Fighting the Current

frightening prospects (...or prospectors)

For Halloween last night I was a moutain man/prospector. I had a 'coonskin hat (which was actually fake skunk skin) and big grey beard. I wore a flannel shirt and dirty-kneed jeans with hiking boots. I found an old black eye-pencil and drew wrinkles around the corners of my eyes. To keep my hands warm (and to hide my hands and nails, lol), I wore my mom's rose gloves.

Just for the scare factor, I danced up and down the street while trick-or-treating. How often do you see a "mountain man" strutting and leaping and skipping and spinning and can-canning?

Another thing to fear: I am no longer Learner's Permit-less....

I spent over an hour and a half looking for a dress or a shirt/skirt combo for the Ring Dance on Friday. (We get a dance the day after we get our class rings.) I found this really pretty black dress which is actually fairly flattering (such a rarity). It's three-quarter-sleeved and goes mid-calve on me. The front of it is sagged or whatever that style is called. I also got a turqoise-ish and silvery chain belt thing to go over it.

I've always loved that Southwestern turquoise jewelry. I made a necklace in that style a few years ago. My Pop-Pop had a silver feather earing in a box of random metal jewelry and buttons and things. I used that and a tumbled piece of turquoise and soldered it to a piece of silver he had in his basement. Where'd he get the silver and the jewelry pieces? My grandparents are excellent bargainers at flea markets and yard sales. "Will you take $3 for it?" The necklace turned out pretty nice looking.

Most of the styles this year are really awful. Half the skirts and shirts I saw looked like couch upholstering from the 1970s.

Right as I had given up hope of finding anything I liked that looked nice on me, we went into Sears and I found three dresses that I actually liked and which actually looked nice on me. Two were black and one was maroon. One of the black ones I bought. The other one was too confusing and I was worried about the front of the skirt opening up. It was the weirdest sewn dress I've ever tried on, but it was pretty. The maroon one was nice, but not as nice as the black. (Besides, I couldn't get the belt with it. )

I'm tired. I'm going to finish watching good ol' Mel Brooks.