Happy Halloween!

Well hello again!  I just realized it's been over a month since my last post, so I figured I would take a break from homework and studying to say Happy Halloween to everyone!

I must admit, I'm not the biggest fan of Halloween.  I hate being scared, I CANNOT watch scary movies (I slept on the couch for a week after watching The Sixth Sense), and I haven't dressed up for it in years.  But I do like the candy!  I'm having to hold out on munching down all the candy we have until tonight in case we actually have trick-or-treaters come to our door.

Speaking of dressing up, when I go to my nursing home sessions I get to talk about Halloween with all my ladies.  I ask what they would like to dress up as or what their favorite costume was.   I always get to tell them about the year my mom made my costume, along with my brother's and sister's.  Laura was a princess (of course), Andy was Batman, and I...I was a tube of toothpaste.  Mom made this long white tunic thing, pasted "TOOTHPASTE" down the middle, gave me a cardboard toothbrush, and put a lampshade on my head for the cap.  Priceless.  There's a picture floating around somewhere...probably on our fridge at home.  I think the last time I "dressed up" for Halloween was freshman year of college.  This was a close as it got...

Can you tell which one I am?  Yup...I'm the cool kid in the Great Pumpkin scrub top.  This was in my Music Theory class.  As a fundraiser for music therapy, we went around doing singing telegrams for Halloween.  One of my classmates paid for us to get our teacher Dr. Sharpe (the one in the hideous sweater) to dance the Monster Mash with us.  And of course, I have video!

And of course my video wouldn't upload.  Ohhh...good times indeed.  Maybe I'll try again later.  This year has been much less eventful.  I don't even have a Halloween shirt to wear!  I think I have one orange shirt I can throw on in case I have to answer the door and give out candy.

Here's another fun fact about my Halloween:  this is the second time I'm in an apartment (not on campus) for the holiday.  Last year I was in Jackson.  I bought some candy in case anyone came by, because I knew there were some kids in the complex.  At the end of the night I had two trick-or-treaters...they were in their late teens/early 20s...one was pregnant.  Good times.  This year cannot be more entertaining than that.

I hear a lot of confusion about when people are trick-or-treating this year since Halloween is on Sunday.  Do they take the kids Saturday night or Sunday night?  And what's up with some cities doing it one night and some doing it the next?  Silly kids in school.  Parents, live it up!  Let 'em go out Sunday night!   It'll give all  the teachers a quiet day at school the next day.

Well, that's all I have for now.  Gotta get back to this take-home essay test and study guide.  Until next time!

(PS...that's not my pumpkin masterpiece up top...found it on google.)