Highlighted stuff from Andrea*Con

It was good, it was fun, it was different in flavor from our past parties, as well as last year's Andrea*Con. More relaxed, less movies, larger variety of food, costumes, etc. Luckily not as many people showed up on Friday night as occurred last year, because we were kind of still in the middle of prepping. When the Tennessee boys got there, I was in the middle of reorganizing my closet. Heh. Anyway, but I really think that the combining of several holidays into one party really worked well. If I'd had one more day, I could've done christmas and new years. Hmmn. Maybe next time...

The LJ contingent was pretty high, astrophysicat and I had crowyhead, jennywrenn, littlfrogling, sidruid, nanne over as well as a bazillion non-LJ people. I was psyched to see everybody, totally!!! And one of my friends from college that I hadn't seen in more than 6 years showed up!!! And everyone enjoyed themselves and got along with each other. This isn't *that* weird, but I always expect there to be freaky little personality group wars or something at parties. I think maybe I've listened to my brother's party shenanigans entirely too often. Or been to a few too many bad parties...

Movies... The movie that made the most people happy seemed to be "Cane Toads: An Unnatural History" which is a totally fantabulous documentary. I know, only we would show a documentary as part of a party, but really, I think everyone should watch it. No, really, I do. And like astrophysicat said, picking "the impostors" for something the twins would like was a great plan. I love bringing people and movies together. Yeah, and we watched Zoolander. Strangely enough, we didn't watch Buckaroo Banzai, but really, there's only so much time in the day, and we wanted to socialize and stuff too. Incidentally, both the socializing and stuff were fun times too!

So the director's cut of Legend ended (can we say Legend: the musical!) and I said, "Scramble!!! Costume time!!!" and for some weird reason everyone moved. Like a herd of lemmings they were, up the stairs into the bedrooms, only to realize at the top that there were way too many people trying to get their costumes in my room. Hee. Everyone who had a costume looked great! Adorable! Fabulous! Granted, I was more interested in my own costume and whether it worked and how I looked, but that was just me being self-absorbed. So...

Decor & my costume (mememe!!!)

The bat decor went over really well at Andrea*Con. I think Cara described it already, but I'll just say this... 150 construction paper bats, 13' ceiling. We hid the remotes to the ceiling fans to avoid bat carnage. Besides which, watching people blow air upwards to try to move them was hysterical. Oh, and there was a huge spider that we borrowed from Tony lurking in the downstairs bathroom hanging upside down from a web over the sink. Freaked a few people out, it did. Hee!

On to my costume (as it's all about me), black bra, black pants, gold glitter, black & gold venetian carnival mask, and jewelry. Oh, and candy apple colored lipstick. Because I wanted my lips to look edible. And really, asking people if your lips look edible *does* provide the most amusement... Anyway, glitter. I bought this glitter powder that worked amazingly well. Had good staying power, made me all sparkly when light hit me.

I had a little issue with my makeup... jennywrenn lent me some glitter stuff from Hot Topic to make accents with, and I put it raying out from my eyes and on my eyelids. Then I promptly had a vicious skin reaction to it, which I luckily noticed quickly then washed it off several times with eye makeup remover. I looked like someone had raked fingernails out from my eyes. This is when I was really grateful I was wearing a mask. So, just to make sure that it didn't get worse, I popped a benadryl, redid my eyes sans glitter stuff, finished up the rest and went downstairs. (I feel it's important to not let things like this break your stride. Even though I looked scary without the mask for a while, it was no big deal. It faded within hours.)

I had a brief self-conscious "I don't want people to see me!!" moment, overcame it, resumed my party persona and went in. And people appreciated the costume, I think. The pizza delivery guy certainly did. littlfrogling would've preferred a "less fabric, more andrea" costume, but still. So there was fun times, little bit of dancing (me & one or two or so others), pictures, drinking, all in all fun...

And then after midnight, Muppets from Space. Which I of course fell asleep during, but in my defense, I've seen it before, and I was kind of drunk and comfortably (for me, anyway) sandwiched between 2 guys named justin on the couch.

So then there was thanksgiving... and the wrap up

And people brought us food! Good food! And lots of it! And we made food! Well, I made very little, but astrophysicat made lots of food! We got rid of the soup before this, so there wasn't a soup dish, but you know, we really had enough food without that. There were traditional thanksgiving foods and other stuff.

There was football (which I could've lived without, but I found something else to do, so it was all good) and there was trivial pursuit ('cause it's the only time my obscure memory for entertainment related things is useful) and there was other stuff too. Time bandits! Then some girl bonding with the last party guest.

All in all, I was happy with the whole weekend. People came, had fun, and it was all good. At least, I think everyone had fun. I'm pretty sure.

There was no CML (crazymonkeylove) for me, but I wasn't really expecting it, so that was fine too. Oh, I did get to see someone naked though! And she is adorable! Don't know if she wants it broadcast who she is, but still! You are a goddess!!!

One last thing...

How wrong is it that while I was hostessing the other day, as I'm greeting all these executives I had this song called "You can love me now" running through my head? I get punchy when I have to hostess anyway, but this made me even more giggly close to the edge than normal...