I'm glad Halloween's over. I'm not a big fan of it. I'm a fan of the concept, maybe, but the execution is lacking. Little kids in costumes? Adorable. Adults in costumes? Pointless. Parties full of people in costumes? Disgusting. I don't want to willingly subject myself to a worst nightmare situation that is cloaked in the pretense and false promise of Having Fun. It's too much work even to come out looking like crap, whereas you can apply the same amount of work to look fabulous and functional. I speak only the truth.
We bought five bags of candy, not being sure what the neighborhood turnout would be like, and we only got one doorbell at like 8:15. There were about six kids though, most of whom were apparently made up to look like the cast of Dead Presidents (so cute!) so I gave them tons of candy and prayed no one else would show up. We turned the lights out at 9. It was fun having a reason to turn our front porch light on, finally.
I think we probably didn't get people because a) we have like a ton of steps to get up to our house and people are lazy, and b) our landlord downstairs has a very large dog that would bark very loudly when human voices could be detected, so I guess that was a deterrent. Also we didn't have any decorations up or anything, but you know, Halloween decorations are useless. I save all that energy up for Christmas. That translates to two Hello Kitty LED mini-trees and maybe, if we're lucky, a string of lights. I spare no expense to catch the spirit.
Anyway, we're now swimming in an excess of mini Hershey's bars, Jolly Ranchers and Chewy SweeTarts (a.k.a. edible, fruit-flavored cocaine). We've got Reese's PB cups too, but there's no such thing as having too many of those.
I just realized today that this year will be the first year I've spent Thanksgiving with my family since 1987. Imagine that.
Posted by Kim at November 1, 2004 01:33 AM | Etc.