Hi!
I'm sorry I've been terrible about blogging! It's a little hard to do here because of the censors and the crippling paralysis of my chronic procrastination. Anyways, one of my New Year's Resolutions was to be better about it, but then I kinda failed with all the traveling home and back to Beijing over the holidays. So, my Chinese New Year's Resolution (Thanks for the inspiration Meredith!) is to be better about this. Happy Year of the DRAGON everyone!
Here's one of the many blog entries I wrote over the past six months but failed to post. I'll try and do one a day for this week. Hope everyone had a good holiday season, much love to all :)
The Failed Halloween Blog
Taxi driver's yelp
Sounded like a back-slapped Lla-
ma. "hwWAnkh" just like that.
Haikus are hard!
Anyways, what I was trying to describe there was our Halloween! Halloween's great, and although I'm a infamous and skilled procrastinator, I do hold true to the ancient Chinese proverb, "If you don't dress up for Halloween, you're lame".
So, the day of Halloween, my roommates and I went out to the Yashow clothing markets to get costumes. My Plan A was to be Rihanna. I figured "Hey we're the same age! Easy peasy!". All I needed was a little leopard print and a red wig and I'd be golden. And BINGO, first store we went to, we found a red wig. I put it on, eagerly anticipating my night as Rihanna, imagining I'd look like this:
However when the sales lady showed me the mirror, I received a rude awakening:
Thanks reality. So I took my buck teeth and baby face and moved on to Redhead Halloween Costume Plan B, the Disney fox version of Maid Marian. After some abusive bargaining with the clothing vendors (it doesn't hurt my feelings... as much as it used to), I got what I came for, and it was Halloween GO TIME!
For being in China, we did a great job. Chris and Kevin were slick West Side Story Sharks vs. Jets, Meredith was a ferocious Rosie the Riveter complete with big muscles (more on those later), and I tried my best with ol' Maid Marian. The crucial decision of my night came right as I tied M.M.'s trademark purple choker around my neck and fastened the last bobby pin to my veil. It looked okay, but something wasn't quiiiiiite right. Something was missing...
So I decided to paint my whole face like a fox.
This was both on of the best and worst decisions I've made in a while. We usually get a few stares as foreigners, and that's fine, it doesn't bother me. Last time I was here with my lifemate Emily
.........yep and that's as far as I got. Woo failed blogs!
