I’m planning to pass out candy at my own house for the first time in my life!
I have always have been at other people’s homes for parties and such, or out of state.
I’m dressing in my brand new cowboy outfit. Frock coat, matching vest and pants, my “Maverick” hat, a replica Colt 1873 Peacemaker and holster, and I just got word that my replica bullets will arrive in 2 days, so I’ll even have something in the loops on my belt.
I’m building a small fire in my firepit in the front yard and sitting outside on my civil war chair. I plan to have old black & white horror films on the TV with the sound turned off next to me on a civil war table. I’ll be playing Bach organ music as background.
Halloween in Warren will actually be spent in Niles at a local club listening to one of our favorite bands. We’re still working on our costumes due to a previous wardrobe malfunction. (And I mean this almost literally.)
Halloween in Madison means our 4th annual Halloween Party (motto: give your liver to the Dark Lord or, let’s scare the shit out of some beer)
This year’s theme is Rock & Roll, so everyone is coming as a rock star, living or dead. Beer Pong, The Firepit of the Nine Hells and a soundtrack based on everyone’s costume.
That’s actually Friday, Saturday I have a show. The band is judging a costume contest, and we are dressing up as the ultimate supergroup - Bowie up front, the bassist is Lemmy from Motorhead, the guitarist is Slash, the drummer is the Indian from the Village People (he’s an actual Apache Indian, so he’s gonna look more authentic than the actual Village Person) and I’m Stevie Wonder. Talking Book era Stevie, to be precise…complete with beaded braid wig and dashiki.
I don’t think I"m violating a confidence here, but I will almost certainly be up in Cleveland next Sat. night, joining Brian as he goes to PJ Mcintyre’s. I have to work until 5PM, but should be there by 7 or so. It’s not a dopefest. BTW, ask Brian why he’s smiling these days.
Wooster is the only place I’ve ever lived that did not have a city- (or village-) wide trick-or-treat night. Each neighborhood, as defined by…whatever parameters the parents who take it upon themselves to distribute fliers, has its own. It’s only been in recently that there were enough kids in our neighborhood to organize a trick-or-treat night, and we never have more than a handful of trick-or-treaters.
The plus side, for my son, at least, is that he often was able to hit two or three trick-or-treat nights in his friends’ neighborhoods. (I always send a bag of candy for his friends’ parents to hand out, so I won’t feel like he’s freeloading.)
In fact, looking at the calendar for the rest of the year, I find I also have to work Thanksgiving, my birthday, my husband’s birthday, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Eve.
