Half nekkid of a different sort

For your Halloween giggle
and this is always thanks to OSBASSO

So yesterday was Halloween, one of my most favorite holidays. Here in the Bible Belt, it ran thin. I helped decorate the pods and cubicles for work. My terminology is different from what other people use at work, so: Each cubicle contains a person, each person has a coach/supervisor. Supervisor cubicle and all the little cubicles in the row make up a pod. SO. The pods were decorated. There were 2 emergent themes: Graveyard/crypt and "Heaven and Hell". There were variations... Vampire crypt, rock heaven, but still. Those 2 emergent themes. Employees were encouraged to dress up. Sic_un as a nun, me as a priest.... We're on 2 different teams. His was 'vampire crypt', ours was 'graveyard/crypt'. Our costumes went with the theme, right?

For every person dressed as a devil, there was a person dressed as an angel. A couple of witches, some princesses, Vince was 'Caesar Salad' (dressed as Caesar, hung about with vegetables, carried a head of lettuce, had salad dressing... Caesar salad). Women dressed as 'sexy devil' had the temerity to look strangely at my costume of priest. Sic_un was told quite honestly that he was going to Hell.

For a holiday. For dressing up on a holiday meant for dress-up and shenanigans. Do they have a clue? Don't get me wrong, Dear Reader. I've always been one that if it's your bag, go for it. If not, no big deal. I mean that good ol' time religion. There's 2 camps of thought, I've always believed. There's the 'Oh, it's no harm, we'll go trick-or-treating to 'safe' houses and stick generally within our socio-economic group and laugh about it at church on Sunday if we happen to go' group and then there's the 'Oh my god, Halloween is so evil and we're going to spend it at our church's haunted house because I'm playing the woman tempted enough to be the victim of a vicious abortionist. My brother's playing a guy who's hooked on pot because everyone knows pot is Satan's work. Have you found Jesus?' group... I always want to ask those people where they think they lost him at.

But it's always been those 2 groups. Not here. Here, there's the 'We'll have sex out of wedlock, but we'll be married in the 8th month. We don't go to church EVERY Sunday, but we look down on those who don't go to church at all. We'll embrace the concept of Heaven and Hell and be secretly racist and openly predjudiced against everyone not in our particular socio-economic group.' It's a grey area and I don't like those. Not when it has to do with something as innocuous as Halloween, not when it's truly a celebration to me, not when it's something the Christian-based religions stole from the earlier earth-tradition models.

Again... Do they have a clue? I miss the Halloween I know happened in Albuquerque. I don't like the fact that I missed the big Halloween party last Saturday, where the rules include 'Do not tease the cats'. I don't like the fact that I missed decorating my mom's yard with all my stuff, all my headstones and my noose and my cage (with skeleton) and my fog machine and hearing the screams of all those 3-8 year olds when you surprise them with something spooky in the yard as they come up for their annual sugar-fest. I miss seeing my nephews and my niece all dressed up. I miss having a place to put a pumpkin that I spent weeks agonizing over decorating.

It rained last night. We went to Sic_un's house and went out for take-out from there. A handful of trick-or-treaters, one of which Sic_un thinks was a neighbor trying to scope out the house using her infant as an excuse. No nun porn, sorry. He took off the wimple and then it was 'Father, may I?' from there. Beautiful. Simply... UNGH. The period from hell looks as though it may finally be ending (breakthrough bleeding 4 days before my actual period and this time it was light but long...Honestly, I think it lasted 2 fucking weeks. GRRRRR), so to have Sic_un in me was just fucking incredible. Blew my mind and made my knees weak.

But it wasn't my usual Halloween. It was a weird, unsettled Halloween. I don't like Halloweens like this, Dear Reader. Sic_un says "Welcome to Tennessee, buckle of the Bible Belt." I hope next year will be a bit different.

Pax, Dear Reader.