09-19-2006, 06:05 AM
Well, I am alot older than most of you here. I remember when the drug stores carried the coolest stuff out there...cooler than spencers or the like...and cheaper too. You could get all the best makeup, masks and costumes there. They had the coolest stuff for any costume. My absolute favorite costume was the wolfman. I dressed up as him for several years in a row actually. I would climb up in whatever tree was close by and jump down on people. My costume consisted of black jeans, a brown sweat shirt cut up with patches of fur sewn under the cuts and wolf man hands. My face i always did myself. Back then it was because i thought it was cool, but looking back on it now....i didnt have too many options, considering i was eleven years old and already had a good bit of facial hair. I guess it just fit me...lol....damnit I want to be a kid again.
Now, Halloween just is not the same. Parents make their kids trick or treat during the day. If Halloween falls on a Sunday, the majority of people refuse to acknowledge it and try to force people to celebrate the day before or day after. Entire communities are voting to either change the day of celebration or getting rid of it altogether. They have been trying to do it for years here.
But the one thing I will forever be grateful for is my mother\'s love of halloween. She instilled it in me and she stills goes all out each year. With her being sick now, she isnt able to get dressed up and help decorate, but I always do my damnedest to make sure I do everything I can to make each halloween good for her. I was supposed to be born on Halloween, but I decided to stay in a little longer and didn\'t pop out til November 4th, but as far back as I can remember, my mom always, always celebrated my birthday on Halloween....Mom\'s just don\'t get any cooler than that...
Tommy
Now, Halloween just is not the same. Parents make their kids trick or treat during the day. If Halloween falls on a Sunday, the majority of people refuse to acknowledge it and try to force people to celebrate the day before or day after. Entire communities are voting to either change the day of celebration or getting rid of it altogether. They have been trying to do it for years here.
But the one thing I will forever be grateful for is my mother\'s love of halloween. She instilled it in me and she stills goes all out each year. With her being sick now, she isnt able to get dressed up and help decorate, but I always do my damnedest to make sure I do everything I can to make each halloween good for her. I was supposed to be born on Halloween, but I decided to stay in a little longer and didn\'t pop out til November 4th, but as far back as I can remember, my mom always, always celebrated my birthday on Halloween....Mom\'s just don\'t get any cooler than that...
Tommy