FRIDAY, October 12th, 2012
Central Park East - 7:15am

Good morning!  As I just typed in "October 12th" it hit me.  October is halfway over.  What the HELL!  This is one of my favorite months!  October, November, and December are my favorite months of the year.  Can we talk about something?  I LOVE HALLOWEEN.  I FREAKING LOVE IT.  There is something about dressing up in a costume that I find to be so much fun - much alcohol is consumed - inhibitions are gone - and before you know it you're sliding through your sticky, beer coated living room truly believing you are Tom Cruise from Risky Business (see below).  I have fought the urge to dress my dogs in costume.  Mainly because they will hate it - try to pull it off - and those costumes are expensive.  My dog can't understand that it's a celebration of witches, broomsticks, hauntings, skeletons, candy, and generalized spookiness.  Last year was a sad year for the Halloween world.  I did NOTHING.  I had a huge experiment that day and I remember at the end of it, I just wanted to go home.  I didn't want to do anything but go to sleep.  That was the first year I've EVER not celebrated Halloween (again, see below).  This year will NOT be a repeat.  I have not 1, not 2, but 3 Halloween parties to attend.  I will not tell what I will be dressed as - you'll see later. I'm also plotting with my neighbor on the 6th floor about how we can get trick-or-treating going in our building, so that we can see the little kids all dressed up and finally be grown up and hand out candy. 

I love the concept of holidays that are a little magical.  Like Christmas - I'm not going to lie - a part of me still believes that Saint Nick somehow magically makes Christmas miracles happen every year.  He might not be the one handing out the presents - but maybe he's off living in some snowy Scandinavian forest with a herd of flying reindeer making old fashioned wooden toys?  I don't know.  That's what I like about Halloween.  That maybe while you're drinking some kind of orange alcohol-laden punch from a skeleton chalice, there's actually some black magic about. 

Here's a little playback of some of my Halloween costumes of the past 5-7 years.

 Ok - maybe this one is from longer ago than 5-7 years - but that is a bomb clown suit.  And - bonus - someone gave me a disembodied head on a stick!

Halloween of '06.  I was GI Jane and those are some of my basketball teammates.  Left top is Krista - she was a gangster, then below is Amy - she was 80's workout barbie, and Right is Timisha - she was Stewie Griffin from Family Guy.  

Now I believe this was Halloween of '07.  I was an Eagles player.  And I call this my "Busch Light" period. 

 

Oh boy, folks, this year was a doozy.  This was '08 - the year I graduated.  We hosted the party of the century this Halloween.  Me and my 3 roomies put together a horrifyingly awesome party complete with keg (which remained in our backyard until SPRING the following year), coated all of the walls with black garbage bags, put up skeletons everywhere, had a playlist of only Halloween-ish music (think MJ's Thriller, the theme from the Adam's family, the theme from Psycho, the theme from The Amityville Horror, Britney Spears Toxic....you get the idea).  I was Tom Cruise from Risky Business (ok - I don't even like Tom Cruise - I just wanted an excuse to wear nothing but boys underwear, an oversized pink button down and tube socks). 

 This was '09.  See that tattoo?  Drew it on with Sharpie - yea - I'm that devoted.  Brian and I were Micky and Mallory Knox from the movie - Natural Born Killers.

Another doozy of a year - '10.  That is blue latex paint.  Yes, Blue.  Latex.  Paint.  I'm a Naví from the movie Avatar.  That guy is Mike Fath - one of my dearest Philly friends.  I have to say - this was commitment.  I cried when I took that paint off - it was a full body wax experience.  It took hours for us to be completely painted.  And we constructed our other clothes out of a brown curtain.

Do you need some help getting into the Halloween spirit?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOnqjkJTMaA 

Have a great one!