October 11, 2007

  • boo hum bug

    Well the Christmas stuff is out, a sure sign that Halloween is just around the corner.  I want to write a book to Halloween titled I'm just not that into you.  I know, what kind of person am I?  Who doesn't like cute costumes, sugar highs and paper casper flying around?  There are only three things I like about Halloween, the pumpkins, the leaves ( as in that's when they change colors, so I really like autumn , not Halloween), and the fact that the taffy  apples come out. 

    The neighbors already have all their crap up.  Thank goodness they didn't get the ghost that went along a clothes line and moaned all night.  If I wouldn't have seen the ghost myself last year, I would have thought they were having kinky sex all night.

    It's not like I have any bad Halloween memories, in fact I loved it as a kid.  I even loved the first time I took my kids trick or treating.  But as the years went on it just turned into another chore.  Matt's birthday is close to Halloween ( Oct. 26) .  And then the big rush of Birthdays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, my family, My step families, Expunge family, work parties, school parties, and being broke and fighting with everyone.  It means cold, snow plow man, slush,

    This is also the day that starts the weight gain, which is a real problem if you don't have any room to grow.  Sure you can make yourself sick by eating the bad candy corn and the black and orange wrapped caramel things ( which will also break teeth), but you'll still manage to eat the good snickers bars and eventually the stuffing and mashed potatoes. 

    I can't even rationalize eating all my extra candy, by saying I got exercise trick or treating with the kids.  Nope it's just an invitation to fat, broke and miserable until summer. 

    I'm not an orange and black kind of girl.  I don't like those colors together.  I realize pumpkins are orange and black is supposed to be scary, but it's just ugly.

    So yeah, I'm just not into Haloween.  Maybe, I will trick the kids and make them cry this year.  I can come home from work looking crazy, no need for a witch costume and cackle at all the little children who come to my door.  Oh and I can give out apples and make them wonder if they are filled with poison or have razor blades in them.  I would only have to do it to a couple kids and word would get around I have a bad house.  Or I could have a sign " Get lost, they have giant candy bars next door" .  How fun and mean.

    My upstairs computer has bit the dust.  I am so upset.  This one ( the one I'm on) is slower than dial up, and freezes so bad I could put my frozen foods in the monitor. 

    http://www.xanga.com/sincerely_jennie

    has updated, you know what I want you to do. It's not a chore, her stories are really interesting I promise.

    Boo hum bug and have a nice day.

Comments (36)

  • I like Halloween, but I wish there wasn't so much work involved.

  • I love Halloween and Thanksgiving best of all the holidays, EXCEPT for the hideous weight gain they both involve, and I like more basic decorations.  Ixnay on the ghost on the clothesline!  LOL!

    Kathi

  • Halloween seems to bring out more idiots, as if they need a reason to act like a drunken idiot.

    I agree with you. I am looking forward to baby's reaction because his favorite color is orange but other than that I wish it were still June. Santa always gives me a fat ass for Christmas, must be payback for all the cookies I left him when I was a kid.

  • I Love Halloween, but I'm beginning to think like you, it's too much of a chore to drag everything out, especially since we don't get trick or treaters here.  I only do the inside so no annoying clothes line ghost to bug the neighbors here. 

  • If you get any more depressing we will call you blackheartedforce.

    Halloween is the best of all holidays.  Plus it's like opening night for the NBA so there is always a professional basbetball game on that night. It is a time of celebration and joy. Everybody is friendly. Some even commune with the dead. 

  • I can't believe that Halloween is here and that Christmas is just around the corner.

  • Hey, sorry I've been absent from reading your posts for quite a while.  I've missed them.  They are ALWAYS interesting/funny/thought-provoking.

    I'm with you on the Halloween thing.  :)

  • Last year I got zero trick or treaters. Didn't stop me from buying 6 bags of candy for my plastic witches cauldron.  Guess who will eat those 6 bags of candy?

  • I'm afraid I'm like the neighbor, but usually skip the moaning ghost. I do hate the Halloween candy lurking around inviting me to pack on a few unneeded and unwanted pounds. Ugh. I'd skip getting it unitl the last minute, but then you can only find the crappy bags with generic candy that no one (especially  me) wants. I love letting the girls have Halloween parties, now that they are getting to old to trick or treat - After all, the decorations are already up!

  • I bot 5 bags of candy.  I made sure it was the candy I didn't like.  We had maybe 5 kids.  It used to be a big deal in our neighborhood, but all the kids have grown up and moved away.  Which actually helps my diet and craving for those minature Three Musketeers!! 

  • Halloween...it;s actually my favorite holiday. But We call it Samhain (pronounced Sow wen). Or in english all souls eve.

    It's the one day a year I can dress like who I really am...a witch! :)

  • I've been over trick-or-treating ever since the candy makers came out with the so-called "fun sized" bars.

  • I love Halloween. But it can be a chore if you live in town.
    But I don't live in town, so I guess I'm lucky.
    But it's the only day out of the year I'm allowed to dress up like Batman's wife, Batwoman. Well, actually, I'm probably the only person at school who could get away with that on a regular day & still be cool. ;P

    My little brother's birthday is on the 26th. I'm sure you were dieing to know.

