Happy Halloween!

Halloween is one of my favorite days of the year....you are given the chance to dress up in a costume and prance around showing your stuff. While I haven't really celebrated Halloween the past few years with a costume....either due to laziness or just the fact that I was too busy to attend any Halloween bashes, I do enjoy seeing the streets filled with vampires, witches, ghosts, pirates, Disney characters, etc.

While Halloween isn't celebrated in all countries, some countries do have equivalents (e.g., carnival), where donning of costumes is popular.

Halloween also makes me nostalgic. It brings back memories of the various costumes I have worn throughout the years:

a) Kindergarden (2 years): clown, gypsy

b) 2nd Grade: clown. i.e., it was just a clown mask, but the overall outfit was just jeans and a sweater...sigh...I know, not too creative....I got a lot of teasing for that mask from my classmates

c) 4th Grade: magician...I loved this outfit; it was a long pointy hat and a cape with different colored stars...my favorite accessory was the wand

d) 5th Grade: magician...I know, you're thinking, "AGAIN?" Well, do realize, that I switched schools, so no one knew that I had worn this outfit the previous year.

e) 7th Grade: pirate...I had a sword and an eyepatch, and a fake tattoo of a scar. My family wasn't too happy about this outfit for some reason...hmmm.

f) 9th Grade: a witch....the black hat I wore didn't look like a witch's hat...it looked like something else, and a classmate (who I thought was my friend...and she still was, but I was furious), made a lot of fun of it, and called it something that is not worthy of mentioning in print.

g) 10th Grade: the uncle from the Addams' Family....this was supposed to be a group effort for a costume contest, but we didn't win. I had wanted to be the mother (i.e., the character played by Angelica Houston), but my friend was very insistent on being her. Oh well.

So there you have it. Perhaps I shall one day wear a costume again. I would be most interested in having one of those creatively designed masquerade masks with the glitter and all. Let's see. Maybe next year. Until then, have a Happy and Safe Halloween.