Halloween Reflections

I was once a cat and once a dog. Then I was given creative license to make up my own Halloween costumes. There was the year I was a ghetto blaster (do you remember those?); The year it snowed, I was a Japanese woman, with a white face and kimono (my cousins recently had a Japanese foreign exchange student). One year my mom bought me really cool see through pink fabric. I spent hours and years playing with it. I decided I was going to be a fairy, but everyone thought I was Buttercup from “The Princess Bride”. I had long blonde hair and of course Buttercup was beautiful and cooler than being a fairy. That sparked my costume a few years later when I decided to be Wesley from “The Princess Bride” for a Halloween party. I cut out a black mask with eyes and wore a black headband, all black clothes, and an old family sword. My brother lent me his cool big black boots. I actually wore that costume for more than one Halloween and adjusted it a few times, but the first time I wore it was when I met my first “boyfriend”, who I basically just talked to on the phone, and exchanged Christmas gifts with.
My dad didn’t really like Halloween, but if he took me trick or treating I had to pay the Snickers toll, still one of my favorite candies.
I remember the Halloween my best friend in Jr. High and I used a rope hung over the railing to lower the candy in a bucket when the kids knocked on the door. Then there was the infamous bloody head. My older brother played Macbeth when he was in high school. They made a bloody replica of his head to make his beheading look realistic. The only time that head came out was on Halloween. It always made our house a little more exciting. The rest of the year it sat on a closet shelf, waiting to scare whoever was staying in the guest bedroom.
Since I’ve been married the best we’ve been is a shark and a scuba diver; although this year, thanks to my sister in-law we were thinking of being Medusa and Perseus.
The last few years I’ve seen a family of turtles; A squared, B Squared and C Squared; Ernie and Burt; the tooth and tooth fairy, Mario and Luigi; the monkey and banana; Luke Skywalker with baby Yoda and tonight someone asked me “Have you seen space?” So what are some of your favorite Halloween memories?