There's children throwing snowballs instead of throwing heads!

So it was Halloween! Yeah, I know I built up my costume a lot, so I hope none of you are disappointed. Here's the big reveal!

I was Astrid from "How to Train Your Dragon." If you haven't seen it, here's what she looks like:


And here's me!


Isn't this costume AWESOME? Although it really did take me MONTHS to make it, I had so much fun! It was really hard to be humble about it when people complimented me, because I'm so proud of how it turned out!

See? I'm jumping for joy!

I first wore the costume to Ereeen's 3rd annual Halloween bash. Here she is as Punk Alice in Wonderland, and here's Not-Seth as a Roman Gladiator (that's what his shirt says; it was fortuitous that that's what his costume was, because he could borrow my axe).

We also went to Nokes' Pirate Parrrrr-ty! Marcia, Ereeen, Bex, and me

Then I pulled out Astrid again for the Not Barn Dance. Here I am with NS (he's got like three different costumes going on there, so I'm not going to explain) and my roommate Danae (recognize her costume?).

My axe was very popular.

Me with Flo- I mean, Megan!

With K-Rizzle, aka Charlie Chaplin

Side story that's related:

On Sunday night (Halloween), I was at Speedo Tim's house for a dinner and he made me bring my costume. I wasn't wearing it, but before X10 arrived, I was made to play a weird variation on a drinking game. Every time X10 said "epic" or "stellar" at dinner, I had to put a piece of my costume on. This actually involved taking my shirt off at one point (I prepared for this ahead of time, thank heavens), but by the end of the dinner, I was in full costume. Then Speedo Tim made me hand out candy to the trick-or-treaters.

I'm a fierce Viking. Sadly, I forgot to bring my axe to dinner.