Upside Ann

 Kevin and I celebrate our anniversary on Halloween.  It was on (near) Halloween 45 years ago that we went on our first "date" - off to find white cotton gloves for, I'm guessing - you'd think I'd know - but I don't- a costume.  This "date" occurred after weeks of me telling him "no".  I was too broken-hearted from the loss of my previous.  He was persistent enough - and so was I, I guess - that when he eventually made me a mix-tape (that was a thing, young one - see the movie "High Fidelity") it included "our song" - "Love the One You're With".  We would have (eventually) gotten married on Halloween to make that date "official" (OMG - wayyyyy too many quotation marks in this post), but my dad was having chemotherapy and couldn't make it.  Given that our guest list was only immediate family - and the importance of the bride's father - we rescheduled to December. We celebrate our anniversar...

  Zupe's Halloween costume - much like the last few years - went through SEVERAL iterations.  No one will be surprised that his original idea was to be Thor.  He needed a new - and not Ann-made- Mjolnir.  So, we went to the Spirit Halloween store early in October to find they didn't have that particular hammer.  (*Please note: he wanted a hammer that, if thrown, would wing its way back into his hand.  Readers may be surprised that we found none like that.)  At Spirit Halloween, however, he found a very cool trident and so the costume hero changed from Thor to Poseidon.  I bought green sweat pants.  He had a Poseidon t-shirt and a gold crown. We were set.  He wore that to school for their party - sans the trident - which was deemed a "weapon".  (I considered making an 8-inch cardboard trident, but decided not to push the weapon issue and instead made him a fish bracelet.)  As the BIG DAY approached, Poseidon was dropped in favor...