Monday, November 2, 2015

Aimee's Mal-oween~

Descendants first premiered on Disney Channel on July 31st. I didn’t watch it that night, even though my sister bought the DVD for me that very day for my birthday two weeks later. I had to wait until I finished Melissa de la Cruz’s prequel book, The Isle of the Lost, first, of course.


In Isle of the Lost, Mal – daughter of Maleficent – is a sneaky little thief who paints the town with graffiti. She refuses to believe that she has any friends until situations push her into relying on them. She wants to be bad… but maybe she’s actually a little bit good.
Dove Cameron plays Mal in the sequel movie, Descendants.


I really admire Dove Cameron so much. I probably talk about that a lot. I know I wrote my one article on Cambio about her.
You see, while we were still dating, my last boyfriend drove me to Wal-Mart for a middle of the night rendezvous. He paid for a copy of The Isle of the Lost for me. For me, Dove Cameron’s relationship with her boyfriend is my goal for a relationship. And I’ll have it one day. But for now, I just enjoy having Dove as an inspiration. And her character, Mal, too.
So, I’m sure you can guess by now who I costumed as for Halloween.


That's right.
Maleficent's daughter.
Mal.



On October 18th, Disney Channel did a special Mal-oween night. They showcased a few Liv & Maddie episodes, sported a Wicked World marathon, showed a special Descendants fans thing, and, of course, played Descendants itself. Well, since our satellite went out that very weekend, I had my Mal-oween on HALloween.
And that's what I wanted to tell you all about.
The day started nice and slow with me waking up at four in the freaking morning. I have no idea why I woke up that early. But alas. Shanghai and I started, and read a third of in two hours, a really good book.


It’s called Switched and it’s the first book of the Trylle Trilogy by Amanda Hocking.
It’s really good. You should read it.
And then my sister woke up at eight, and the first words from her lips were, “Let’s go to Wal-Mart.”



My sister had a couple of last minute items to pick up for her own Evie costume, and she wanted to go ahead and pick up a birthday present for our niece to get that stress out of the way.


Inside the store, I asked for assistance in finding 5 Seconds of Summer’s newest CD (it was funny, because as soon as I told her the cover was super colorful, she knew exactly which album I was talking about). The worker and I happened to be standing right next to the Descendants CD, so I told her that my sister and I were going to be Evie and Mal. She got really excited about that. It made me really happy.
And then it was time to get home and get ready!
I took a couple of hours so I could get ready slowly. It’s easier and less painful for me that way. And by the time my niece came over, I had just put on my shoes.
That's when I discovered that my sissy-in-law and I looked like twins! (She's not technically my sister-in-law anymore, as she and my brother divorced, it's simply just easier to call her that. Plus, she's still one of my best friends!)



And then I had a mini photoshoot. See, my iPod broke, I can’t remember whether I told any of you that. So I use my sister’s iPod for the work I have to do on apps. And I borrow her iPod for pictures too. Only her front camera is broken. But I really needed pictures of my adorable costume. So I came up with this brilliant idea of setting it up as a video recorder and posing in various ways for the back camera. Then I just made screenshots of my favorite poses. And voila, photoshoot done!








 I’ve never thrown or been invited to a Halloween party, and Mobile weather can be tricky instead of treating. But every year my Church celebrates with a Fall Fest, and it is my favorite outing of the year.


I had been impatiently awaiting the festival for weeks. Every day of the last week, I kept asking my sister, “Why can’t tomorrow be Halloween?” I even asked the day before Halloween, and then I just screamed, “BUT IT IS!”
So, it’s pretty much an understatement to say that I was excited for it. I was shaking when we got there. But, then, of course, my aunt had to stop us for pictures.


Look at my niece’s face! She was a cat cop, of course, and she was very rotten.
However, my sister and I – Evie and Mal – were truly rotten to the core.



