Remember at the end of my last post when I said I had to run because I was picking up Melissa (@mechamelissa) from the train station? Well, she visited with me this weekend and as usual, the antics we got ourselves into could easily be used as the premise for a sitcom. On Saturday night, we spent hours applying sugar skull makeup to our faces because we were attending a belated costume party to celebrate my friend Amanda's birthday and Halloween. We were supposed to arrive around 9pm, but as our makeup was taking longer than usual I texted Amanda to let her know. She replied "LOL," with no other explanation. At 11pm when we finally entered the party there were a bunch of folks standing around outside dressed in everyday civilian clothing. Mel and I glanced at each other but assured ourselves that once we walked inside the room would be decked out to the nines in elaborate costumes. So as we entered the door, and surveyed the crowd, we burst out into a hysterical laughing fit because it was apparent that we were the only ones in costume. The bouncer even told us to just go because he wouldn't be able to tell if it was actually us anyway. Amanda apologized and said she had no idea what I meant when I said our makeup was taking a long time. She also forgot to text anyone to tell them not to wear costumes, but everyone else (besides Me & Melissa) had decided of their own accord and laziness to come without getting dressed up. Luckily for us, we both love dressing up and since we both don't care what other people think, we had a great time. No one had any idea what we were, but that's a whole other story. Anyone who is unfamiliar with Long Island, may not know that most of the people here are not the most, er, accepting of people. I dislike making generalizations about large groups of people because there are always exceptions but for the majority of my life I knew that I was meant for Manhattan and not this island. Anyway, we were receiving weird looks all night from strangers, and accidentally scaring people whenever we turned around. But obviously, this was not an issue for us, because look how totally AWESOME our makeup turned out!
