Snoooooooooow!

I was hoping we'd get snow this winter - I guess winter is early?  It started snowing yesterday (very very very lightly, for a few minutes at a time) then stopped, but when I woke up this morning we had a little dusting!  All day it's been lightly snowing on and off.  The roads are still clear here in Ballard, it hasn't really stuck, but the cars and trees are all covered and it's BEAUTIFUL!  I get so excited by snow.  Why am I stuck in this darned office!? It will be dark by the time I get off - I want to go for a walk in it :( 

Seeing snow fall is one of my favorite things in the world.  I love it so much it actually makes me feel almost sad.  I suppose sad is the closest word I can come up with.  I wish I could go out to the middle of nowhere at twilight and be silent and watch it fall.

The Gypsy's Curse

[VERY delayed post.]
Oh, Halloween, thanks for existing. I also totally want to punch you in the face.  After realizing that I own quite the collection of colorful skirts, scarves, and dangly jewelry, I decided to be a gypsy for Halloween.  All I needed was a corset.  Stroke of genius: alter the vest from my British street urchin outfit from last year:

I was house-sitting at the time and there was cable TV, so my hours of pinning and sewing were inspired by several episodes of What Not To Wear (then, oddly, Deep Blue Sea and Sin City).  I discovered that (1) I am quite creatively efficient in a fix (2) tailor's chalk is REALLY fun (3) shapeless purple corduroy vests make BITCHIN' gypsy corsets.

 Yowza!

Come Halloween, I layered the skirts, loaded on the eye make up, hooked on the corset and headed out.  I'm quite proud of myself.  It was an odd evening - started out later than we mean, waited in line way too long to NOT get into a club, then had a pretty darn good last hour and a half at another club. A vampire named Mike who had somehow lost both his fangs and his cape (so he just sort of looked like an old timey French dandy) offered to buy me a drink but Liz literally snatched me away from him (she's good at saving). 

Then, oh, then, my friends, on the way back to the car I managed to roll my left ankle and fall on my ass in a huge gypsy pile.  Within about 60 seconds it had swollen at least twice it's normal size and Liz had to shield it from my sight because it was unbearable to view. 

Kaushik drove us to the store to get a bandage while Liz and I sat in the car.  Her in the front seat shielding my hideous limb, holding it up in the air to elevate it ("I'm trying to give you zero gravity here"), both of us laughing somewhat hysterically and not quite sure why.  All the while I have tears rolling down my face.  Back at our apartment, Kaushik (what a ridiculously awesome dude) picked me up (tweaking his own back, booo - lift with yer legs!) and carried me in.  We must have been quite a sight: a tear-streaked, mangled gypsy being carried by an Indian pirate. 

Oh, Halloween, I wanted you to be so much better.  Can I wear my gypsy costume some other time, I'm WAY too into my vest to only wear it for a few hours. 

UPDATE: I'm much better now, not hobbling except at the end of a day where I've walked or stood to much (ie today - curse you grocery shopping and other errands).