Halloween Then and Now: Weather and Resilience

OMICATS, everyone! It’s ALMOST HALLOWEEN! The gateway to the Western holiday season is about ready to BLAST OPEN!

Here in Milwaukee, Wisconsin the weather has just taken a dark turn:

And it’s fantastic. I’ve heard some moaning from others about the weather but this is Halloween weather.

I would be so upset if Halloween occurred on an unusually sunny and brilliant day… blue skies, a warm breeze in the evening…if that would ever occur, I would be absolutely disgusted.

Gross.

My viewpoint has been molded by all the Halloweens I’ve lived through in my 800,000 years of being alive.

As a kid, I’d spend hours carefully crafting my Halloween costume.

Every single year.

I’d burn my fingers as I hot-glue-gunned glitter and feathers and plastic crows and spiders and whatever else on various surfaces in order to perfect my outstanding homemade Halloween costume.

Some people would use a sewing machine or a thread and needle but my tool of choice was a 1980s glue gun.

There was no going back. Every year the costume was definitely a one-wear.

And every year I’d complete my masterpiece Halloween costume and every year it would be completely hidden by a coat, hat, scarves, mittens and boots.

Because EVERY YEAR it would either snow or torrentially rain (with lightning) or else be brutally cold on Halloween.

However, the year I handmade (or – more accurately – constructed, glued, safety-pinned and piece-mailed together) my amazing She-Ra outfit… well, that was the hardest Halloween for me.

The night before Halloween that year, I spent a hundred years (probably 20 minutes) glue-gunning glitter onto an old pair of sneakers to emulate She-Ra’s super cool boots.

I didn’t have knee-high fashion boots. I had high-top pink kid sneakers.

But it was the closest I could get to the real thing.

I DON’T NEED ANY SKEPTIC LOOK FROM YOU, BO YOU STRIPPER.

I just realized there is a newer (than the 1980s) She-Ra cartoon so the fact THAT guy 👆 is my notion of Bo from She-Ra dates me but… I already said I’m 800,000 years old so it should be no surprise.

ANYWAYS the year of the biggest Halloween snowstorm hit when I was going to be She-Ra and I couldn’t even wear my glitter high-top sneakers and had to wear stupid winter boots.

And my boots were neither glitter or gold.

I remember feeling very upset about my situation that Halloween.

But, after eighteen million more Halloweens of snowstorms and deadly thunderstorms and dangerously cold periods, I learned to adapt.

I got over it. The absolutely shitty weather is a necessary part of Halloween to me now. As it has to be for the rest of those who live in Wisconsin and other godforsaken places.

So last night as the temperature plunged and it started to rain… I breathed in the damp night air, felt pneumonia blossoming in my lungs and felt quite happy.

Everything is going according to plan. **** Heeeeeey… if you’re dressing up in costume, please let me know what you’re pretending to be this weekend in the comments! 🙏🦇

Because it is almost Halloween.

Rejoice.

Let’s count it down!

THREE DAYS UNTIL HALLOWEEN (well, two and a half days left until Halloween)! Hope you enjoy a wonderfully spooky holiday! Wake your ghosts up… the day is almost here!

Oh oh oh oh… and if you’re looking for a spooky activity, check out my ghostly storybook and its audiobook! Sit in the dark, light some candles and listen to my irritating voice tell some ghost stories. Woohoo!

I’ll also soon be on a podcast (🦇 Tea’s Weird Week 👻). I did the interview last Tuesday after work where all day at work I felt it was Wednesday and then shared my belief with various museums and galleries when confirming jobs at work because I am in logistics and not only did I think Tuesday was Wednesday but my boss also thought Tuesday was Wednesday and so they ALSO sent out confirmations of the wrong day… and when we both finally realized it was Tuesday and not Wednesday we laughed as if struck by madness…

and some of the people at the other places emailed back to say THEY ALSO THOUGHT IT WAS WEDNESDAY HOW COULD IT STILL BE TUESDAY

and that very evening – the evening of TUESDAY – I did an interview to be on this podcast.

So that should be an outstanding interview.

Please check it out!:

https://teasweirdweek.podbean.com/e/tea-s-weird-week-s3-ep06-hillarie-and-the-haunted-house/

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh… life. What an absolute trip.

The wind is howling outside and the police sirens are blaring and the tires are spinning because yes it’s already THAT shitty… so Happy Halloween!

Be safe and be scary. 🖤