Happy Hallowe'en!

So... who's partying tonight? I'm dressing up as a nerdie gay asian gym bunny tonight... :) In other words... I'm hittin' the gym and not some rich kid's party in some lofty apartment in the city... :(

Oh well... I've been having difficulty sleeping for the past two nights and had to resought to drinking plum wine to knock myself out. I mean... I've tried everything. I've tried reading, listening to sappy oldies music on my oh-so delicate iPod, rolling around in bed with my pillow as if it's a boytoy, and other hmmm... not so G rated things. So... I'm a bit sleep deprived. Maybe it's that time of the month for me... ya know... PMS. I need to smooch off of my carriage man's supply of Midol... well... former carriage man... my carriage turned back into a jack-o-latern many moons ago.

I was going to take my nephew and niece out to go trick or treating after work tonight, but it turns out that they will be tricking and treating the neighbors... uh... well... they already went tricking and treating the neighbors today at 2pm with their mommies... My niece was dressed as a princess... she's got drama written all over her and my nephew was dressed as Spiderman. So... no T&T for me tonight after all.

I still remember going trick or treating with my sister when we were kids. Of course, being Chinese and low income, we made our own costumes... well, my sister did because I stole her "Popples" mask. Don't know what a "Popple" is, because you are not from my generation? Click on the link and you will see. Basically I was the orange one. Now conservative freaks of nature... tell me that I wasn't born gay. Anyway, my sister made her mask out of a single ply paper plate (couldn't afford styrofoam plates) with light yellow yarn for the hair with a red cutout paper bow on top. I was at most nine and she was probably five. After school, we went trick or treating alone in our building. Mommy was busy sewing clothes illegally at home to supplement dad's waiting tables job at Wo Hop restaurant in Chinatown.

Thank God we had a trick or treating plastic baggie that our teachers gave us. We only went to about 15 apartments or so because traversing the building by stairs and avoiding the older kids with eggs was not an easy task. Some apartments pretended not to hear us knock while the apartments with the grannies gave us the best treats ever. Cold hard CASH... :) That was how I earned my first half dollar. I still have it some where at home 'til this day. I never spent it. The cheapest treat that we got was THREE pretzel sticks... AND they were of the "thin" variety... a total of probably 5 calories. Guess who gave that? It was our neighbor from the 8th floor. Our parents knew each other for over six stinking years and all we got was three stinking pretzel sticks. When "TK" opened the door with the security chain engaged, he was wrapped up in his blanket from head to toe and stuck his hand out with the pretzels. "Shhhh!!! Don't tell anyone that we are home!" and he quickly slammed the door. Yes... I shared the pretzels with my sister... 60-40...

Geez... did he think a five year old and a nine year old boy with a Popples mask was going to ransack his apartment? I wasn't going to get my stolen orange Popples' mask dirty anyway.

Sigh... what a difference today. Kid's costumes today are more expensive than the clothes that are on their backs. My niece's costume was $29.99 and I know she ain't wearing it again now that she's got friends in Pre-K. She's one of the cool asians that dressed up today in school according to my sis. The other asians... nada. hmmm... poor kids... well, I bought the kids frosties from Wendy's... :) I got that Halloween coupon book from Wendy's and asked my sis to hand them out to my niece's friends. :)

I miss trick or treating... I also miss cross dressing as a kid. Maybe it's time to think about adopting a kid without the hubby.