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Hooray, it's October! I like October because it's the month when Florida summer starts to release its hot, humid grip on us.

Having grown up in the North, there's still a part of me that associates this month with leaves achieving vivid color and swirling to earth like pointillist confetti. I remember riding to school on the bus in the mornings and looking at the houses to see which ones were decorated for Halloween.

This was long before the days of giant inflatable lawn sculptures---there were real pumpkins on front steps, a bundle of bright-hued indian corn tacked to a front door, or in a window, some pasteboard caricature with articulated arms and legs (a goblin, a skeleton or a witch).

"What are you going to be?" we asked each other. "I'm going to be a princess!"

I outgrew store-bought costumes after age 7, so I'd end up with a mask and whatever my mom could improvise, and when I reached junior high, my dad put an end to my trick-or-treating career. I was too old, he said, but that's also about the same time they sent me to a summer camp that was run by Weight Watchers.

It wasn't until my twenties that I began to dress up again. I spent several years as a Viking/valkyrie, though I've since broadened my range: I've been Ursula from The Little Mermaid, a trailer park alien abductee, a Renaissance maiden, and the Statue of Liberty. (I'm particularly proud of the latter, which won me a $20 gift certificate. The pointy headdress was the tricky part....)

Wishing you all the delights of October!

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Date: 2006-10-01 04:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] adventurat.livejournal.com
Yeeks! When did you change your page to candyfloss pink? Surprised me, that did.

I love October, for all the childhood reasons you mentioned. We've had a hot summer, and the promise of vividly-coloured leaves is already being delivered upon. I'm looking forward to watching the boulevard trees on my commute change as the weeks pass.

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Date: 2006-10-01 10:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vanillafluffy.livejournal.com
My page has always been pink, but it used to have blue lettering...it got scrambled when I was tinkering with it, and I ended up switching to a prefab color scheme because I was tired of screwing with it, but I'm going to have to fiddle with it some more. (I might as well; it's a paid account, it's a perk....)

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Date: 2006-10-01 10:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] adventurat.livejournal.com
Really? Obv'y I haven't commented for some time, then, because I didn't remember the pink.

And yeah, tinker away - that's what paid accounts are for!

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Date: 2006-10-02 01:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vanillafluffy.livejournal.com
And here I thought they were for icons sluts (I'd pay more if they'd give me more icons! 105 isn't nearly enough!)

Icons! Of course!

Date: 2006-10-02 03:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] adventurat.livejournal.com
THAT's what we pay for. What was I thinking?

I have space for 109 I think. And only 101 uploaded.

Re: Icons! Of course!

Date: 2006-10-02 04:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vanillafluffy.livejournal.com
I was really miffed when I learned the LJ version of math. Everybody gets six icons. Paid accounts get thirty icons. For another $10, you can get "up to" a hundred user pics. See, that's the fine print---after buying an account, and shelling out the extra $10, I thought I'd have 136 icons, but it didn't work out that way. VERY irritating! That $10 only bought me 69 icons. I supposedly get a total of 105 (of which I've got 95 up), and I go through them periodically and see which ones I haven't used in a while and what seems more relevant. (Most of the time, I figure after a few weeks, no one's going to see the post anyway, so if it winds up the default icon, wtf, nbd.) Holidays, new fandoms, lust-objects, just plain cool icons...the more versatile the better: "Do I look happy?" works in non-Housian situations, Depp kissing has broad appeal, and so on. I just wish they'd let us have more....

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Date: 2006-10-01 04:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] adventurat.livejournal.com
Also? That's one very long, very specific tag. Did you mean to have it be four separate ones? (For that, you need to use commas between.)

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Date: 2006-10-01 10:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vanillafluffy.livejournal.com
*sigh* Bugger. Technicalities!

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Date: 2006-10-01 10:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] socialhermit.livejournal.com
October RULES. It's always been my favorite month, and Halloween has always been my fave holiday. I, too, have grown up (and still live) up north, and I absolutely LOVE the changing leaves, the blue sky, the crisp air and the orange harvest moon. I couldn't live anywhere that didn't experience Fall in all its glory!

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Date: 2006-10-01 11:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vanillafluffy.livejournal.com
The "snowbirds" start arriving from the Northern realms at this time of year. Sometimes, when July and August are at their worst, I think it would be pleasant to spend May through October somewhere else, where it has overnight lows around sixty even in the middle of summer...but I'd definitely wait through the changing of the leaves to leave. (But frost? Oh no! This poor little transplant is no longer cold hardy.)

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Date: 2006-10-01 11:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] majolika.livejournal.com
how does a trailer park alien abductee look?

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Date: 2006-10-02 12:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vanillafluffy.livejournal.com
She wears a baggy nightgown and bedroom slippers, hair is up in curlers, she's carrying a tacky tabloid newspaper and babbles about having lunch with Elvis and being probed:

"Well, I heard this noise outside---I thought it was a racoon getting into the trash, and I come a-running out of the double-wide, and there it was---the Mother Ship! It was just a-hovering and a-spinning...and then there was this white light, and they beamed me up, just like I was on Star Trek, except they wasn't human!"

I had a lot of fun playing dumb and walking around like that all day at work. (My previous place of employment took Halloween very seriously. Sometimes too seriously!)

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Date: 2006-10-02 03:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] majolika.livejournal.com
BWAHAHAHA coughcough!!
thanks, that's exavtly what I needed right now:)

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Date: 2006-10-02 03:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vanillafluffy.livejournal.com
Glad I could help.

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