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Oct. 1st, 2006 09:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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!
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)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)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-01 10:27 pm (UTC)And yeah, tinker away - that's what paid accounts are for!
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Date: 2006-10-02 01:59 am (UTC)Icons! Of course!
Date: 2006-10-02 03:01 am (UTC)I have space for 109 I think. And only 101 uploaded.
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Date: 2006-10-02 12:49 am (UTC)"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)thanks, that's exavtly what I needed right now:)
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Date: 2006-10-02 03:51 am (UTC)