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[kelliem]

Belated Happy New Year to my fellow pagans. :)

I decided I wasn't going to let another Halloween go by without dressing up, so I borrowed an idea that the_star_fish did last year and went as the Fairy Gothmother. I did traditionally goth makeup-- white face, black lipstick, very dark gray eyeshadow and purple hair-mascara in my hair. The outfit consisted of a semi-sheer black ruffled top (I had a purple satin corset I wanted to wear, but it was inappropriate for work), a black laced-back dominatrix-style skirt with long jagged lace points at the bottom, a black velvet military-style Edwardian jacket, a lace and jet-beaded choker, purple and black striped tights, black mid-calf granny boots, purple netting fingerless mitts, and a purple and black tiara. And a wand that's all purple and black glitter. People seemed to really like the outfit. :-D (Kidunit took some pics for me but I have to wait for her to get a chance to upload them for me.)

Not many of our students dressed up-- I saw one girl in pink sweats and pink fairy wings, a guy in a bear costume who looked about ready to expire from the heat, and one of our grad students came as King Arthur from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (great costume!) and one of my minions came as a glam witch, so we looked good together. ;D

I was very disappointed last night to get no trick-or-treaters at all. We don't usually get many, but this is the first time we haven't gotten any at all. :-( I am blaming the cold-front that rolled in late in the afternoon and dropped the temps below freezing because I don't want to believe trick-or-treating is dead.

Oh, I did get one really nice treat yesterday! My mom bought us a new clothes dryer. I think she was just tired of us coming over and borrowing hers every time ours decided to quit working. Amazingly, her dryer is forty-three years old! and still running like trooper. My old one was only about 20. Planned obsolescence is clearly at work. The new one has a cool stationary rack that you can put inside to dry shoes and things like that on. Nice. It also has an intermittant tumble setting for when you can't get to your laundry right away.

Spam of the Day:
quiz gakked from silme

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
The West
The Inland North
Boston
North Central
Philadelphia
The South
The Northeast
What American accent do you have?

Comments

[brynwulf]

Oh the dryer sounds nice. You h ave a cool mom. And can't wait to see the pics.

Man, I'm so going to miss you Saturday. Since we're staring at 2:00, you can't even come in for a quick visit and say hi to Dail?

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

I do have a cool mom. It's nice.

I'm sorry about the party, I wish I could come, but my SIL doesn't do evenings well (she gets tired very early) so we usually do family things in the afternoon instead, and then my mom and I are going to the Boulder Phil afterward.

[silme.livejournal.com]

I've decided that accent quiz is on crack, especially when it said that
Ian has a Philly accent. Um, no. :)

A 43-year-old dryer? Wow! Actually, 20 years isn't bad nowadays. It seems that so many new appliances don't even want to last that long. But it was a cool present from your mother.

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

Unless he picked up some of the accent from living with you? ;-D

And yeah, a 43 year old dryer is amazing. Wow. So was the new dryer. I plan to take it for a test drive tomorrow.

[silme.livejournal.com]

I hope the dryer worked well!

We hope to be in Colorado in August, so you might listen to him talk and tell for yourself. :)

[imkalena.livejournal.com]

Dryer!!!

And I'll bet you looked fabulous. I wore my Hufflepuff outfit. Which even little old ladies recognize in the library. *G*

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

Aww, you'd make a great Hufflepuff. Kidunit, of course, prefers to be a Slytherin. :D

[splendidjack.livejournal.com]

I also think you must have looked fabulous! What with the eye for detail that we know that you have!

I saw a 'Fairy Godfather' at a Renfaire some years ago. He was tall and had a couch-potato physique. He was grizzled, chewing on a cigar. But he was in a sad and well-past-its-prime set of pale pink tights and leotard, with a disreputable tutu....

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

Sounds like the Snack Fairy. ;D

[ardent-muses.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it was a successful day in spite of the lack of trick or treaters.

Hmmm. I took the quiz and got "The Inland North" and I don't even know what or where that means. Apparently Boston plus Denver = Chicago accent? I don't think so. It also says the following:

You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop."

Now I'm wondering how I got out of the habit of calling soda "pop", because I grew up calling it pop. That makes me sad.

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

Hm, maybe you don't pronounce words the same way you hear them in your head? Because I'd say your accent is pretty similar to mine.

[raveninthewind.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

Thank you! {{{hugs}}}

[bride.livejournal.com]

Hippo Birdies two ewe!!! =)

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!