To Do

I was actually sitting in my cube thinking I had lost my mojo. In jeans, a shapeless pink sweater, and my hair tossed in a ponytail, I was ruminating over my failure that was my Halloween this year.

Halloween is my Holiday.  My friends know it, and historically have cooperated when I started bombarding their inboxes with group costume ideas and an itinerary...in July.  But this year was a bit of a bust.  I've been working too much to have a wide circle of girlfriends that I could consider "close", Honey Badger deplores dressing up, and my broken hip (slight exaggeration) and soul sucking job that requires me to turn to ice cream sandwiches has left me...well...in the aforementioned shapeless pink sweater and not in the glamorous peacock ensemble I had envisioned for myself.  I got home on Friday and was asleep at (wait for it...) 8 o'clock.  8 friggin o'clock.

I actually cried to Honey Badger on Saturday, before he dragged me out the door to 6th street for a Halloween drink, that I missed my friends and Halloween was ruined for me forever.  He found me a hot dog from a street vendor, told me it could be worse-I could be dressed as a sexy Nurse and not have friends period, and then we watched Poltergeist at a bar.

I felt better.

But I still felt sad today about how boring I've become.

And then I noticed a post on my wall from Mega Crush, my adorable Cambridge neighbor whom I crushed on hard core back before I moved.  Intrigued I opened it, though Facebook is generally work "no-no".

"I was browsing the interweb today, and there you were...listed as a "Thing to Do" on Halloween in Boston.

I immediately opened the link, and there on Boston.com (and apparently the Metro that is passed out to all Subway or "T" riders in Boston) I was, in full Halloween regalia with my friends.  Last year's Halloween lives on...it was Epic enough to put me in front of thousands.

I blushed about being a "Thing to Do", blushed about being informed of this by Mega Crush, but I felt a grin spread across my face.  Jennaventures lives, and even if this Halloween was less than my best-the memories of the previous ones are there for all to see.

It reminded me that even though Work Jenna has taken over, I am still fun...and damn it, I look good.

http://www.boston.com/thingstodo/special/halloween/halloweenevents?pg=5

and in case it gets taken down...