Dressing up and looking silly has never been a problem. The problem is ideas. Ideas for dressing up and looking silly. Who do we turn to when we need ideas for costumes for any occasion? Why, our friend Tina of course. The last time we consulted her for Halloween, she dug through her bag of goodies and dressed us as Catholic nuns. Yes yes, sacreligious I know. Lesbian nuns smoking, drinking, and playing kissy-face in full habits? It doesn't get much better than that.
Unfortunately for us this year, we planted the seed but did not till the garden. This resulted in the day of the fete arriving without decisions being made on how we would attire ourselves for this grand event.
I wore my black jeans, black tank and orange silk blouse with three-quarter length sleeves. So where's the costume? I had a bag and a half of Smarties candies pinned to my pants.
Get it? Yeah. Lame. But simple.
Wendy's costume was even more subtle: a leaf tied to a thread attached to her wrist. Every so often, she'd raise it up and blow on it gently.
Get it? Okay good.
Halloween and all the spooky sweet goodness that goes along with it are really just a blip on the radar of that which truly is Fall: The Season.
Right now I'm feeling the pressure of The Season. It's a burden of living in suburbia. It's when many of the aspects of the suburbs I so adore conspire against me: expansive lawns, mature trees, and leaves falling in innumerable quantities combine to create the need to rake and bag and haul and rake and bag and haul. Did I mention raking, bagging and hauling? By the next weekend, however, the yard looks as if we hadn't removed a single leaf.
And with the chill in the air, the fire in the fireplace, the football games on TV.... oh how the alluring siren song of my Lazy Boy calls to me: "Suzanne! Psst... Suzanne! Come to me, my sweet. Come and nestle comfortably in my soft cushions, put your feet up. Ah yes, add a dog or two. Grab the TV remote, a good book to entertain you during commercials, perhaps a crunchy snack at your elbow. We'll all snuggle warmly as the fire crackles and the hours flow by in heavenly bliss."
It's far too much to resist.
The leaves will wait until we are ready.
I'd hate to disappoint my Lazy Boy.
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2 comments:
Ok, I have an idea for your costume next year. Wear a blue jumpsuit or blue pants and a blue shirt. Put cotton balls in clumpy intervals throughout.
Voila, you are "partly cloudy with a chance of rain."
I love love love Fall, it is the season in which I chose to get married. One of the joys of living in a townhouse is that someone else gets to do the yardwork. :)
Um, ok.."smartypants" I got. The other eludes me.
When we had a tree, I would wait until every last darn leaf had hit the ground before I raked the yard. In the front, though, I had to contend with all the neighbors' trees upwind of us. One Japanese maple doesn't finish shedding until December, it seems.
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