I couldn’t resist. This is my one chance this year to pay homage to the man who shaped my taste in men more than any other.
It’s the head. With the bolts. Actually, it’s the shape of the head that drives me wild. I can’t explain it.
Enjoy Frankie while he lasts, at least until Halloween.
As some of you know, I adore Halloween. I have always gone over the top in decorating my site for the occasion. Since Ben has already beat me to it, I decided to go with “Just Spooky” this year.
The Wraith are creepy as all hell. They are life-suckers who kind of gliiiiide across a room before singling you out for death. The chick reminded me A LOT of Liv Tyler, who herself (although lovely and talented) looks rather alien at times. I may give in to temptation and go all Frankied out, but for now, This Is Halloween.
On Halloween, one of the first-grade students I give therapy to didn’t have a costume to wear. He had seen the costume he wanted, but his daddy told him that he didn’t have any money. The dad said that he was getting a check on Friday and that he would “maybe be able to buy it and bring it to the school” in time for the school party.
Yeah right. I knew what that meant : This kid would have no costume. I told the little boy that if his dad didn’t make it to the school in time, to ask his teacher if he could come to the therapy room when it was time for them to get ready. Sure enough, at 1:00…knock, knock. “Miss Miller, my dad didn’t make it on time.” I had an entire roll of the brown paper handtowels that are used in the school bathrooms, so we went to work. It took about 20 minutes to get it right, but soon, we had a bonifide (looking) mummy standing right there. The little boy was so excited about his outfit.
We walked down to the gym, where the school was gathered for the party. Most of the kids had on the Scream costume, but there were also a lot of police and firemen. There was only one mummy, though. The principal asked for all of the people with SCARY costumes to come to the stage and enter the contest for SCARIEST. My student walked up to the stage like a true mummy and entered the contest. When the judging was complete—-First Place, THE MUMMY!!
Now I know there is no way that costume stayed intact on the busride home, but at least for the school party, I made a kid’s day. WHOO!
Well, I thought I would be able to sneak in and change my site. WRONG!! This computer has XP and the Virtual Machine won’t upgrade properly….whatever the hell that means. Soooo, it looks like I really will have to wait. I’m afraid I’ll miss Halloween, which is my absolute favorite thing in the world, but I have no choice. *SIGH, HEAVE, SIGH*
I finished re-re-reading The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. [Gosh, how I miss Alex] I’m now reading all of the reference works of Christopher Tolkien. That’s right. I’m the biggest geek! *points to self*
*hugs and hearts*
[Edit: Obviously I figured out how to get to my site change-y thing. Just give me a graphics program now and I’ll be a crazy dazzling fool!]