I'm probably being a little too "get off my lawn" tonight.

Heh. Our official trick-or-treat hours are 6-8. A group of about 7 kids showed up and POUNDED on our door at 5:30. I didn't even have the candy out, so I had to sprint to the pantry and rip open the bag as I ran back to the front door. And I wanted to yell at them for not observing the official trick-or-treat hours.

So I feel you on the "get off my lawn." There's a proper way to do things, dang it!

I got candy from the little general store even though I wasn't dressed up. The other dude there suggested for my costume concept, "serial killer," on the premise that they look like everybody else.

Oh yeah, this was a popular "costume" in high school.

I bought two (small) bags of candy, in an optimistic spirit. How many trick or treaters did we get? A grand total of two. One family, two kids. Yay leftover candy? On the bright side, this is the family that lives just a few doors down across the street from us, and they were super friendly and the kids were adorable. (They were a cowgirl and a leprechaun.) So I'm really glad to have met them, even though I forgot their names as soon as they said them.

Our official trick-or-treat hours are 6-8.

I don't know if we have hours, but I think I'm getting punked. I turned on my light at 6. No trick or treaters yet.

WTF am I going to do with all of this candy?

25 so far - and now...

but it is hard t tell what will happen. there is a haunted a house a few doors over. I want to go visit, but DH isn't home yet. One cat, nathaniel is in the garage behind a closed door ( He is a door rusher) the other cat is plaguing him from this side - so I am amused

Mini-Obama is adorable. No trick or treaters at my door, but I live in an apartment building. My concession to Halloween was jewelry (pendant of a raven and crystal skull earrings) and a manicure (orange-y nailpolish with black haunted houses stamped on my ring fingers).

In regard to "you should wear that color" - years ago I wore something black into work and a (rather tactless) co-worker told me I looked so good in black I should be a widow.

Utilizing my best tact, I pointed out that I didn't have to marry and then kill off some hapless man in order to wear black.

I got candy from the little general store even though I wasn't dressed up. The other dude there suggested for my costume concept, "serial killer," on the premise that they look like everybody else.

Ha, that's mine, only I say "Sociopath". Today, I happened to be wearing red shirt and black pants. So I quickly made up "I'm the Devil in disguise"

We had almost everyone in costume tonight but I live I a very white neighborhood and I heard some of my neighbors complaining about people who "obviously were not from our neighborhood" (they were brown) coming and trick or treating. I don't get that. I mean, other than racism, what is wrong with going outside your own neighborhood?

My rule is, no treats (I give pretzel packets instead of candy) for kids over 3 feet tall. Mostly. I set up early for the toddler set and run out really, really quickly.

The neighborhood big-deal is a quarter block from my house. It involves an urban 'hay ride', bouncy castles, balloon tricks, games and sometimes a petting zoo.

My favorite family this year included a homemade Hellboy (SO clever) and four Star Wars characters. The mom chortled to her husband, "Hey, it's the nun who knew you were Galacticus a couple of years ago!"

Yep. I wear my nun's habit every year. I'm famous for it...apparently. Tons of people ask me to bless them and one fellow looked a bit scared when he said,"That's real, isn't it." Sort of like what one would say about a realistic _gun_.

Dang. I did not grow up Catholic, but it sure seems the archetypes are strong!

Okay--I'm uncool. Who's Galacticus?

Galactus, I believe. Marvel Comics, Eater of Worlds, creator of the Silver Surfer.