Converse Chuck Taylor
I understand that most of my friends cannot wait to spend a week's worth of grocery money on a ridiculous costume to celebrate a night that most of them won't remember. In college, we wore the skimpiest of outfits, simply because, let's face it: we could. As one gentlemen put it, "It's the only night of the year where dressing up as a complete skank is acceptable." Well put, if you ask me.
Up North, the weather in October is nothing short of freezing after sunset. Two years ago, Halloween was canceled three weeks in row because of snow. Not flurries, or a few inches but mounds, heaps, and feet of snow. It was beautiful while it was falling, fun to play in for the first day, and then, it became treacherous, annoying and a total road block in life...not the proverbial kind.We were stuck inside for three days. My father and I spent three hours shoveling just around the garage to get all the cars out. That night, I the plowman called my father and told him that the weight of the snow broke his plow, ten feet up our nine hundred foot driveway. The next morning, my father and I trekked down to the bottom of the driveway. With the weight and depth of the snow, it took us thirty minutes just to get to the bottom and another six hours to make any sort of dent.
I was so desperate to get out of the house that I put an all-call on Facebook for anyone who could help. One of my ex-boyfriends from high school, who happens to still live down the street from my parents, contacted me after seeing the post. Second plow fail of the day. He barely got two feet past the first plowman's attempt. The next day, a neighbor showed up with his backhoe. Yes...a backhoe. He was my snow savior.
View from my parents' front porch.
Last year at Red's.
This year, even though Halloween is on a Friday and I have a skimpy skeleton dress/costume hanging in my closet for "just-in-case," I still plan on taking Finn to the dog park, working out, then curling up and watching Netflix for the remainder of the night. There aren't enough children around my apartment complex for me to worry about trick-or-treaters, even though I'm sure Finn would enjoy be frequented by small humans dressed in funny costumes.
I hope everyone has a happy and safe Halloween full of expensive booze and skanky costumes!
I hope everyone has a happy and safe Halloween full of expensive booze and skanky costumes!