Age 28 -2005
Posted by admin in Past Halloweens
Can you believe that at this age I had still not been away from home during Halloween?? Pretty sheltered huh? I don’t know what I thought would happen to me if I did leave… maybe I’d miss home & trick or treating so much I’d be heartbroken and depressed. Or I’d hav a nervous breakdown? LOL.
This year went fast and was a hard Halloween for me. That past summer of 2005 I had visited San Fransisco, went to Internext and then road tripped from Internext, Hollywood FL to New Orleans, LA. It was my first road trip by myself and an excellent experience to say the least. New Orleans was also the FIRST ever place I have rolled into and thought “that’s it, I’m home!” Seriously, I was so enamoured and in love with that place I couldn’t wait to go back for Mardi Gras and look at properties and live there. And then like 3 days after getting back home Hurricane Katrina happened and NO will never be the same again.
Now, it’s very rare for me to really like a place and when I fell in love with NO, seeing it completely destroyed before my eyes was just too much for me. I got so depressed from it and so fucked up mentally, that ummm I started sewing (Yes you read that right). So I made some interesting creations. It also reminded me of my mortality…
Then the most life changing event happened. It will change the course of my life & outlook for a long ass time and change my financial situation. I was making dinner like always and my best friend said “holy shit that was fast!” and I turned around and said in a deadpan voice, “i’m not fucking around.” It was funny at the moment but it was a life mantra which spurned a whole avalanche of events shortly thereafter
So, that October I had planned to go to Vancouver for the week and shoot for my brand new site idea. But then things dictated that it would be better if I went just after halloween instead. I think because a lot of the models were busy that week. So I got to spend my very last Samhain at Christina Lake and also my last Halloween with Chicklet. It came & went very fast, mainly because I was preparing for my Vancouver trip and had a lot on my mind at the time.
Halloween day consisted of doing my best friends make up (attaching horns to his head) and doing my usual zombie makeup in a rush. In a rush because I ALWAYS wait too long and then I’m super hungry when I start… and I’m pressed for time. So more than not, I can’t take time to perfect the lil zombie details, lol. I remember dinner being made and the kids were coming to the door already… Chicklet enjoyed seeing all the kids in costume & so did I. A local girl from the area that I knew dropped by and we went trick or treating for a little bit, which meant like going around the block (they’re kind of big blocks) and of course some of the elderly people wanted to chat and wanted to dawdle all over Chicklet in costume… so that slowed things down quite a bit. By the time I got home it was almost time to go down to the public beach for fireworks again. That night we just watched some Halloween specials & but I can’t remember the specifics sadly. I wish I could.
Right afterwards, like a couple days after… I drove to Vancouver to make my fortune.
Here is the link to my 2005 Halloween E-card.