I plan to be entirely hung over Sunday morning. You?
Let me explain. Saturday is Halloween, and I couldn’t care less about dressing up or getting the crap scared out of me at a haunted house. My favorite Halloween activity is buying a bunch of candy and watching scary movies, so my hangover on Sunday morning won’t have anything to do with booze. On Halloween it’s all about bite-size candy bars and bad horror flicks.
Don’t judge me.
But really, what better way to kick off NaMeWriMo, which starts Sunday? An overdose of sugar and schlock is just the thing to launch a big-ass project, sort of like carbo-loading before a race (also happening Sunday). Without the health and fitness and stuff.
November 1 is also Dia de Los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, though I hope my sugar/schlock binge doesn’t push it quite that far. I’ve got work to do.
What's your favorite Halloween tradition?
Thursday, October 29, 2009
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That's my kind of Halloween.
I wanted to ignore it completely and go out to dinner, not returning until after the trick-or-treaters were gone, but I was vetoed. I'm hoping for no decorations this year, though. Call me Halloween Scrooge.
BTW, they're called "circus peanuts," just in case you need to ask for them at the grocery store. ;)
I adore Halloween. When we lived in prime trick-or-treat territory, my favorite Halloween tradition was creating a spooky environment in the courtyard--grave stones, fog machines, ghouls hanging from the trees, eerie music, the works--and dressing in costume to hand out candy. Unfortunately, we don't get trick-or-treaters where we live now . . . but, you know, we always have to have the mini Snickers bars on hand JUST IN CASE.
Deborah - Circus peanuts! I had no idea. Thanks.
Susan - I love the image of your front yard. I'm afraid I'm with Deborah, more of a scrooge when it comes to the handing out candy part. (Not a problem in my NYC apartment.)
Snickers are my favorite, although they don't satisfy like they used to. Next year I might have to graduate to my true favorite, turtles. More expensive, but oh my God are they good.
I was calling forth the demons in a zendo with a bunch of crazy Zen practitioners in wild costumes this Halloween - a tradition where you invite the "hungry ghosts" forward (things like "self criticism," "anger," "jealousy," etc., all those negative voices we're so familiar with), welcome them with open arms - then you offer them sweets and chanting, and send them on their way, to leave you in peace for the coming year...
The revelry was amped up by the fact that the 20 of us had been sitting in silent retreat for two days leading up to this ceremony, so everybody was pretty squirrely by the time the peanut M&Ms and candy corn were on the altar!
Michelle - Your Halloween was a lot more productive than mine, and you still got candy!
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