1. Instead of starting my costume in the summer, spending hundreds of dollars on yards and yards of fabric, allowing my sewing machine to consume hours upon hours upon days upon weeks of my life, all in the name of a beautiful historical recreation… I spent maybe 10 hours on a cute little lion costume. No, not horribly impressive from my typical costume perspective, but a very good concept of a lion. I was cute, I could move, and although my leg warmers didn’t stay up I consider it a success:
2. I only went to one party this year, as opposed to the three last year. Over two weekends. Wearing three different costumes. It was pretty fantastic. This year was much more low key, which is fine with me. I got to Amy & Dan’s by about 2:30, we chatted, I sewed my tail and ears, we got ourselves all done up, got food together, and started the soirée. Then I left by 10 pm because I was tired. But all in all, a good time, anyway.
3. What – I’ve been dating a wonderful man for the past month and a half who has been taking up a lot of my time and I haven't really been concerned with silly little things like sewing? I don’t know what you’re talking about. I deny everything.
Anyway, Halloween was still good enough to count. And I’m happy, and I got some good sleep, and I’m not really stressed out right now. I’m relearning math and music theory vicariously through Matt’s schoolwork, and my chemistry class is going as well as can be expected. I may have found a way to volunteer as a doula at a very good local hospital on weekends, which means I don’t have to worry about being on call all the time with this full time job and classes and all. I’m going home at Thanksgiving (how about that!) and bringing Matt with me. So things are good.
Hope you all had a good Halloween. Enjoy the rest of it, and give those trick-or-treaters the good stuff.
