Happy Halloween!
This is the holiday that I *try* to like. I try to get all into it. I buy decorations (that I still haven’t put up). I think about throwing a rad party (that I have yet to throw). I see costumes that would be fun to make (and I end up buying the kid’s costumes at the last minute). I have some sort-of fractured memories about Halloween that I think are the reason for my mental block against going all gaga over it. I remember my Dad’s grandmother dying close to (or on?) Halloween…I don’t even know if that memory is correct, but it’s there. I remember my Uncle John getting hurt on Halloween. I went to a fraternity Halloween party my senior year of high school with Scooter…and he broke up with me the next day (because he met that awful Julie at the party). So, I think I always brace for something bad to happen on Halloween. Today will be different. I’ll wear my cute Halloween socks (geek), enjoy eating candy all day (we do cubicle trick-or-treating at work), and be thankful that we won’t be trudging through snow to take Austin out tonight. Hope has declared that she’s "too old" to go trick-or-treating…but I expect that to change by tonight.
I’m still on this scrapbooking/creative high from this weekend. I have a bunch of projects milling around in my head. First & foremost, I need to get a circle journal in the mail tomorrow for a new cj group that I’m in. Plus special orders from the show. Plus some layouts for ME because I haven’t done any in awhile. Plus my Mom’s layouts from the summer that I’m sure she’d add to this list if I didn’t. And I need to organize this mess that I call a scraproom so that I can find stuff to do all these projects!
Oh, and a couple of shout outs to cool people that might be stopping by – Christine from Saranac Lake…a super cool scrapper that came to the show…and Jean from right here in Colchester…the super cool owner of our LSS (local scrapbook store – check out the link in my sidebar). HI CHRISTINE! HI JEAN!
I hope you all have a very Happy Halloween – I’d love to see pictures of costumes!
8 Comments
Tawnya
Hope your weekend was everything you were hoping for! Cant wait to hear all about it!
Kelly Edgerton
Halloween, I informed my kids yesterday that it’s not actually a holiday – it is just a silly day made up long ago by naughty kids who wanted an excuse to go beg for candy. Thankfully, John has a football playoff game tonight, so we will be turning off the lights, locking all the doors, and hoping the little goblins leave us alone! Enjoy your cubicle Trick or Treating. At least you will end up with some good candy out of the day.
Sonia
Ahh, don’t be the halloween grinch! lol. have fun, pretend you’re a kid again.
M. Bryant
You dated someone named “Scooter”, I forgot about that. Was he an SAE or a Sigma Chi? No, wait, it doesn’t matter – there’s no difference.
Shannon
Scooter…ah the crappy memories. Ha. I have the same Halloween blahs that you do. My son wanted to have a spooky Halloween party. Not happening. I have decorations that are still in boxes somewhere. I’m taking him trick-or-treating because at 4 they don’t take no for an answer. I’ll email a photo of him in his Jeff Gordon costume (yes, the NASCAR is out of control). No, I won’t be in the photo. I’m still not over you posting that hideous photo of me from your CA trip.
renee
Every Halloween I think of how you have “bad vibes” when it comes to Halloween. I can never remember why, so thanks for refreshing my memory. My mom mentioned tonight all of the High Schoolers who came to her house for candy, and she said was complaining that they didn’t even have costumes on. I reminded her of our Hoover High ID card costume. She said, “At least you two were clever.”
Missy_G
I’m not a big Halloween person either. The kids like it so I do some minor decorating. They did have a lot of fun!
Scooter what a name…that is what my husbands family calls him. Why would you do that to your child?
Have a great day!
Karin
Hope you made it through the day without anything bad happening! So glad the weather was nice for trick-or-treating. That’s one part of living in NY I do not miss!