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Nov. 1st, 2011
This Is Halloween
Nov. 1st, 2011 10:59 pmHalloween was one of my favorite holidays, if not my overall favorite, when I was a kid. It wasn't that I liked being scared (really, I was a pretty paranoid kid), but that I enjoyed the creativity involved. As an adult, I'm constantly trying to recapture my favorite parts of childhood, and I get the feeling that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bethje is the same way. Unfortunately, there really isn't as much adults can do for Halloween, unless you get invited to parties, which we don't. I guess one reason people have kids is so they can participate, but that involves too much work to get the brief rewards. Still, we did do some things that were kind of fun. On Friday evening, we went on two haunted hayrides, one at a fire station and the other at a mulch store. For some reason, the latter had a lot more attendees. It also had a maze, which was more confusing than I would have thought. I mean, there was only one way to go, but what with the weird flashing lights and such, I sometimes found myself walking into walls. On the actual Halloween, we went to Beth's aunt's house, and walked around the neighborhood a bit. Beth went for themed costumes, dressing as Little Red Riding Hood with Dewey as the Big Bad Wolf in grandmother's clothing.
I put together a last-minute addition to the theme by getting a red plaid jacket and axe (although it was the wrong sort of axe) to be the woodsman, but I don't think anybody really noticed. Dewey's nightcap kept slipping off, too. Also, I'd forgotten to request the day off from work, so I worked four hours that evening. We used to go out to eat on Halloween night, but that wasn't possible this year.
We watched the new Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episode tonight, and I must say I was not particularly impressed. The first segment was mostly just Homer farting for a few minutes. Come on, Family Guy has fart jokes in pretty much every episode, but even they never drag them out THAT long. The second, with Homer getting Ned Flanders to kill people, wasn't particularly original and seemed like the germ of an idea that wasn't really developed. Some good jokes, but nothing to write home about. (Writing a blog post about it is another story.) The third might have been the best, and it was a parody of a movie I haven't seen, so I probably missed a fair number of the jokes. The bulldozersaurus was pretty cute, though, and we finally got to see Kang and Kodos at home.
bethje is the same way. Unfortunately, there really isn't as much adults can do for Halloween, unless you get invited to parties, which we don't. I guess one reason people have kids is so they can participate, but that involves too much work to get the brief rewards. Still, we did do some things that were kind of fun. On Friday evening, we went on two haunted hayrides, one at a fire station and the other at a mulch store. For some reason, the latter had a lot more attendees. It also had a maze, which was more confusing than I would have thought. I mean, there was only one way to go, but what with the weird flashing lights and such, I sometimes found myself walking into walls. On the actual Halloween, we went to Beth's aunt's house, and walked around the neighborhood a bit. Beth went for themed costumes, dressing as Little Red Riding Hood with Dewey as the Big Bad Wolf in grandmother's clothing.I put together a last-minute addition to the theme by getting a red plaid jacket and axe (although it was the wrong sort of axe) to be the woodsman, but I don't think anybody really noticed. Dewey's nightcap kept slipping off, too. Also, I'd forgotten to request the day off from work, so I worked four hours that evening. We used to go out to eat on Halloween night, but that wasn't possible this year.
We watched the new Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episode tonight, and I must say I was not particularly impressed. The first segment was mostly just Homer farting for a few minutes. Come on, Family Guy has fart jokes in pretty much every episode, but even they never drag them out THAT long. The second, with Homer getting Ned Flanders to kill people, wasn't particularly original and seemed like the germ of an idea that wasn't really developed. Some good jokes, but nothing to write home about. (Writing a blog post about it is another story.) The third might have been the best, and it was a parody of a movie I haven't seen, so I probably missed a fair number of the jokes. The bulldozersaurus was pretty cute, though, and we finally got to see Kang and Kodos at home.
