What I'm Reading This Week #16
Good Friday to you! Literally. I can't believe Easter is here. Anyone else having epic wind and rain storms over the past month? I mean good friggin' luck trying to enjoy any time out there and we're not afraid of weather. As I type, there are 40mph gusts. I went out to paint the critter cages on the planters and feel like I have hypothermia at 47 degrees when yesterday's weather forecast said it would be 74 today. Da fuq? Guess who finally took the bedroom Christmas tree down Wednesday? It was neutrally decorated so it was fine but it came on every night and gave a cozy glow. I knew one day I would look at it and know it needed to go to sleep until November 1st. That's the other thing, I will be decorating for everything extra early from now on. August 1st- Fall decor as I will thoroughly be over summer by then and given that's the day Mom passed, I'll need something to lift my spirits. November 1st it'll be ...
I wanted a Darth Vader helmet so bad. The first Halloween I asked for that I got a knockoff helmet that was actually kind of cool but since it wasn't Star Wars I didn't like it at the time. Then for my birthday one year I really wanted a stormtrooper helmet but ended up getting the real Darth Vader helmet instead and that was my go-to costume every year from that point on until I too was just too tal to continue to go. I wish we could still trick or treat as adults! Not fair!!
ReplyDeleteMy brother had that mask! He has an October bday and the year he trcik-or-treated as Darth Vader was also the year he appeared on the local kids show in my hometown. He wore his costume and was the lead-in from the commercial when the opened the segment where the birthday kids got to pull a fistful of pennies from the jar. They even played the Imperial March!
DeleteMy mom was a good sewer and I had some cool homemade costumes. I also had my share of store-bought, including those plastic masks. The most memorable was the year my Mom sewed the Annie dress and I had a red-head wig. One of my neighbors asked me to sing "Tomorrow." I felt like a star.
I trick or treated clear up to my junior year of high school, and would have gone my senior year too but I had a job and had to work. At a Chrismas store. Hmmm... think maybe there's a reason for my "it's too early for Christmas issues"? lol
ReplyDeleteWhere I grew up people didn't really complain about older kids/teens trick or treating. I think they mostly figured it was a better alternative to the shenanigans we could have been up to. I don't ever remember anyone telling us we were too old.
I had some super cool costumes as a kid. All home-made and because kids are contrary I always wanted the store bought flimsy plastic mask and nylon costume and my folks always said no. I went as ET one year, a flower (complete with a paper machie mask and a giant box as a pot) another year.
I remember being a kitty and I still look for that mask to this day. I was wonder woman one year, Isis another (the mythic one, not what it's known for today...oddly, she looked a lot like wonder woman), and a witch one year.
ReplyDeleteI think another layer and I had very similar Halloween experiences growing up. I don't remember ever having a store bought costume and I can't remember when I stopped trick-or-treating, but it was some time in high school.
ReplyDeleteI was always something different every year for Halloween and I always had to come up with the idea for my costume. My parents would help if necessary, but as I got older more and more of the costume was my responsibility. The challenge was always that the costume had to have the potential to be adapted to wear a winter coat and potentially even snow pants underneath. You never knew what the temperature would be like a the end of October in Canada. I remember one year I was a Christmas present, another year I was a grave stone, and then there was always the easy costumes of being a gypsy, witch, of a teenager from the '50's. Inspiration usually came from what I could find at the used clothing store.