happy halloween! halloween isn't a holiday i get too excited about - i hate scary things. really. i was reading an article on haunted houses in the newspaper (read:it's in the paper, can't be THAT scary) and i was freaked. i started hearing weird sounds. hey! my house is 87 years old! who knows? no scary movies. no goobly goblins or monsters or ghosts, thank you. i can't even take commercials for scary movies on TV. my complete dorkiness: halloween & last stop give me chills. hate listening to them at night. bwwwhahahaha! i hope all of you at halloween parties have a great time tonight. scare somebody for me, ok?

finally finished getting my east coast pics together. enjoy!

remember when all we had to worry about on halloween was razor blades in apples? and no one ever gave apples out, anyways. as we went skipping house to house in our plastic costumes and masks. the masks had that little breathing slit that didn't allow for candy eating while trick or treating and always ended up perched on the top of your head. one year my mom made jaime and i princess costumes, and my dad made us magic wands. the wands were a 12" tall star cut out of plywood attached to a 2X2. they were covered in glitter. not only for decorative purposes - they would've been handy to beat up any kid who tried to steal our candy, too. in today's world, they'd be considered weapons....

so don't steal the kids candy, ok? go drive yourself to the store and buy all the good kinds - peanut butter cups, kit kat, m&m's, hershey bars. there was always that one house in the neighborhood that gave out hershey bars. and when you were 8, that just made your day, didn't it?