I did! Still couldn't figure it out (but didn't notice the red wig, fwiw, as I didn't have my glasses on me; as you know, my eyes will fail me at times). "In-between" explains why I couldn't, so thanks for clarifying. You looked good either way, so "in-between" turned out to be one great outfit. :)
Growing up, most years mom and I (omg, in editing before posting I just realized I dropped the word "my" from that!) did give out candy, but the few years we didn't, we'd just keep the lights low, our TVs on low volume and just ignore any knocks on the door.
I don't like Halloween for all the reasons anyone's ever not liked it, so I'd be just as glad to have ignored candy-goers my whole life. I didn't even really like trick or treating as a kid - always too cold (in NY, at least), too dark, and it always felt dangerous.
I mean, my mom wouldn't walk me up to multiple strangers' doors any other night of the year and instruct me to knock, yell something at them and wait for candy as some sort of reward for what is in and of itself weird and blatantly outrageous behavior, and that wasn't lost on me from the earliest age...so I was too smart to enjoy it, I guess.
What I do like is fall/Thanksgiving - decorating outside with fall leaves-themed stuff, pumpkins, scarecrows and turkeys, and getting ready for the late fall and winter holidays. That, at least to me, seems rather nice.
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Date: 2016-11-02 03:16 am (UTC)From:I did! Still couldn't figure it out (but didn't notice the red wig, fwiw, as I didn't have my glasses on me; as you know, my eyes will fail me at times). "In-between" explains why I couldn't, so thanks for clarifying. You looked good either way, so "in-between" turned out to be one great outfit. :)
Growing up, most years mom and I (omg, in editing before posting I just realized I dropped the word "my" from that!) did give out candy, but the few years we didn't, we'd just keep the lights low, our TVs on low volume and just ignore any knocks on the door.
I don't like Halloween for all the reasons anyone's ever not liked it, so I'd be just as glad to have ignored candy-goers my whole life. I didn't even really like trick or treating as a kid - always too cold (in NY, at least), too dark, and it always felt dangerous.
I mean, my mom wouldn't walk me up to multiple strangers' doors any other night of the year and instruct me to knock, yell something at them and wait for candy as some sort of reward for what is in and of itself weird and blatantly outrageous behavior, and that wasn't lost on me from the earliest age...so I was too smart to enjoy it, I guess.
What I do like is fall/Thanksgiving - decorating outside with fall leaves-themed stuff, pumpkins, scarecrows and turkeys, and getting ready for the late fall and winter holidays. That, at least to me, seems rather nice.