley of course was the belle of the ball, taking turns napping in my office to "play dates" with various colleagues...complete with a quick duck out to Krystal with Megan (her first!) to complete the day.



We scurried home to get ready for our own trick-or-treaters, and to de-queen, and get fairied. Both girls and I were fairies this year (Tilley's "Welsh Golfer" costume from Target sits collecting dust; she didn't want to "look like a boy dog"). We actually *HAD* trick or treaters, unlike last year's Great Pumpkin Debacle on SSI. 14, to be exact. Tilley had fun visiting the neighbors across the parking lot that we chat with sometimes when we are out there (tho was given no treats!) and pretend trick-or-treating at our own door (complete WITH treats). Please note the effective use of Sephora green glitter eye cream on all three of us.

Her most fun was this...as the first real group of kids who came who fawned over her and our candy ("I got CHOCOLATE!", I heard more than once), and then as the kids trundled off down the hallway Tilley went with them. "Bye Mom, see ya! Going with my new friends."

She and Laika made another bolt attempt later in the evening while we talked to our neighbors across the hall, we looked up and noted with interest that the girls were well on their way to "F it, let's go on our own!!!".

All in all, a fun day. And yes, we are well aware we need real children. ;)