Spooks, ghost, giggles, and sugary sweets — Halloween
Halloween isn’t really my favorite holiday — that honor goes to Christmas (well Christmas spirit, not the commercialized nightmare it has become). But I’m a sucker for candy corn. In fact, it’s about all I can do to keep myself from buying pounds of it each year during the Halloween candy extravaganzas.
Resistance was more difficult than usual this year since all the grocery stores had those scoop things set out so you could fill a plastic bag with as much candy corn as you wanted and it would be weighed on check out. We had to really look to find the small one pound bag you see in the photo. It’s a limit, I can live with — 1 bag per year.
You see it’s not widely known but candy corn is addicting. Really. I bet you don’t know anyone who likes candy corn who can eat just one handful if there is more in the bowl. I mean you could be lying on the floor in a sugary stupor barely able to lift your head without getting a full-on sugar rush and you’d still reach into the bowl for another hand full. It’s insidious. So, the limit is only one bag of the stuff comes into the house. One. Just one. Then no more for a full year. [Hyperion: It’s actually worse for me. I’ll eat so much that I’m sick to my stomach, in physical pain, wondering if I’ll be able to get to the bathroom in time, and my hand will still be reaching into the bowl for more.]
We don’t buy candy for Halloween. We live on five acres in the woods down a dirt road. Our neighbor with children goes to parties so there’s no one to give candy out too. This year we’re skipping the Halloween Party since the zines go live at midnight and while I’ve done my part, the web guru is now doing his, so I think we’ll take a break and watch a scary movie and enjoy our candy corn then to sleep to dream of swimming in pools of candy corn.
Tomorrow starts NaNoWriMo, so I’ve got to limber up my fingers and check on the website again since I couldn’t get in earlier and I’ve been too busy since then to check back. November is going to be a month filled with interesting new experiences.