Winning Halloween and You’re Jealous I’m Dining with an Avenger for Down Syndrome Research!

I used to think people who totally geeked out over Halloween were weird, but I’ve become one of them. I’m not sure exactly when it happened. Maybe in my 20’s when my friends and I dressed in group costumes and went to parties? Strengthened again once I had a baby to dress up? Or when that baby grew up to love Scooby Doo and everything creepy? That might be it.

Tucker’s certainly why I go overboard on Halloween decorations. Each year, we add something or other, and currently have the best-decorated house in our new neighborhood on our street. I know there’s time for the ambitious to surpass us by building haunted houses in their garages and everything, but for now?

Winning Halloween

I’m even considering getting Nugget a costume. I know. Gross. But we become what we become, in spite of vowing not to during younger, wiser years.

Here, take a look. We’re totally winning Halloween!

 

 

 

The photos don’t really show the awesomeness. I took a video for Lizzi recently but didn’t have everything up. There are several scary decorations not shown, including our 30 foot inflatable scary ghost (it’s windy here). I’ll take another video and try to post it. Anyway, my five minutes is almost up, and I’ve yet to tell you about why you’re jealous.

Also, it’s important that I go over my five minutes because this is about supporting all humans as humans, because humans are awesome. (ok errr, there are some humans that are less than awesome but not the humans I’m dining with Saturday!)

I’m having dinner with an Avenger Saturday. Who is most probably a Good Human, as he supports Down Syndrome awareness.

Which also ties into Halloween. Stay with me. Many of you *know* my friend Mardra. Her son Marcus wrote the Halloween book Black Day. If you’ve never read it, you should get a copy now – it’s amazing and one of Tucker’s favorite books EVER.

Here’s a handy link so you can get your very own:

Anyway, Mardra and Marcus are coming to Colorado to attend this amazing event – Be Beautiful, Be Yourself to support Down Syndrome research. Marcus is modeling for it and Robert and I are going!

As in, we’ll shower, dress in our finest, and have dinner with Marcus and a bunch of other amazing people. Including (ah-hem), an Avenger! Hawkeye.

Yup. Of course, even though I’ve seen all of the Avenger movies, I didn’t realize who this guy was until my friend Sara told me. She’s good at the knowing who people are thing. And, apparently, can ride a unicycle. I’ve never seen her ride one, but she says she can and she’s been pretty honest with me over the past 30 years, as far as I know.

I digress. I’m sorry you’re jealous, but not sorry that I get to see Mardra and Marcus again, and dine with a for-real superhero. Also, Jamie Foxx. And Colin Ferrell. The good news is that I suck at names and knowing things, so I’ll probably be super-cool when I actually meet them, thinking they’re regular-variety good humans like I mostly am, until later when Mardra tells me in the bathroom that it was somebody famous whose plate I defiled by taking the last jalapeno popper from (because surely fancy galas like this will have poppers, right?).*

*Mardra, kidding. I can mostly behave myself in public.

PS – We should all be beautiful, and be ourselves. Always. Jalapeno popper loving, back-fat in gala dress and all.

This has been a Finish the Sentence Friday post, where Kenya Johnson of Sporadically Yours and I host a prompt. This week’s is a five-minute stream-of-consciousness post on Halloween.