Halloween, what did you do?

Carolynn · Post by **Carolynn** » Thu Nov 03, 2011 12:41 pm

I had a fairly quiet Halloween.

On the 29th, I attended a costume party for Halloween. I went as basically a snow bunny, wearing ears, white makeup, pink nose, and a drawn on bunny mask and white hands for paws. I hammed it up a bit by going in checking my watch and lamenting that: "I'm late, I'm late. For a very important date. No time to say hello-goodbye, I'm late, I'm late, I'm late" from the Disney version of Alice. That did two things, confused everyone, and opened the comeback about female rabbits always being "late" due to their reproductive proclivities. One of my friends went with TIGER face paint, and paws with long black nails.

Then on Halloween, I passed out candy to trick or treaters, about 65 of them, ran out of candy and had to give out cookies (lady fingers and werewolf fingers made of sugar cookie dough with food colored dyed almond slivers for finger nails and chocolate chip cookie dough with brown food coloring rolled in colored coconut for the werewolf fingers) left from the party. Many cute costumes, and all the kids were appropriate for trick or treating, between the ages of 6 mos.(in daddy's arms with the other kids) and the eldest 12 or 13 sheparding younger kids but in costume. Pretty fun night and a good way to meet and chat with some new neighbors.

What did you do for Halloween?

Carolynn

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Thu Nov 03, 2011 4:52 pm

Nothing

Halloween is a children's festival here. It's not anything for us to get excited about.

Joan · Post by **Joan** » Thu Nov 03, 2011 5:04 pm

Agree Susan, but probably a shame that it not more like the celebration it is in the USA. A great opportunity for closet CDs.

At least it is acceptable on New Years eve fore men to CD in the UK.

Joan

Carolynn · Post by **Carolynn** » Thu Nov 03, 2011 6:25 pm

In the USA it is for children and sometimes the young at heart!!! You should see some of the yard displays. On this year was a pirate ship complete with seletons, parrots, and the Jolly Roger. For others it is a festival of lights, with the appearance of pumpkins, skulls, and others items, and several depicted a witch that had flown into a tree --- and was still there. Great fun I guess, if you have lots of time and don't weaken. I have never enjoyed that aspect of it, but I have friends that have Halloween parties that go all out, renting ball rooms in Hotels and guest list of thousands. All kinds of prizes for best costume etc. including 50" TVs, iPad 2s, and lots more. I heard one of the door prizes was just that, a steel door in it's frame for relocating to one's house. The party gets pretty insane. The host is a cder who dressed and in her stilletto heels is about 6 ft. 9 in., and always has her hairdo piled on top of her head to ad more ht. She is a scream.

I didn't feel up to partying to that extent this year.

Davita · Post by **Davita** » Thu Nov 03, 2011 9:15 pm

hummmm can I remember that far back.... Oh yeah....

I interrupted my prepping to go out en fem to go to my doc for my post op review. I went with shaved legs and painted (dark plum) nails. Then I went back home and completed my transition from ick to school girl.

The school girl then went to the Red Cross for her usual platelets donation. I got raves for my shoes, my socks, the whole outfit and my purple spider earrings.

After Red Cross I went to my fave watering hole and waited for friends. I had a couple beers and watched the local kids trick or treating the mall stores. The watering hole was giving the kids peppermints. Once my friends showed, we just enjoyed each other's company. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/davita_far ... hotostream for my outfit.

Post by **DonnaT** » Thu Nov 03, 2011 10:22 pm

I did nothing, and even managed to miss out the candy giving, as I was on the road home from work.

Gayle · Post by **Gayle** » Thu Nov 03, 2011 11:13 pm

I went as a square dancer.

Galen's Halloween costume

Post by **KimberlyS** » Thu Nov 03, 2011 11:19 pm

i stayed in and handed out candy to the little trick or treaters. we had over 30 which is very good for us. It may have helped I had lots of pumpkin decorations lit up in the windows.

