and the problem with that is?
Because there are too many windows in my house, so they'll know I'm home, and I'll feel guilty.
Ben: I didn't ask for any of this. I just want to be normal. Gronx: I wanted to be an underwear model. We play the hand we're dealt.
'Touched'
Spike's Bitches 48: I Say, We Go Out There, and Kick a Little Demon Ass.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
sj - Oct 31, 2013 11:54:20 am PDT #5890 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Toddson - Oct 31, 2013 11:59:22 am PDT #5891 of 30002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I've gotten into nail art and, as a result, I wander about the internets looking for ideas. For Halloween, I ran across this (not my nails, just something I admire).
§ ita § - Oct 31, 2013 12:04:46 pm PDT #5892 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Because there are too many windows in my house, so they'll know I'm home, and I'll feel guilty.
We just turned off the porch lights most years. I've never been trick or treated when we weren't signalling candy inside.
Toddson - Oct 31, 2013 12:09:58 pm PDT #5893 of 30002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
When I was a kid (back in the good old days when every kid in the neighborhood and a good distance around hit every house they could) when we got tired or ran out of candy, we'd turn off the porch light, close the curtains, and turn off the lights at the front of the house and no one bothered us. There was even a family down the street that refused to have anything to do with the whole thing, so they'd turn off their porch light but leave big bushel baskets of apples and pears out; kids would grab one (or two or three, but with other people offering CANDY, not more) and leave them alone.
DavidS - Oct 31, 2013 12:25:19 pm PDT #5894 of 30002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The whole idea of trick-or-treating being moved seems bizarre to me.
Yeah, me too, I hate it. But in SF it's always on Oct. 31.
§ ita § - Oct 31, 2013 12:30:35 pm PDT #5895 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've been handing out candy for all of two Halloweens, and the first one, we just put a bowl of candy out and refilled it periodically. No doorbell, and not much emotional investment if people "rob" us blind.
sj - Oct 31, 2013 12:45:35 pm PDT #5896 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
We had a ton of kids by this time last year, but so far none this year. I guess the weather is keeping he little ones away.
Toddson - Oct 31, 2013 12:48:02 pm PDT #5897 of 30002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
The other day I was in the hallway of my apartent building and one of my neighbors was out with their daughter trying out her halloween costume. She's ... under a year, I think - tiny, blond, cute as anything. Dressed as Supergirl, but with bare feet (tiny pink baby toes!).
brenda m - Oct 31, 2013 12:59:56 pm PDT #5898 of 30002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Yeah, me too, I hate it. But in SF it's always on Oct. 31.
Milwaukee is like 2-5 on the Sunday before Halloween. For reals. Though I guess they got lucky this year weather wise at least.
Hil R. - Oct 31, 2013 1:17:12 pm PDT #5899 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
My "short nap" ended up longer than I'd planned, and I missed the Halloween thing I was supposed to go to. It's about 45 minutes away, so by the time I got dressed and got there, it would have been almost over.