Hallowe'en was great. For the Rag Shag parade (which is an informal parade my school band does, in costume, for little kids), I got to play the sousaphone. This was awesome because (1) I've been wanting to play it since the beginning of the year and (2) the sousaphone part for Louie Louie, which was pretty much the only thing we played, is amazing and really easy. This was not awesome because (1) there weren't enough bits to attach to the sousaphone so that the mouthpiece reached my mouth, so I had to sort of crane my neck and my head kept hitting the sousaphone's bell, and (2) that thing digs into your shoulder SO HARD. It hurts insanely. My shoulder still aches. I need to improve my pain tolerance anyway, though, so it works out, I guess. I was dressed up in a yukata (a summer kimono, or a kimono for married women) for the parade, so when I got some candy afterward (candy is the incentive to go to the parade), I got to put it in my sleeves, which was kinda funny.

After the parade, I handed out candy at my house with a friend. There were one kid who was dressed up as a shower (like, with a shower curtain and stuff), and one kid who couldn't remember if you said "happy Halloween" or "trick or treat" and ended up saying "happy trick or treat," which was very cute.

A little while later, I took my little brother around the neighborhood trick-or-treating. His costume made him look sort of like a minister, so we gave him a bible, a cross necklace, and decided he was Johnathan Edwards, a very funny costume for a holiday which is essentially pagan. xP One person who saw me going by was like, "Oooh, what's your costume? Are you a geisha girl? It's beautiful!" Ever since Memoirs of a Geisha, it seems that kimono (or anything like it) = geisha. Oh well, at least she liked the costume. ^.^;

And NANOWRIMO STARTS TODAY! Which is good, but I don't know what to write about yet. And I have to work. Oh well! I WILL PREVAIL! IN ALL CAPITALS!