Sunday, October 30, 2011

A Spooky Halloween

It has been a very, very weird Halloween in good ol' Massachusetts.




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It's October 30th. OCTOBER... not December, not January, not February, not even March. OCTOBER.


Yesterday started out like a normal October day. It was actually sunny and pretty cold. I had my class on teaching English Language Learners. It's 6 1/2 hours of class sitting in a windowless room, so even while I was checking the weather on my iPhone, I remained pretty oblivious. When I left class it was raining and I headed home to work out. After teaching for almost 6 years, I am seriously incapable of sitting for a day, which is good because according to Caroline it is not at all good for you.


My original Halloween plan was to meet some coworkers at a bar for a little bit and then head to my friend Sarah's house. Once the snow began and I drove to my friend's house to borrow a costume, I realized that I was pushing it even attending one party. It's really not normal to be worried about snow when celebrating Halloween. That's okay though- it ended up being much more relaxed just grabbing some food with Eric and then heading to Sarah's early.




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I was an Oreo cookie- a costume made by my super talented friend for her daughter a couple of years ago. Amazing... especially for me who simply had to carry the costume in a bag, throw it over my head and I was good to go.




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We headed home pretty early and thank goodness we did, the drive home was scary! The biggest problem was the trees down everywhere. However, when I went to bed last night, my yard was okay. Not so when I woke up this morning though. My favorite tree in my yard, a beautiful birch tree, was broken in two spots and other huge branches were down too.


So what did Eric and I do today? Went out in search of a chainsaw and spent the rest of the day doing damage control. Mainly Eric did this but I did shovel the walk way (can't have any Trick or Treaters slipping!) and move some branches to one pile. Eric mastered all things chainsaw.




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Sigh. On a positive note, we still have power and hopefully still have school tomorrow (I'm not ready to start on the snow days in October). On a super positive note, we went to dinner with my parents at the best Italian restaurant ever. On super duper positive note, I get to wear pink pajamas to work tomorrow because my school is really weird and while the kids don't wear costumes to school, the teachers do...


I'll be Mercy Watson




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Now if only I can make it through this week with Halloween on Monday... whoever decided Halloween would always be on October 31st rather than always be on a Friday or Saturday night was clearly not a teacher. Just sayin'


How was your weekend? Did you dress up for Halloween? What was the best costume you saw this weekend?



11 comments:

  1. I LOVE your costume!!! Eric should have been a glass of milk..with a milk mustache!

    I cant believe you got that much snow.

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  2. I love that you were an OREO!!! There are way too many slutty costumes on Halloween and I always find it refreshing when girls aren't half naked! :oP

    No dress up for me but I did dress up Daisy (photos to come on the blog)!

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  3. I am not looking forward to tomorrow. Conferences last week WORE ME OUT and I have been exhausted all weekend...I need one more day to recover!

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  4. We got some snow in NY too -- it's WAY too early for this!

    Your costume is super, super cute!

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  5. That oreo cookie costume is hilarious! I love it!

    I can't believe all the snow you guys got! That's crazy!! Hopefully it melts and doesn't stick around. We are supposed to get snow on Friday :( Boo!

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  6. I can't get over all that snow!! I mean, WOW! I've been watching it on the news and I'm just speechless. Nick and I raked leaves for 2 hours yesterday, and meanwhile you and Eric and fighting with SNOW! Crazy.
    I love your homemade Oreo outfit (yes, your friend must be very creative!). Nick and I didn't do any Halloween parties or anything, just dinner with a friend. No dressing up for us, we're so boring!

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  7. That oreo costume rocks!! I can not believe you guys got snow this weekend. :( What a buzz killer. So annoying. It's way too early for that kind of crap.

    I had a great weekend. I did very little since I am trying to get over this bug that leveled me last week. I did alot of reading and lounging and napping. Yesterday I went to my run club's end of the year party, which was fun. Half of the people showed up in costumes, but I did not even CONSIDER partaking in that because I am just NOT a costume or Halloween person. At all.

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  8. That is some craaaaaaazy October weather. Yuck. Glad you had some fun, but got home safe. Cute cookie costume!

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  9. Weather. Crazy. Annoying.

    Best halloween costume.. hmm I saw a lot of good ones. Jimmys friends got really into it. Best one? Wheres waldo. So simple, yet so good

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  10. if they would change halloween to a saturday i would forever be grateful.

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  11. Totally agree- Halloween should be on a Friday or Saturday every year! The kids were craaaazy on Monday...and on Tuesday too!

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