Halloween Costume Party

Now that my 10 part concert review series is out of the way, I can post an update on other recent activities. It was a nice quiet weekend to get that done, but it was so time consuming!

Saturday night we had a costume party at the house. It was a lower turnout than the usual 125+ people we have out and we expected that. We required that everyone come in costume or pay double to get in. While the guys were getting last minute things done at the local stores, we had 4 people arrive early. One dressed in drag. One was a Drama Queen. One just looked like a punker girl. The best one was dressed as Derek in his Geek Squad outfit. It was weird answering the door and seeing a guy that looked like my roommate. (Insert joke here about the guy in drag.) They were quite early, though, as the party really doesn't start rolling until about 10:30pm or so.

We had about 1/4 of the people show up in costume. The rest were glad to pay extra since we always throw a great party. We even had a professional model show up in Daisy Dukes! Go check her out at www.jenny-marie.com and tell her I said to say hello! For you Sludgers, I went as Stevie Rachelle. Basically, I have long blond hair and wore a hat and my Sludge T-shirt. Simple enough, eh? Derek and Pete had simple costumes, too, with Derek being the more elaborate as he actually purchased a costume.

We did the usual Perkins thing after the party. We ran into a few people from the party doing their recovering there.

Sunday Derek and I went to see Doom. I'm not a real big fan of video game movies because the end of most of them sets it up as they just finished level one and are ready for level 2. That's not very original, but I guess it serves the game and sequels. Doom didn't resort to this. It was described by a guy at work as a good suspenseful movie that was like seeing Aliens for the first time. I would have to agree, but I'm not sure it lives up to that high of a billing. The Rock was good at assuming his action hero mantle and the effects were great. You really felt like they took a lot of time and detail on the set and action sequences.

It was a good weekend to catch up on some TV I'd taped, too. I didn't get a lot of sleep, but I watched some baseball, football, and my Sunday morning news shows. It rained here this weekend and was a real gloomy weather weekend. I like those when I have a free weekend to do as little as possible. It makes me want to stay inside and hide under blankets.

If you get some free time, you might enjoy the concert reviews I spent the last few days typing up and posting here. I just wanted to get them on the site. I also have updated the Concerts Attended lists along the right side. I tried to separate each show and provide a little more detail. Let me know what you think!