Our Church is raising a lot of funds for the youth and childrens’ departments. With all of the older kids having graduated and gone off to college, it’s not so easy to do the fundraisers we used to. So, for the Fall Fest they sold raffle tickets for awesome prizes and $10 gourmet caramel apples. I joked to my aunt, who helped make them, about them being gross because I detest caramel. She somehow mixed the three showcase apples in with the apples for sell, and would you believe that the only showcase she accidentally sold went to my mom AKA: HER SISTER? Also, they had one of those candy count guess games with candy corn, and I kept guessing low numbers like 12 and 2 just to bug the guy in charge of it.
The night was really fun and cute because I got to spend it with my niece and young cousins.
My eleven-year-old cousin brought his girlfriend of a year there, and so I finally got to meet her (I will not provide a picture of her since she’s not a part of my family, and privacy). She is just too cute. And she’s almost a whole foot taller than my cousin is. Their costumes went together, but I’ll hold out on telling what they were because it was weird and his mom didn’t like it too much. But what’re you gonna do. I mean, kids, right? After spending some time flipping around in the bounce house with my niece and the two boys (don’t worry, I didn’t go in it when other kids were(; ) and chasing the three-year-old all over the parking lot for a good half hour, I went into the cafeteria like room of the Church to kill time with my sister, eleven-year-old cousin, and his girlfriend. We were the only four in the room, and after telling my cousin that he had cooties because his girlfriend sat on the opposite side of me (I think she’d decided she really likes me!) from him, he got up and ran into the kitchen. The kitchen is set up so that there’s an entrance into it from either side of the cafeteria. He kept running from one doorway to the other, sticking his head out and making faces at the three of us girls. Then he ran out into the hall, making silly noises the whole way. His just too cute girlfriend looked straight at me, and said rather seriously, “At least he’s fine on the eyes.”


There is a cake walk at the Fall Fest every year. The fest has been going on for maybe six years, and I had yet to win one darn cake walk. My sister has won, like, four times. I was soo determined this year. They play three or four rounds at a time with fifteen minute breaks in between. The first round I was eating, so I only got in halfway. My youth pastor’s wife watched the second round. She said hey to me with a mouth full of drink, took another sip of it, and then said hey to my sister with a mouth full of drink. It was funny. What was even funnier, though, is that almost every cake walk win was a number that I had been seconds from landing on. So, I was determined to win the third and final round. My sister and I sat on a number for the whole fifteen minutes so we wouldn’t miss a chance (we kind of started a trend, though, because a bunch of younger kids started sitting with us, haha). My number was 2, which is my lucky number. The game started. After I lost the first call, I was certain I wouldn’t win at all. Then I landed back on my 2 for the second call, and I finally won! A sweet, little girl – I’m sure I’ve had her in one of my VBS classes at one point – gave me the exact batch of cupcakes I wanted without me even telling her. I gave my eleven-year-old cousin and his girlfriend one cupcake each, then he ended up stealing a second one and dropping some of it in my drink.

My youngest cousin, at just three-years-old, spent most of his time playing in the little “fishing pond” they’d set up for the toddles. Meaning to keep my eye on him while his mom was inside working, I tried to play “fishies” with him, but he fussed because he wanted to play all by himself so he could make the shark eat the fishies. What a big boy!


We ended up getting rained out, which is the first time that’s ever happened before. We ended with an early trunk-or-treat and door prizes. It even stormed too hard for trick-or-tricking. But I’m sure we all got enough candy at the Church. The rain melted my purple hair to a nice silvery lilac, which looked really pretty, but I still had to try on my sister’s wig and niece’s cat ears!




FORTUNATELY, the festivities did not end there! Most of my Halloween preparing and costuming had been for Dove Cameron, the true face of Maleficent’s daughter, so, of course, I tweeted a whole bunch of my pictures to her on the night after Halloween. And I still can’t fully breathe, because all of that. Resulted. In. This.



I’m so happy. And I so hope your Halloween was just as good as mine.