Come As You Aren't Night
Oct. 31st, 2005 10:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
newnumber6Happy Halloween everyone. For the last few years I really haven't done anything for Halloween, and yet it's probably my favorite ever holiday. It's just great conceptually. Not the candy thing necessarily, which is fun for kids I guess, but the whole dressing up. Really, it's a holiday you can wear anything you want without fear of looking stupid - even if you, say, had a horrible looking tacky outfit, you could wear it and claim it was a costume (just say it's a character in a book, and make up the book title. People don't read anymore. It's sad, but can be used to your advantage).
Anyway, even though I've not done anything these last few years, I always did _something_, something tiny, even just for me. Like getting out the old fake skin and applying a fake wound to myself. Or making a makeshift costume and wearing it but not letting anyone see. Just to sort of honor the holiday.
Today, though, my brother and his girlfriend and I went on a bit of a walk about the area - we had to return a DVD rented last night and he had to cash a cheque, so we figured we'd all go and wander around looking at the house decorations and what people are dressed up as. We didn't formally dress up (my brother joked he was going as an Avian Bird Flu Carrier), but I went as a Browncoat - by wearing my Blue Sun shirt and, well, my brown coat. Nobody noticed I was in costume at all, but hey, that works fine for me. It's still enough for me. Didn't see too many kids, maybe a couple dozen or so all in all (at least close enough to get an idea what they were wearing). Some nice house decorations though. Also stopped into a 7-11 where I was seriously tempted to pick up something they had there I'd never seen (never going into a 7-11), something called "Death Rain" potato chips, in various flavours including Cajun, Buffalo Wings, and Habernero. They looked pretty good but ehh, didn't have too much cash on me and they cost way more than a bag of chips of that size should. Ah well.
Anyway, even though I've not done anything these last few years, I always did _something_, something tiny, even just for me. Like getting out the old fake skin and applying a fake wound to myself. Or making a makeshift costume and wearing it but not letting anyone see. Just to sort of honor the holiday.
Today, though, my brother and his girlfriend and I went on a bit of a walk about the area - we had to return a DVD rented last night and he had to cash a cheque, so we figured we'd all go and wander around looking at the house decorations and what people are dressed up as. We didn't formally dress up (my brother joked he was going as an Avian Bird Flu Carrier), but I went as a Browncoat - by wearing my Blue Sun shirt and, well, my brown coat. Nobody noticed I was in costume at all, but hey, that works fine for me. It's still enough for me. Didn't see too many kids, maybe a couple dozen or so all in all (at least close enough to get an idea what they were wearing). Some nice house decorations though. Also stopped into a 7-11 where I was seriously tempted to pick up something they had there I'd never seen (never going into a 7-11), something called "Death Rain" potato chips, in various flavours including Cajun, Buffalo Wings, and Habernero. They looked pretty good but ehh, didn't have too much cash on me and they cost way more than a bag of chips of that size should. Ah well.
