Halloween is HUGE here. We just got back, and the streets were packed. People were running out of candy by seven!

Also really chilly tonight. My fingers are numb. But Hello Kitty had a blast, and hauled home a lot of loot. Which I will pick through once she's in bed.

Ben stayed home to answer the door, and we're almost out of candy. I bought seven bags!

I thought I might get more trick-or-treaters after we got sidewalks a couple of years ago, but not really. There were a couple, and then Mr Peabody became so excited I turned the light off.

I'm wondering if I'll get trick or treaters here--the neighborhood is OK for it, but my place is down a walkway behind another house, so we'll see. Two of my friends came over earlier and we carved pumpkins, so I put that on my porch as a sign. I only bought one bag of candy.

H'ween is my favorite holiday. Both last year and this year I haven't been able to celebrate it due to house sale and moving issues. Sucks.

I've never answered the door because I've always been in costume and out at a party or event. My mom was trying to persuade me to do it here but I told her I wasn't big on kids and she'd be doing the kids a favor if I *weren't* the one on door duty. Particularly because I would withhold candy if someone didn't bother with a costume.

She said, "They could be too poor to have a costume!"

"Mom, the only thing they'd be poor in is drive and imagination. I could make a Halloween costume out of trash if I had to. I'd give candy to someone who had a supermarket bag on their head that they'd drawn a face on."

On another online board I'm at, a woman just tweeted that she got 2 people in their 30s trick-or-treating WITHOUT a costume. She put a candy in the bag anyway and the bagholder said "There's TWO of us."

This is why I cannot be the one doing the door. I'd be in jail right now for felonious assault if that had happened at our door.

mac with the neighbors to a different neighborhood to T or T. I had about 10 kids which is more than I expected, but I had gum and Halloween pencils for them.

The people who were going to come visit today, that I cleaned the whole house for, that I told mac would be coming (as this is HIS friend from NYC) - yeah, they didn't come. When I called to check status they were out shopping. unpleased was me.

The good news is that the house is clean. The parents even came over and helped with some final cleaning after church this morning (I bribed them with BBQ for lunch). SInce we had no guests I pulled another 20 gal of burrs. They are awful this late in the season, dropping burrs really easily, super full. They propagate like mofos.

I do not give candy if people are not in costume and I also wait until they say Trick or Treat. No one has ever given me lip about it.

I'm sorry mac's friend didn't come. That sucks. Sucks that you went to a lot of effort to prepare for it.

I'm with you on the burrs. I don't know about TX, but in coastal CA we're starting the season where it's easiest to weed and that if you keep on top of it you really will have fewer weeds in spring. However, it's also the season where it's rainy, foggy, dark (depending on where you live) so you might not be inclined to be out in it pulling weeds. Especially if it's muddy.

sara, what is the hat that that woman is wearing?

So, I totally didn't do enough work this weekend to justify bringing the computer home, and I really didn't do as much as I should have. Of course, only now am I getting anxious about it, but it's way too late for it to matter, so I'm going to have a cocktail instead of staring at my stupid document any more.

I decided to skip Rocky Horror tonight, as sitting in the midst of a screaming audience for two hours would turn my current little headache into a skull-splitter. Oh well, I'll get to watch The Walking Dead with the rest of the broadcast audience instead of later on.

Did I miss a memo about Halloween now being a holiday that businesses close on? Half the restaurants in town are shut down tonight, including my regular sushi place which had an open Halloween party last year, and downtown is like a ghost town. (Backup sushi restaurant still had yummy sushi, albeit more expensive.)