    Have a good weekend. [:

  • i am not so into halloween now that the kids are teens....i'm with u

  • jews and halloween

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    I can't believe how big a deal Halloween is. There's a Halloween store on just about every corner (just like Starbucks)!

  • We went searching all over town for those gross black and orange wrapped candies so we could hot glue them to a wreathe we made.  I tried to eat one, but had to spit it out b/c it felt like it was going to pull my teeth out.

    Thanks so much for your kind comment. :)

  • When I was a kid (late 70's) Halloween here in the UK was just another day. None of us had ever heard of Trick or Treating. Now, it's another huge commercial holiday. I don't mind though, my eldest takes the little ones around with her friends and I simply don't answer the door to the trick or treaters. Now that's mean! lol 

  • Oh yeah! Before I forget,,,though my brother isn't a Xangian, I've given him the link to your girl's blog and he's loving reading it.

  • Well, someone had to say it. Amen!

  • LOL....I'm one of those people who had decorations up Oct. 1st because I believe in the joy of childhood!  But they aren't over the top...no moaning ghosts or crazy stuff!  Hey, a sure way to keep the kids away is to put a *Green Halloween* sticker on your door this year!  I just read an article about that...guess some parents just can't stand the fact that their kids go door to door collectiong candy so if you put a Green Halloween sticker on your door it means you only hand out  sprouted wheat bars or organic celery sticks....yum! 

  • Right on.

  • I don't like Halloween either.  When the kids were little, they could never decide on costumes until the last minute, which usually required me to attempt something "crafty", which always ended up looking like crap.  My youngest is 14 and he thinks he should still be allowed to go trick or treating.  Um.. I don't think so.  He can sit on the porch with me and hand out (eat) candy. 

  • I want to know at what point my children stopped expecting to make their own costumes and started expecting me to spend 20-40 bucks on one????? 

    OK, OK, I did it to myself, but that 7-year old in the fake-muscled Spidey suit was just too cute.  Dammit.

  • Hey... remember me?  Thought I'd come say Howdy!  I don't like orange and black either, but it's fun to see the little kids come to the door and I also like going to grown up Halloween parties and dress up!  I'll probably be visiting more often since the lake season is coming to an end. 

  • I'm with you, I no longer enjoy any holidays, but I think it's because as the mother in the house I am the one that does all the prep and clean up for the holiday. so it's more of a chore than anything else, although there is not a whole lot of prep for halloween other than buying the candy and finding the perfect costume for the only child left at home

  • I personally really really really dislike Halloween.  I think it is a holiday that symbolizes all that is wrong with America - entitlement and too much sugar.  And bad costumes? I don't know about that last part.  But I do have a cute little baby this year that I will probably dress up, just to make her grandmother happy...

    ps. my graduate school colors are orange and black - YUCK! Now it is on my hood of my academic regalia FOREVER AND EVER.  I am not a fan.

  •  If I wouldn't have seen the ghost myself last year, I would have thought they were having kinky sex all night.

    LMAO!!! that was funny :)

  • We just got back from the store and buying some cute Halloween and fall decorations.  I don't know that Halloween is such a big deal for me, but I love fall and the fall color decorations and good smelling candles, etc.  BOOOOOOOOO!

  • Lots of folks here in Charlotte DO NOT celebrate.  Went around my neighborhood and only maybe 5 houses had treats.  Apparently the christian right don't like this holiday.  I'm in The South now.  So just turn off all your lights and hunker down. 

    By the way the funniest thing happened last year (in a Halloween friendly neighborhood) - Jeff had to pee so I told him to pee in someone's yard.  As soon as he pulled down his costume to go the automatic flood lights went on so everyone could see him. 

  • Mommy's crying machine,  love it.   Fall decorations are great, but no more ghosts, witches and goblins for me.  Orange and black were my highschool colors and why we were known as the "Blackbirds" I've never figured out.  Like your expression, Boo Humbug has become my new mantra.  Though think the clothesline ghost is just too funny!

  • I have been lucky with the used computers that my brother gets. I hope that you find a friendly computer geek that can solve your problems.

    I read some of Jennie's post. I hope other people get excited about it as I did...

    Ack holloween and candy, the more I eat the more hollow my teeth become...

  • I'm not that into Halloween either. . .it's kind of fun and all, but I don't really decorate or do that much.  I'm not a big fan of Easter, either, though I know Christians consider it very important.  The religious aspect of the holiday is certainly worth honoring (if you're a Christian), but the whole basketful of candy thing just doesn't work for me.  We did it when the kids were little, but no more. 

  • well i'm glad you are still kickin... i was beginning to worry.... you'd think you would have more time for us now... but you seem to be busier.... :( that sucks.

    I'm not SO much for Halloween.. but I do like it... I like dressing up sometimes, but usually just dressing up the kid... but this year I probably wont because i don't have a job and dressing up as a witch or something to just hang around the house would be weird...lol.

  • We turn off the lights on the porch and let the dog bark.....tends to keep the kids at a minimum.  I don't really like Halloween either......if it's such a great holiday....we should get off work!!!  I buy candy I hate....then throw it away unless we have some extra brave little ankle-biters come to the door.

  • i can take it or leave now that there are no kids here. when the kids were around, i loved it. now... it's just one more time of year when the candy is a huge temptation!!! :)

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