Halloween

Fridays work day ended for me at 5pm, and holy what a busy last day for months end that was. Ahh well, it didn't really matter...it was Halloween.

One thing that I have noticed is that Halloween has changed a lot since I was a kid. For me Halloween was a big deal, it was tied with my birthdays of awesomeness and only second to Christmas. As a kid, I used to decorate my front window with construction paper cut outs of pumpkins, ghosts, vampires, bats, spiders, and stretched cotton for webbing. It was excessive and it was awesome! Every house down the street, around the block was decorated. I remember pulling out the "guts" of pumpkins in the basement with my Dad and carefully drawing my design on the hard rough surface so I could carve it. The entire month of October was dedicated to Halloween, from picking out costumes, decorations, pumpkin carving, and everything in between.

But now things have changed. It seems there are less and less kids out for Halloween, decorated houses are scarce, and some kids who do go trick-or-treating don't even bother dressing up. What the hell! What happened? Where's the thrill, energy, and passion gone? I know that things have changed in the sense that there are a lot of sick people out there who have deterred parents from taking their kids out but there are still a lot of reason to at least take your kids out around the block, or to your friends houses. And what about the people who still have the same passion that I have for Halloween? The ones who decorate their house, spend a few hours carving pumpkins? Part of the fun there is seeing the look of awe in peoples faces when they see the time and detail put in to decorating.

After work, a few of my friends and I went over to my friend Ashley's house to get ready for our night out. Over the next 2 hours we spent getting ready there were maybe...maybe 5 kids who came to the door and said "trick-or-treat". One kid was just wearing a big winter coat! Now, I know it's Grande Prairie and it's cold here but at least throw a little paint, make-up, or something on the kids face. I've seen the same sorta thing with trick-or-treaters happen back in Vancouver and Kamloops. It sucks, I feel like those kids are missing out on the true Halloween experience.

Anyways, I haven't really done anything special for Halloween for a little while...and since this was my first Halloween in Grande Prairie I thought I should celebrate with my friends here. As I was saying earlier, my friends and I were getting ready for the late night festivities and it was also my good friend, Chris's first Halloween out and about. His costume was that of one very messed up jester and I would have paid him to walk into an old folks home late at night with his getup.

We ended up going to another friends house, who did an amazing job decorating her entire house, for her "spooktacular" party. After her house, the gang consisting of Bill, Ashley, Kristen, Chris, Brit, Matt and myself (all friends and co-workers) went to a bar.
It's good to see that most of my generation still loves the whole Halloween theme and everything associated with it. Halloween gives the chance/excuse for good girls to dress slutty and the slutty girls to dress even more skanky. Not all of the ladies were dressed as sluts or skanks...some were classy...some. Oh, and on a random sidenote...there was a girl dressed up as a cop and she looked just phenominal.
I noticed most of the guys still dress up as super heros or villans, which is cool...but there were some costumes that made you wonder what was the exact thought going through their head when they were handing over the cash for it.

I dressed up as the Joker (Dark Knight Version) and it was great. One girl dressed as a hooker or maybe she was a pirate hooker came up to me and said:
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Pirate Hooker: The whole joker thing...not cool. Its not right and it isnt working.
Me: Well what about your make up....what are you supposed to be? *she mumbled something* Whats that?...You're not wearing make up? So you're just a slut?
Pirate Hooker: I was just kidding
Me: Ohhhh ...sorry....I wasnt *Then I made the Joker face...like when he says "hi" to Harvey Dent in the hospital*
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I love how people go nuts when Thriller gets played...you see people try and mimic the choreography of the video but really they only know that one arm move that everybody does and then go off and do their "white man dance" (I'll explain what I mean by white man dance at a later time).
The night was fun though, we all got to look like asses for one night and fit in with everybody else. There were drinks, dancing, pirate hookers, pretty ladies, sweet sweet candy,and some good laughs. And really isn't that the point of Halloween? Having fun? It sure is Yoda...it sure is.