Hell-O'-Ween

Thank you, Shellee, for your suggestion. I think if I were to be Nuage, I'd have to rent out a very fury costume, which may make me look more like Chewbacca, which won't be good because I don't want to look like him.

In fact, Bill considered being Chewbacca for Halloween, but he quickly got that thought out of his head because, at the end of October, it is still high of 31 degrees Celsius and low of 24 in Taiwan. This short and sudden surge of high temperature after the Moon Festival is locally known as the "Autumn Tiger". By the beginning of November, the temperature will drop significantly, and we'll officially enter the cold and damp winter season.

This "Autumn Tiger" weather is why, while Bill was petting the Chewbacca costume lovingly at the costume shop last night, we came to the conclusion that it wouldn't be much fun if he passed out from dehydration on Halloween night.

It has been particularly difficult for us to decide on a costume this Halloween because we're trying to dress up in "couple" costumes. Our original idea was Chucky and Bride of Chucky (see, she's got green eyes). Unfortunately, Bill couldn't find a wig that would work nor did we see any overalls. After browsing in 5 different costume shops, I couldn't find a white dress that didn't make me look like a Ballerina or a dirty anime character.

In the end, we had to abandon the Chucky idea, and these are some of the ideas we had:

Barney & Betty from the Flintstones.
The Sultan & His Lady
Hit 'n Missed (the knife thrower & his unfortunate victim)
E-male & Attachment
Jack & Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas

Problem was... none of these excited us.

We reserved 2 costumes before the shop closed last night, but we weren't all giggly on the way home. This Halloween hasn't been the same because a lot of the people we did Halloween with before are no longer in Taiwan. Bill hasn't admitted it, but it has been especially hard on Bill because Ben's in China at the moment and won't return until Saturday.

After the costume shop, we ran into Lindsay (the girl pirate in a red-and-white-striped shirt with Waldo, aka Matt, in the 2007 pictures) at City Super. While catching up, she told us that she also felt the same way because most of her friends are gone as well. Then the three of us looked at each other and our eyes and mouths opened up. We quickly exchanged information on the Halloween parties around town and promised to run into each other.

This morning Bill asked, "Do you think our costumes are lame?"
Still waking up, I muttered, "It's all in the attitude, baby. We'll make it work."

I feel better already.

A Little Side note:

I went to the convenience store at the entrance of the lane way to our apartment this afternoon to pay the phone bill. While I was getting money out, the girl behind the counter suddenly shouted, "Halloween's tomorrow..." We both froze in the moment for a bit because of the sheer volume of her voice (I was startled by it and I think she just didn't think it'd come out like that). Embarrassed, she stared at her shoes and mumbled, "I was just wondering what you are going to be this year 'cause you know... when you and your boyfriend came out on Halloween, it was always fun and everyone stared at you and you looked very scary... remember when you were a princess and your throat was slit... "

"When you and your boyfriend came out on Halloween..." She really made us sound like some kind of ghouls or monsters, didn't she?!

"We're probably not going to be very scary this year..." I suddenly felt bad for disappointing her. On the way to work, I kept thinking about the question Bill asked this morning. The costumes we got last night were lame, but I couldn't think of other ways we could've done differently.

Bill called at 4pm. He was on his way to the costume shop. "I'm going to try to find us some other things for our costumes. If I could find them, we'll cancel the reservation and get the deposit back."

I got all excited again.

You'll have to wait for the pics to see what we decide to be this year. Whatever we are, we're gonna be (sing it) A.W.E.S.O.M.E. ~~~~