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That day at the end of October
October 31, 2007
Today was not an especially memorable Halloween. It seems I’ve reached the age (uh, 5 years ago?) when not only is candy-begging deemed inappropriate, but my closest friends have jobs that keep them working late into the evening, leaving me bored and seemingly lame. And being that I have no children of my own to assemble, the majority of my day was spent in the celebration shadows of family and friends and the kids they keep around.
Although! I am attending a Halloween party this Saturday, and while that costume would have been too fancy for my two hours of throwing Reese’s out the door in ten-minute intervals, my sister? No costume either. Therefore, we did what’s standard when dealing with uncertain circumstances:
SILLY HATS!
You see how we’re looking off in opposite directions? Totally on purpose.
And speaking of throwing candy at children, a good 50% of my trickster treatsters were high school boys, who more often than not wore professional football jerseys with women’s wigs. And also? They always said “trick-or-treat,” “thank you,” and took only one mini box of Dots. I would’ve hugged them all if they weren’t so close in age and yet so under 18.
Full photo set here.
October 31st, 2007 at 11:21 pm
The post: so eloquent!
The hats: so wondrous!
October 31st, 2007 at 11:33 pm
=)
October 31st, 2007 at 11:42 pm
Cute! :)
November 1st, 2007 at 6:17 am
I never get trick-or-treaters, never. Too bad, I have some good pranks in mind.
I love the make up on the first pic and the (hat?) of the second.
November 1st, 2007 at 6:57 am
I hate spiders, but I really like your pictures.
November 1st, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Silly hats always work.
We did pretty well with the trick or treaters. All but maybe one kid was in costume (he was trick or treating as a “person.” Does that mean he’s not usually a person but was just pretending to be one?, everyone was polite and no one was too grabby with my Heath bars. The best costume we saw, though, wasn’t on a kid — it was on a mom, probably around 30, who found an aqua leisure suit. She also teased her hair to death before hitting it with a half–gallon of Aqua Net. I have actual memories of the 70s, and she looked pretty good.
You’re posting today, right?
November 1st, 2007 at 12:38 pm
We got about 20 kids last night, most of them little princesses or firemen. I was nigh to being overcome by the sheer cuteness of it all.
November 2nd, 2007 at 1:53 am
Wait, school boys who were high or boys in high school?
November 2nd, 2007 at 2:04 am
Tiff - HA.
The latter.