Except for the party, all mine are still up in the air. I will likely be cooking for the party while trick-or-treating is happening. I don't normally make a big deal of Hallowe'en, and so I never really know what I'm doing till the last minute.
You're in an apartment, too, right? So the trick-or-treating thing not so much an issue, and like NK you probably don't have good pumpkin display space.
I don't carve a pumpkin because I don't really have anywhere good to display one, and it's too much hassle and mess just for one person. But I do sit out on the stoop with other neighbors early in the evening to hand out candy to trick-or-treaters, and I do usually go out to a rock club in costume later in the night. The dressup can get very competitive! :D
*sparkle* Ah, but you forgot one very important question...what are you going to SING on Halloween?
Barring the unforeseen, I plan to sing the "Welcome Winter" at sunset on Halloween, as I do every year and have for...gosh. Since the late 1980s sometime. I'm also learning the "Lyke-Wake Dirge" (which was going through my head all day today) and "Egidius". I may also sing "The Ballad of Lord Idath" at some point, and/or "White Mare". (The first song and the last two songs were written by Leigh Ann Hussey. "Lyke-Wake Dirge" is medieval northern English, and "Egidius" is fifteenth-century Flemish. And no, alas, I don't speak either modern Dutch or Flemish, much less the medieval antecedents.)
I'm the only person I know who sings songs on Halloween (Oooh! "Halloween Town" from Nightmare Before Christmas! That's PERFECT! Yes!) but I figure there's no harm in reviving an old tradition or starting one from scratch. We have door to door caroling at Christmas, why not sing from door to door as you trick or treat? That's how the whole souling thing got started, after all.
(Wouldn't be from scratch, anyway. Leigh Ann Hussey, among others, was doing it way before I ever did.)
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Barring the unforeseen, I plan to sing the "Welcome Winter" at sunset on Halloween, as I do every year and have for...gosh. Since the late 1980s sometime. I'm also learning the "Lyke-Wake Dirge" (which was going through my head all day today) and "Egidius". I may also sing "The Ballad of Lord Idath" at some point, and/or "White Mare". (The first song and the last two songs were written by Leigh Ann Hussey. "Lyke-Wake Dirge" is medieval northern English, and "Egidius" is fifteenth-century Flemish. And no, alas, I don't speak either modern Dutch or Flemish, much less the medieval antecedents.)
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I'm not much of a singer...
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(Wouldn't be from scratch, anyway. Leigh Ann Hussey, among others, was doing it way before I ever did.)
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