Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. It's the candy corn. There. Another great thing is our annual halloween party. We normally have a party theme such as medieval or pirates or superheroes. This year the theme was international vampires. I came dressed as a vampire Crocodile Dundee and the Diplomat was a vampire sumo wrestler. Top prize went to Rich and Stacy the viking vampires. Incidentally I won the party prize for "Most Likely to Puke", an award our dog normally takes home. (It was foolish for them to vote for me. Aside from bad food in Montenegro in 2008 I haven't blown chunks since 1993...that's 1 vomit in nearly 20 years.) Here are some pictures from the party: Halloween 2011. Don't worry, no puking involved.
There is one part of halloween I don't like so much. It's manning the front door for the trick-or-treaters. I don't know what happened during the last twenty years but when I was a kid it worked like this: you wore a COSTUME, you knocked on the door and said TRICK-OR-TREAT, you took only ONE OR TWO pieces of candy and you said THANK YOU as you left. It's not like that these days. Kids grabbing double fistfulls, nobody saying thank you. A half-dozen kids didn't even wear a costume. I felt mistreated. To be honest, I'd rather have been scraping lint out of the dryer instead of sitting by the door waiting for a kid with no costume to interrupt my reading of Lea's Chemistry of Cement and Concrete with a virtual halloween candy hold-up. Thankfully I found a solution to the problem. Sometime during the evening I noticed my neighbors were on their front steps handing out candy and being social. It was a mild halloween evening so I decided to join them. When one of my neighbors brought over a few Torpedo Pale Ales I forgot about the ungrateful trick-or-treaters and enjoyed the night. It's amazing what beer can do.
I did find a fun list of things to do to trick-or-treaters. It's something I might try next year.
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