October Is About To Blossom Beneath The Harvest Moon

If you have ever met me, you know quite well the excitement I have for the most mundane of things.  You got those amazing pants at 50% off?  I will do a little cheer for you.  You payed off your credit card bill?  In celebration, I made this four layer cake and this card by hand for you; congrats!They are showing X-Men the animated series on Adult Swim?!? Break out the streamers, it is about to be a party in here!  This week I was even told to take it down a notch at work as I breezed through the halls humming and singing like it was my own personal Broadway rendition of "Hospital: A Comedy".

Needless to say, if the most mundane of events are cause for skywriting and balloon bouquets, you can only imagine the feelings that fill me when traditional reason to celebrate roll around.  With Flip's birthday over, it is now time to turn focus the time of year where I tend to go more overboard than usual.  October is about to blossom beneath the harvest moon and my excitement is beginning to swell.

What is so great about October you ask in a derisive, and might I say a touch snide tone?  It surely cannot be the death of summer's warm embrace or the subsequent lose of the bare limbed hedonism it produces.  October is wonderful because that which is that which is normally eschewed now takes center stage to be reveled in and enjoyed.

Yes folks, in the name of Halloween we are allowed to enjoy the most gruesome displays of human carnage laid out neatly on the front lawn for the neighborhood kids to see.  If October had a marketing team, surely the would tout, "The grosser the better".  The fantastical things we mint in silicone, latex, and plastic is mind boggling.  Severed heads on pikes lining the walk, dismembered torsos used to serve chips and guacamole out of, or rubber knives for guests to tote about as they represent soulless murderers all in the name of good fun.  Going for the gore is something we are only allowed to do during this magical time.  Any other time of year, if you decorate with skulls and electric chairs, the ladies might feel a touch uncomfortable when you ask if they want to go back to your place.

Taking the gore to the next level, I absolutely adore haunted houses.  When else can you pay to enjoy an evening designed to make you produce one or more bodily fluids and it still be legal?  This being my first Halloween back in Vegas, I was worried they would not be into the whole backwoods, Texas Chainsaw, house of redneck horrors thing.  Oh, how wrong I was.  The Fright Dome is Circus Circus' haunted house that goes above and beyond what even an October enthusiast like myself could ever hope for.  There are five separate haunted houses, including one that is Saw themed, a zombie apocalypse one, and for all you coulrophobics out there, a clown one.  I...can...not...wait.

In addition to the live entertainment, the canned media is exception this month.  I am far from a typical girl when it comes to many things, and media is no different.  I love guns, explosions, car chases, hand to hand combat, murder, mayhem, and just about anything found in the horror section of Blockbuster.  October usually nets me gads of movies filmed with only my sheer terror and disgust in mind, and I eat them all up.  Satan worshipping, things that go bump in the night, possessed children, vivisection, or  buckets of blood are all that it really takes to make me all atwitter-patted at preview time.  In addition to the new tales of blood baths offered, it is also time to enjoy all my old friends like, Dawn of the Dead, Hostel, Final Destination, and the best scary movie ever made, I don't care what you say, Thir13en Ghosts.

Despite all the amazingness that happens in October, it really is all about the costumes, oh the costumes. As I am disrobing on All Hallow's Eve, I am already thinking what I am going to be next year.  I have had some great costumes in the past.

Your Conscious - I was the shoulder angel

Carrie - I had to stand there while the blood dried

Marge Simpson - We won best costume this year

A Rockford Peach - I beat a guy with that bat, allegedly.

A flamingo - I won best costume this year too

I am right at the beginning to my final decision making process of what to be this year.  I have been settled on Luna Lovegood for most of the year, but upon sharing my amazing costume idea with other, and getting many quizzical looks, I am reconsidering.  One of my costume rules is that is has to be something people recognize, that I don't have to explain.  You can see why the choice of Luna is giving me trouble.  I have been compiling a short list of ideas.  I can be Lady Justice with her scales, Anne Boleyn, a WWII nurse, The Silk Spector, The Cheshire Cat, a borg member, Alice from Resident Evil, Sally from a Nightmare before Christmas, Jackie O, Betty Page, a Stepford Wife, Mystique, a geisha, a Halo soldier, Amelia Earhart, The White Witch, Sailor Moon, The Mona Lisa, a 50's pin-up girl, Elphaba, a Voodoo Doll, Queen Amidala, and the circulatory system.  

I have no doubt this October will not fail to disappoint.  To all of those out there who are only in it for the candy, I beg you to reconsider October as the best month on record and enjoy it for all that it has to offer.