Halloween Hoopla

Day 5 of Halloween Week: Skipped it. Really. Just blew right on by. Maybe had a few Halloween-colored M&M's.

Day 6: Ate candy. Worked on my costume - I'm ALL about the last-minute stuff. (Sigh.) Intended to watch Coraline (in 3-D!) but instead got my parents to watch The Addams Family (as they had never seen the movie) while I kept working. Listened to Plan-B Theater Company's Radio Hour: Alice as it was broadcast over the radio. Cooool. (Very appropriate, too, as I was working on an Alice in Wonderland costume.) It's getting quickly to the point where I'm going to be bragging about knowing Matt Bennett, the playwright (we were at school together at SUU). Loved his Radio Hour: Frankenstein last year.

Day 7 "Halloween": Slept in a little bit. Thank goodness my brother and his wife decided to do their early-Saturday-morning move next week! Got up, kept working on the costume. (Double sigh.) Finally got into makeup and hair in the early afternoon, costumed, and ran some errands - just because it was Halloween and you're allowed, nay, EXPECTED to go out in public in costume on that particular day. Nobody really “got” the outfit (I heard one "cute costume"), but I should have realized that "Black-and-White Alice in Wonderland" or "Original Alice, i.e., from the pen-and-ink drawings from the book" wouldn't exactly be a no-brainer, especially since I had no "Eat Me" or "Drink Me" props. Live and learn. Did a "dine-and-dash" at a dinner party, then went with my friend Ricky to Odyssey Dance Company's Thriller. Third year in a row - LOVE IT! A girl a couple of rows in front of me was dressed as "in-color Alice" so I got a picture. Went home, took off my very pretty wig, and started contemplating ways to re-use the costume next year.



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After going for about a month with no ice cream, I am now moving on to cutting out cheese and chocolate (with a few specific exceptions, IF I make my exercise goals). By Thanksgiving, I’m planning to drop sugar altogether.

Also, I may have to start a book blog, because coming up soon I’ll be starting that Year Without Fiction (i.e., Novels). It’s time – I really need to take my brain back.