One of the things I mentioned in my book is that I LOVE dressing up in ridiculous costumes. Not "cute" ones. No, I want to be a cow or Martian or a weird-looking person or something.
So this last week, I was helping with our stake's Ladies and Gentlemen's Club, or L & G Club for short. That's a very cool thing that they do in our area. It's kind of like a co-op cotillion where we teach etiquette--"charm," manners, etc. and dance to the 5th-8th graders in the stake who'd like to come. Most importantly, they get to know other youth in the stake so they have lots of LDS friends, and already know many of the kids before they turn 14 and are invited to go to the stake dances. We have a huge group this year and they're a great bunch of kids! I teach dance every month--swing, waltz, line dancing, and some dances they do locally at their stake dances, and so on. It's lots of fun for me to do.
This month, since it was October, all the kids were supposed to dress up in costumes. The adults who were helping could dress in costumes also if we wanted to, so of course, I couldn't pass up the opportunity. I'm wore a REALLY awful, ratty wig with little pieces of straw and twigs and stuff in it. And for my makeup, I had black smears under my eyes and extremely ugly, monstrous make-up (to go with the electrodes on my head.) Oh, and a sweater I made that has four arms. All the arms move (well, two of them are actually mine...) so it's pretty fun to wear.
Hey, I'll take any excuse to dress up and have fun.
Ha ha. You look so ridiculous in that. I know that's what you want though so it's perfect.
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