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What does it spell? Halloween!
The dotter decided she wanted to be a cheerleader this year. (This was after first wanting to be a princess, then wanting to be a “really mean witch!”) So I looked at cheerleader costumes online, and got more and more frustrated, because it was either cheesy cheap faux cheerleader costumes from High School Musical or another TV series, or trampy cheerleader costumes. Nothing in-between.
So I went to a cheerleader supply store online, got her a purple cheerleader outfit and pom-pons, and we went with that. She was delighted. (Yes, it’s really purple, but the camera got blue, and the editing software made it slightly bluer.)
She’s actually wearing a shirt under the top, and leggings, ’cause it’s c-o-l-d here. Like, “tenth coldest October on record” type cold. Bah.
Let’s see a cheer jump, why don’t we:
We made our ghost tree, but never put it out.
The plan–yes, we had A Plan–was that we would go to her school to do the Halloween Town trick-or-treating, then go swing by her buddy K’s neighborhood, then would go to Small Town, where OmegaDad’s office is, to do T-or-T-ing there. Why not here? Well, because we’re in a neighborhood of one- to two-acre lots, and it’s a pain in the butt to even think of T-or-T-ing here.
But when we got to K’s house, her mom invited OmegaDotter to go trick-or-treating with them. So OmegaDad and I went out for dinner, and never got around to putting out the ghost tree or the jack-o-lantern. Bad folks.
Anyway, goodness knows whether we had trick-or-treaters or not. It’s not like our old neighborhood, which really wasn’t any great shakes for kids, but at least was better than this one.
I owe people emails; please don’t think worse of me for putting things off. I’ve been feeling kind of punk lately, and just doing the minimum to get by for the past week. Aside from a rant or two.
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