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I think I accidentally zapped your request, Jess. I was on holidays with my family this weekend. Sorry bout that. If you resend, I promise not to be a dick again.
I could go as Magenta from RHPS, but I don't want to wake up really early to fix my hair before work. I'll probably end up going as a 30's-era secretary like I did last year.
As for candy, I keep telling myself to pass out Smarties or Tootsie
Rolls, stuff I don't like, but I always end up getting Crunch bars or Kit Kats. I did not get a single trick or treater last year, so it's really an excuse for me to buy myself a bowl of candy.
Going as a South Park character is always a good idea. My best friend and I went as Terrance and Philip one year. A few years ago, I went as Mr. Garrison, complete with a Mr. Hat puppet that I ordered from Britain. (We don't fuck around when it comes to Halloween)
You Bitch!! you stole my costume!! I bet you are the one who stole Mr Hat!!
(I will dig up the picture of me as Mr Garrison - with a Mr Hat I made myself) I was driving cab that year, every one of my passengers knew instantly who I was
1.) I am going as a Sim, you know from the Sims game. I have a headpiece with the skill improvement capsule over it, filled with purple liquid and the spinning green diamond, in a formal dress. All my friends are nerds and will get the reference.
2. I give out bad ass candy. I make little baggies with ribbons and things and I fill it with mini-chocolate bars, and little demonic looking clay talismans I make myself- that pisses off the parents. I have special presents I give to anyone who tells me an on the spot scary story. Those baggies have better goodies in them, like handmade clay painted devil horns, demon summoner talisman necklaces and poison rings. I also have five special pendants I am giving out this year, which are necklaces with vials that have things like real mummified and preserved octopus tenticals, hamster bones and beatles. Only the grown ups get those.
Either a witch or a zombie. I'm going to check out prices for zombie stuff that I will need and if I can swing it into the budget then it's zombie. If I can't, I already have the witch stuff.
No idea on the candy yet. Anything to stop the Haglet from giving out those prepackaged peanut butter and crackers.
...so I'll be going the zombie route, since I have leftover make-up & such from the Zombie Pub Crawl earlier this year (plus I just love zombies). It's not anywhere near as nice as Georgie's zombie showgirl outfit, but it's a little revealing in the places appropriate for my age. My friend made Gracie a nurse uniform (which I thought was fitting for a Service Dog), so she'll be wearing that. We take the dogs to the party at the Senior Center where my mom goes and visit the folks for a few hours...the dogs don't really mind wearing the costumes because they get so much attention and food, and I only leave their hats on for a little while. (They're used to wearing coats most of the time, so the actual costumes aren't much different, but they hate the hats.)
As for candy, I just set it outside the door since I'm not home early on and also so the dogs don't bark constantly all night from people knocking. I have two containers: one with candy (Snickers and Milk Duds), and one with toys (Play Doh, little magic tricks, Hot Wheels, etc.). We don't get that many kids in my neighborhood, so I splurge for the good stuff. And there are almost always leftovers for us.
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Becky B.
[Displaced New Yorker]
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Gracie
[CGC and Service Dog]
I finally decided on The Dude from The Big Lebowski. It is really too bad that none of my friends have seen that movie, so no one understood my costume. Damn shame.
Jess,
If your friends haven't seen The Big Lebowski, you need cooler friends. I have a buddy who hasn't seen it yet, and I rip on him pretty much every time I see him. I'm thinking that after hearing, "Shut the fuck up, Donny," and "You're out of your element," enough, he'll finally cave.
Cheers,
Paul "Really Tied the Room Together" Welke
Every year we have a big Halloween party. This year I may dress like my avatar, or I might go with a neat little devil outfit I've got.
As for trick-or-treating, I'm going to do the usual... hide in the bushes and scare the shit out of kids as they come up to the house
Cheers - MM
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"The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered."
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, "The Great Agnostic" (1833-1899)
I've already been to one party, so here's how I was dressed:
Me with my significant other at the same event:
Am probably going to do something different for the party we're going to tomorrow night, since there's not really a "companion costume" for how he'll be dressed.
Tonight (10/30) is trick or treat in my neck of the woods. I'm giving out a mix of candy, including:
I'm kinda bummed, as I wasn't able to do anything for Halloween this year ( am recovering from some surgery these past few weeks)
I guess I could have gone out as Darkman and had my face swathed in bandages. That way my freakishly swollen face wouldn't scare off too many folks:) But I stayed in . .and slept.
We ended up giving mini Kit Kats out this year. Mmm . .and I was able to blenderize some leftover candy in a milkshake earlier this evening. Yum.
Hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween!
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You can choose a ready guide
In some celestial voice.
If you choose not to decide
You still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears
And kindness that can kill;
I will choose a path that's clear-
I will choose free will
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