Happy Halloween!
So hard to believe it’s already Halloween. Wasn’t it just the beginning of race season?
Since SS and I are not dressing up this year, there won’t be pounds of candy in our house. Which in turns means we won’t have to do ridiculous amounts of exercises to be rid of the candy bulge. Score!
Be safe out there. Don’t let crazy creepy clowns get you.
Happy Halloween
to all my Readers.
We had a full house for our Halloween party. There were people inside. There were people outside. People were EVERYWHERE! People came dressed as a variety of things. Was so totally awesome!
RM#1 put on her high school cheer uniform, and I threw on my Goodyear Mechanics uniform.
There was a LOT of drinking. And a LOT of Jell-O shots. But no hangover. Awesome.
Did you host a party this year? Or did you attend a party instead?
Halloween is next month. This is my least favorite day of the entire year. I’ve written about it in past years here, and here. I think it’s just plain stupid.
But….right now, I have a sudden urge to decorate my house for Halloween. I want to hang orange lights outside. I want to put tombstones in my front yard and write funny things on them about people only me and my family/friends will understand. I want to carve pumpkins. I want to line my walkway with cool little lights. I want to put a scary headless skeleton man on the bench by my front door. I want to go to the pumpkin patch and pick out pumpkins. I want to spread fake webbing all over the front of my doorway.
I want to decorate my mantle with lots of Halloweeny things.
I want to paint a few pumpkins like this.
I want to hang skeletons from my roof.
And I want to paint my nails in crazy Halloween designs.
I don’t know what has caused this sudden interest in Halloween, but I’m sure it’ll pass long before the actual day arrives. And if it doesn’t, RM#1 is going to be sorry she allowed me to decorate. :-)
Look at these cool pumpkin carvings and designs. I have no artistic design talent whatsoever, so when I see things like this, I become intrigued. I hope you like them too.
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I was watching an episode of King of the Hill tonight, and Halloween was topic of conversation. It was about whether or not Halloween was a “scary” or “religious” day. (Kind of like that whole devil on one shoulder, angel on the other thing.) I have often wondered this very question, so I went to Google.
I found this funny quote. “we should have two halloweens one for sexy and one for scary. I want to see some creative girls come up with scary original costumes but nooo.... All I see are 500 of the same costumes with a different label. oh your a sexy Cinderella.. hmm I thought it was pronounced hooker”. I actually laughed out loud.
I read a little more, but most of it didn’t make sense to my simple mind. A bunch of fancy talk that could have simply been stated as
“Millions of Irish fleeing Ireland's potato famine of 1846, helped to popularize the celebration of Halloween nationally. Taking from Irish and English traditions, Americans began to dress up in costumes and go house to house asking for food or money, a practice that eventually became today's "trick-or-treat" tradition.”
instead of the way it was actually written. Something else I learned was
“At the turn of the century, Halloween parties for both children and adults became the most common way to celebrate the day. Parties focused on games, foods of the season, and festive costumes. Parents were encouraged by newspapers and community leaders to take anything "frightening" or "grotesque" out of Halloween celebrations. Because of their efforts, Halloween lost most of its superstitious and religious overtones by the beginning of the twentieth century.
What do you think Halloween is? Is it supposed to be scary, or is a simple Ladybug costume just fine?
