Either this or next weekend, I'm going to see Dracula with my Mom at Actor's Theatre. I invited a few of my friends to come along, and I'm hoping they do because the play is so fun and it's a great way to get into the Halloween season! The tickets are a little pricey, but hopefully that won't scare everyone away from attending. I just have to figure out how to get all of the tickets in the same row so we can all sit together. Maybe I will plan it for the next weekend and this weekend just gather money from people who want to go so I can buy everyone's tickets at once...
Secondly, the Haunted Woods are coming up. I used to help my parents out with their station at this outdoor fright fest, but the past few years I've opted out. It's a fun time, mostly, but it tends to turn pretty stressful because workers that come aren't always that reliable and since I'm the best screamer every year, guess what I'm stuck doing all night long? Screaming my freaking head off, which may not sound that terrible, but try screaming bloody murder for four or five hours straight. It's not that fun. And people that you're trying to scare, who are paying to be scared, can be downright rude and complete assholes sometimes! I've been called so many terrible things by people going through the Haunted Woods and I've had threats and I've had people in our station getting hit and on and on. So it's not always as fun as it used to be when the experience was new and fresh. Now I'm a veteran and I've seen more bad than good and I'm not as into it anymore. But I know my mom really needs the help and I know my friends have enjoyed helping out, so I think I'm going to hop back in there this year and at least help out on the Saturday nights and hopefully some of my friends can hop in there and help out, too. I know they have enjoyed it in the past, and I have too, and maybe we can work to bring back the fun spirit that the Haunted Woods always used to be about.
Halloween will be next and I'm already planning my costume. My mom apparently found a nice-looking braided blonde wig and I've decided to turn it into a Rapunzel costume. I figure I'll use this long flowy purple dress I have with long sleeves, put a purple corset over it and a few skirts beneath it to make the dress puffier, also add puffs to the sleeves, and I'll have a Rapunzel-esque outfit. Then I could add colorful flowers to the wig ala Rapunzel in Tangled when the girls braid her hair with flowers, and a little Pascal to sit on my shoulder, and I'm good! I could carry a frying pan, and voila! I'm Rapunzel from Tangled! I'm excited to do a princess costume because I've never done anything really girly or pretty for Halloween. I'm always something gory or scary or gothic like a dead person or a devil. I've never gone the pretty route! But even Jon thinks I should go for the pretty costume this year, so I'm going to go Disney princess for the first time ever! I'm really excited, I think it will turn out great!
After that, I'm planning my birthday celebrations. I'll be turning 23 on February 7th and I would like to have a nice night out with some close friends. I'm thinking about getting a little group together and either going to Hard Rock Cafe for dinner and then going to see "In The Next Room" at Actor's Theatre afterwards, or just having a pitch-in style potluck dinner at my place and then go see the show and hang out at Fourth Street Live after the show... I just can't decide. I feel bad asking my friends to do expensive things like go see a show at Actors AND go to Hard Rock AND go to Fourth Street Live, so I need to eliminate a few of those options just to save people money! So I think the dinner/cake/all that good stuff could be at my house prior to the show at Actors and then after the show, if anyone wants to, we could walk to Fourth Street Live and have a few drinks. I think that will be my solution. It will be fun to host a little dinner party at my place, all I would have to do is find seating arrangements for everyone...
But anyway, I'm trying to plan everything out, and I will admit... it's a little tough getting feedback from everyone without having made an "Event" page on Facebook... but I'm determined not to go back to Facebook because it genuinely scares me now. If I could utilize the Event page without utilizing the rest of Facebook, I would, because that would be perfect.
I'm excited about all these things coming up, I think they will be so much fun!
What are you going to be for Halloween? Do you have any spooky Halloween plans?
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