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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Way down yonder in the Land of Cotton
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Way down yonder in the Land of Cotton
Posts: 231
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I'm here....Babble Warning!!!!
Mark..
I am here, Sweetie. Things just got kinda sorta hectic around my house, that is all. High School Football season is winding up, and the last two weeks the Band put on a super cool show, that was pretty work intensive for the parents. Ahem...or I should say SOME of the parents.
They changed their half time show for Halloween, and did it to Thriller, Frankenstein, and Zombie Nation. So...Yep! You guessed it! Instead of dressing up all nice and neat and Official Band looking in their nice new (and VERY expensive !!!) uniforms that they just got (and have only worn for a few games ), they dressed up in torn up thrift shop clothes and in full face Zombie Make up...just like in the Thriller video !!
LOLOL...Ok. Pretty close to the Thriller video, I should say. Although I DO have to say, that JAY.. MY SON....Looked Absolutely, Positively HORRIFIC, and like he had just crawled straight out of the 80's and off of the Thriller set! *Jose taking bows* And, both he and I got many many compliments on how GOOD ( I mean..BAD and DEAD!!) he looked! LOL.
I have to admit...I had a lot of fun creating his hole costume. Meghan and I went to the thrift store, because Jay had to go with his AP English class to the library on the only night that we had available to get to the stupid store, to pick out his outfit. I picked out the most ATROCIOUS sports coat, pants and tie that I could. The jacket and tie were...well....pea green, and some how matched perfectly like they were meant to go together! I got a pukey colored shirt, and a selection of the UGLIEST ties that I could (which is fine...my Dad has this thing for UGLY ties. Don't ask me...he is weird. LOL). Meghan was actually trying to do things to make this get up look better! I laughed and laughed at her, when I explained why I needed a collared shirt (she was picking out other types, to try to get me to put back the UGLY jacket..I mean..it really looked bad in that store. LOL). I said "Meghan...he is supposed to have crawled out of his grave. You know...been buried in his coffin and busted out of it, dug up through the ground, and be dragging around looking to eat folks brains and what not." She looked at me and said "Yeah..Ok. But..WHO would get buried in THAT?!??"  pointing to the ugly jacket that I was so proudly carrying around. I stopped dead in my tracks, looked at her, and leaned in close, dropped my voice and said, "Well.....who ever Bought it in the first place, maybe?" The look on her face when she realized that yes...we were in a THRIFT store, and Yes..someone had actually bought that ugly jacket NEW at one time because they LIKED it and thought it looked nice...oh man. It was PRICELESS!  ROFLMAOTIPMP!!!!!!
Anyways..I got my stuff home, and had jay try it all on...and you know what? It acutally didn't look too bad on him! I was shocked, and some what disappointed, I have to admit. The problem is his skin tone; the kid just wears ANY kind of green well, and looks DARN good in it. And..he is tall and has the broad shoulders of all the men in my family, so he looks VERY good in any kind of Jacket or uniform. *Sigh. SO..I had my work cut out for me. ROFL
While he was at school, I commenced to "Zombifying" his getup. I attacked the pants (they were corduroy) and jacket with a large serrated kitchen knife, making the long, ragged and jagged cuts and slashes that would have gotten there from all of the crawling about that a Zombie would do. Then..I took the whole shebang (jacket, britches, shirt, & tie) out side, and entertained my neighbors for a bit. I know for a fact that they all think that I am absolutely crazy. ROFL. I put some mud on the stuff. I tried to put a tire track on the back of the jacket, using my spare tire, but that didn't work....and the much wasn't really doing much. So...inside of the spare tire's rim there was break dust. Into that went everything, a piece at a time, and I swished it around in there. THAT did it! TOTAL Zombie-ness!
The make-up was easy, as I am pretty good at that. I always have been, and making the kids up (and making their costumes...because I would make up most all of their costumes...kinda like this Zombie one) for Halloween is something that I have really missed doing since they have gotten Big. So..I had a ball! And...the first week, I wound up not only doing Jay's make up, but also doing about 5 or 6 other kids make up too. That was because they saw how he and his best friend Seth turned out, and all of a sudden I had a line forming "Miss Josie! Will you do MY Make up, Please?? I don't want to look STOOPID!" So, I did. As many as I could before we had to load the buses...and then I even did a guy on the bus..once I convinced him that he wouldn't look stupid (he hadn't seen Jay and Seth or the other kids I had done....but you should have seen him when I got through with him. He was taking pics of himself and sending them I don't even know where. ROFL!).
This past week, I only did Jay's, and did it here at home. That is because they had some folks from the local Untied Way "Fright Factory" come to help with the make up stuff, AND because it was "Senior Recognition Night" and so I had to get myself all gussied up and pretty. No blue jeans and Band Booster Chaperone Shirts for me this week. Nope...it was a nice sweater and skirt and hose. BRRRRR! I FROZE! But, it was worth it to be all proud and Escort my son out there on the field for him to be Recognized for all of his 4 years of contributions to the Band. Most of the Seniors opted to be Zombies, but some were in their Uniforms. Jay was a Zombie. I was VERY Proud of him. I was prouder still that he didn't worry about something petty like wearing a uniform. Especially since all of the rest of the band was zombiefied. The 11 (out of 30) that did, wound up not getting out to the stands and ready for the half time show until about 5 minutes before it. Jay was there the WHOLE time, doing his job as section leader....as he should be. I was PROUD. I AM PROUD. And..He told me that he has folks stop him in the hall way at school today just to tell him how GREAT he looked. Like I said..he looked like he would have fit right in the original Thriller Video! ROFL
Anyway....That was the last scheduled home game. The next game is up in Northern AL...and I won't be going. If the team loses, that is the end of the season, since we are now in playoffs. So, it is a week to week thing, and we won't know where we go until after the game is over....or all of the games for that week are over. You know how these thing go....they ALWAYS make them as confusing as possible!. LOL. But, since I won't be going to next week's game...I won't have to recoup from it....so I will be around a lot more. I have been here...just lurking, and not saying a whole lot. I have been kinda tired....it is from over doing. But, this is Jay's Senior Year...so I am trying not to miss as much as I possibly can, you know what I mean??
Thanks for asking about me...although I bet you are kinda wishing that I hadn't coming babbling quite so full force out of the wood work! LOLOL..Oh well! I just thought the whole Thriller/Zombie thing is a Hoot! If I get any pictures of it..I will try to put them up!
I hope you are doing better? You have to tell us the poop on the scoop about your murderous neighbor!!! I have been waiting for an update! I don't get Court Tv...Are the Media still being "Buttockses"? LOLOL
(((Hugs)))
Jose
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