11/01/2006: "Halloween and Bust"

Halloween and Bust

I was excited about Halloween this year but it quickly all fell apart. First of all, I didn't get to go to the pumpkin patch. Now, you may thing, well that's not such a big deal. The pumpkin you got next door at Safeway was perfectly fine. And that's true enough. I guess it's the sentimental attachment that I have to going to the pumpkin patch. And while tromping through the mud (it had rained that morning) wouldn't have been very practical, there are other things that happen at the pumpkin patch that mud wouldn't have really impacted. It's now two years of no pumpkin patch. Oh well. My jack-o-lantern turned out pretty cute.

I was also excited about Halloween night. I thought that I might have plans and would be handing out candy to the kids in the complex. However, those plans disappeared and no kids came to the door. Traffic was insane, as it always is on Halloween, so I didn't get home until 6:30ish, so I have a feeling that most of the kids started in the complex long before I got home. So now I have a huge bowl of candy that must be irradicated from the house immediately so that I don't consume it. I'm sure that if I bring it to work it will be taken care of. We're all about the candy around here.