WHO GAVE THIS CHILD A GUN?

Finally it's almost November.  That's really the only reason I've been looking forward to Halloween, for it means the start of November is the next day and that's my favorite month.  I love everything about Thanksgiving and since we live in America we start celebrating the Christmas season basically tomorrow as well... SO COMMERCIALIZED but I like Christmas lights and making cookies and the smell of snow and presents (I'm honest, not greedy).  It is ironic I like Thanksgiving because I don't eat turkey, but there is a product on the market called Tofurky and it's not nearly as bad as it sounds.  In fact, I think it's delicious and even better tasting.  I can picture most people reading this saying out loud, "It's not the same thing".  Whatever.  It tastes good in my mouth.

One of my teachers asked us all what we were going to be for Halloween and no one said anything because I'm pretty sure no one is going out in this weather.  I think most cities even around here have officially postponed Halloween which kinda sucks in my opinion because I just want to focus on Thanksgiving.  Three weeks from tomorrow.  Craziness.  It's weird because I can barely remember any costumes I dressed up in during my childhood.  Again, I have an extremely poor memory.  Halloween was considered a big deal when we were younger though.  We would go to my Uncle Tim and Aunt Cathy's house (her birthday is today too!) and they would go all out the party every year.  I remember being very scared that night because my sibs and I were among the youngest ones there, as it was mainly adults.  And these adults were very much dressed up.  My mom would make me sit next to witches and shit and that may be why to this day I'm not a huge fan of the whole ordeal.  Plus one year I seem to have been dressed very psycho-like.

As if you can't tell, I'm a clown and yes, that is a gun in my hand.  This is not ok.  How did the person taking this photo not tell me to put that down?  Was I carrying this the whole night?  Did I pretend to shoot people?  And why is my face like that?  It looks like I just took major pleasure in attacking anti-clown protestors.  I will ignore the fact that I didn't seem to need a mask and I could simply smile as hard as my cheeks would let me and it would be just as unsettling.  I hope I didn't trick or treat like this.  No wonder I never had any friends to go with, after this year the parents of my friends probably decided to let me be on Halloween night.  The good thing about seeing me in this costume is realizing my parents knew how to economize their money in regards to costumes.  I think we must have had some type of rotation system going on because I believe this is the year before.

Tom went the more conventional route of swapping the gun for the big red nose, but for that there are clearly personal side effects.  Compare my face to his and tell me I didn't have more fun.

xxxx

A