Pumpkins scream in the dead of night

I think I'm getting old. This is Halloween weekend and homecoming and there were about 1,000 possibly fun places to be each night, and I got completely worn out before I hit saturday evening. I ended up staying in my room last night watching episodes of Arrested Development with my roommate and drinking tea. Friday night we had a Halloween/Homecoming party with Kappa Sigma, who we were paired with for homecoming. Each year I end up thinking about a costume I want to wear for the following Halloween and the whole year I was thinking I might be a harlequin. It's a ballerina type thing with black and white costume and i was thinking how cool it would be to get really into it and whip out the ol' pointe shoes and dye one white and one black. Of course, I wake up two days before the halloween party realizing that I haven't put together a costume and I ended up being a plain old fairy and joined the ranks of the billion other girls who were also fairies.

This is what a harlequin looks like minus the weird goth fairy thing going on:



This is what I ended up as:



The halloween party was fun and then Saturday I went to the Wash. St vs. USC game. My brother and 3 of his friends came along which was nice, but way too early in the morning. I always enjoy when my family comes down for the games. In fact, next weekend my entire family is coming to Stanford. My dad has never been to a game and he really liked going at the University of Colorado so I think he'll have fun. I discovered that Mamosas may just be the perfect morning game drink if you're wanting to drink before the game but don't like beer or want to get trashed by drinking jack and coke. eww. Even though I drenched myself in SPF 45 before the game, I still came home with a bad sunburn. How does that happen? After the game there was an 80s party to go to but I was too tired and decided to be a hermit for the evening instead.

I missed out on a lot of things that I like to do for Halloween though. Being my favorite holiday, I love to go to a pumpkin patch and pick out pumpkins and carve them and bake the seeds. Skipped it this year. I also like to watch at least two halloween movies...haven't done that yet, but I might pop in Nightmare Before Christmas later. I had plans to go to Knotts Scary Farms but I got really busy this year, which probably wasn't the worst thing since I'm terrified of haunted houses and I don't know why I subject myself to them every year. I usually help out at the Halloween carnival for kids on the adpi lawn, but i had class so i couldn't do that. I think we're at the middle age where you can't really do the halloween stuff you enjoyed as a kid until you have kids, so for now it's all about parties and wearing the most scandalous costumes possible. So all in all, Halloween passes without much ado and I guess I'll be looking forward to Christmas.