Fancy Pants - i mean, Dress

For those of you who don't already know, "pants" here means underpants, not trousers...although all the Brits know what an American means when they say pants, they still like to make fun of me whenever I say something like "fancy pants" or "ants in your pants"...which to be honest are pretty ridiculous phrases for me to be saying anyway.

But to get to the story, Helen had a fancy dress (in regular speak, costume) flatwarming party this past weekend, with the theme circus/carnival/burlesque - so basically anything a little wackier than usual. I get really excited for any costume party and love that there seem to be so many more of them here throughout the year than there are in LA. Of course I've been thinking of a costume for weeks and was very excited about my idea... a knife-thrower's target... fake blood, fake knives, possibly a cardboard multi-colored wheel on my back.

The unfortunate parts are that I haven't had a day off for about 3 weeks so I had no time for costume parts gathering, and a dozen of Helen's friends went out of town "on holiday" that same weekend. Which meant that middle of last week, completely understandably Helen changed it to costume-optional so that no one's attendence was affected by a costume requirement. =)

But once I get stuck on a costume idea, I have to do it. So yeah, I was the geek who was by far the most dressed up at the party. But that's ok, I didn't mind. Plus, I don't get many excuses for fake blood these days, so I went for it. No cardboard wheel though - I didn't have time for arts and crafts.

Here's Helen and me:


It was really great to meet some of Helen's friends, her place looks amazing, and I was super happy to have some of my extra fun co-workers there too. An excellent gathering and a much needed night o' fun in the middle of this crazy work crunch.

I just found out my fam is coming out last week of August/first of September - so over Labor Day, and I'm really excited. We may try to go to Scotland for a couple days or take the train to Belgium (Brussels or Bruges maybe) If anyone else is considering a visit, any time in September is really good because work will be slower for me. The first part of October might be ok too but they're talking about our next screening being sometime in November.

I'll close with a pic of the Sunset I took last Tuesday. We were out on a deck by the river at Riverside Studios. It was a lovely little evening.