Decorating Saturday

Well, the house is officially Halloweened up! Mom and I spent most of the day going to the dollar store and getting supplies, then making decorations for the house. We already had a bunch of bats Mom made from sheets of black craft foam and googly eyes -- to that we added ghosts made out of white Styrofoam balls and white cheesecloth, some fake spiderwebs all over the front porch and bushes, some dark grey "creepy cloth" hanging over the front step, a glow-in-the-dark dangly skeleton for the mailbox -- and Mom transformed a couple of old pieces of slate she had into makeshift tombstones. It's all pretty cool. :D And tomorrow we'll be getting our pumpkins -- yes, we're making jack-o-lanterns again! Though we're not carving them until later in the month so they stay fresher longer. *nods* It's nice to be able to really get into the Halloween spirit again -- our old neighborhood was full of college kids who'd smash pumpkins and steal decorations. (As we learned the year we tried putting out my old dragon costume as a lawn monster just for kicks. . .) Here, everybody decorates their house -- and there's a lot more little kids around. Couple it with me already knowing what costume I'm going to wear (my BioShock Little Sister dress, since it's the 10th anniversary and I'm finally playing the game myself for the first time), and having the next day off thanks to religious holiday, and I think this is going to be a pretty fun Halloween.

I did manage to fit in a few other things besides that and the usual cleaning:

-->Third episode of Dirk Gently! Now we're getting into stuff that I haven't seen five million clips of on YouTube. Show remains good -- Dirk being Dirk continually amuses me, as does Todd being Todd. These actors are all so good, seriously. . .and it's nice to see how the plot actually fits together. Good times!

-->Wrote some more on "The Technicolor Phase" -- the Alice and Wilson colors drabble. I figured, the guy who was in charge of her treatment for her stay in Rutledge HAD to be important to Alice somehow. Now I have to figure out once and for all how the whole "colors" thing affects Corpse Bride's plot. . .honestly, I need to rewatch that movie sometime soon. It's October -- it feels right.

-->Played Sims 4 -- aged up Marty and Jennifer's son Douglas! Unlike in the movies, a lot more of Jennifer's DNA got through in this McFly kid -- he's already got her hair color. And her eye color, if I saw his face right. I made him a little Charmer because it seemed cute -- I'll have to hold another get-together at the McFly house and see if he makes friends with all the Newcrestians. :p

-->Got the next chapter of "Secundus" up on AO3: Victor and Alice admit their feelings for each other, yay! Rather looking forward to rereading the old "first date" chapter for next week. :) Helps get me in the mood to start "Secundus 2." :p

-->Doing the RP thing right now, though it's been pretty quiet tonight. Need to take the opportunity to catch up on my main tumblr -- at least I answered those questions hiding in my inbox. But I got Season 2 DGHDA clips to watch and probably fanfic to read, darn it. So let me get on that. Night all! :)