Absaroka · Post by **Absaroka** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 7:57 am

There were no trick or treaters this year due to the massive damage to the power system from the storm 2 days earlier. Halloween was officially postponed till Saturday, some 5 days later, out of concern for downed power cables lying around and the fact that some towns were close to 100% out of power. The storm even has a name, winter storm Alfred, which seems appropriate given it's timing.

However, I play in a community concert band which is in a nearby town that was less hard hit. We had rehearsal on Halloween and were to all come in costume. So I engaged in my once a year ritual of shaving off my beard, and once more resurrected my creepy old lady with spider jewelry, witch hat, and various other accoutrements. It was quite well recieved.

Funny point for me was when the conductor stopped the entire band (he does this often, usually because we've just made a mistake) and looked at me, saying "Your'e wearing a dress, and I can see far too much of what I don't want to see! Pull your dress down and close your legs!" A brief glance downwards confirmed his statement, and my reply that it was a skirt, not a dress, was not taken entirely seriously, even though it was true.

I was actually far more ladylike than this suggests. I'd been concerned about this very thing even though the skirt reached to mid calf, and so wore black pantyhose. All he saw was a black void. I pointed this out to him at the break and we both had a good laugh.

I was told by one of the women in the band that I looked cute and sexy. Since I'm in my late 50's, had razor burn from shaving, and was dressed in decrepit old clothes I'm forced to wonder at her criterion for these things. But I accepted the compliment gracefully, even though sexy was not what I was trying for.

After the post rehearsal party I went for a long walk at the beach, enjoying the wind and crescent moon. Then home.

Jenny Boylan has a thread going on her FB about how drag and halloween costumes can be troubling to transexuals. The conductor of the band said that our costumes generally said more about how we like to think of ourselves than we probably would think, and he's probably right. I'm quite clear about the fact that this was a costume, and not day to day female attire. So what was I attempting to portray? I enjoy my witch costume, but it has nothing to do with the occult. An old lady who lives in a cave and dances to the moon while remembering the girl she still feels like she is inside? Perhaps a male grizzly bear who once a year is transformed into a human female?

Zari

Carol Elizabeth · Post by **Carol Elizabeth** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 7:58 am

As has been pointed out, Halloween is the time for closeted crossdressers to have their fun and put on skirts, dresses and everything else and go out in public.

I see it differently. I am so deep in the closet that I avoid dressing on Halloween. That, or I wear my skirts and such about the house so much, I don't need to dress as a girl on Hallloween.

There was one gentleman who was in costume as he supervised his little ones while trick or treating. He ductaped a single maple leave to the brim of his baseball cap. When asked what his costume was, he blew on the leaf and said, "I'm a leaf blower!"

Leeza · Post by **Leeza** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 10:20 am

I stayed home and passed out candy to the 4 kids that showed up. It was late whe they showed so I told them to take a handful of candy.

The little girl only took one candy bar so I helped her as I realy didn't want to be stuck with 4 large bags of candy to eat.

Although I wanted to dress I didn't as the wife is not all that much for it.

Leeza

Wendae · Post by **Wendae** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 10:27 am

I went to a party as a trannie dominatrix. Had a great time with the GGs. Got ragged on for not bringing flats. The 4 inch heels were killing me. "Every girl knows to carry her flats!":oops:

SarahMicheline · Post by **SarahMicheline** » Sat Nov 05, 2011 6:56 am

My normal Monday Karate session, well it kept me away from home when all the local children came around asking for sweets...it seems that the UK has now adopted a US style Halloween...bar humbug!!

Paula G · Post by **Paula G** » Sat Nov 05, 2011 11:56 am

I was conducting our local Brass Band, but unlike Zari's concert band we were not in costume, shame I could have had a lot of fun with that.

Carolynn · Post by **Carolynn** » Sat Nov 05, 2011 12:08 pm

SarahMicheline wrote:My normal Monday Karate session, well it kept me away from home when all the local children came around asking for sweets...it seems that the UK has now adopted a US style Halloween...bar humbug!!

Ahhh, I see. You were prtraying a curmudgeon for Halloween. Cool costume, and cheap too!